Par BALMAGES BRIAN. So many performance options and combinations! Equally suited as an opener or closer, this ?Baroque-meets-contemporary? festival-style work has exceptional performance flexibility as a multi-level OR single-level work! Play it entirely as a grade 2 or play it as a grade 1. Additionally, both may be combined, and directors can add the grade ½ parts, which are based on open string…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. In 2001 Bärenreiter issued a newly engraved keyboard reduction and solo parts to this concerto based on the acclaimed New Bach Edition. The present expanded publication goes a step further in that it offers not only the two solo violin parts as presented in the New Bach Edition, but also two additional parts with fingerings and bowings by the baroque specialist Andrew Ma…

Par . Franz Gruber's beloved Christmas carol, 'Silent Night,' receives a unique treatment for strings. The tune is heard twice. The first time, it is paired with a motive from the Prelude of J. S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (BWV 1007); the second time, the melody shifts from part to part, giving everyone a chance to shine. Richly scored, warm and embracing, a real audience pleaser for your December …

For a special touch at your next concert, feature one of Canada's most popular folk songs. Often sung to keep time while canoeing or around campfires, the lyrics are originally from a 19th century poem by First Nations poet Pauline Johnson, making this perfect for cross-cultural study. Although this work can easily be performed with strings alone, percussion instruments, including timpani and bell…

Par BALMAGES BRIAN. So many performance options and combinations! Equally suited as an opener or closer, this ?Baroque-meets-contemporary? festival-style work has exceptional performance flexibility as a multi-level OR single-level work! Play it entirely as a grade 2 or play it as a grade 1. Additionally, both may be combined, and directors can add the grade ½ parts, which are based on open string…

Par PURCELL HENRY. Strings/ Répertoire / Orchestre à Cordes

Stir the imagination looking for dinosaur bones with the curious melodies in this kid-friendly piece! A great teaching piece as well, with easy rhythms, lifts, accents, one optional high 3rd finger in the viola, and a low 2nd finger in the upper strings. (2:15) / Orchestre A Cordes

Paul Paradise has selected eight of Arcangelo Corelli's twelve Concerti Grossi and combined the concertino parts with the concerto grosso parts, edited the bowings, and added fingerings. Now these masterful works are playable by string orchestra or string quartet. The Concerto Grossi included are: No. 4 in D Major * No. 7 in D Major * No. 10 in C Major * No. 11 in B-flat Major * No. 12 in in F Maj…

Classical music for children: 36 easy pieces from the Baroque to the Romantic era in easily playable arrangements for string trio or beginners' string orchestra. Ideal for early ensemble work, and includes pieces from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Mozart's Magic Flute and many more! / 2 Violons Et Violoncelle

Snowy hilltops, timeless family traditions, and the warmth of a hearth---the atmosphere of a Smoky Mountain Christmas is captured in this arrangement of three traditional Appalachian carols arranged by Andrew Dabcyznski. The simple modal melodies of 'Star of the East' and 'Babe of Bethlehem' are passed throughout the orchestra, before concluding with the stirring spiritual 'Rise Up Shepherd and Fo…