Easy Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Dorian Doodles, by Jim Palmer, gives beginners a chance to try out new techniques, including playing melodic lines with pizzicato, exploring dynamic changes, and using the Dorian mode. Students will e...

Based entirely on just five notes (D through A), Five Note Fiddler is an ideal way to reinforce the D tetrachord while having a ton of fun in a fiddle-inspired setting. Brian Balmages playfully weaves...

Béla Bartók for beginning strings! All the parts are reinforced in the piano accompaniment guaranteeing a superb presentation. Fine opportunities exist to develop outstanding characteristic tone quali...

A beginning string orchestra piece of elephantine porportions! Sean O'Loughlin is able to deliver time and time again exciting music that students love to play. His pieces sound much more difficult an...

Make every week sharp week with your beginning string students. Composer Tyler Arcari gives us a fun teaching piece to help students remember their sharps! Every sharp is clearly indicated to reinforc...

This all-pizzicato work uses easy aleatoric devices to create the gentle sound of rainfall. Out of the rain emerges a simple accompaniment line that is soon joined by an endearing melody. A wonderful...

Roller coasters, merry-go-rounds, and big wheels...oh my! Funfair Day! is an original, beginner-level work depicting the emotions of a young child during a wonderful day at the fair. This piece is a g...

Lead your students on an awesome adventure with A Ship in a Bottle. Using basic fundamentals, it creates engaging and exciting music that is attainable and within the grasp of your young musicians. Th...

Ping Pong is a lively and lighthearted Grade 1 string orchestra piece that brings the excitement of the game to the concert stage! Playful rhythmic exchanges between sections mimic the back-and-forth...

Die Ausgaben der Reihe Beliebte Melodien enthalten eine bunte Mischung von gern gespielten Streicherklassikern, populären Melodien und modernen Rhythmen. Die Sammlungen in vier Schwierigkeitsstufen (1...

Intended to introduce young players to Latin music style, this cheerful and energized composition is guaranteed to be a success as you tour the Caribbean. In addition to being solidly scored, the catc...

Either of these pieces, for more advanced players, would make an exceptionally unusual and entertaining concert item. The writers, Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo, have stunned audiences, critics a...

A straight forward arrangement of the popular piano rag for 4 bassoons.

'TaReKiTa' is a refreshing concert piece that effortlessly blends the Indian and Western classical styles. The composer's scats are combined with a fast triple metre, vocal slides, and captivating mel...

This straightforward setting of the eighth chapter of the Song of Solomon, which features two people's professions of love for each other, was written for the wedding of friends of the composer in 200...

We Are is a powerful, deeply moving vocal work that captivates with its rich sonic depth and emotional intensity. Scored for an expressive solo voice (or small solo ensemble) and unaccompanied mixed c...

A stunning setting of a Sara Teasdale poem written for VOCES8. Gorgeous harmonies that are written to be accessible for advanced choirs.

This book Modern Piano contains 90 easy original pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries. The pieces selected display a great variety of styles including New Music, neoclassicism, modern dances, jazz,...

Kodály was a devout educationalist and ethnomusicologist, and he pioneered the reintegration of folk material into 20th-century music. He and Bartók were lifetime friends, and together in 1905 they be...