String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1296728 Composed by Rebecca Tompkins. Children,Instructional. 39 pages. Self #886895. Published by Self (A0.1296728). A piece written for young orchestras, each of the five moments have important musical skills such as staccato quarter notes, long and consistant whole bows, balance skills, six-eight time, dotted rhythms with hooked bows, and syncopation.  Each movement is entitled from examples of what a child may have experienced growing up to give this piece life and character.  The movements increase in skill from first through the fifth movement.

String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.784349 Composed by Joshua Hauser. Instructional. Score and parts. 146 pages. Slide Ride #5288707. Published by Slide Ride (A0.784349). 1 Octave Scale Studies in 15+ keys for 4-part ensembles of like or mixed instruments If this is your first exposure to these scale studies, you are in for a treat! Donuts, if you make a mistake!The initial incarnation of these studies were written for trombone quartet and we would play them in the Tennessee Tech Trombone Choir with the challenge that whomever made the first mistake had to buy donuts for the rest of the ensemble. Since then I have brought that version to several clinics and warm up sessions. One time before I got to explain the title, a fellow trombone professor said, Oh, I get it! Don’t step in the holes!I only wish I had thought of that myself... Since we have one of the best donut shops in TN here in Cookeville, treating the studio to sugar coated goodies was always my intent.As with those initial exercises, you can vary these as much as you’d like.·     Choose a tempo.·     Choose a dynamic.·     Choose an articulation/style.One way I like to play these is to have one person be the model, playing the entire scale over and over while everyone else plays the fragmented versions. That helps everyone to keep on track and stay in time. Double or triple up the parts for ensemble cohesion with a larger group.Practice one key, gradually speeding it up to improve fluidity, or choose a variation and take it through all keys, playing version A, B, C, or D then skipping to play the same set in a new key.If you want an additional challenge, play them in different octaves or change the key. Play the F Major set in f minor (all forms), different modes, etc. Players really have to be on their toes to remember if they are playing melodic minor in the ascending or descending form! For jazz players, try swinging them in dorian or mixolydian modes.The variations are endless!If you are using these with transposing instruments, 1) is F Major in Concert Pitch, 2) is Bb Major in Concert pitch, and so on. When you reach a scale that is enharmonic for another key (Db/C#, Gb/F#, or Cb/B), they are presented in both keys for each instrument so Trumpets can play in Eb while the Flutes are playing in C# with similar examples for all keys.All Donut Etudes with the same volume number are compatible so you can play them in mixed quartets or large ensembles with one or more instruments/people on part 1 and a different instrument on part 2, etc. Since the quartets are all identical, conductors/coaches can use any of the scores to tell which part should be playing at what time. Once you have played a scale with one set of parts, everyone can rotate to a different part and play the same scales again!Enjoy!Combine these with the set for Band when used for Full or Chamber Orchestra.

String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PR-0004614 Score. Composed by Richard Meyer. Instructional. Score. 23 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PR-0004614. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PR-0004614). UPC: 038081480671.The word steampunk refers to a genre of science fiction that features steam-powered machinery. Works of fiction in this style are most often set in the 19th century British Victorian era or the American Wild West. Machines and technology found in the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells would be good examples of steampunk-style inventions. The piece itself follows no specific narrative, but rather is meant to capture the spirit and mood of this hearty, highly imaginative, industrial-based movement. (5:00) This title is available in SmartMusic.Concert/Contest; Festival.

String orchestra - Digital Download SKU: BQ.979-0-50179-028-9 Composed by Johan Svendsen. Edited by Stephen Begley. This edition: softcover. Bisel Classics. Score. With Text Language: English / German. Opus 30. 20 pages. Published by Bisel Classics - Digital (BQ.979-0-50179-028-9). ISBN 9790501790289.Based on Icelandic folk tunes these two short pieces for string orchestra are among some of the finest examples of Svendsen's occupation with the theme of national identity in music and are a testament to the composers philanthropic ideals. Ideals he shared with the dedicatee of the work, Carl Warmuth, who took over his father's music store in 1874 and who flourished as an agent and champion of music in the composers home town of Christiania.

String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1269267 Composed by Campra, André. Arranged by Yves Bouillot. Baroque,Opera. Score and Parts. 16 pages. Yves Bouillot #861805. Published by Yves Bouillot (A0.1269267). Les Fêtes vénitiennes (or, in the original spelling, Les Festes vénitiennes) is an opera-ballet by French composer André Campra. The opera-ballet consists of a prologue and three entries. It was performed for the first time at the Royal Academy of Music on June 17, 1710, in the Salle du Palais-Royal. According to the usage of the time, the work is described as ballet, but it is one of the most important examples of a new genre that specialists will later agree to call opera-ballet. . The chaconne is a popular dance song, in three beats of lively character, originating in America, during the Vice-Kingdom of New Spain and brought to Spain by sailors. Transplanted then in other European countries at the beginning of the XVIIth century, it becomes a dance of noble character there then is approached by the instruments, in orchestra or soloists. It is then a piece of large proportions, in triple time, slow and solemn, based on the repetition and variation of a theme.

String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1431353 By Keith Terrett. By Gabriel Faure. Arranged by Keith Terrett. 20th Century,Children,Classical,Contest,Festival,Romantic Period. 12 pages. Keith Terrett #1011823. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.1431353). The Dolly Suite, Op. 56, is a collection of pieces for piano duet by Gabriel Fauré. It consists of six short pieces written or revised between 1893 and 1896, to mark the birthdays and other events in the life of the daughter of the composer's mistress, Emma Bardac.An orchestral version of the suite was scored in 1906 by Henri Rabaud, and has, like the original piano duet version, been the subject of many recordings. The best-known section of the suite, the Berceuse, has been arranged for several combinations of instruments. In the United Kingdom it became famous as the play-out tune to the BBC radio programme Listen with Mother.The suite consists of six short pieces, each with its own title: Berceuse, Mi-a-ou, Le jardin de Dolly, Kitty-valse, Tendresse, and Le pas espagnol. The complete suite takes about fifteen minutes to perform.The Berceuse was the closing theme for the long-running BBC Light Programme (and later Home Service) radio programme for small children Listen with Mother (1950–1982). It is performed in the film Bicentennial Man by Andrew and Little Miss. Although it was written as a piano duet, there have been numerous arrangements of the Berceuse for other instruments and ensembles. Examples include versions for piano and glockenspiel by Evelyn Glennie and for two guitars recorded by Julian Bream and John Williams.

String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1266273 Composed by Antonio Vivaldi. Arranged by Snakewood Editions. Baroque,Classical. Score and Parts. 12 pages. Sneakwood Editions #859004. Published by Sneakwood Editions (A0.1266273). The autograph is held in the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino (I-Tn, Giordano 34, Bl. 100-102). It is the only known copy of this work. The work was surely composed between 1725 and 1734.[2]  It is copied in full score format.In the known catalog of Vivaldi’s works we find another piece that shares the same title, it is the Sonata à 4 al Santo Sepolcro (Sonata in E flat major RV 130). Both pieces feature a similar structure: a slow introduction and a fugal movement.Sepolcri, or oratorios for the sepulchre, were a kind of composition that was performed at the Viennese courts during Holy Week. These were semi-staged oratorios. The examples that survive by Caldara or Fux show how the introductions of these oratorios always had the same scheme: a slow introduction followed by a fugal movement, just like the RV 169 and RV 130.These compositions are undoubtedly inspired by the Viennese, although it seems unlikely that Vivaldi wrote them as a commissioned work. However, it is possible that they were composed to support his application to the Viennese court.It is also quite probable that these pieces were intended to accompany some of the liturgical actions that were celebrated between Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday, such as the visit to the Sepulchers in Venetian churches.

String Orchestra - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1288886 Composed by Garth M. Williams (Socan). Arranged by Garth M. Williams (Socan). Children,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score and Parts. 12 pages. Garth M. Williams (Socan) #879725. Published by Garth M. Williams (Socan) (A0.1288886). This is an original melody written for violin and piano.  It can be found in The Scampering Scarecrow Violin Book.  This arrangement is written for young string orchestra.  It includes a Third Violin part for those violinists who are less experienced on their instrument. In addition there is a piano accompaniment which can be used for rehearsal purposes.Attached to this arrangement are warmup scales and rhythm examples.

String Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.836016 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Joshua Jun S. Kim. Classical,Concert,World. Score and parts. 9 pages. Joshua S. Kim #3218353. Published by Joshua S. Kim (A0.836016). Originally written for solo piano, Beethoven's Bagatelles are well-known for their beautiful melodies and the master's glorious music idioms.This arrangement has been made for string ensemble (violin I, II; viola; violoncello and contrabass) . According to Eugen d'Albert (1864 - 1932), these Bagatelles form excellent examples of the master's work of the last period. As for Bagatelle No. 11, he insists that it forms a glorious conclusion to his Opus 119, thus suggesting it is important to render this impromptu with seriousness and devotion. (from Piano Compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven. Boston: O. Ditson, 1909)

String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0016376_PC1 1st Percussion. Composed by Richard Meyer. Instructional. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0016376_PC1. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0016376_PC1). UPC: 038081480671.The word steampunk refers to a genre of science fiction that features steam-powered machinery. Works of fiction in this style are most often set in the 19th century British Victorian era or the American Wild West. Machines and technology found in the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells would be good examples of steampunk-style inventions. The piece itself follows no specific narrative, but rather is meant to capture the spirit and mood of this hearty, highly imaginative, industrial-based movement. (5:00) This title is available in SmartMusic.Concert/Contest; Festival.

String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0016326_VN3 3rd Violin (Viola [TC]). Composed by Franz von Suppé. Arranged by Ralph Ford. Classical. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0016326_VN3. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0016326_VN3). UPC: 038081465739.Perfect as a concert opener, closer, or show piece, this lovely example of Viennese opera is now available, for the first time, in a form accessible for the student musician. Many opportunities to work on articulations, slurs, and phrasing are provided. (2:00) This title is available in SmartMusic.Closer; Concert/Contest; Festival; Opener.

String Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.799741 Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov. Arranged by Grant Gilman. 20th Century,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 147 pages. Dr. Grant Gilman #3511981. Published by Dr. Grant Gilman (A0.799741). Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade - I. The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship Pick-A-Part Arrangement  for String Orchestra by Dr. Grant Gilman String Orchestra Parts in This  Pick-A-Part Arrangement Violin 1A Violin 1B Violin 1C Violin 2A Violin 2B Violin 2C Viola A Viola B Viola C Cello A Cello B Cello C Bass A Bass B Bass C Harp/Keyboard (optional)About Pick-A-Part Arrangement This arrangement system employs simultaneous, multi-level difficulty parts for each string section. The goal is to accommodate all levels of playing in the preparation and performance of a symphonic masterwork. In this arrangement, there are 3 difficulty levels for each individual string section, labeled A, B, and C, respectively. Each level is a decreasing level of technical and musical difficulty, level A being the highest level of difficulty. The A level is close to, if not exactly the same as, the original string part, plus the integration of wind parts when applicable. B and C follow in a proportional reduction of difficulty level.  For this solution to be most effective, some students should be encouraged to play the most challenging parts simultaneously with those playing the simpler parts. This presents the opportunity to participate in a performance that includes most of the original material. The B and C parts cover enough of the surface material while maintaining a modicum of independence from the A part. In other words, the B and C parts are able to hold their own in performance without the A parts. For example, let’s say you have a couple of talented violinists and a few more that are well below their playing level, only two violists that need a great deal of help, a plethora of cellists with a wide range of abilities, and one single bass player that is a beginner. Your distribution of parts may look something like this: Violin 1 - two on Violin 1A, one on Violin 1C, and the rest on Violin 1B Violin 2 - one on Violin 2B, the rest on Violin 2C Viola - both on Viola C Cello - three on Cello A, one on Cello B, and the rest on Cello C Bass - one on Bass C This potential setup will challenge each player at their current level of development while creating the context for a moving experience with a major orchestral work.  A Note about the Score and Printing The full score is designed to be printed in portrait orientation on 17x11 tabloid size paper. Even at this size, the score can be confusing to read, especially if you are not covering every difficulty level part. If you would like a custom score showing only the parts you are using, please email me: conductor@grantgilman.com. I will be happy to work with you!www.grantgilman.comwww.americanmusepodcast.com 

String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.646722 Composed by Franz Schubert. Arranged by Nick Lacanski. Classical. Score and parts. 25 pages. Theupperstaff #2020797. Published by theupperstaff (A0.646722). This is a great example of Schubert's lyricism. Works very well for strings.

String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0016885_SB String Bass. Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. Arranged by Jan Farrar-Royce. Masterwork Arrangement. Part. 2 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0016885_SB. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0016885_SB). UPC: 038081504964.Often thought to be some of Haydn's best work, this symphony is perfectly set for strings with the brass and wind parts easily covered. Your students and your audience will find this excellent example of classical form intriguing and enjoyable. (2:40)Concert/Contest; Festival.