Sheet Music for String Orchestra

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...

Darkly regal and brimming with energy, this E minor string orchestra work surges forward in ¾ meter with driving rhythms and bold string textures. First violins get to explore easy third position, and...

Darkly regal and brimming with energy, this E minor string orchestra work surges forward in ¾ meter with driving rhythms and bold string textures. First violins get to explore easy third position, and...

First appearing in Novello’s Album for the Organ, No. 3, this plaintive Elegy dates from 1898, the same year as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Opus 33 Ballade for Orchestra and his Opus 30 cantata Song of...

Set in uplifting D major, this heroic string orchestra piece captures the triumphant spirit of all who perservere and overcome. First heard in violas in the slower opening, the soaring theme of courag...

Set in uplifting D major, this heroic string orchestra piece captures the triumphant spirit of all who perservere and overcome. First heard in violas in the slower opening, the soaring theme of courag...

Snowshoes is a musical poem portraying a winter trek up a mountain over deep drifted snow and dense evergreen forest to a bright summit vista. Students encounter lyrical melodies, a variety of articul...

Snowshoes is a musical poem portraying a winter trek up a mountain over deep drifted snow and dense evergreen forest to a bright summit vista. Students encounter lyrical melodies, a variety of articul...

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...

Summon your courage as you weave your way through this energetic and dramatic piece. The soft and lyrical opening foreshadows the beginning of an epic adventure as the tempo picks up and the energy su...

Summon your courage as you weave your way through this energetic and dramatic piece. The soft and lyrical opening foreshadows the beginning of an epic adventure as the tempo picks up and the energy su...

Ride into the storm with this exciting work in G minor, featuring driving syncopated rhythms and musical twists and turns. Melodies and harmonies move through different parts of the orchestra, as the...

Ride into the storm with this exciting work in G minor, featuring driving syncopated rhythms and musical twists and turns. Melodies and harmonies move through different parts of the orchestra, as the...

The Araguaney is a bright, flowering tree that is also the national tree of Venezuela, from where this vibrant "joropo" style of song and dance originates. The natural harmonics played by violins imit...

The Araguaney is a bright, flowering tree that is also the national tree of Venezuela, from where this vibrant "joropo" style of song and dance originates. The natural harmonics played by violins imit...

Hear the first drops of pizzicato rain dance in the dry desert! This imaginative piece for young orchestras uses only the first six notes of the D Major scale, making it both accessible and exciting f...

Put the pedal to the metal! Inspired by the myriad of sparks while cutting metal, "The Grindstone" will sharpen the skills of any young string players. Beginning in A Minor with quiet focused energy,...

Put the pedal to the metal! Inspired by the myriad of sparks while cutting metal, "The Grindstone" will sharpen the skills of any young string players. Beginning in A Minor with quiet focused energy,...

Originally scored for strings and a pair of oboes, this energetic sinfonia comes from Handel's oratorio "Solomon." Offered here in the more accessible key of G major, this particular string orchestra...

Marianne von Martínez (1744-1812) was an accomplished Viennese composer, harpsichordist, and vocalist. Her output included keyboard sonatas and concertos, motets, masses, cantatas, and oratorios inclu...

Marianne von Martínez (1744-1812) was an accomplished Viennese composer, harpsichordist, and vocalist. Her output included keyboard sonatas and concertos, motets, masses, cantatas, and oratorios inclu...

Harlem Echoes is a vibrant celebration of the Harlem Renaissance, the powerful cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s that gave rise to a new era of African American art, literature, and music. Insp...

Harlem Echoes is a vibrant celebration of the Harlem Renaissance, the powerful cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s that gave rise to a new era of African American art, literature, and music. Insp...

Peer into the dark unknown where danger and intrigue lurk around every corner. Tread carefully as this energetic B minor piece is full of spooky melodies, mixed meter, and shifting in all parts. Enjoy...