Easy Sheet Music from Alfred Publishing for Beginners

Written in a D minor hand position, this early elementary piece has a spirited feel to it that students will love. Repeated phrases make it easy to learn, and varied articulations provide interest. In...

Imagine a beautiful field filled with daffodils and tall sunflowers swaying in the breeze when playing this piece. An excellent study of intervals in the right hand, it also reinforces staccato and le...

Primer level.

This is an ideal first recital piece for left-hand alone in C major for the early elementary student. In middle C position, this piece uses basic phrasing and quarter-note rhythms.

Today's TOP HITS receive fresh, innovative treatments by arrangers Tom Roed, Jerry Ray, Gail Lew, and Eugénie Rocherolle.

What a wonderful opportunity for expressive playing! This cross-hands piece is gentle in mood - an unfrenzied performance piece. The moves are graceful, the dissonances easy on the ear. Appealing for...

Peanut butter jelly, yum, yum yum. Mighty satisfying to my tum tum tum. Snack time calls for a quick response; this one has universal appeal. The piece starts slowly and gets zippier as the energy kic...

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This remarkably simple, yet sophisticated sounding piece from Mark Williams allows for the development of many expressive possibilities in young players. Syncopation and spicatto are explored and deve...

This fresh, contemporary-sounding work by Mark Williams allows your young string players to experience the changing modes and tonalities of 20th-century music within an extremely easy format. Featurin...

This skillful arrangement of themes from Brahms's First Symphony, Sibelius's Finlandia and Mouret's Rondeau ("Masterpiece Theater" theme) is a delightful excursion into some revered musical classics....

This stately minuet is a great introduction to the Baroque style for your beginning string orchestra. This authentic-sounding arrangement is perfect for students who have just learned their first note...

Rosin up the bow, call out the fire department, and let's go! This lively, energetic piece gives students a chance to show off their newly learned C natural (on the A string) in a modal display of beg...

Beginning with a slow introduction featuring the viola section (with optional 3rd violin), the pace quickly changes to one of vigorous activity. Your students will love this composition with its stron...

Familiar songs of the Chanukah season are skillfully presented in this great arrangement for young strings by John O'Reilly. Ideal for first-or second-year string orchestras, this selection is correla...

This popular Southern folk song includes a few "blue notes" and is great fun for young string players. A variety of bowing patterns are explored and developed in this excellent arrangement by Carrie L...

Rosin up the bow, and limber up those fingers as we get ready for a real "Fiddle Finger Frenzy!" Within a rip-roarin' fiddle style, a variety of accidentals are explored in first position. Besides bei...

Your students will love the modern sound of this original by John O'Reilly. The piece begins with a lyrical "Andante" in Phrygian mode utilizing slurred bowings, followed by a robust folk style "Alleg...

This clever, yet very easy treatment of one of the world's most beloved folk songs uses only a one-octave D major scale (plus open strings) within a simplified rhythmic structure. With only quarter, h...

This vigorous original work cleverly uses open strings, plus only the first notes learned on the D and A strings, to evoke the sometimes charming, sometimes rough world of the sailor at sea. Open doub...

Looking for a piece that's fun to play but still educationally sound? Try Sword Dance on your next concert. Students will love this high-energy tune from the Renaissance era. The piece starts with a p...

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Using only quarter notes and a one-octave D major scale, this fun piece depicts the "two steps forward, one step backwards" approach typical in mountain climbing. Utilizing both loud and soft pizzicat...

This delightful work for beginning string orchestra uses only a one-octave D major scale plus open strings to evoke the spirit of a lively country dance. The interplay between forte and piano provides...