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Robert Sieving's arrangement of Allegro for Double Strings by Antonio Vivaldi, RV593, originally a motet featuring the vocal settingof Psalm 69 for soprano, 2 oboes, 2 SATB choirs, and double string o...

Jaromir Weinberger, a noted Czech composer, achieved sudden fame in 1927 with the production of his opera, Svanda dudâk (Schwanda, the Bagpiper), written in a popular Bohemian style, at the Czech Oper...

This piece for ten percussionists is the ideal contest or recital selection for a group of intermediate players. Instrumentation: timpani (three drums), bells, suspended cymbal, snare drum, triangle,...

The several days which followed the tragedy of September 11, 2001, New York became a city landscape of empty streets and impromptu, heartbreaking memorials mourning our lost citizens, friends and fami...

Movement titles: I. Praeludium, II. Allamande, III. Courante, IV. Sarabande, V. Bouree, VI. Gigue

The Aria is from one of the many sonatas, and the Burlesca is a short virtuosic display piece for strings and harpsichord. In this arrangement for mallet ensemble and optional string bass, the freedom...

This arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee is provided by Linda Maxey. Linda Maxey also provides exercises to aid with the sticking.

It is unknown when the Bohemian-born Jewish composer Jaromir Weinberger (1896-1967) wrote this string quartet, but the manuscript was discovered at the Weinberger archive in the National Library of Is...

It is unknown when the Bohemian-born Jewish composer Jaromir Weinberger (1896-1967) wrote this string quartet, but the manuscript was discovered at the Weinberger archive in the National Library of Is...

This work by the master Vaclav Nelhybel was written in 2000 for an advanced string quartet (with optional Double Bass).

Johann Christoph Graupner (1683 - 1760) was a German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music who was a contemporary of Bach, Telemann and Handel. His short Intrada in C, written originally f...

The title Luna is the Latin word for moon, which is the subject of this lyrical original string orchestra work by composer Yukiko Nishimura. In a lilting waltz style, the composer has described the in...

Prokoviev wrote his Bb symphony in short form within a month, 16 years after his last symphony. He used sketches he had compiled in his ubiquitous notebooks. Written in 1944, its four movements are in...

This arrangement uses the main themes of the second and third movements of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. It opens with the haunting Adagio sostenuto. At measure 16, the third movement's rhapsod...

Scarlatti's Sonata in B Minor, K. 87, L. 33 is a plaintive work originally written for keyboard. This beautiful transcription by Yukiko Nishimura presents the piece in the key of a minor, making the m...

Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was written in 1937 and premiered that year in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). It was a major success with an ovation lasting over 30 minutes. The symphony is approximately 4...

A famous theme from Mozart's horn concerto is adapted for strings with this new teaching and performance edition from Lauren Keiser. Treat your students to the genius of Mozart with this beautifully r...

This cantabile piece works great as a short lyrical interlude in a program. Written for the advancing intermediate ensemble, the score features expanded use of rhythms, ranges and keys, but technical...

Taken from the second movement of the Serenade (and similar to the minuets of his idol, Mozart), Tchaikovsky's Valse also resembles many of his own ballet movements. Lauren Keiser's adapatation is des...