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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!
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!
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!
Let’s Work Together lets your beginning band and orchestra members do exactly that-on their first concert! This is a purpose written work specifically for beginning full orchestra, allowing both your string players and winds and percussion chances to play by themselves and to all join each other, all at .5! No eighth notes!
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.
Reflessione Dolce translates from Italian as “Sweet Reflections”. It is the imaginings of past loves lost, and the times that made them such sweet memories. This wonderful ballad is written to take advantage of a particularly good middle school cello and violin section, and designed to develop fluidity and sensitivity as well as demonstrative, romantic phrase shaping. A great addition for your next concert.
This beautiful version of Silent Night will allow your superstar beginning violist to create something magical. Both solo and accompaniment are grade 1, making this version eminently playable by most first and second year groups.
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