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A La Lute invokes the great lute music of the past, while being completely accessible by your beginning string and wind players. The spooky melody is also a great way to teach about the A melodic minor scale! A great way to combine your whole orchestra!
Finally, 6/8 in grade 1! This bright and happy tune teaches 6/8 while sticking entirely to the D major notes in first position. Along the way every section gets a chance to shine, including your basses!
Originally written for the composer’s very musical daughter, who inspired this light-hearted Ragtime piece, written with the needs of middle school string students in mind. It’s a fun tune that offers a lot of teaching opportunities, including roadmap, C#s, spiccatto, and moving across the common string keys. A great addition to your next concert!
Away We Go! tells the story of the low brass inviting the whole band on a big adventure…and everyone getting a little lost along the way before they find each other. This catchy 6/8 pieces serves as a great teaching vehicle, and would make a wonderful introduction to 6/8 for your students. Every section gets the chance to play the melody, including percussion, and there’s a euphonium feature!
Coast Highway (A Warm and Breezy Drive) explores pop-style string techniques in the style of movie and television themes of the 1950s-60s. It was written as a fun challenge for for an advanced middle school orchestra, and is a guaranteed hit with audiences of all ages! For your string players they get to use finger slides, and for your wind players this piece scales from string orchestra and percussion, to strings and saxophones, all the way to full orchestra. And for everyone solo changes are provided, making this a great way to teach and show off improvisation for your entire group!
This piece is also available for String Orchestra.
Coast Highway (A Warm and Breezy Drive) explores pop-style string techniques in the style of movie and television themes of the 1950s-60s. It was written as a fun challenge for for an advanced middle school orchestra, and is a guaranteed hit with audiences of all ages! Your string players get to use finger slides and solo changes are provided for all instruments, making this a great way to teach and show off improvisation for your entire group!
Fanfare In B is exactly what it says it is-a great grade 1 fanfare in B major! Rhythms (eighth notes only, no syncopation), ranges (clarinets stay below the break), and orchestration are kept achievable for first year players while teaching them some of their other notes, all in package that sounds exciting and fresh. A great opener or closer for your next concert!
In Motion is all about, well, motion! Your string players get to play a relentless pulse and melody while accompanied by your winds and percussion. Very achievable, and a great introduction to D major!
Lament For A Time Passed is an accessible yet dense ballad written as a tribute to the works of Frank Erickson. It invokes feelings of nostalgia, loss, and regret, and gives your students a chance to create complex emotions with simple materials. A great addition to your next concert!
Finally, 6/8 in grade 1! My First Adventure is your students’ first adventure into 6/8! Safe ranges and orchestration (and a euphonium solo!) and a bouncy tune give your students a great way to learn 6/8 in their first or second year of playing!
Overture For The Last Minute is a great introduction to overture style pieces and tempo changes. Originally written as for an ensemble late in its concert cycle, it’s filled with catchy melodies and harmonizations. A great choice for your beginning string orchestra!
Inspired by the “Society Band” dance orchestras of early 20th Century America, Ragtime Ragtop (A Tin Lizzie Drive) depicts taking the old Model-T out for an afternoon drive. From cranking the motor to a chugging start, cruising down the backroads, and the final screeching halt, this novelty piece is sure to please audiences with the sound images of what Happy Motoring was like in the early days of the automobile. It utilizes new techniques for your strings, including col legno bouncing of the bow and screechy behind the bridge playing, along with a lot of fun percussion effects.
This piece is written in flex style; it will work with just strings and percussion, but is best as a full orchestra piece.
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