Orchestra - Grade 2.5

SKU: AP.48102

From Carmen. Composed by Georges Bizet (1838--1875). Arranged by Richard Meyer. Full Orchestra; MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Highland/Etling First Philharmonic. Latin; Masterwork Arrangement. Score and Part(s). 212 pages. Duration 3:30. Highland/Etling #00-48102. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.48102).

ISBN 9781470657482. UPC: 038081555232. English.

Habanera from Carmen by Georges Bizet, arranged by Richard Meyer, will give your students an opportunity to perform one of the most familiar scenes from that famous opera. In this authentic sounding and very playable arrangement, the tune is passed from section to section to keep everyone involved, and the simple chromatic lines, changes in key signature, and frequent dynamic contrasts provide great teaching opportunities. Multiple percussion parts add to the exotic texture of what is sure to become one of your students' favorite selections! (3:30) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra - Grade 3

SKU: AP.47477S

Composed by Doug Spata. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Score. 12 pages. Duration 1:45. Highland/Etling #00-47477S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.47477S).

UPC: 038081544830. English.

Written to help students understand the concept of positions, this entire piece can be played by the violins, violas, and cellos in 3rd position with no shifting! Playing in positions is often a challenging hurdle for many young musicians yet an important prerequisite for advanced techniques. The rhythms are kept very simple so students can focus on playing in a new way.
With a dark, mature sound and named after an ancient Roman border river, this piece allows plenty of room for expression. To cross the Rubicon is to pass a point of no return and enter into a new realm. This work is both a valuable teaching tool for a new musical adventure and a thrilling concert piece that students will be excited to show off in concert. (1:45).

Tone Poem - Urtext based on the Complete Edition Jean Sibelius Works (JSW). Composed by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Edited by Timo Virtanen. Full score. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB- 5658. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel

Orchestra - Grade 3

SKU: AP.47477

Composed by Doug Spata. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Score and Part(s). 124 pages. Duration 1:45. Highland/Etling #00-47477. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.47477).

UPC: 038081544823. English.

Written to help students understand the concept of positions, this entire piece can be played by the violins, violas, and cellos in 3rd position with no shifting! Playing in positions is often a challenging hurdle for many young musicians yet an important prerequisite for advanced techniques. The rhythms are kept very simple so students can focus on playing in a new way.
With a dark, mature sound and named after an ancient Roman border river, this piece allows plenty of room for expression. To cross the Rubicon is to pass a point of no return and enter into a new realm. This work is both a valuable teaching tool for a new musical adventure and a thrilling concert piece that students will be excited to show off in concert. (1:45).

Orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: AP.49907S

Composed by Cooper Ford. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Beginning String Orchestra. Light Concert. Score. Duration 2:00. Belwin Music #00-49907S. Published by Belwin Music (AP.49907S).

ISBN 9781470657932. UPC: 038081575797. English.

Playground s are full of children having fun together. No matter their background, the laughter and shrieks of joy are the same as they run and play. Playground Games by Cooper Ford is a playful musical portrait of this experience. In the first section, the children gather for their game as the melody is supported by building rhythmic energy. The second section depicts another game in a round. Finally, it's time to go home, but only after one quick moment to finish! This piece uses only the notes of a D major scale and simple rhythms. Parts are doubled in second violin/viola and cello/bass. (2:00).

String Orchestra string orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: KN.8718

Composed by Elliot Del Borgo. Accent String Orchestra. Score and Set of Parts. Kendor Music Inc #8718. Published by Kendor Music Inc (KN.8718).

UPC: 822795087185.

This entertaining Del Borgo original features the finger patterns and scale passages that are so important to young players. Very easy double stops create a strong, full sound and simple rhythms propel the piece to an energetic conclusion. Contrapuntal interlude gives each section a chance to play lead while providing essential textural contrast. An optional piano part is included.

Orchestra - Grade 2.5

SKU: AP.48086S

A Pirate's Tale. Composed by Anthony Granata. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Light Concert. Score. 12 pages. Duration 1:40. Highland/Etling #00-48086S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.48086S).

UPC: 038081554389. English.

Not to be confused with the nautical term Ahoy!, the phrase All hands hoay! actually means all hands on deck for some serious work! In other words, string players, it's time to get those fingers moving with this simple, rugged, and modal seafaring melody. Written in the often-inaccessible key of F-sharp natural minor, this fun musical pirate's tale will have your students' little fingers stretching nonstop. The melody is evenly passed around, with a middle section featuring your violas and a jaunty contrapuntal ending. Younger orchestras will have a blast with this exciting original, All Hands Hoay! by Anthony Granata, as they get right down to work! (1:40) This title available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Arranged by Paul Murtha. (Score and Parts). MusicWorks Grade 1. Concert Band. Score and full set of parts. Size 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Orchestra - Grade 1.5

SKU: AP.48081S

Composed by Doug Spata. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Score. 8 pages. Duration 1:48. Highland/Etling #00-48081S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.48081S).

UPC: 038081553917. English.

Brio by Doug Spata, is a sprightly, all-pizzicato tune for beginners that uses only the notes of the D major scale. Teachers will appreciate how this simple song will help students practice note reading, rhythmic subdividing, and listening skills. Students will adore the bouncy accompaniments and catchy melodies that appear in all the parts. (1:48) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.49031S

A Galactic Journey. Composed by Anthony Granata. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Intermediate String Orchestra. Score. 12 pages. Duration 1:45. Belwin Music #00-49031S. Published by Belwin Music (AP.49031S).

ISBN 9781470645472. UPC: 038081564012. English.

Written by Anthony Granata, Into the Stars: A Galactic Journey is an exciting space-themed adventure piece that will captivate your developing orchestras and have them feeling and playing confidently in 6/8 time. With an epic and memorable sounding main theme, your students will be transported into a world of simple and compound meters as they dig into their strings for this fun programmatic piece of music. Students will feel as though they have stepped into the sound stage for a film score of a Hollywood science fiction movie. (1:45).

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.49058S

Composed by Doug Spata. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Light Concert. Score. 12 pages. Duration 1:50. Highland/Etling #00-49058S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.49058S).

ISBN 9781470645755. UPC: 038081564234. English.

Broken Runes is a bold piece for late beginners in B minor by Doug Spata. Successive down bows at the frog create a ferocious percussive ostinato, and the challenging staccato eighth notes of the main theme add to the primitive style. The piece is rhythmically simple, tonally accessible, and features all sections of the orchestra. Students will love showing off this piece at your next concert! (1:50).

Orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: AP.47431

Composed by Tanner Otto. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Beginning String Orchestra. Light Concert; Programmatic. Score and Part(s). 144 pages. Duration 2:15. Belwin Music #00-47431. Published by Belwin Music (AP.47431).

UPC: 038081547121. English.

This animated piece with simple, catchy melodies introduces the tonality of A major without any extended finger patterns. The piece is perfect for working on staccato bowing and cut time. The lighthearted A theme makes way for the energetic and driving B and C sections. Written in rondo form, it follows a group of friends on their summer adventure. Try having students write their own narration to fit the music! (2:15).

Orchestra - advanced

SKU: HL.49001799

Full Score. Composed by Georg Philipp Telemann. Edited by Klaus Hofmann. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Concertino (Chamber Orchestra). Classical. Score. 32 pages. Duration 9'. Schott Music #CON 150. Published by Schott Music (HL.49001799).

ISBN 9790001024006. UPC: 073999192865. 9.0x12.0x0.124 inches.

This edition was arranged for today's music-mak-ing practice allowing the instrumental enlargement by adding various wind instruments to the simple string scoring.

String orchestra - Grade 2.5

SKU: KN.9462

Composed by Traditional. Solo or Ensemble. Voyager String Orchestra. Score and Set of Parts. Kendor Music Inc #9462. Published by Kendor Music Inc (KN.9462).

UPC: 822795094626.

The Shaker hymn, Simple Gifts, is an arranger's delight because the tune lends itself so well to a wide variety of musical presentations. In this new version for student strings, an expressive middle section contrasts wonderfully with the more dramatic opening and closing sections. All parts are equally important, and the key of G puts young players in familiar territory.

Orchestra - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14000916

Composed by Hans Abrahamsen. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 55 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH29689. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14000916).

ISBN 9788759859179. 12.0x16.5x0.538 inches. English.

Stratifica tions was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 1973-75 and was premiered in the summer 1977 by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at the Young Nordic Music Festival in Reykjavik. Programme note: The stratifications referred to in the title unfold two different levels. There is the stratification of the time dimension produced by the opposition of contrasting parts, at the same time the polyphony, the presence of several simultaneously sounding layers, is of great importance to the music. By garish colours and clear-cut outlines a polyrhythmic simultaneousness of simple melodies is produced with more gestic music and other material which give a peculiar set piece-like effect inthe sound picture. The new simplicity details are here woven together in a new kind of complex whole. Stratifications begins with a series of concretistic masklike pictures of the music. It is like seeing lantern slides. But this fictive form crackles and the music gets attentive and real. The music is in a night-mare condition, where it is not getting anywhere in spite of a great dynamic display. But finally is liberating itself and rising in triumph.

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.49059

Composed by Anthony Granata. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Score and Part(s). 74 pages. Duration 3:05. Highland/Etling #00-49059. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.49059).

ISBN 9781470645762. UPC: 038081565248. English.

Written specially to help young players gain confidence and build upon their beginning playing abilities, Sinfonietta for Strings by Anthony Granata echoes the composition style of the classical period. A Sinfonietta is a smaller and lighter version of the symphony. Set in the key of G major, students will love the broad and vigorous unison opening, the sudden change to E minor, and the mixture of dialogue and easy counterpoint interwoven throughout the piece. This piece will help your students develop skills in proper right-hand bow facility, simple slur and bowing patterns, common rhythms, identification of accidentals, and use of dynamics to achieve a very strong and dramatic sound. (3:05) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.33643S

Arranged by Sandra Dackow. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Orchestra Expressions. Folk; World. Score. 8 pages. Alfred Music #00-33643S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.33643S).

UPC: 038081394268. English. Bulgarian Folk Dance.

Bulgarian folk music is noted for irregular rhythms, but not in this arrangement. The rhythms are straightforward but the phrases fall in groups of three measures rather than four. Easy double and triple stops make the instruments ring. This simple and happy tune provides the basis for contrast and variation. Correlated to Orchestra Expressions, Book 2.

About Orchestra Expressions

< p>Play great songs such as Over the Rainbow, Batman, This Land Is Your Land, and Star Wars (Main Title). Listen to and play a variety of styles of music: popular, traditional, classical, folk and patriotic. Read and write music; compose and improvise. Perform in a concert and play for your family and friends. Be a conductor of the orchestra. Learn about composers, such as Antonin Dvorak, Johann Pachelbel, Jacques Offenbach, Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, George M. Cohan, George Frideric Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, Neal Hefti, and John Williams. Discover how music and art are related. Learn about a variety of musical ensembles including string orchestra, full orchestra, mariachi band, steel drum band, dixieland jazz band, rock band, and more. Play music from around the world, including North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

Orchestra - Grade 1.5

SKU: AP.33712S

Composed by Richard Meyer. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Explorer. Light Concert; Meters. Score. 8 pages. Highland/Etling #00-33712S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.33712S).

UPC: 038081394527. English.

As the title suggests, this fun grade 1.5 piece features ever-changing time signatures that will intrigue and challenge the young string orchestra. There are four mood shifts in the piece, suggested by a student narrator who stands up and declares simply Once upon a time, Suddenly, Luckily, and Happily ever after. But what, exactly, is the story? That's up to your students and your audience to decide! This charming piece is simple rhythmically and note-wise, but a great way to get your orchestra counting. Sure to spark everyone's imagination! This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.35972S

Composed by Christoph Willibald Von Gluck. Arranged by Mark D. Hellem. Masterworks; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Form: Transcription. Classical; Masterwork Arrangement. Score. 8 pages. Highland/Etling #00-35972S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.35972S).

UPC: 038081414799. English.

The melody of this famous aria is very simple, yet expressive and provides an easy introduction for students to the style of the Classical period, accompanied by an easy version of an Alberti bass figure or the undulating eighth note accompaniment figure. The tune is shared between all sections of the orchestra and is presented in a statement-and-response format.

Orchestra (FULL SCORE)

SKU: HL.263038

For Orchestra. Composed by John Luther Adams. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2017. 162 pages. Chester Music #CH87131. Published by Chester Music (HL.263038).

UPC: 888680952907. 12.0x16.5x0.565 inches.

“Over the years my orchestral music has become simpler and more expansive. Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing (1991-95) contains four different musical textures. In the White Silence (1998) has three. For Lou Harrison (2002) reduces this to just two. In Dark Waves (2007), I finally got to one. When I first heard that piece I began to wonder if I could sustain a similar sound for a longer span of time. The result is Become Ocean, a meditation on the vast, deep and mysterious tides of existence. The title is borrowed from a mesostic verse that John Cage wrote in honor of Lou Harrison's birthday. Likening Harrison's music to a river in delta, Cage writes: Listening to it we become ocean. Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. And as the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.” John Luther Adams.

(Study Score). Composed by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Edited by Michael Musgrave. For Orchestra (Study Score). Henle Study Scores. Softcover. 256 pages. G. Henle #HN9857. Published by G. Henle

Natural horn brass band

SKU: RM.GOUT05658

Composed by Robert Goute. Enseignement pour batterie-fanfare. Orchestra. Editions Robert Martin #GOUT05658. Published by Editions Robert Martin (RM.GOUT05658).

ISBN 9790231056587.

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.43817

Composed by John Stafford Smith. Arranged by Bob Phillips. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Sound Innovations for String Orchestra. 4th of July; Patriotic; Summer. Score and Part(s). 80 pages. Duration 1:20. Alfred Music #00-43817. Published by Alfred Music (AP.43817).

UPC: 038081506784. English.

Opening with America, this arrangement is designed to be playable and easy to put together with any level of players. Set in C major for the simplest fingerings and to remain in 1st position, this will sound great for young orchestra or go together easily for more advanced players. (1:20).