SKU: FJ.ST6045

UPC: 674398212750. English.

Stephen Bulla, arranger for the White House Orchestra, has set this spiritual in a swing style. This delightful crowd pleaser will help teach basic swing concepts to your beginning orchestra members.

About FJH Beginning Strings

Appropriate for first year string students. All instruments stay in first position, and optional third violin (viola) parts and piano are included to aid in rehearsal and performance situations. Grade 1 - 1.5

SKU: KJ.SO386C

UPC: 8402704813.

The heart and soul of Playful is found in the rhythmic framework with syncopation and buoyant eighth note passages. It's light-hearted and carefree, and a fantastic vehicle so that players can become comfortable watching the baton and opening their ears to the entire orchestra for precision playing.

SKU: CF.YAS1

ISBN 9780825840630. UPC: 798408040635. 8.5 X 11 inches. Key: G major.

Moonlight Shadows is a passionate and colorful piece for strings that explores the expressive power of the string orchestra. Sean O'Loughlin uses a lush harmonic palette and variety of texture (including a short pizzicato section), to create an important and soulful addition to the repertoire for younger string ensembles. Duration: 2'30.
Moonlight Shadows is a work for string orchestra that reflects my great love for the music of Samuel Barber. His compositions from the 1930s and 1940s were characterized by plush harmonies, flowing melodies and engaging suspensions. These elements are what I focused on in the composition of Moonlight Shadows.The material represents my mood and feelings when I look at a big, bright moon. The shadows it casts create an eerie feeling, while at the same time providing a deep, rich tapestry for the earth at night.The harmony features many major seventh-chords with half-step suspensions. These suspensions function as common tones to the next chord and create the tension of the piece. They also move, in order to provide resolution to the piece which allows the listener to rest. With this in mind, these suspensions should be brought out during performance.Moonlight Shadows is an emotional piece that allows the young musician the opportunity to play with much expression.

About Carl Fischer Young String Orchestra Series

This series of Grade 2/Grade 2.5 pieces is designed for second and third year ensembles. The pieces in this series are characterized by:
--Occasionally extending to third position
--Keys carefully considered for appropriate difficulty
--Addition of separate 2nd violin and viola parts
--Viola T.C. part included
--Increase in independence of parts over beginning levels

SKU: KJ.SO197F

Written for strings and piano, this beautiful ballad-type composition honors those men, women and children affected by that infamous day: September 11, 2001. Winning the MENC 2002 National Young Composers Award with this composition, Sarah Elizabeth Gibson said, Music has always been something that has soothed my soul when have been upset or hurt. This is what brought me to writing this piece so maybe it could help somebody else along the way.

SKU: KJ.SO432C

UPC: 8402705131.

SKU: KJ.SO333F

UPC: 084027041598.

This elegant, soulful number introduces students to the limitless expressive power of the blues. With swing rhythms (including walking bass), a lyrical tune, and a mood that is at once pensive and joyful, this classic African-American spiritual moves through a kaleidoscopic range of complex emotions, from mourning to jubilance. So Hold On! 3:06.