Youth String Orchestra

First Finger March by Mekel Rogers is a great choice for a first year concert! Written in a march style, every note is played as an open string or using only the first finger. Scored to accommodate st...

First Finger March by Mekel Rogers is a great choice for a first year concert! Written in a march style, every note is played as an open string or using only the first finger. Scored to accommodate st...

March with Santa's elves to the North Pole with this charming holiday piece for beginning strings! Only easy half-, quarter-, and eighth-note rhythms from the D major scale are used as the jolly melod...

March with Santa's elves to the North Pole with this charming holiday piece for beginning strings! Only easy half-, quarter-, and eighth-note rhythms from the D major scale are used as the jolly melod...

Using only the notes on the open strings, unison writing, and simple quarter- and eighth-note rhythms, this exciting and very accessible original work is the perfect choice for a beginning orchestra's...

Using only the notes on the open strings, unison writing, and simple quarter- and eighth-note rhythms, this exciting and very accessible original work is the perfect choice for a beginning orchestra's...

Treat your beginning orchestra to the sounds of the ice rink this season with this very easy and fun arrangement of the famous winter classic. This arrangement provides excellent practice in slurring...

Experience the elegance of old Vienna with this very easy original in the Viennese waltz style. The sounds and sonorities of the era of Johann Strauss, Jr. come alive as students experience this impor...

Composed for the author's granddaughter, Faith, Faith's Waltz is in the key of G Major and is a good opportunity to reinforce the scale and its fingering, while playing in an ensemble preparing for a...

Composed for the author's granddaughter, Faith, Faith's Waltz is in the key of G Major and is a good opportunity to reinforce the scale and its fingering, while playing in an ensemble preparing for a...

Composed for the author's granddaughter, Faith, Faith's Waltz is in the key of G Major and is a good opportunity to reinforce the scale and its fingering, while playing in an ensemble preparing for a...

Composed for the author's granddaughter, Faith, Faith's Waltz is in the key of G Major and is a good opportunity to reinforce the scale and its fingering, while playing in an ensemble preparing for a...

A gentle, pretty waltz in D Major which would captivate students and audiences alike. There are interesting melodic parts for all. The piano is needed for the arrangement.

A gentle, pretty waltz in D Major which would captivate students and audiences alike. There are interesting melodic parts for all. The piano is needed for the arrangement.

A gentle, pretty waltz in D Major which would captivate students and audiences alike. There are interesting melodic parts for all. The piano is needed for the arrangement.

The ensemble should be encouraged to use whole bows for each note, regardless of whether it is a dotted minim, a minim or a crotchet. Therefore, the students need to 'plan' their bow speed, so that it...

The ensemble should be encouraged to use whole bows for each note, regardless of whether it is a dotted minim, a minim or a crotchet. Therefore, the students need to 'plan' their bow speed, so that it...

The ensemble should be encouraged to use whole bows for each note, regardless of whether it is a dotted minim, a minim or a crotchet. Therefore, the students need to 'plan' their bow speed, so that it...

Botany Bay, arranged by Sandra Dackow, is a wonderful piece that is correlated with Orchestra Expressions, Book 1. Your students will enjoy the opportunity to play and sing! Everyone gets to experienc...

Botany Bay, arranged by Sandra Dackow, is a wonderful piece that is correlated with Orchestra Expressions, Book 1. Your students will enjoy the opportunity to play and sing! Everyone gets to experienc...

Botany Bay, arranged by Sandra Dackow, is a wonderful piece that is correlated with Orchestra Expressions, Book 1. Your students will enjoy the opportunity to play and sing! Everyone gets to experienc...

Written in a flowing waltz style, this piece depicts the non-stop motion of an old-fashioned carousel going round and round with horses smoothly gliding up and down. In the keys of D Major and G Major...

Written in a flowing waltz style, this piece depicts the non-stop motion of an old-fashioned carousel going round and round with horses smoothly gliding up and down. In the keys of D Major and G Major...

Written in a flowing waltz style, this piece depicts the non-stop motion of an old-fashioned carousel going round and round with horses smoothly gliding up and down. In the keys of D Major and G Major...

For teachers wishing to expose their students to music outside the major/minor system, Dorian Waltz is a beautifully crafted work in the dorian mode that is quite approachable by string students just...