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Carl Fischer introduces this exciting new series of performance pieces designed to help all levels of instrumentalists by making their practice time more productive. This innovative series offers the...

'The composer has been noted for his integration of jazz and rock into a modernist classical idiom. His string trio...makes fewer obvious stylistic detours, but is still built on contrast and is no le...

Based on Wallace Stevens' poem 'The Planet on the Table' this string quartet's world is made of the music and sounds of remembered times or of something heard that the composer, Martin Bresnick, liked...

Die 22 Stücke in dieser Sammlung wurden sorgfältig arrangiert, um die Entwicklung von Streichern in den ersten Jahren des Spiels zu fördern. Von der 1. bis zur 2. Klasse bietet jedes Stück einfache To...

Die 22 Stücke in dieser Sammlung wurden sorgfältig arrangiert, um die Entwicklung von Streichern in den ersten Jahren des Spiels zu fördern. Von der 1. bis zur 2. Klasse bietet jedes Stück einfache To...

The Sinfonia a 8 (La Melodia Germania No. 1) in D major by Johann Stamitz was originally composed for two French horns, two violins, viola, and bass. Since the wind parts largely doubled the strings i...

A re-discovered classic, this gem for String Orchestra was written by Howard Hanson (1896-1981) for the American String Teachers Association and first performed in 1976 at the Music Educators National...

Besetzung: Streichorchester Ausgabe: Stimmensatz je 8 Violine I/Violine Ii, je 5 Viola/Cello/Kontrabaß

A nice showcase piece for your beginning string orchestra. There are lots of opportunities to get them frolicking around the fingerboard with many repeated eighth note patterns. The piece is tuneful a...

A beginning string orchestra piece of elephantine porportions! Sean O'Loughlin is able to deliver time and time again exciting music that students love to play. His pieces sound much more difficult an...

The Terracotta army that guards the tomb of China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang is nearly 8,000 warriors strong. This new piece for beginning ensembles depicts these magnificent stone soldiers. Compos...

First-year players can ?reach for the stars? with this easy concert piece. An ethereal theme with simple rhythms in first position calls to mind mysterious celestial spheres. All sections of the orche...

This standard for beginning strings has a new twist to it. The melody is much easier to teach in 4/4 rather than in 3/4. It is still in D major and contains no altered fingerings. The tempo marking is...

Ulysses Kay favored neoclassical tendencies in his works, featuring lyricism, contrapuntal textures, clear formal designs and a tonal, yet chromatic harmonic vocabulary, all of which are evident in hi...