Kathryn Griesinger

Take your elementary orchestra on an exciting quest with this powerful and adventurous original work. Outstanding scoring packs a lot of great musical moments from major and minor mode, 7th chords, dy...

This fun tune evokes classic spy dramas, full of intrigue and mystery with just a few easy sixteenth notes and accidentals along the way. Quick pizzicato, ties, and off-beat rhythms provide a challeng...

The rapid pace and tight rhythms of this grade 2 original will help students develop quick and crisp bowing technique. A fast and furious theme requires precision in playing staccato and hooked bowing...

He knows when you are sleeping, and he's sneaking in the shadows of your Christmas tree! This piece features classic holiday tunes that transform into a top-secret mission with some fun percussion eff...

No bows required! This unison pizzicato piece for beginning strings and piano is perfect for the very first concert. Using only quarter rests and quarter notes of the D major scale, the upbeat tune gi...

End your first year with three American folk songs about water, each of which is passed around the orchestra. Learning opportunities abound, both with the bow and pizzicato. There are some easy double...

Beginners will be able to play a melody at your holiday concert by using this wonderful medley of How Great Our Joy, Joy to the World, and Jingle Bells. The key is D major and no rhythms other than qu...

Kathryn Griesinger's Ballad of Burning Sky is a rollicking ballad which tells a tale from the untamed frontier of the historic Wild West. In this easy first-position piece, students can create their o...

This dramatic adventure features the fearless viola section, braving mixed meter and a key change from A minor to E minor to lead the orchestra to triumphant victory. Opening with violas solas (meanin...

This dramatic adventure features the fearless viola section, braving mixed meter and a key change from A minor to E minor to lead the orchestra to triumphant victory. Opening with violas solas (meanin...

Walk the stone streets and corridors of a once-mighty city, a towering fortress where echoes can still be heard of both battle and celebration. Set in A minor and brisk 2/4 meter, a steady ostinato in...

Walk the stone streets and corridors of a once-mighty city, a towering fortress where echoes can still be heard of both battle and celebration. Set in A minor and brisk 2/4 meter, a steady ostinato in...

In Greek mythology, Hyperion was a mighty Titan, one of the four pillars of the cosmos, known for fathering the heavenly lights: Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon), and Eos (Dawn). Using some shifting in Vio...

In Greek mythology, Hyperion was a mighty Titan, one of the four pillars of the cosmos, known for fathering the heavenly lights: Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon), and Eos (Dawn). Using some shifting in Vio...

What is it about the creepy key of E minor that gives us the heebie-jeebies? It must be all the E-B-G-Bs! This eerie Grade 1.5 piece follows these notes down underground to practice skips on the G str...

What is it about the creepy key of E minor that gives us the heebie-jeebies? It must be all the E-B-G-Bs! This eerie Grade 1.5 piece follows these notes down underground to practice skips on the G str...

Kathryn Griesinger builds the forceful minor theme of Centrifuge on a repeating motif of rotating eighth notes. Based on the scientific principle of centripetal force, this piece offers a vortex of ex...

Perfect for holiday programming, this festive and heartwarming melody will bring joy to your next concert anytime of year. Excellent for reinforcing staccato articulations and independent parts. Sleig...

He knows when you are sleeping, and he's sneaking in the shadows of your Christmas tree! This piece features classic holiday tunes that transform into a top-secret mission with some fun percussion eff...

He knows when you are sleeping, and he's sneaking in the shadows of your Christmas tree! This piece features classic holiday tunes that transform into a top-secret mission with some fun percussion eff...

He knows when you are sleeping, and he's sneaking in the shadows of your Christmas tree! This piece features classic holiday tunes that transform into a top-secret mission with some fun percussion eff...