Classical Sheet Music for String Orchestra

Another great composition from award winner Shirl Arwell! Hold onto your hats as you listen to this rhythmically-charged selection. Listen, too, for the unique ways melody, counterpoint, and jazz harm...

Though in 1744 Handel presented the oratorio BELSHAZZAR as an oratorio, or religious work, it was later staged many times operatically. The opening should be neither too slow or too fast, and perhaps...

Originally for chorus and orchestra, this popular selection from Franz Joseph Haydn's oratorio, The Creation has been expertly arranged for string orchestra. An excellent selection for contest season.

Streicherstimmensatz

Franz Lachner zählt zu den heute noch weit unterschätzten Komponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Freund von Schubert und Beethoven und spätere Lehrer von Josef Rheinberger wirkte in Wien, Mannheim und...

Franz Lachner zählt zu den heute noch weit unterschätzten Komponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Freund von Schubert und Beethoven und spätere Lehrer von Josef Rheinberger wirkte in Wien, Mannheim und...

There are choral works which, due to their quality and general popularity, also want to be sung by choirs with instrumentation other than that originally conceived by the composer. The same applies to...

Gitarre und Streicher (Quartett oder Streichorchester). Partitur mit 1 Stimmensatz.

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...

Can be performed alone or as part of Don Freund's Poem Symphonies Set I, a cycle of works, each one based on the poetry of a different poet. Gold was inspired by the poem of the same name by Donald Ha...

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...