Easy Traditional Sheet Music

Extensive harmonies and soaring melodic lines contribute to this sensitive setting of the ever-popular song Scarborough Fair. The opening lines hint at the melancholy nature of the music, which eventu...

This ideal concert opener is also a wonderful vehicle to teach low 2 fingerings to violinists. Originally from Gaspar Sanz's Suite Española, the entire piece is based on several variations on a contin...

This ideal concert opener is also a wonderful vehicle to teach low 2 fingerings to violinists. Originally from Gaspar Sanz's Suite Española, the entire piece is based on several variations on a contin...

Take a journey with an ancient caravan as it travels across mystic lands. The modal sound of this unique and exciting piece adds a haunting element while the overall feel is bright and celebratory. Op...

Combining famous classical melodies with popular American folk songs, this clever work ties everything together in a fun, fiddlin' atmosphere! Works by Beethoven, Handel and Mozart are woven into folk...

Based entirely on a one-octave D Major scale, this jovial work is an ideal selection for the lighter portion of your concert. In addition to its fun, dance-like character, the work serves as a wonderf...

The farmer is celebrated fiddle-style in this trio of folk songs: Old McDonald, The Farmer in the Dell, and Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow. While expanding their bow length with the legato long-sh...

The farmer is celebrated fiddle-style in this trio of folk songs: Old McDonald, The Farmer in the Dell, and Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow. While expanding their bow length with the legato long-sh...

Transport your audience to the emerald isle with this music inspired by traditional Irish songs and the beauty of the Ireland's Gap of Dunloe. The lyrical melodies, call and response counterpoint, and...

Carefully written for developing players, this traditional folk tune offers the opportunity to teach several rhythmic combinations of quarter and half notes and rests. A solid grade 1 teaching piece.

This arrangement of two songs from western Africa -- "Ise Oluwa" from Nigeria and "Banuwa" from Liberia -- has everything a teacher could hope for in a concert selection: variety, excitement, and simp...

Your students will love playing this well-crafted setting of the traditional Welsh folk song. Written in AABA form in 3/4 time, the tempo is lively (quarter note = 92) and all parts have an interestin...

Take the age-old favorite Turkey In The Straw, mix it with a boogie bass line and add some easy fiddle techniques, and you have the winning recipe for this guaranteed crowd-pleaser. Thanks to Frank's...

Based on the classic fiddle tune Goin to Boston, this is a great hoedown number for strings. It comes complete with several special techniques including bluesy note slides, shuffle bowings, hand slaps...

With its rich, fully-bowed lyrical passages and contrasting pizzicato, "koto-like" textures, this original with a sophisticated sound is a great tool for teaching bowing technique that audiences will...

The arranger has taken this lively melody and added easy fiddle-style touches, a pinch of pizzicato, some simple double stops, open string ostinatos and fun-loving bass lines to create a winner that p...

This beautiful setting in G of the great Scottish tune encourages first-year students to play with good expression, intonation, balance and blend. The shortest note value is a quarter note, and the so...

Based on the classic fiddle tune Goin to Boston, this is a great hoedown number for strings. It comes complete with several special techniques found in all fiddle music, including bluesy note slides,...

Strings Extraordinaire! is a progressive collection of Classical, Traditional, Folk, and original compositions for performance by students of different playing levels. All pieces are scored with both...

This arrangement of the Hawaiian folk song Kahuli Aku will evoke the imagery and vibrancy of the "singing snails" (kahuli) depicted in the song lyric. Young musicians and their audience will sense a d...

A traditional American gospel song, "This Train" was fairly popular during the 1920s. It became a gospel hit in the 1930s when recorded by singer-guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Also known as This Tr...

The Partridge - Merrily We Roll Along - Little Mozart - Le Bon Roi Dagobert - Jingle Bells - How To Slur - How To Play Staccato - J'ai du Bon Tabac - Serenade - Slurring Is Fun - Flea Jumps - Ode To J...

The Partridge - Merrily We Roll Along - Little Mozart - Le Bon Roi Dagobert - Jingle Bells - How To Slur - How To Play Staccato - J'ai du Bon Tabac - Serenade - Slurring Is Fun - Flea Jumps - Ode To J...