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This beautiful arrangement highlights everything the cello is made for: a soaring melody, romantic harmonies, and marvelous resonance. Cello 1 has some tricky shifts, but otherwise very playable.

You will be mesmerized by this arrangement of perhaps the most memorable tune from The Fantasticks. Mike Lewis's light jazz waltz is the perfect setting for this musical theatre classic. Instrumentati...

The Pavane, Op. 50, is by French composer Gabriel Fauré written in 1887. It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional chorus. Obtaining its rhythm...

The Pavane, Op. 50, is by French composer Gabriel Fauré written in 1887. It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional chorus. Obtaining its rhythm...

The sight of all those bows dancing in rhythm across the strings is an inspiring sight to most young string orchestra audiences. The tasteful writing of Ed Siennicki will give your group plenty of pra...

Straight ahead simple melody in D major that gets kids using bowed 8th notes. A fine teaching piece that is catchy and likeable.UIL String Orchestra Sight Reading Level 3 - 2008

Gaston Litaize's (1909-1991) MESSE BASSE POUR TOUS LES TEMPS (LOW MASS FOR ALL TIMES) is comprised of five pieces on original themes inspired by Gregorian Chant. Movements: Prélude, Offertoire, Elévat...

These four-hand keyboard sonatas by Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), found in this collection edited by Wilhelm Weismann, was likely inspired by a 1765 visit to London by a 9-year-old W.A. Mozart an...

A metrical tour de force, FIVE BY FIVE explores the intricacies of metrical patterns of five. The slow, stately opening is followed by a shifting passage of eighth-note patterns over an ever-changing...

A metrical tour de force, FIVE BY FIVE explores the intricacies of metrical patterns of five. The slow, stately opening is followed by a shifting passage of eighth-note patterns over an ever-changing...

The best-known work by Spanish composer Joaquín Turina (1882-1949), DANZAS FANTÁSTICAS (Fantasy Dances or Fantastic Dances), Op. 22 was written in 1919 between August 11 and 29, first for piano, then...

The dashing elegance of this work will charm your orchestra and audience. Pedagogically sound and with important parts for everyone in the ensemble, the work will be a flashy plume on your program.

A country-dance tune from Playford's English Dancing Master, this is an excellent introduction to simple cut time. The work contains only a few dotted note rhythms and has interesting parts for all pl...

Piddlin' is a loose double Rondo in a slightly modal D minor, with contrasting episodes in between the two main themes. The basses start off theme 1 with an ostinato. Violin 1, celli and basses will s...

The dashing elegance of this work will charm your orchestra and audience. Pedagogically sound and with important parts for everyone in the ensemble, the work will be a flashy plume on your program.

A country-dance tune from Playford's English Dancing Master, this is an excellent introduction to simple cut time. The work contains only a few dotted note rhythms and has interesting parts for all pl...

This popular folk/fiddle tune, set in D Major, is a productive exercise in syncopation and maintaining a steady tempo. All sections have a shot at the familiar tune and Atwell's signature twists of ha...

Piddlin' is a loose double Rondo in a slightly modal D minor, with contrasting episodes in between the two main themes. The basses start off theme 1 with an ostinato. Violin 1, celli and basses will s...

In E minor, this lively piece mirrors Baroque period rhythms and textures. First violins will go to 3rd position, and basses are featured in the B section with a walking pizzicato bassline.

Every section of the orchestra gets to play melodic passages, even the basses in this Grade 2.5 original work. Set in B minor with a syncopated feel, the accompaniment features tied rhythms across the...

As the title implies, this music is "in the style of" Handel, using the counterpoint in a way that slowly builds intensity to the dramatic finish. Set in the key of E minor, this piece remains well wi...

With ancestors of Ireland as the inspiration, this work is a case of "jig meets the modern string orchestra". Interesting harmonies and rugged rhythms propel this music forward. Your students will lov...

This upbeat setting of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" starts with a funky Latin bass line in the low strings. Fragments of the tune enter with some cool syncopated patterns; some of these patterns come...

Pay tribute to the Greek muse of dance, Terpsichore, with this lively jig in G minor. Upper strings have the opportunity to shift to third position and stay there to play the main theme. Cellos are th...