SKU: FJ.ST6340S

English.

This light-hearted and cheerful movement from Schubert's Symphony No. 3 is orchestrated in a manner extraordinarily true to the original. Highlighting the entire form of the original movement, this arrangement is a wonderful way to expose your string students to this wonderful music without the need of the winds!

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More emphasis on bow technique and independence of lines. For the accomplished middle, high school, college, or professional group. Grade 3 and up

SKU: KJ.SO291F

UPC: 8402703237.

Baroque Variants is a string orchestra piece that draws upon the stylings of J.S. Bach but sets these features to modal harmonies and modern rhythms. The motif of the piece comes from Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.However, while Bach starts his motif with an anacrusis (pick-up), in Baroque Variants this rhythmic idea begins on the beat and is the first thing heard. There is a fugal exposition in the middle of the piece (m. 25) that pays homage to Bach's wonderful counterpoint. The piece then moves into a challenging string quartet texture in m. 48 and comes back with a flurry to end on the original Brandenburg motif.

SKU: AY.OR3047PM

ISBN 9790543572706.

Elegy for Strings is a set of variations, or developments of the musical material exposed in the first 34 measures of the piece. Two climaxes are relevant in this piece: as the piece becomes more intense and is ascending in dynamics the first solo violin appears after the first climax. The work ends with a kind of funeral march unfolding tree different textures: Violin Solo, First Violins playing long notes in the background sul tasto and with mutes. The rest of the strings perform an obstinato which starts to break the 3/4 meter pattern already present in the entire piece and suddenly replaced by a binary meter. Finally and progressively, the strings fade from the lower registers to the higher sounds letting free the soloist disappear in the silence.

SKU: KJ.SO126F

This lively, contrapuntal movement from Telemann's Sonata No.1 exposes students to music of the Baroque Era. Performed at the 2008 Midwest Clinic.