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American fold songs are a rich source of material for musicians both young and old. Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree receives a sensitive ballad treatment that will ensure your group develops better...

Feature your young bassists! With glissandi and pizzicato in all parts, everyone has a chance to share in the fun. Using solid, on the string slides, the work features a bouncy, syncopated melody that...

American fold songs are a rich source of material for musicians both young and old. Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree receives a sensitive ballad treatment that will ensure your group develops better...

Feature your young bassists! With glissandi and pizzicato in all parts, everyone has a chance to share in the fun. Using solid, on the string slides, the work features a bouncy, syncopated melody that...

Funky Sneakers is a hard-rocking D minor Blues that is sure to be a favorite of your string orchestra as well as your audience. The driving bass line and lick-based melody were written by Thom Sharp t...

An open string/first finger masterpiece, this work focuses on the tango rhythm and stretching that low first finger. Harmonically, there is some lovely, shocking dissonance -- just like a real tango!

Caribbean Tides features elements of Caribbean music with steel pan traditions. The melody is inspired by the Jamaican folk song Linstead Market. Fusing Afro-Caribbean rhythms with pop music elements,...

An open string/first finger masterpiece, this work focuses on the tango rhythm and stretching that low first finger. Harmonically, there is some lovely, shocking dissonance -- just like a real tango!

Caribbean Tides features elements of Caribbean music with steel pan traditions. The melody is inspired by the Jamaican folk song Linstead Market. Fusing Afro-Caribbean rhythms with pop music elements,...

On the inspiration for Midnight (A Slow Mambo), Steven Rosenhaus, the composer writes: "Growing up in New York City, as with any major city, presents a wide variety of opportunities to experience aspe...

Don't get your fingers tangled in the chromatic fingerings! Alternating arco and pizzicato makes things even more interesting (plus some hooked bowings for the fun of it). Everyone gets the melody, wi...

Edmund J. Siennicki is a master of composition and arranging for young musicians. This arrangement is intended to present AMAZING GRACE to a second-year string orchestra in a stately, melodic way with...

Edmund J. Siennicki is a master of composition and arranging for young musicians. This arrangement is intended to present AMAZING GRACE to a second-year string orchestra in a stately, melodic way with...

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...

Dance of Yao by Xinyu (Maggie) Francis-Ma is based on the theme of a Yao folk dance, with the melody flowing seamlessly between the different sections. The tremolo creates a dreamy, ethereal atmospher...

This traditional fiddle tune, with its introduction, reinforces the D minor and D major tetrachords in the left hand, as well as half and whole step patterns, extended fingerings, and curvature of the...

Dance of Yao by Xinyu (Maggie) Francis-Ma is based on the theme of a Yao folk dance, with the melody flowing seamlessly between the different sections. The tremolo creates a dreamy, ethereal atmospher...

This traditional fiddle tune, with its introduction, reinforces the D minor and D major tetrachords in the left hand, as well as half and whole step patterns, extended fingerings, and curvature of the...

All the melodic lines are written in the Dorian mode (D minor, played most of the time on the white keys of the piano) and except for the modern snare drum, the percussion evokes the character of the...

All the melodic lines are written in the Dorian mode (D minor, played most of the time on the white keys of the piano) and except for the modern snare drum, the percussion evokes the character of the...

From the Little Note Book of Anna Magdalena Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach is believed to have composed this work. Nelhybel has adapted it for strings and a variety of optional keyboard accompaniments. T...

Nelhybel's arrangement of Purcell's Chaconne is done with such careful attention to the musical details, that the music stays true to Purcell, and yet has the added touch of one of the great composers...

Mr. Nelhybel said: 'The teaching element of this piece lies in the independence of all melodic lines, for it is this device that makes all instruments equally important.' The modal tonality gives the...

Allegro for Strings is an arrangement of the first movement of Handel's Sonata Op. 1, No. 3, for violin and keyboard, originally in A Major. The contrapuntal nature of this movement seemed to lend its...

From the Little Note Book of Anna Magdalena Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach is believed to have composed this work. Nelhybel has adapted it for strings and a variety of optional keyboard accompaniments. T...