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The Requiem is one of Mozart's most recognized works, and the Kyrie movement is exceptionally exciting. It is a busy fugue that will challenge your student's abilities.

Starting with the lively, contrapuntal Overture in ritornello form, Concertino for Strings demands only moderate technical facility. Movement II (Dirge) features cellos and basses in a pizzicato walki...

DANCE OF THE FURIES was originally scored for strings with pairs of oboes, bassoons, and horns, plus three trombones. This arrangement moves essential wind lines into string parts while maintaining th...

Gerald Doan has skillfully arranged Bach's Fugue in G Minor, one of the monuments of music, for strings. This work will provide a challenge for all sections, but the time and effort will pay dividends...

A great change of pace for your students, Banana Slug Blues is a moderate swing style composition. Written out optional solos are provided for any instrument and an important walking bass line will fe...

The great composer of Norway had a knack for expansive and often haunting melodies. This is one of his finest. Carefully arranged to make the most of the expressive qualities of string instruments, th...

Three separate movements of classic Americana: The Arkansas Traveller; The Colorado Trail and Turkey in the Straw. As the pioneers moved west, they took their songs with them, singing them on the trai...

This composition opens in an archaic Slavic mood, and in the course of each of the variations the actual theme emerges in more and more recognizable fragments. The 'deceiving' Slavic mood (Volga Boats...

Prelude in C from J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is a beautiful arrangement that features the piano along with very simple string parts. There is an alternate violin 3 part provided for viola. Nel...

From the Little Note Book of Anna Magdalena Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach is believed to have composed this work. Nelhybel has adapted it for strings and a variety of optional keyboard accompaniments. T...

Nelhybel's arrangement of Purcell's Chaconne is done with such careful attention to the musical details, that the music stays true to Purcell, and yet has the added touch of one of the great composers...

Espressivo is almost Romantic in its style and sound. Written in AABAA' form, this original work in G minor is quite playable technically with only minor challenges posed by its mild chromaticism. All...

Vaclav Nelhybel brings the flavor of his homeland's folk music to this four-movement suite for string orchestra. He utilizes a wide array of styles, dynamics, tempos and moods to great effect. The ori...

In this original work, Nelhybel provides six separate variations on this famous William Billings hymn. Using only the key of D major, the selection reinforces all the basic first year rhythmic reading...

Mr. Nelhybel said: 'The teaching element of this piece lies in the independence of all melodic lines, for it is this device that makes all instruments equally important.' The modal tonality gives the...

Nelhybel's variations for trumpet and strings provides a nice feature for your star trumpet player and a nice chance for your orchestra to learn the art of accompaniment.

First performance at the XIII Olympic Winter Games 1980, Lake Placid, New York, by the Crane Chorus and Orchestra, State University College, Potsdam, New York. Instrumentation: 2.2.2+BCl+CBCl.2+CBsn:...

In the Middle Ages, a triptych was an altar piece with a large central panel and two flanking panels which, as certain times of the church year, could be folded to cover the picture on the central pan...

This one captures all the exuberance of an American square dance! Set out simply in phrases of 4 bars, this will be easy to learn and fun to perform.

There are rich harmonies and singable melodies to delight the young string student. Set in the keys of D and G major, this one sounds more difficult than it appears.

Alexander Luigini (1850-1906) was an Italian violinist, conductor and composer who was born in France and spent most of his life there. Ballet Egyptien (1875) is his best known work, gaining great pop...

Here's an exciting three-part work centering around "giants." Movement one is named for the Titans of Greek mythology. Movement two is called Panda Bear and movement three is T-Rex. Imaginative and fu...

The Gavotte and the Contredanse are both lively French dances from the 17th century. Gaining popularity in the Court of Louis XIV, the Gavotte was a gracious dance in duple meter with four bar phrases...

One of Bach's most famous melodies (actually written as a chorale by Johann Schop and embellished by J.S. Bach), this is a timeless classic with value on any program. The chorale melody is placed an o...