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DE FALLA The Miller's Dance (The Three-Cornered Hat) for string orchestra
String Orchestra
Arranged by Ian Butterworth. 20th Century, Concert. Score and parts. 17 pages. Ian B…
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Arranged by Ian Butterworth. 20th Century, Concert. Score and parts. 17 pages. Ian Butterworth #5954941. Published by Ian Butterworth
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The Valiant Approach!
String Orchestra
String Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1201741 Composed by Daniel M.…
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String Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1201741 Composed by Daniel M. Classical,Medieval. Score and Parts. 39 pages. Daniel Miller #800359. Published by Daniel Miller (A0.1201741). The Valiant Approach! is an exhilarating piece of sheet music that is sure to get your heart pumping and your adrenaline flowing. From the very first notes, you'll be transported to a world of action and adventure, where anything is possible and nothing is off-limits. The piece is characterized by its soaring melodies, driving rhythms, and bold, heroic themes, all of which combine to create a sense of excitement and energy that is impossible to resist.As you play through The Valiant Approach!, you'll feel the music building in intensity, reaching a crescendo that is both thrilling and powerful. The piece is full of dramatic twists and turns, with unexpected shifts in tempo and mood that keep you on your toes and keep the music fresh and exciting. Whether you're playing this piece alone or with a full orchestra, you'll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you bring its stirring melodies to life.The Valiant Approach! is a piece that demands your full attention and your best effort. But if you're up for the challenge, you'll be rewarded with a musical experience that is truly unforgettable. So grab your instrument, take a deep breath, and get ready to embark on an adventure that will leave you feeling inspired and invigorated. This is The Valiant Approach! – a piece of sheet music that is both engaging and action-packed.
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Jolly Is The Miller
String Orchestra
String Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.786002 Composed by Nursery So…
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String Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.786002 Composed by Nursery Song. Arranged by Andrew R. Guarrine. Contemporary. Score and parts. 12 pages. GuarrineMusic #6062337. Published by GuarrineMusic (A0.786002). Jolly Old Miller A nursery song adapted for 3-part orchestra and piano (recommended) that uses eighth notes, pizzicato and arco techniques, piano and mezzo-forte dynamics. This catchy, 8 measure phrase is repeated 3 times (with the melody always in the violin 1), is a great teaching tool for your second-year orchestra for melody, accompaniment, rhythm and harmony.    Key of G  Grade 1+/2
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Jolly Is The Miller
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Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord
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String Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1264420 Composed by Benjamin …
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String Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1264420 Composed by Benjamin Mansell Ramsey. Arranged by Stephanie Miller. 19th Century,Christian,Praise & Worship,Religious,Sacred. Score and Parts. 8 pages. Stephanie J. Miller #857251. Published by Stephanie J. Miller (A0.1264420). This is an easy, versatile arrangement of a well-loved hymn, set in G major. The first violin part (melody) has C sharps and C naturals and one slur, while all other parts are diatonic with separate bows. All parts stay in first position. An introduction is included for the option of accompanying singing.
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Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord
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Stephanie J. Miller
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A String Of Pearls
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String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.746782 Composed by Jerry Gray…
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String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.746782 Composed by Jerry Gray. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Film/TV,Pop. 19 pages. Keith Terrett #3519211. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.746782). An arrangement in the Glen Miller style of ''A String of Pearls'', arranged for String Orchestra.A String of Pearls is a 1941 song recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra on RCA Bluebird, composed by Jerry Gray with lyrics by Eddie DeLange.[1] The song is a big band and jazz standard.Glenn Miller and His Orchestra recorded A String of Pearls on November 8, 1941 in New York, which was copyrighted and published by The Mutual Music Society, Inc., ASCAP. It was released as an RCA Bluebird 78 single, B-11382-B, backed with Day Dreaming, in 1941 by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. Day Dreaming was the A side.The personnel for A String of Pearls: Saxes: Babe Russin, Tex Beneke, Wilbur Schwartz, Ernie Caceres, Al Klink; Trumpets: John Best, R. D. McMickle, Billy May, Alec Fila; Trombones: Glenn Miller, Jimmy Priddy, Paul Tanner, Frank D'Annolfo; Piano: Chummy MacGregor; String Bass: Edward Doc Goldberg; Guitar: Bobby Hackett; Drums: Moe Purtill. Bobby Hackett performed the trumpet solo on the original Glenn Miller recording.The record was ranked No. 1 in the US for two weeks in 1942 on the Billboard Best Sellers chart in a chart run of 21 weeks.
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Pennsylvania 6-5000: Score
String Orchestra
String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PR-0003816 Score. By Glenn Mi…
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String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PR-0003816 Score. By Glenn Miller. By Jerry Gray. Arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Instructional. Score. 20 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PR-0003816. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PR-0003816). UPC: 038081437446.Here's a great 1940s Glenn Miller standard that will get any string orchestra swinging! The tunes, rhythms, and harmonies of the big-band era all come alive in this clever arrangement. All the string sections have opportunities to shine, and optional piano and vocal percussion parts add to the groove. And everybody gets to join in the classic Pennsylvania 6-5-0-0-0 chant! This is a chart that will truly bring the crowd swinging to their feet!
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Pennsylvania 6-5000: 2nd Violin
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String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0015504_VN2 2nd Violin. By…
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String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0015504_VN2 2nd Violin. By Glenn Miller. By Jerry Gray. Arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Instructional. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0015504_VN2. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0015504_VN2). UPC: 038081437446.Here's a great 1940s Glenn Miller standard that will get any string orchestra swinging! The tunes, rhythms, and harmonies of the big-band era all come alive in this clever arrangement. All the string sections have opportunities to shine, and optional piano and vocal percussion parts add to the groove. And everybody gets to join in the classic Pennsylvania 6-5-0-0-0 chant! This is a chart that will truly bring the crowd swinging to their feet!
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Around The Clock
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String Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1047104 Composed by Daniel M.…
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String Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1047104 Composed by Daniel M. 20th Century,Classical. Score and parts. 6 pages. Daniel Miller #651630. Published by Daniel Miller (A0.1047104). A piece I created within the span of a day. I was hitting random piano key notes and then had the idea for this so yeah I'm a student in high school and have composed 4 pieces so far! I've only uploaded three of them.
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Pennsylvania 6-5000: Viola
String Orchestra
String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0015504_VA1 Viola. By Glen…
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String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0015504_VA1 Viola. By Glenn Miller. By Jerry Gray. Arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Instructional. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0015504_VA1. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0015504_VA1). UPC: 038081437446.Here's a great 1940s Glenn Miller standard that will get any string orchestra swinging! The tunes, rhythms, and harmonies of the big-band era all come alive in this clever arrangement. All the string sections have opportunities to shine, and optional piano and vocal percussion parts add to the groove. And everybody gets to join in the classic Pennsylvania 6-5-0-0-0 chant! This is a chart that will truly bring the crowd swinging to their feet!
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Pennsylvania 6-5000: String Bass
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String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0015504_SB String Bass. By…
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String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0015504_SB String Bass. By Glenn Miller. By Jerry Gray. Arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Instructional. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0015504_SB. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0015504_SB). UPC: 038081437446.Here's a great 1940s Glenn Miller standard that will get any string orchestra swinging! The tunes, rhythms, and harmonies of the big-band era all come alive in this clever arrangement. All the string sections have opportunities to shine, and optional piano and vocal percussion parts add to the groove. And everybody gets to join in the classic Pennsylvania 6-5-0-0-0 chant! This is a chart that will truly bring the crowd swinging to their feet!
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Pennsylvania 6-5000: Cello
String Orchestra
String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0015504_VC1 Cello. By Glen…
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String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0015504_VC1 Cello. By Glenn Miller. By Jerry Gray. Arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Instructional. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0015504_VC1. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0015504_VC1). UPC: 038081437446.Here's a great 1940s Glenn Miller standard that will get any string orchestra swinging! The tunes, rhythms, and harmonies of the big-band era all come alive in this clever arrangement. All the string sections have opportunities to shine, and optional piano and vocal percussion parts add to the groove. And everybody gets to join in the classic Pennsylvania 6-5-0-0-0 chant! This is a chart that will truly bring the crowd swinging to their feet!
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C Jam Blues for String Orchestra
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String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1271389 By Duke Ellington. By…
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String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1271389 By Duke Ellington. By Duke Ellington/Barney Bigard. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Instructional,Jazz,Standards. 14 pages. Keith Terrett #863787. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.1271389). C Jam Blues is a jazz standard composed in 1942 by Duke Ellington and performed by countless other musicians, such as Dave Grusin, Django Reinhardt, Oscar Peterson, and Charles Mingus, arranged here for String Orchestra.As the title suggests, the piece follows a twelve-bar blues form in the key of C major. The tune is well known for being extremely easy to play, with the entire melody featuring only two notes: G and C.A performance typically features several improvised solos. The melody likely originated from the clarinetist Barney Bigard in 1941, but its origin is not perfectly clear.It was also known as Duke's Place, with lyrics added by Bill Katts, Bob Thiele and Ruth Roberts.Ellington's black and white film was produced in 1942. The video depicts a jam session where Ellington begins playing with a double bass before gradually being joined by other members of his band, among them drummer Sonny Greer and trumpeter Rex Stewart. The film title is Jam Session. Western Swing band leader Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys recorded the song sometime between 1945 and 1947 as part of the Tiffany Transcriptions. Bill Doggett recorded a version on his 1958 tribute album Salute to Duke Ellington (King). C Jam Blues was used by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band as the basis of their song The Intro and the Outro. Mulgrew Miller and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen included the song in their 1999 album The Duets. The Dave Brubeck Quartet performed this live at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival; the recording appears in their album Newport 1958. YouTube Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOlpcJhNyDI.
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Irish National Anthem (Unofficial) for String Orchestra
String Orchestra
String Orchestra - Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by trad. Arranged by Ke…
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String Orchestra - Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by trad. Arranged by Keith Terrett. 20th Century, European, Patriotic. Score, Set of Parts. 10 pages. Published by Music for all Occasions
Londonderry Air arranged for String Orchestra.<br> <br> A big band version of the song is used as the theme for The Danny Thomas Show (a.k.a. Make Room For Daddy).<br> <br> "Danny Boy" was used to represent Northern Ireland at the start of the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, sung by a choir of children on the Giant’s Causeway.<br> <br> On November 25, 2014, the Vancouver Canucks used the song in honor of the recently deceased Pat Quinn, who played and worked in many executive capacities for the team.<br> <br> There are various theories as to the true meaning of "Danny Boy". Some listeners have interpreted the song to be a message from a parent to a son going off to war or leaving as part of the Irish diaspora.<br> <br> The 1918 version of the sheet music included alternative lyrics ("Eily Dear"), with the instructions that "when sung by a man, the words in italic should be used; the song then becomes "Eily Dear", so that "Danny Boy" is only to be sung by a lady". In spite of this, it is unclear whether this was Weatherly’s intent.<br> <br> Why the name Londonderry Air? Londonderry and Derry refer to the same place, a city in the north of Ireland, and also to the surrounding county. Supposedly the city of Derry was founded by St. Colmcille, although archaeological evidence shows that people were living there thousands of years earlier. There is an excellent museum in the city, which is worth a visit if you want to find out more. The name of the city was actually "Doire", corrupted to "Derry" by people who can’t pronounce Irish. It thought to derive from an Irish root meaning "oak tree".<br> <br> Moving quickly along in history, about a millenium later the government of England was having a difficult time colonizing Ireland because of the fierce and warlike clans living there, especially in the north of the country, Ulster. The monarchs of England, almost all of whom were notorious cheapskates, were continually looking about for ingenious ways to conquer places without actually having to put up the money themselves, or run the risk of unpopularity if they lost. In the case of Ireland, some of these schemes of the "Brish gummit" (as it is termed nowadays in Ulster) are still producing unfortunate long-term consequences.<br> <br> In 1608, King James I gave the city of Derry to the City of London corporation. I guess the deal could be summed up by saying that if the City of London could figure out a way to chase all the inhabitants out of Derry, they would be allowed to keep the loot, minus a percentage for the King of course. If they lost, well too bad. In celebration of this historic agreement, the name of Derry was officially changed to Londonderry. (For further information, check out the Northern Ireland Tourist Board’s History of Derry.)<br> <br> The linguistic outcome of all this today is that, if you think that King James’s deal with the City of London was a good idea, you call both the city and county "Londonderry". If you do, you are probably a supporter of the Unionist movement that seeks to keep Ulster a part of the United Kingdom. If you think it was a bad idea, you call both "Derry", and you are probably a supporter of the Irish Nationalist cause. Or you might just be someone who thinks it’s confusing for kings to be going around changing the names of places all the time for no good reason.<br> <br> You can find plenty of discussion about the political side of the question elsewhere, but here let’s look at the musical side. We have an air, collected in county Derry/Londonderry, and it doesn’t have a title. What do we call it?<br> <br> If you were a proper Victorian, there’s no way you were going to call it the Londonderry Air, much less the Derry Air, because of the improper sentiments that these titles might suggest. My parents tell me that in their youth in Australia, it was usually called the Air from County Derry. (This would, I suppose, support Winston Churchill’s theory that Australia was inhabited by "convicts and Irishmen".)<br> <br> My mother also sends the following information, referring to an arrangement of the tune by the Australian composer Percy Grainger:<br> <br> Just another note about Danny Boy, that I grew up in Australia believing to be the Air from County Derry. We were looking through some LP’s last night (back to vinyl yet!) and found a Mercury Wing Classical Favorites stereo LP SRW18060, COUNTRY GARDENS and other favorites by Percy Grainger {played by} Eastman-Rochester Pops, Frederick Fennell, conducting. The cover notes included the following: "Irish Tune from County Derry was harmonised in memory of Irish childhood friends in Australia." Considered by many to be Grainger’s masterpiece of harmonization, the tune was collected many years ago by Miss Jane Ross of New Town, Limavady, Ireland. Grainger has set it for many instrumental combinations. So there’s another variant on the name for it. It doesn’t say who wrote the notes, but the bits in quotes for each of the works on the record are Grainger’s original comments.<br> <br> The references to Londonderry Air that I’ve seen don’t go back any earlier than the late 1930s. For example, the Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) in February 1940. Bing Crosby’s version was recorded in July 1941 (reference). (So many different things I could check up on!) Londonderry was an important American naval base during WWII, but the US hadn’t come into the war in 1940.<br> <br> Need an anthem fast? They are ALL in my store! 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