Ensembles

It’s Raining Cats and Dogs is perfect for your beginning orchestra’s spring concert! It is based on a familiar old joke: “When it is raining cats and dogs, be careful you don’t step in a poodle!” This...

Beware the black hole! This fun and dramatic piece is perfect for beginning ensembles. All sections get to play the minor melodies, and with too many opportunities to play in the rests, students will...

Floating in a Dream: Close your eyes and imagine you are floating while you are dreaming, best accomplished with the help of a beautiful melody accompanying the dream. This piece uses legato style bow...

Spiders on the Loose: Students will love this easy piece which portrays spiders insidiously creeping and crawling up their arms, represented by eighth notes. Each section gets to play the exciting mel...

Elgar’s Andante and March was taken from a set of pieces by Edward Elgar for violin and piano that I used to play with my daughter when she was a young violin student. I appreciated that a young violi...

Harvest Moon Dance was inspired by the beautiful full harvest moon and imagining a joyful barn dance to celebrate the autumn harvest. The piece has a double-stop intro and interludes to provide that c...

Smoky Mountain Lullaby is influenced by the music of Appalachia which in turn was influenced by the ballads, hymns, and fiddle music of the British Isles. To me, this piece feels like a love ballad, b...

Andiamo! (“Let’s Go!”) This piece was written to feature the viola section, they start the frenzied melody and we’re off! After a trip to Italy, the composer fondly remembered one phrase the tour guid...

Baile De La Noche (Dance of the Night) is a lilting Latin piece that evokes images of an evening of dancing and merriment. Care has been taken by the composer to make sure all sections of the orchestr...

Ballad and Jig opens with singingly expressive melodies in G major, allowing the orchestra to focus on playing in a connected ballad style. The lively jig section of the piece features energetic and m...

Battle Cry is meant to embody the warrior spirit! With heavy articulations and driving rhythms, the piece should be played mostly in the lower half of the bow with strong accents and attention to arti...

Big Sky Overture: Sweeping melodies punctuated by energetic rhythmic motives make this original overture perfect for concert and contest. Observing traditional overture form, the main theme is set fir...

The Mountain City Fiddlers is titled after the Fiddlers Convention of 1925, which was held in Mountain City, Tennessee. The piece opens with violin and cello solos in A major, with stomping feet and c...

Rondo Recipe is a light-hearted work to be approached in the classical style. The “dash of Mozart” is not a facetious quote for there is in fact a small quote of music that is by Mozart hidden within...

Winds of Arabia will evoke images of the exotic Arabian desert. The mode, meter and pizzicato passages help provide the Middle Eastern sound that drives this camel caravan through the desert. The sync...

A storm of fiddle tunes and ostinatos portray a flash flood rushing down a southwestern slot canyon in this fast-paced outing for advancing string orchestra. Conceived as an American response to the 4...

Das ultimative Mashup aus Pachelbels Kanon in D und Tschaikowskys bombastischer Ouvertüre 1812 ist für Schüler und Publikum gleichermaßen fesselnd. Die Celli und Bässe werden sich nicht langweilen und...

Score , Partitur des Konzert C-dur GWV 301 für Fagott, Streicher und Basso continuo Unter den Solokonzerten nehmen die vier Werke für solistisches Fagott einen besonderen Stellenwert ein; keinem and...

Parts , Stimmen des Konzert C-dur GWV 301 für Fagott, Streicher und Basso continuo Unter den Solokonzerten nehmen die vier Werke für solistisches Fagott einen besonderen Stellenwert ein; keinem ande...

Score , Partitur des Konzert c-moll GWV 307 für Fagott, Streicher und Basso continuo c-moll Unter den Solokonzerten nehmen die vier Werke für solistisches Fagott einen besonderen Stellenwert ein; kei...

Parts , Stimmen des Konzert c-moll GWV 307 für Fagott, Streicher und Basso continuo c-moll Unter den Solokonzerten nehmen die vier Werke für solistisches Fagott einen besonderen Stellenwert ein; kein...

Score , Partitur des Konzert D-dur GWV 310 für Flöte, Streicher und Basso continuo, Partitur 18 S. Das Konzert GWV 310 folgt dem dreisätzigen Typus, wie ihn Antonio Vivaldi in Italien geprägt hatte,...

Parts , Stimmen des Konzert D-dur GWV 310 für Flöte, Streicher und Basso continuo, 5 Stimmen. Das Konzert GWV 310 folgt dem dreisätzigen Typus, wie ihn Antonio Vivaldi in Italien geprägt hatte, mit e...

Score , Partitur des Konzert D-dur GWV 311 für Flöte, Streicher und Basso continuo, Partitur 23 S. Längst nicht in allen Konzerten folgt Graupner dem italienischen dreisätzigen Vorbild Vivaldis; in...

Parts , Stimmen des Konzert D-dur GWV 311 für Flöte, Streicher und Basso continuo, 5 Stimmen. Längst nicht in allen Konzerten folgt Graupner dem italienischen dreisätzigen Vorbild Vivaldis; in seinem...