Grand Mesa Music

From the composer of 'Pizzicato Blues' comes this fiery and compelling new work for string orchestra that should entrance your students and dazzle your audience! With Fire features a blazing tempo, li...

Ragtime-style syncopations in this very catchy string work suggest the feel of breezily floating over a pleasant landscape in a hot air balloon. Accenting and adding playful elements to the joyful rid...

Using Chester as its primary motivic material, this show takes the familiar tune through a variety of styles and tempos in a salute to our American heroes. Solid percussion scoring and great impact mo...

With this completion of the second movement of The Haunted Mansion trilogy, Canadian writer Matt Neufeld has added a mysterious work which can be played as a movement of the trilogy or as an evocative...

This very approachable 5 band work was inspired by prehistoric cave paintings, and is a fun way for your students to imagine themselves transported back to ancient, primitive times. ; It uses primaril...

This piece was inspired by a documentary on Yellowstone park the composer watched on television. The energetic character of the famous geyser Old Faithful is reflected in the upbeat character of the m...

Hailing from the Detroit, MI area, M. J. Roth has created in "Discovery" a young band work that employs a sophisticated sound palette while being very approachable. ; It takes players on an auditory j...

This heartfelt work evokes the memory of a dear friend of the composer, Angelo Sormani, who tragically passed away at a young age. It is a slow ballad with a lyrical and very expressive melody. The th...

Where Dolphins Play was written for the Pine Island Academy band in St. Augustine, Florida. Since their school mascot is a dolphin, the composer's intent in this work was to capture the playful and ch...

The Race Against Time is a loosely programmatic work depicting the hectic and fast-paced nature of life in the 21st century. In this highly original and well-crafted work, you will hear moments of str...

In 1874, the "Promenade and Great Gate of Kiev" was composed by Modest Mussorgsky as part of a 10 section piano work entitled, "Pictures at an Exhibition". In 1922, French composer Maurice Ravel made...

This upbeat Western themed Grade 2 piece composed by Susan Day features lively melodies for all, with teaching opportunities to reinforce accents, hooked bows, pizzicato, 2 note slurs, lifts, cello di...

This popular holiday tune has had many iterations. In this unique grade 2 version, its three main themes are arranged in a new and somewhat altered way, with the familiar melodic and rhythmic motifs p...

This lovely, solid grade 2 suite of three movements was written to spark the students' imagination about a knight's adventures, while reinforcing specific playing techniques in each movement. "Day in t...

Let Them Not be Forgotten was written as a tribute to honor fallen heroes everywhere, but specifically, the composer had in mind the firefighters of 9/11. Written in the key of G, with no accidentals,...

Originally entitled "The Rhythm Decides", "Sinfonia Rhythmico" is an exciting, edgy work for advancing string orchestra that comes off as a gripping musical ride with a dominating rhythmic element. Rh...

Guaranteed to delight your performers and audience alike, this rousing arrangement of "Joy to the World" is combined with an original American "hoedown" style tune, providing a fresh setting of this p...

Take your young string students way back in time in this lumbering tribute to the massive reptiles that roamed the earth in the cretaceous period. Built melodically and harmonically on a minor third,...

This fun-to-play and listen to pizzicato work will totally engage your students while allowing them to focus on a good left hand position. Includes a non-optional piano part.

This piece is intended to help students at the very beginning levels make 'real' music, using only open strings and pizzicato. The piano part is essential.

This all-pizzicato work for young strings imitates an African instrument called the kalimba (also known as an mbira or thumb piano.) This lovely-sounding instrument consists of a series of metal tines...

This setting of the captivating ballad Last Rose of Summer musically captures the nature of the delicate and graceful rose. In addition to the colorful scoring, there are opportunities to feature opti...

The three enchanting movements in this work 'The Falling Snow', 'Icicles on a Sunny Day', and 'The Ice Skating Rink' provide a nostalgic musical portrait of the coldest season, and make for a perfect...