Highland String Orchestra

This piece was written at the request of a friend of the composer who wanted an easy piece she could use to introduce low 1st-finger B-flats. Her students really responded to the aggressive style, app...

Written with early advanced orchestras in mind, here is a dramatic selection in fast 3/4 time with some daring rhythms and sweeping, romantic melodies. Teachers can use this one to reinforce basic shi...

Written with early advanced orchestras in mind, here is a dramatic selection in fast 3/4 time with some daring rhythms and sweeping, romantic melodies. Teachers can use this one to reinforce basic shi...

This traditional Hanukkah song, My Candles (sometimes known as 'In the Window'), is a lovely and haunting melody written in strophic form. Strophic music is a song that has only one phrase of melodic...

This traditional Hanukkah song, My Candles (sometimes known as 'In the Window'), is a lovely and haunting melody written in strophic form. Strophic music is a song that has only one phrase of melodic...

The perfect grade 1 piece for beginning string students, 'Bottomless Pizz.' by Andrew H. Dabczynski requires no bows and uses only open strings and the pitches of a one-octave D scale. Remarkably simp...

An elegant, beautiful, sophisticated, and lyric piece in C Major, this new work includes melodic content for all, particularly the cellos. With opportunities for practicing shifting and developing mus...

An elegant, beautiful, sophisticated, and lyric piece in C Major, this new work includes melodic content for all, particularly the cellos. With opportunities for practicing shifting and developing mus...

An elegant, beautiful, sophisticated, and lyric piece in C Major, this new work includes melodic content for all, particularly the cellos. With opportunities for practicing shifting and developing mus...

An elegant, beautiful, sophisticated, and lyric piece in C Major, this new work includes melodic content for all, particularly the cellos. With opportunities for practicing shifting and developing mus...

The Elements by Richard Meyer is a colorful depiction of the four basic elements - Earth, Air, Water, and Fire - and is sure to challenge and delight every member of your advanced string orchestra. Im...

Beginning students will respond to the confident, heroic style of 'Spring at Last' as they work on important technical skills like string crossings, approachable cut time rhythms, repeats, endings,...

Beginning students will respond to the confident, heroic style of 'Spring at Last' as they work on important technical skills like string crossings, approachable cut time rhythms, repeats, endings,...

Beginning students will respond to the confident, heroic style of 'Spring at Last' as they work on important technical skills like string crossings, approachable cut time rhythms, repeats, endings,...

Created with easy notes and rhythms, this regal march in the style of William Walton is playable by beginners for graduation ceremonies. It can also be learned quickly by more advanced ensembles for a...

Hunter's Moon is a dramatic piece for late beginners by Doug Spata. Rhythms and part independence are limited. Repeated eighth-note rhythms and a range that stays on the D and A strings make this an a...

Hunter's Moon is a dramatic piece for late beginners by Doug Spata. Rhythms and part independence are limited. Repeated eighth-note rhythms and a range that stays on the D and A strings make this an a...

Hunter's Moon is a dramatic piece for late beginners by Doug Spata. Rhythms and part independence are limited. Repeated eighth-note rhythms and a range that stays on the D and A strings make this an a...

Hunter's Moon is a dramatic piece for late beginners by Doug Spata. Rhythms and part independence are limited. Repeated eighth-note rhythms and a range that stays on the D and A strings make this an a...

Students will be swept away by 'North of the Mountain': a vivid musical adventure by Doug Spata in 3/4 time featuring advanced part independence, required shifting, and bracing sixteenth-note runs. Th...

Students will be swept away by 'North of the Mountain': a vivid musical adventure by Doug Spata in 3/4 time featuring advanced part independence, required shifting, and bracing sixteenth-note runs. Th...

Students will be swept away by 'North of the Mountain': a vivid musical adventure by Doug Spata in 3/4 time featuring advanced part independence, required shifting, and bracing sixteenth-note runs. Th...

Students will be swept away by 'North of the Mountain': a vivid musical adventure by Doug Spata in 3/4 time featuring advanced part independence, required shifting, and bracing sixteenth-note runs. Th...

This stately grade 1.5 piece, 'Coronation of the Queen' by Susan H. Day, uses easy rhythms, features interesting harmonies and memorable melodies, and reinforces low 2nd finger on D and A strings. Ima...

The rondo form of this work gives students repetition, along with 'detours' to keep their interest. The piece uses only quarter notes and half notes with both stepwise motion and larger intervals in D...