Teacher's Book-More String Time Joggers is a welcome addition to the ensemble repertoire for beginner strings from the authors of the award-winning Fiddle Time series.This exciting collection provides enjoyable and inventive ensemble material for all string groups whatever their size.

Originally to be called ‘Marina’ – String Quintet for twoviolins viola and two cellos arising following Roberts first encounter with Marina Tsvetaeva - 'I could never set her poetry to music but her passionate unquenchable voice seemed to want to be embodied musically...in the sound and ambivalent register of the Viola. Arranged for two Violins Viola and two Cellos. Throughout square pauses (G.P.) are variable in length their duration determined bythe performers depending upon the tension of the moment.  

The opening viola solo is cued in all instruments so you can easily feature any soloist section or mixed group. Come experience a pirate story complete with the dreaded flag the Jolly Roger buried treasure and adventure on the high seas!

The familiar uplifting themes of the first movement of Mozart's tuneful Gran Partita, K361, written for 13 wind instruments, can now be heard in this delightful first-time arrangement for string orchestra. This is a true showpiece for your players with many teaching opportunities, and a solid audience pleaser---a perfect choice for concert or contest. (7:50) / Orchestre A Cordes

Flexible String Ensemble-Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

Flexible String Ensemble-A canon that is easier and more flexible than the famous Pachelbel Canon yet more interesting for the Cello(s)!Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

Easy Flexible String Ense-Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

Flexible String Ensemble-These spooky pieces are enormous fun for kids: Special effects include creaky doors ghostly moaning and unison shouts of 'Boo!' to frighten the unsuspecting school concert audience!Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

School String Ensemble-Three movements from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

Theme and six variations on Beethoven's Ode to Joy in the style of: Bach Mozart Mendelssohn Dvorak Wagner and Scott Joplin.Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

Chris Allen wrote these four jazzy pieces while touring Bedfordshire Schools with three other musicians.Grade: 3 - 5

Helps you understand the fundamentals and theory of music. A companion to the All For Strings series. SEE ALSO> ENS

This novel work opens up with pizzicato in all instruments. The ?high tension? atmosphere gives way to an easy-going tune with a syncopated melody to help lighten things up. This one is sure to stick with your audience long after the piece is over. Optional temple blocks and ratchet add to the fun. A great change of pace for your next program! (1:20)

Concerto for String Orchestra - the magnum opus of Grayna Bacewicz (1909-1969) the outstanding composer and violinist - was composed in 1948 and at once became one of the most frequently performed works of this Polish artist. This masterpieceof neoclassicism fascinates as much by its invention and virtuosic briliance as its harmonious combination of formal elements of a traditional nature with new tonal ideas. The form of the three-movement Concerto oscillates between that of the baroqueconcerto grosso and the early classical sonata cycle. The neoclassical tendency is evident above all in the articulation of the musical structure in keeping with the rigours of periodicity and the manner of developing thematic threads derived fromthem while the concertato character of particular movements and the generally linear texture indicate baroque connections. The first movement (Allegro) - in the form of an early classical sonata allegro - begins with a subject with energeticfigurations emblematic for the whole piece and based on a constant pendulum-like semiquaver movement anchored securely on D. It is precisely because of the nature of this subject that Bacewiczs work has been compared to the Brandenburg Concertosby Jan Sebastian Bach The second movement (Andante) while retaining its concertato charakter is at the same time an example of the composers ability to create emotionally serene lyrical moods and her sense of cantilena derived from the spiritof romantic song (a motto-subject presented at the beginning by cello solo). In this movement it is both the process of evolution and the instrumental colouring which constitute the constructional agents forming here a self-containedvalue. In thethird movement (Vivo) the composer returns to her favourite type of music understood as an expression of pure motion in the form of figural motives with infinite transformational possibilities. The spontaneity of the music the constant mutabilityof the tonal situations and the sophisticated acerbic harmonies - as Witold Lutosawski described them - form a colourful mosaic built in the structural skeleton of a sonata rondo. Concerto for String Orchestra is not only proof of thestylizing tendency of the composer but also of an unerring intuition concerning the technical and expressive possibilities inherent in a string instruments ensemble. [Magorzata Gsiorowska translated by Ewa Cholewka]