The imagery of a lush, green meadow helps set the stage for Verdant Meadows. This simple, yet harmonically adventurous composition alternates betwe...
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The idea with this piece was a representation of a subatomic or chemical process beginning and progressing, with electrons bouncing around and inte...
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Mark Revell's Spring Forward is composed in a similar style to his commercial music (such as his LG Signature commercial, found in this YouTube lin...
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As the title suggests, Waves of Three is built upon successive layers of three - three beats in a measure with a triple meter on each beat and thre...
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Canarios is a movement taken from the Suite Espanola for guitar by Gaspar Sanz, a leading composer of Spanish Baroque music. Deborah Baker Monday p...
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The title of Carl Strommen's piece, Tum Balalaika, is best known as a Russian-Jewish folk/love/riddle song. Loosely translated, "tum" means "noise,...
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A lively and exhilarating new piece for beginning string groups, Effervescence lives up to its title but is so much more. It also contains lush har...
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Your beginning string orchestra is bound to sparkle with this delightful new composition from composer George Sweet. The piece uses very simple rhy...
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Bud Caputo presents Nutcracker Suite Selections for string orchestra featuring three abridged movements of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite: Dance of...
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Peter Terry's The Lightning Catcher celebrates youth and the mysteries of summer nights. The wonder of lightning bugs and the hours spent chasing, ...
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Peter Terry's Unleashed makes for an impressive concert opener that is the musical equivalent of unleashing a caged animal. The piece is exciting f...
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Composed by Bruce W. Tippette, Drifting utilizes musical passages to allude to the image of something drifting down a river in the woods. It journe...
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The title of this piece,Le Printemps, is French for "the springtime." This piece brings images of springtime to the listener's mind. The rhythmic p...
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As the title suggests, there is a trumpet-like motive which is tossed among instrument sections. The source of this tune from the Shaker history ca...
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Alan Lee Silva's Northwestern Skies is lyrical and fresh, with his signature open and expressive style. Young string orchestras will sound rich and...
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Highlander's Pride showcases what Carl Strommen ability to write tuneful melodies and well-scored compositions. This march-like piece draws from Sc...
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As part of a collaboration between students and composer, Sean O'Loughlin, Dark Dreams is a dark and mysterious piece that utilizes techniques such...
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Composer Yukiko Nishimura presents Songbird, written for string orchestra in her signature fresh compositional style. After a short introduction, t...
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Featuring long phrases in a slow tempo, Interlude "Nightfall" is a perfect composition to teach musicianship with young students using dramatic har...
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In the Sun has a lite atmospheric sound; the music is full of energy and spirit. Composed in rondo form, the main theme appears repeatedly, alterna...
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Thomas Jefferson's Fiddle Tunes is inspired by Thomas and Martha Jefferson's musical evenings after dinner at Monticello.Composer James Meredith ha...
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Escapades is an adventurous and energetic composition written by David Hinds. A variety of articulation styles gives the piece character. The movin...
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Kathryn Griesinger builds the forceful minor theme of Centrifuge on a repeating motif of rotating eighth notes. Based on the scientific principle o...
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Bud Woodruff presents The Cat Is in the Kitchen, a tongue-in-cheek style piece with jazz influences that students enjoy playing. This quirky piece ...
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Kathryn Griesinger's Ballad of Burning Sky is a rollicking ballad which tells a tale from the untamed frontier of the historic Wild West. In this e...
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Joseph Compello's Great Plains Saga for the beginning string orchestra students depicts wide open spaces, rugged terrain, and covered wagons headin...
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String teachers are always trying to encourage their students to play with more bow. Composer Joseph Compello gives very beginning students the cha...
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A stunning and heart-wrenching composition based on the Jewish folk son Shlof, Mayn Kind.áYou can hear the emotional content pour out of this piece...
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This piece should depict images of kings and castles, knight and horses, dragons and damsels in distress. It is a bold and aggressive piece through...
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The title, Live On, by Larry Clark, is taken from Chrissie Pinney's poem about grief and loss. The piece is meant to depict the personality of Lind...
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Written for beginning string students, Larry Clark's Contemplation contains basic compositional techniques that students will be able to identify a...
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Abendstern, composed by Lauren Bernofsky,áevokes an image of a sunset over the tree-covered hills of the Bavarian countryside with the Abendstern, ...
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By Larry Clark & Doris Gazda. The Compatible Ensemble Series allows chamber groups to play together, no matter the instrumentation or who wants...
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