Youth String Orchestra

The most famous anthem of composer Thomas Tallis, 'If Ye Love Me' represents the best of the music of the English Renaissance. Robert Longfield's setting for string orchestra is expressive, reverent a...

Themes from Franz Lehar's famous operetta are featured in this easy arrangement for string orchestra. These well-known, expressive melodies will charm your audiences and help your students to develop...

The Intermezzo from Mascagni's 'Cavalleria Rusticana' is one of the most beautiful moments in all Italian opera. Now, in this accessible arrangement, your students will be able to experience the elega...

A wonderful programmatic work for young orchestras! Easy to learn and teach, 'Huracán' provides an avenue for teaching articulations, phrasing, and elements of music texture. An excellent program choi...

Adapted from Mozart's prominent piano sonata in A Major, 'Sonata for Strings' gives first and second year string students an opportunity to play a solid classical work arranged with the young musician...

Adapted from Mozart's prominent piano sonata in A Major, 'Sonata for Strings' gives first and second year string students an opportunity to play a solid classical work arranged with the young musician...

Part of the Bosworth School Orchestra series, this fast and exhilerating piece by Willem Ten Have has been arranged for amateur string orchestra. Perfect for school string orchestras and amateur group...

This highly rhythmic piece for young strings pulses from beginning to end with an intense, syncopated rhythm set against driving quarter notes. Fractus means something that has been broken into small,...

This highly rhythmic piece for young strings pulses from beginning to end with an intense, syncopated rhythm set against driving quarter notes. Fractus means something that has been broken into small,...

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...

New Guardians is a bold overture in D minor, designed as a way for students to show off a variety of intermediate-level skills, such as backward extensions, simple syncopated rhythms, and a variety of...

New Guardians is a bold overture in D minor, designed as a way for students to show off a variety of intermediate-level skills, such as backward extensions, simple syncopated rhythms, and a variety of...

He was a legendary leader from Mongolia, viewed by many as a hero of epic proportions. Born in the vast open plains, Temüjin – or better known by his title Genghis Khan – united nomadic tribes to form...

He was a legendary leader from Mongolia, viewed by many as a hero of epic proportions. Born in the vast open plains, Temüjin – or better known by his title Genghis Khan – united nomadic tribes to form...

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...