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 - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.522223 Composed by Anonymous. Arranged by Colin Kirkpatrick. Instructional,Renaissance. Score and parts. 20 pages. Colin Kirkpatrick Publications #3915085. Published by Colin Kirkpatrick Publications (A0.522223). Les Courantes are two well-known dances from Terpsichore by Michael Praetorius. They have been arranged for strings, keyboard, optional guitar, recorder or any C-pitched instruments and simple percussion. In this series, Renaissance Hits for Strings, some of the most well-known dances from Terpsichore are included. They are all attractive pieces and are sure to be popular at any concerts or end-of-semester events. They are fairly easy to play too and the flexible instrumentation allows any players to take a solo with the melody part. They can be played by string quartet, string orchestra or ideally string ensemble plus any other C-pitch instruments that happen to be available. This publication consists of a score showing the four-part ensemble, keyboard and percussion parts. There are separate parts for violin 1, violin 2, viola (violin 3), cello/bass, percussion and keyboard. Additional instruments are not essential but they add contrasting tone colour. The keyboard part is intended as a guide and when possible the keyboard player should improvise around the part and chords shown. A piano sounds distinctly out of place in this music and a digital or acoustic harpsichord sounds more authentic. Most electronic keyboards have a harpsichord option.Every instrumental part (except percussion) also shows the melody line. This allows anyone to take a solo and play the melody, while the other players remain tacet. Solos can be decided in advance and the parts marked accordingly. Just cross out what you don’t need! The percussion instruments used are similar to those found in elementary school music rooms and usually include a tambour or hand-held drum, clave or small headless tambourine. Two players are usually required and the parts can be interpreted quite freely. Dance music is intended to be fun, and we hope that this arrangement brings you just that.  

String Orchestra - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1247720 Composed by Cindy Hill. Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. 16 pages. T.U.X. People's Music #842273. Published by T.U.X. People's Music (A0.1247720). Feature your viola section with this beautiful piece! The melody progresses through the instruments as the ligules of the dandelions float through the air. Written in C Major, open strings ring with resilience. Dandelion Wishes is the perfect addition to your next concert or contest!

String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1271389 By Duke Ellington. By Duke Ellington/Barney Bigard. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Instructional,Jazz,Standards. 14 pages. Keith Terrett #863787. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.1271389). C Jam Blues is a jazz standard composed in 1942 by Duke Ellington and performed by countless other musicians, such as Dave Grusin, Django Reinhardt, Oscar Peterson, and Charles Mingus, arranged here for String Orchestra.As the title suggests, the piece follows a twelve-bar blues form in the key of C major. The tune is well known for being extremely easy to play, with the entire melody featuring only two notes: G and C.A performance typically features several improvised solos. The melody likely originated from the clarinetist Barney Bigard in 1941, but its origin is not perfectly clear.It was also known as Duke's Place, with lyrics added by Bill Katts, Bob Thiele and Ruth Roberts.Ellington's black and white film was produced in 1942. The video depicts a jam session where Ellington begins playing with a double bass before gradually being joined by other members of his band, among them drummer Sonny Greer and trumpeter Rex Stewart. The film title is Jam Session. Western Swing band leader Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys recorded the song sometime between 1945 and 1947 as part of the Tiffany Transcriptions. Bill Doggett recorded a version on his 1958 tribute album Salute to Duke Ellington (King). C Jam Blues was used by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band as the basis of their song The Intro and the Outro. Mulgrew Miller and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen included the song in their 1999 album The Duets. The Dave Brubeck Quartet performed this live at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival; the recording appears in their album Newport 1958. YouTube Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOlpcJhNyDI.

String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.521458 Composed by Ion (Jovan, Josef) Ivanovici. Arranged by Sherry Lewis. Holiday,Romantic Period,Wedding. Score and Parts. 45 pages. Sherry Lewis Publishing #6090389. Published by Sherry Lewis Publishing (A0.521458). WAVES OF THE DANUBE Anniversary Waltz String Orchestra, Intermediate Level for 2 violins, viola, cello and string bass Score: 22 pagesParts: 20 pages Time: 6'50MY QUARTET VERSIONS, in short notice work fine for solo, two parts and three parts however I also offer individual versions for one, two and three parts that are more detailed for these ensembles.Please visit  https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/search?Ntt=sherry+lewis+publishing for all of the titles I offer.If you can’t find a title then contact me through www.baysbest.com/smp-arrangeme/ and I’ll give you the link back to Sheet Music Plus’s listing.VERSATILE Titles that include four parts are written with the idea that they can be performed with 1, 2, 3 or 4 musicians. Most of the contemporary/popular titles include a chord chart for a bass instrument.PRACTICE needs would vary according to the level of the performers but my goal is to be sight-readable for most performers and groups. AUDIO SAMPLE The 30 second mp3 is frequently shortened and may not start at the introduction to get to the reprise. The actual introduction will be in the sheet music.LISTENABILITY I have performed thousands of weddings and special events. I make it a goal for the music to carry as well as possible through loud and large space situations. ARRANGEMENTS usually follow the original version. There is an mp3 where you can hear 30 seconds and get a feeling of the originality of the work.EXCELLENT for corporate events, weddings, social gatherings and recitals.APPROPRIATE for students and schools.CHURCH REPERTOIRE I’m always adding more titles. Sherry Lewis is a professional arranger and musician residing in Northern California. Thank you for your purchase!

String Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.521860 Composed by Franz Schubert. Arranged by Sherry Lewis. Contemporary,Romantic Period,Spiritual,Wedding. Score and Parts. 26 pages. Sherry Lewis Publishing #6506149. Published by Sherry Lewis Publishing (A0.521860). ROSEMUNDE - ENTR'ACTE NO. 3 - ANDANTINO String Orchestra, Intermediate Level for 2 violins, viola, cello and string bass  Score: YES  Parts: 15 pages  Time: 7-8 min. MY QUARTET VERSIONS, in short notice work fine for solo, two parts and three parts  however I also offer individual versions for one, two and three parts that are more detailed for these ensembles. Please visit  https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/search?Ntt=sherry+lewis+publishing for all of the titles I offer. If you can’t find a title then contact me through www.baysbest.com/smp-arrangeme/ and I’ll give you the link back to Sheet Music Plus’s listing. VERSATILE Titles that include four parts are written with the idea that they can be performed with 1, 2, 3 or 4 musicians. Most of the contemporary/popular titles include a chord chart for a bass instrument. PRACTICE needs would vary according to the level of the performers but my goal is to be sight-readable for most performers and groups.  AUDIO SAMPLE The 30 second mp3 is frequently shortened and may not start at the introduction to get to the reprise. The actual introduction will be in the sheet music. LISTENABILITY I have performed thousands of weddings and special events. I make it a goal for the music to carry as well as possible through loud and large space situations.  ARRANGEMENTS usually follow the original version. There is an mp3 where you can hear 30 seconds and get a feeling of the originality of the work. EXCELLENT for corporate events, weddings, social gatherings and recitals. APPROPRIATE for students and schools. CHURCH REPERTOIRE I’m always adding more titles. Sherry Lewis is a professional arranger and musician residing in Northern California. Thank you for your purchase!

String Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.955172 Composed by Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751). Arranged by Don Werdick (1946 - ). Baroque. Score and parts. 87 pages. Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota, Inc. #6140431. Published by Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota, Inc. (A0.955172). Complete score and parts of the Concerto for Two Oboes in C Major, Op. 9, No. 9 and String Orchestra , composed/first edition in 1722 by T. Albinoni, arranged by D Werdick. Includes Oboe I & II score, Oboe I & II separate parts and Double Bass part with figured bass notation. Movements: 1. Allegro 2. Adagio Legato 3. Allegro Time: 10 minutes, 35 seconds Full Score + Parts: Oboe I & II Parts, Oboe Score, Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello, Double Bass with figured bass notation. During the Baroque period (c. 1600 to 1750) music written in the Italian style, and German music to a lesser degree, scores and solo parts contain little (if any) information about elements like articulation, ornamentation or dynamics, so the soloists and ensemble players needed to make their own informed choices before each performance. The Oboe solo arrangement part offers dynamics, articulations, ornamentation and nuances of tone color as to how to effectively present the composition and can help the performer to build on these ideas to effectively communicate the sense of the music ... 2020 Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota, Inc. Publishing.

String Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.955174 Composed by Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751). Arranged by Don Werdick (1946 - ). Baroque. Score and parts. 87 pages. Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota, Inc. #6197195. Published by Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota, Inc. (A0.955174). Complete score and parts for the English horn arrangement of the Concerto for Two Oboes in C Major, Op. 9, No. 9 and String Orchestra , composed/first edition in 1722 by T. Albinoni, arranged by D Werdick. Includes English horn I & II score, English horn I & II separate parts and Double Bass part with figured bass notation. Movements: 1. Allegro 2. Adagio Legato 3. Allegro Time: 10 minutes, 35 seconds Full Score + Parts: English horn I & II Parts, English horn Score, Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello, Double Bass with figured bass notation. During the Baroque period (c. 1600 to 1750) music written in the Italian style, and German music to a lesser degree, scores and solo parts contain little (if any) information about elements like articulation, ornamentation or dynamics, so the soloists and ensemble players needed to make their own informed choices before each performance. The English horn I & II arrangement part offers dynamics, articulations, ornamentation and nuances of tone color as to how to effectively present the composition and can help the performer to build on these ideas to effectively communicate the sense of the music ... 2020 Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota, Inc. Publishing.

String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0016349_SB String Bass. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Kirk Moss. Classical. Part. 7 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0016349_SB. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0016349_SB). UPC: 038081478869.A slow and somber Grave introduction leads to a light-hearted Allegro, presenting an ideal piece to teach sonata form to your students. The clearly marked bowings and artist-level fingerings will save precious rehearsal minutes and contribute to a professional sound. This arrangement re-scores the first movement of Sinfonia No. 9 from six voices, requiring two separate viola parts, to the traditional five-voice string orchestra. Consistent with selected professional performances of the work, the first of two recapitulations has been seamlessly omitted to create a more balanced form, eliminate redundancies akin to counterpoint exercises, and showcase the young composer's emerging creativity by emphasizing his striking use of the key of A-major before reaffirming the home key. The elimination of a repeat reduces the duration to 8:30. (11:30) This title is available in SmartMusic.Concert/Contest.

String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0016349_VA1 Viola. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Kirk Moss. Classical. Part. 7 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0016349_VA1. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0016349_VA1). UPC: 038081478869.A slow and somber Grave introduction leads to a light-hearted Allegro, presenting an ideal piece to teach sonata form to your students. The clearly marked bowings and artist-level fingerings will save precious rehearsal minutes and contribute to a professional sound. This arrangement re-scores the first movement of Sinfonia No. 9 from six voices, requiring two separate viola parts, to the traditional five-voice string orchestra. Consistent with selected professional performances of the work, the first of two recapitulations has been seamlessly omitted to create a more balanced form, eliminate redundancies akin to counterpoint exercises, and showcase the young composer's emerging creativity by emphasizing his striking use of the key of A-major before reaffirming the home key. The elimination of a repeat reduces the duration to 8:30. (11:30) This title is available in SmartMusic.Concert/Contest.

String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PC-0016349_VC1 Cello. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Kirk Moss. Classical. Part. 7 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PC-0016349_VC1. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PC-0016349_VC1). UPC: 038081478869.A slow and somber Grave introduction leads to a light-hearted Allegro, presenting an ideal piece to teach sonata form to your students. The clearly marked bowings and artist-level fingerings will save precious rehearsal minutes and contribute to a professional sound. This arrangement re-scores the first movement of Sinfonia No. 9 from six voices, requiring two separate viola parts, to the traditional five-voice string orchestra. Consistent with selected professional performances of the work, the first of two recapitulations has been seamlessly omitted to create a more balanced form, eliminate redundancies akin to counterpoint exercises, and showcase the young composer's emerging creativity by emphasizing his striking use of the key of A-major before reaffirming the home key. The elimination of a repeat reduces the duration to 8:30. (11:30) This title is available in SmartMusic.Concert/Contest.

String Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PR-0004587 Score. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Kirk Moss. Classical. Score. 48 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PR-0004587. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PR-0004587). UPC: 038081478869.A slow and somber Grave introduction leads to a light-hearted Allegro, presenting an ideal piece to teach sonata form to your students. The clearly marked bowings and artist-level fingerings will save precious rehearsal minutes and contribute to a professional sound. This arrangement re-scores the first movement of Sinfonia No. 9 from six voices, requiring two separate viola parts, to the traditional five-voice string orchestra. Consistent with selected professional performances of the work, the first of two recapitulations has been seamlessly omitted to create a more balanced form, eliminate redundancies akin to counterpoint exercises, and showcase the young composer's emerging creativity by emphasizing his striking use of the key of A-major before reaffirming the home key. The elimination of a repeat reduces the duration to 8:30. (11:30) This title is available in SmartMusic.Concert/Contest.

String Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.834330 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Steven Shade. Classical. Score and parts. 19 pages. Steve Shade #3240731. Published by Steve Shade (A0.834330). This is an arrangement of the main themes from Beethoven's, Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. This arrangement is for a string quartet. A bass player could play the cello part and turn this into a string orchestra. Beethoven's original intents have been kept as true as possible. As such, this is an arrangement for advanced players. The rhythms are simple, but players should expect a variety of shifts, key modulations, etc. This piece generates a huge amount of energy that would captivate the audience. This piece would be a great showpiece for an advanced high school orchestra, or for other advanced and more matured groups. Includes a conductor's score and individual parts for each player.Length: About 3 min 40 sec. (less time if taken at a faster tempo than the attached MP3)Difficulty: Advanced.

String Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.646041 Composed by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni. Arranged by Nick Lacanski. Baroque. Score and parts. 6 pages. Theupperstaff #2004911. Published by theupperstaff (A0.646041). Here is the finale of Albinoni's Sinfonia in C major. This swift-paced piece is in 3/8 time. Arepeggios and scales dominate this movement. The cello and bass are doubled.

String Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.742492 Composed by George Frideric Handel. Arranged by Arte Nova Music Lab. Baroque,Concert,Standards,World. Score and parts. 57 pages. Arte Nova Music Lab #5041947. Published by Arte Nova Music Lab (A0.742492). Around the year 1726, John Walsh, a London music publisher, created a wonderful forgery in order to run around the copyright laws of the day: he pretended to pirate an edition supposedly published by the House of Roger in Amsterdam. This forgery included 12 Sonatas for solo instrument and continuo which had been composed by one George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Around 1793 the House of Arnold published the same set, omitting two of the original 12 and replacing them with two others by Handel. So at this point there were a total of 14 solo sonatas available to the public.In the year 1879 Friedrich Chrysander issued these 14 works and several others in volume 27 of the German Handel Society’s Gesamtausgabe of Handel’s works. Since then they have been edited from this scholarly work many times, and afflicted by all sorts of permutations which reflect the various styles of performance in vogue over the years. One finds editions stripped of ornamentation but loaded with articulation and dynamic markings at one end of the spectrum, and editions with modest stenographic and florid ornamentation at the other. The Sonata in C Minor (London: 1712) is a pure example of the middle phase of the solo sonata da chiesa [church sonata]. The first three movements are indicative of the style found in sonatas derived from the disruptive canzona of the early 17th century. An initial slow movement with walking bass is followed by an imitative movement (in this case, a fugue with a chromatic subject), which in turn leads to an Adagio. This latter movement in the relative major is a ricercare containing several imitative entrances. The finale is a spirited binary-form Bourrée angloise, an item taken over from the French ordre or dance suite. The extraordinarily short length of this movement seems to indicate that a trio is missing here; therefore, I have added the bourrée from the Royal Fireworks Music of 1749 to act as a trio, but players are certainly free to omit it. Adding a series of variations based on the chord changes of the Bourrée angloise would be an alternative way to lend weight to this final movement.Taken from https://www.idrs.org/scores/Lehrer/DRArch/69HandelSonataCm.html