Most often heard during the holiday season but appropriate all year long, this familiar English tune lets students focus on playing with warm expression and good intonation. Great change-of-pace fare...
This beautiful setting in G of the great Scottish tune encourages first-year students to play with good expression, intonation, balance and blend. The shortest note value is a quarter note, and the so...
The Norse legend of Guldfaxe, Thor's horse with the golden mane, is captured in this dramatic piece for grade 1 strings. Basic D-major finger patterns, 'run pony' rhythms, and the mystic Dorian mode a...
This fun grade 1+ piece in E minor takes you on a solar journey with a cool groove. The melody is spread throughout all sections of the orchestra, making it very interesting for all players. Each set...
In this adaptation of the first movement from Vivaldi's familiar Baroque masterpiece, the two solo parts have been cleverly incorporated into the standard string orchestra parts. Lively canonic melodi...
William Billings illustrious hymn, Chester, is scored at the grade 1 level for string orchestra in a very playable concert setting that allows for a full sound and interesting lines in all parts. The...
This fun grade 1+ piece is designed to help students develop the skill of quickly switching between arco and pizzicato, while also providing experience playing left hand pizzicato and using the 4th fi...
This grade 1+ piece provides an excellent opportunity to feature low strings, while giving all students a fun part to play. A perfect training piece for F naturals and simple 2-note slurs, this will b...
This lively piece focuses on three concepts: note-reading on the G string, combined quarter and eighth note rhythm patterns, and dynamic changes. Written in echo style, it's lots of fun to play and he...
Eine leichte Bearbeitung von Beethovens berühmten Satz aus der 9. Sinfonie. Für Violoncelli und Kontrabässe gibt es Pizzicato-Passagen. Tonarten: G-Dur und D-Dur.
