Church Music for String Orchestra

5x V1; 4x V2; 3x Va, 2x Vc, 1x Kb

Take your audience on a musical journey in this simplified melodic setting of the timeless spiritual Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho. Cellos and basses are doubled throughout with very limited demand...

Take your audience on a musical journey in this simplified melodic setting of the timeless spiritual Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho. Cellos and basses are doubled throughout with very limited demand...

Stephen Bulla, arranger for the White House Orchestra, has set this spiritual in a swing style. This delightful crowd pleaser will help teach basic swing concepts to your beginning orchestra members.

This timeless spiritual allows students to develop their musicianship with long phrases, rich tone, purity of intonation and vibrato. With minimal shifting required, your students can concentrate on p...

This timeless spiritual allows students to develop their musicianship with long phrases, rich tone, purity of intonation and vibrato. With minimal shifting required, your students can concentrate on p...

This timeless spiritual allows students to develop their musicianship with long phrases, rich tone, purity of intonation and vibrato. With minimal shifting required, your students can concentrate on p...

This timeless spiritual allows students to develop their musicianship with long phrases, rich tone, purity of intonation and vibrato. With minimal shifting required, your students can concentrate on p...

Charpentier's time-honored composition is made available here for developing strings in a majestic arrangement. Robert D. McCashin has taken great care to edit bowings and individual parts for a truly...

Charpentier's time-honored composition is made available here for developing strings in a majestic arrangement. Robert D. McCashin has taken great care to edit bowings and individual parts for a truly...

This moving arrangement of the African American spiritual is infused with frustration and hope. Soft pizzicato lines contrast with sweeping lyrical phrases as the music unfolds. The melody works its w...

Based on one of Ireland's most beloved melodies, this arrangement includes moments of solitude along with amazing expressions of passion. Brief solo opportunities exist for both Violin 1 and 2 before...

This clever arrangement uses melodies from Joy to the World and Beethoven's Ode to Joy before combining the two in the final section of the piece. Students will develop hooked bowing technique in addi...

This lively original work embodies the character and spirit of the African-American spiritual. Combining themes of struggle, oppression, and hope for the future, the music begins quite vigorously befo...

This lively original work embodies the character and spirit of the African-American spiritual. Combining themes of struggle, oppression, and hope for the future, the music begins quite vigorously befo...

The transcendent beauty of the last movement of Fauré's Requiem in D minor is guaranteed to induce goose bumps for audience and performer alike. The technical ease of this arrangement leaves the playe...

From the gentle beginning to the triumphant and powerful climax, this enduring arrangement allows students to study expression to the fullest. A beautiful way to move your audience and deliver the uni...

The African-American spiritual Aint-a That Good News! exuberantly expresses joy and hope. Set as a slow swing, plenty of articulations help students achieve the proper style. Basses and cellos experie...

The African-American spiritual Aint-a That Good News! exuberantly expresses joy and hope. Set as a slow swing, plenty of articulations help students achieve the proper style. Basses and cellos experie...

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...

This treasured Baroque aria provides young string players with an opportunity to develop beautiful tone, vibrato and intonation in the key of B-flat. Solemn and stately, the melodic phrases are shared...

This treasured Baroque aria provides young string players with an opportunity to develop beautiful tone, vibrato and intonation in the key of B-flat. Solemn and stately, the melodic phrases are shared...

Orchestration: Solo Violin, Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass, Harpsichord [optional] 'A tuneful piece for baroque string orchestra but with a modern sound' was the brief. The Chamber Ensemble of...