Orchestra - Grade 3

SKU: AP.40465S

Composed by Michael Senturia. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Form: Variations. Score. 20 pages. Highland/Etling #00-40465S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.40465S).

UPC: 038081451367. English.

Here is an ideal way to introduce young string players to simple, yet endlessly fascinating Baroque variation technique. Above a stately bass line appears a series of contrasting textures, each requiring a different bowing technique. And at the end, there is a quick romp, itself also a variation!

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.33653S

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Tim McCarrick. Masterworks; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Beginning String Orchestra. Classical; Masterwork Arrangement; Romantic. Score. 8 pages. Belwin Music #00-33653S. Published by Belwin Music (AP.33653S).

UPC: 038081381350. English.

A simple folk-style song that works wonderfully for strings and depicts a traveling troubadour and his trained pet entertaining for their food. The broken-chord accompaniment imitates the organ grinder as he sings while the marmot performs tricks for the listeners. It is a beautiful melody that moves between A minor and C major. Both upper strings and cellos take turns on the melody!

Orchestra - Grade 2.5

SKU: AP.35900S

Composed by Christian Williams. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Beginning String Orchestra. Score. 8 pages. Belwin Music #00-35900S. Published by Belwin Music (AP.35900S).

UPC: 038081411101. English.

In the key of a natural minor, with brief forays into the melodic minor, this piece features an especially strong part for the viola section---an often overlooked group---and some third position in the cello and bass parts. Your students will enjoy the simple melodies in this fun and rhythmic piece! Each section has its moment to shine while rhythmic backgrounds set the scene.

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.49060

Composed by Bruce W. Tippette. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Score and Part(s). 74 pages. Duration 2:10. Highland/Etling #00-49060. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.49060).

ISBN 9781470645786. UPC: 038081565224. English.

Ideal for young orchestras, Majestic Moonlight by Bruce W. Tippette incorporates a gentle, lilting melodic line with lush harmonies and simple rhythms. It is a musical journey that paints a picture of the moonlight shining majestically. Without technical obstacles in the way, your students will be free to enjoy achieving all of the musical emotion as the piece builds to a climactic maestoso moment before the peaceful conclusion. (2:10) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: KJ.SO60C

Composed by Chuck Elledge. Sacred. Score and parts. Neil A. Kjos Music Company #SO60C. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.SO60C).

Over the years, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen with its simple, plaintive melody and joyous words, has become a holiday favorite in the world over. Although this traditional English carol is often said to be in a minor key, it is actually in the Aeolian mode, (also known as natural minor), which is different from the more common harmonic form of minor in that the Aeolian mode's leading tone is a whole step from the tonic.The encouraging words of this carol are an inspiration to people everywhere.

Orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: AP.47423

Composed by Todd Parrish. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Beginning String Orchestra. Programmatic. Score and Part(s). 72 pages. Duration 1:45. Belwin Music #00-47423. Published by Belwin Music (AP.47423).

ISBN 9781470653811. UPC: 038081544502. English.

Especially well suited for first-year students, this dark-sounding piece gives students a mature, full sound. Written in B natural minor, it utilizes only the notes of the D major scale with easy finger patterns and simple rhythms throughout. (1:45).

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.46708S

Arranged by Richard Meyer. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Explorer. Christmas; Sacred; Traditional; Winter. Score. 8 pages. Highland/Etling #00-46708S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.46708S).

UPC: 038081532820. English. Traditional.

Teachi ng opportunities abound in this fresh and creative arrangement of the carol We Three Kings. The piece depicts the kings' famous nocturnal trek across the desert and is a great way to introduce your students to low finger patterns (B-flats and E-flats), simple time-signature changes, and the concept of tone painting. Percussion parts have been added to enhance the mysterious mood. A real change of pace on your next holiday concert! This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: AP.38478S

Composed by Doug Spata. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Latin; Light Concert. Score. 8 pages. Highland/Etling #00-38478S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.38478S).

UPC: 038081431642. English.

The sunny, Latin style shines brightly in this all-pizzicato piece. Easy rhythms on the D and A strings, back-and-forth melodies, and breezy tunes that pass between the sections make this a fantastic and fun selection that your ensemble will love to play. Also a great way to introduce simple dynamics, repeats, and multiple endings, this piece includes optional claves and cabasa parts to add to the Latin flavor. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra - Grade 1.5

SKU: AP.38400S

Song of Love. Composed by Tim McCarrick. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Beginning String Orchestra. Latin; Light Concert. Score. 12 pages. Belwin Music #00-38400S. Published by Belwin Music (AP.38400S).

UPC: 038081433639. English.

An original tune in the style of Mexico, celebrating true love, and very easy---what's not to like? Optional, very simple guitar, piano, and percussion parts are included. This one will be fun for all and is a great way to include those garage band players in your school. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

By Anne McGinty (1945-). Orchestra. For orchestra. Orchestra method/study. Queenwood Developing String Orchestra. Score and parts. Published by Queenwood Publications

Orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: AP.40454S

Bass Section Feature. Arranged by Bob Phillips. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Sound Innovations for String Orchestra. Christmas; Novelty; Secular; Traditional; Winter. Score. 8 pages. Alfred Music #00-40454S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.40454S).

UPC: 038081459745. English. Traditional.

Cute, fun, and a true grade 1 bass feature! What more could you want? Encourage the bass players by showing them off. The bass parts are very simple, but the basses also play jingle bells in a surprise twist at the end of the piece. Brainstorm ideas to dress this piece up. Some suggestions are to put Santa hats on the bass players or the scroll of the basses. You could even put Christmas lights or stockings on the bass or stands. Bring the bass players up front. Have some bells on each bass stand where the audience can't see them. Then, when the time is right, the bassists pull out the bells and jingle away! Correlates to Sound Innovations Book 1, Level 3.

Orchestra - Grade 2.5

SKU: AP.47471

Composed by Anthony Granata. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Halloween; Light Concert. Score and Part(s). 124 pages. Duration 2:41. Highland/Etling #00-47471. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.47471).

UPC: 038081544809. English.

Written in the eerie key of F-sharp natural minor that attracts young students, this sound defines our scary monster called Stretch. Each section gets important melodic and countermelodic material. With two separate sections (slow and fast), a legato middle section, a jaunty pizzicato section, and a forceful coda, every section will be challenging. The work features simple rhythm patterns to make it more accessible and allow the student to focus on the three sharps.

(For the victims of the 2011 Queensland Floods). By Loreta Fin. Orchestra. Part(s); Score; String Orchestra. Wilfin String Orchestra: Young String Ensemble Series. Grade 1; Grade 1.5. 66 pages. Published by Alfred Music

Orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: AP.38486

Composed by Jean Mouret. Arranged by Richard Rigg. MakeMusic Cloud; Masterworks; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Form: Fanfare; Transcription. Baroque; Masterwork Arrangement. Score and Part(s). 62 pages. Highland/Etling #00-38486. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.38486).

UPC: 038081432458. English.

A great festival piece that, while simple, retains an authentic Baroque sound! The melody moves between sections and all sections remain in first position using mainly three strings. Slurs, bow-lifts, double up-bow, and contrasting dynamics provide wonderful technical development in a fabulous setting in the key of G. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra

SKU: BA.BA06861

Sinfonie (1923-1928). Composed by Leos Janacek. Arranged by Leoš Faltus and Miloš Štedron. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leos Janacek H/3. Complete edition, Score, Set of parts. Duration 40 minutes. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA06861_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA06861).

ISBN 9790260104211. 34.3 x 27 cm inches.

Leoš Janácek’s symphonic fragment Dunaj (The Danube) dates from the period of the composition of “Katya Kabanova”. The composer was not concerned with a musical-picturesque description of a river landscape, but with the mythical link between women’s destinies and water.

“Pale green waves of the Danube! There are so many of you, and one followed by another. You remain interlocked in a continuous flow. You surprise yourselves where you ended up – on the Czech shores! Look back downstream and you will have an impression of what you have left behind in your haste. It pleases you here. Here I will rest with my symphony.” Thus Leoš Janácek described the idea behind the composition project which occupied him in 1923/24. However, after further work, it remained incomplete in 1926. His “symphony” entitled Dunaj has survived as a continuously-notated, four-movement bundle of sketches in score form. It is one of the works which occupied him until his death. The scholarly reconstruction by the two Brno composers Miloš Štedron and Leoš Faltus closely follows the original manuscript.

A whole conglomeration of motifs stands behind the incomplete work. What at first seems like a counterpart to Smetana’s Vltava, in fact doesn’t turn out to be a musical depiction of the Danube. On the contrary, the fateful link between the destiny of women, water and death permeates the range of motifs found in the work. It seems to be no coincidence that Janácek, whilst working on the opera Katya Kabanova, in which the Volga, as the river bringing death plays an almost mythical role, planned a Danube symphony, and that its content was linked with the destiny of women: in the sketches, two poems were found which may have provided the stimulus for several movements of the symphony. He copied a poem by Pavla Kriciková into the second movement, in which a girl remarks that whilst bathing in a pond, she was observed by a man. Filled with shame, the young naked woman jumps into the water and drowns. The outer movements likewise draw on the poem “Lola” by the Czech writer Sonja Špálová, published under the pseudonym Alexander Insarov. This is about a prostitute who asks for her heart’s desire: she is given a palace, but then goes on a long search for it and is finally no longer wanted by anyone. She suffers, feels cold and just wants a warm fire. Janácek adds his remark “she jumps into the Danube” to the inconclusive ending.

To these tangible literary models is added Adolf Veselý’s verbal account which reports that the composer wanted to portray “in the Danube, the female sex with all its passions and driving forces”. The third movement is said to characterise the city of Vienna in the form of a woman.

It is evident that in his composition, Janácek was not striving for a simple, natural lyricism. The River Danube is masculine in the Slavic language – “ten Dunaj” – and assumes an almost mythical significance in the national character, indeed often also a role bringing death. The four movements are motivically conceived. Elements of sound painting, small wave-like figures in the first movement, motoric, driving movements in the third are obvious evocations of water. And the content and the literary level are easy to discover. The “tremolo of the four timpani”, which was amongst Janácek’s first inspirations, appears in the second movement. It is not difficult to retrace in it the fate of the drowning bather. The oboe enters lamentoso towards the end of the movement over timpani playing tremolo, its descending figure is taken over by the flute, then upper strings and intensified considerably. The motif of drowning – Lola’s despair – returns again in the fourth movement in the clarinet, before the work ends abruptly and dramatically.

One special effect is the use of a soprano voice in the motor-driven third movement. The singer vocalises mainly in parallel with the solo oboe, but also in dialogue with other parts such as the viola d’amore, which Janácek used in several late works as a sort of “voice of love”.

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Orchestra - Grade 3

SKU: AP.45847S

From The Magic Flute. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged by Jerry Brubaker. Masterworks; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Concert String Orchestra. Form: March. Classical; Masterwork Arrangement; Wedding. Score. 8 pages. Duration 2:45. Belwin Music #00-45847S. Published by Belwin Music (AP.45847S).

UPC: 038081523460. English.

The Magic Flute is perhaps one of Mozart's most well known operas. The beginning of the second act is a lovely processional march known as March of the Priests. The scene depicts a solemn procession of priests as they enter the great cathedral. The piece has a very ethereal quality and is lush and beautiful when played by a string orchestra. Close your eyes and imagine yourself at the Met, fully engulfed in the beauty of Mozart's lovely opera. Jerry Brubaker's rich new setting of this beautiful, yet simple piece will give players and audiences much enjoyment every time it is played. This arrangement works well as a concert piece and could even be used as a processional for a wedding. Feel the magic! (2:45).

Score and Parts. By Franklin Haspiel. (Orchestra). Boosey and Hawkes Orchestra. Published by Boosey and Hawkes.

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.41248S

Composed by Richard Meyer. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Explorer. Christmas; Novelty; Secular; Winter. Score. 12 pages. Highland/Etling #00-41248S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.41248S).

UPC: 038081480503. English.

Imagine four soloists playing eight Boomwhackers on the heads of eight brave audience members while being accompanied by string orchestra. That's the scenario of this hilarious show-stopper. Your audience will love hearing Jingle Bells, Good King Wenceslas, and Deck the Halls like never before. Used by the composer with his own orchestra and guest teachers, this simple yet highly effective novelty number never fails! Complete staging instructions are included. (2:00)
Correlates to String Explorer Book 1, Unit 13. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: AP.38391S

Composed by Andre Campra. Arranged by Douglas E. Wagner. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Very Beginning String Orchestra. Baroque; Masterwork Arrangement. Score. 8 pages. Belwin Music #00-38391S. Published by Belwin Music (AP.38391S).

UPC: 038081430195. English.

This familiar instrumental excerpt from Campra's opera, Idoménée, is a natural confidence builder for young players. Beginning with a simple ostinato in the low strings, the arrangement flows gracefully into the main theme. This theme occurs three times in the work, each time exactly as the first, thereby saving rehearsal minutes and hastening the learning process. A perfect first ensemble piece! This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.49447S

(Violent). Composed by Victor Lopez. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Beginning String Orchestra. Score. Belwin Music #00-49447S. Published by Belwin Music (AP.49447S).

ISBN 9781470650414. UPC: 038081571195. English.

Give your students the opportunity of playing a piece for beginning strings that is upbeat and full of excitement! Violento, is an original beginning strings composition by veteran composer Victor López. This exciting work is a forceful and rhythmically driven composition that sounds more difficult than written. A mixture of the danzón---Cuba's unique genre of song and dance---and basic rhythmic interplay give this piece a unique touch. The inclusive, simple, and repetitious rhythmic patterns will certainly make an energetic statement at your next concert. (1:50) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Orchestra - Grade 2

SKU: AP.49447

(Violent). Composed by Victor Lopez. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Beginning String Orchestra. Score and Part(s). Belwin Music #00-49447. Published by Belwin Music (AP.49447).

ISBN 9781470650407. UPC: 038081571188. English.

Give your students the opportunity of playing a piece for beginning strings that is upbeat and full of excitement! Violento, is an original beginning strings composition by veteran composer Victor López. This exciting work is a forceful and rhythmically driven composition that sounds more difficult than written. A mixture of the danzón---Cuba's unique genre of song and dance---and basic rhythmic interplay give this piece a unique touch. The inclusive, simple, and repetitious rhythmic patterns will certainly make an energetic statement at your next concert. (1:50) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

String orchestra (88555) with optional 3rd violin/viola TC (3 copies) - Grade 2

SKU: KN.9121

Arranged by Albert Wang. Solo or Ensemble. Voyager String Orchestra. Score and set of parts. Duration 3 minutes, 15 seconds. Kendor Music Inc #9121. Published by Kendor Music Inc (KN.9121).

UPC: 822795091212.

Origi nating as a peasant dance in the Dauphine region of southeastern France and requiring dancers to raise rather than slide their feet, the gavotte became popular in European courts during the Baroque era. In this setting of Gossec's famous Gavotte In D, simple rhythms and interesting ornaments make it perfect for any concert program. Duration 3:15. Available in SmartMusic.

Orchestra - Grade 4

SKU: AP.46714S

Composed by Richard Meyer. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Score. 28 pages. Highland/Etling #00-46714S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.46714S).

UPC: 038081537047. English.

This joyful and jubilant piece by Richard Meyer has the sound of a celebration and a title that describes how music unites us all: Yumiweeus. Hand drumming and a simple chant-like melody start the festivities, followed by an original theme and a set of six variations. Duets featuring the first stand players of every section introduce the first five variations, and a virtuosic final variation closes the piece. The changing meters and variety of key signatures and modes included here are sure to challenge all of your more advanced players. The measure of contrary motion that starts the piece is heard again between each variation and is meant to represent a coming together to common ground.

Orchestra - Grade 1

SKU: AP.47431S

Composed by Tanner Otto. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Belwin Beginning String Orchestra. Light Concert. Score. 12 pages. Duration 2:15. Belwin Music #00-47431S. Published by Belwin Music (AP.47431S).

UPC: 038081547138. 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).