Youth String Orchestra

Based on the hymn "Tis the Gift to be Simple" (used in Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring), this arrangement is a superb vehicle for exploring Early American music and its links to the present. Skillf...

Robert W. Smith's setting of the traditional African-American hymn is simple, elegant and beautiful. Lyrical, flowing lines provide a welcome opportunity to teach and reinforce phrasing. 'Sanctus' is...

Combining two well-known African-American spirituals (Chatter with the Angels and All Night, All Day), this arrangement offers the opportunity to swing or play straight eighth notes. Students will per...

Combining two well-known African-American spirituals (Chatter with the Angels and All Night, All Day), this arrangement offers the opportunity to swing or play straight eighth notes. Students will per...

Very Easy

Very Easy

Very Easy

Explorer Level (correlates with Book 1, p. 20)

Performer Level (correlates with Book 1, p. 34)

Explorer Level (correlates with Book 1, p. 20).

Explorer Level (correlates with Book 1, p. 20).

Value pak for Essential Elements Patriotic Favorites for Strings, this set includes a starter set of 22 books, Conductor Score, and CD Accompaniment. Each song is correlated with a specific level in t...

Gustav Holst's The Planets is one of the most iconic orchestral suites of the 20th century, with each movement representing the astrological character of a different planet. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jo...

In a stately march tempo, Nobles of the Sword features tonal centers in A minor and C major, and is written in tutti style with ample opportunities to teach common rhythms (including dotted quarter/ei...

In a stately march tempo, Nobles of the Sword features tonal centers in A minor and C major, and is written in tutti style with ample opportunities to teach common rhythms (including dotted quarter/ei...

Mozart's exquisite writing is evident in every measure of this minuet. This easy level arrangement will give your students a perfect introduction to playing in a leggiero (light) classical style.

Mozart's exquisite writing is evident in every measure of this minuet. This easy level arrangement will give your students a perfect introduction to playing in a leggiero (light) classical style.

An elegant dance in 3/4 time, this Beethoven minuet is a great vehicle for teaching about rondo form. The episodes between the refrains are short - just four measures in most cases - so students hear...

An elegant dance in 3/4 time, this Beethoven minuet is a great vehicle for teaching about rondo form. The episodes between the refrains are short - just four measures in most cases - so students hear...

The Laendler (an 18th-century German folk dance) was a popular style among classical composers, who even incorporated them into large symphonic works. Here is a very easy and enjoyable work by Beethov...

This charming piece from the Album for the Young (a set of beginner pieces written by Schumann for his three daughters) is perfect for teaching/reinforcing dotted quarter-eighth note patterns. Its che...