Intermediate Sheet Music for String Orchestra

This original selection will challenge every section of your high school string orchestra both musically and technically. A jazzy, rhythmically intense mood dominates much of the piece, but makes way...

The exotic and mysterious sounds of this imaginative selection imply flavors of music from India. Unexpected harmonic shifts, interesting chromatic twists, haunting melodies, glissandos, and hand-drum...

This multi-cultural piece explores world music using a unique and exciting format. Two side-by-side orchestras share one conductor, with one group performing traditional American songs and the other p...

Hotter than a Cajun barbecue, this tour-de-force for the advanced string orchestra is a workout for all of your students (and their conductor!). Conjuring up images of the Deep South, 'Swamp Thang' by...

This joyful and jubilant piece by Richard Meyer has the sound of a celebration and a title that describes how music unites us all: 'Yumiweeus.' Hand drumming and a simple chant-like melody start the f...

The heroic second movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 is a theme and variations. In this arrangement by Michael Hopkins the original key of A-flat major has been changed to C maj...

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The Pavane, Op. 50, is by French composer Gabriel Fauré written in 1887. It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional chorus. Obtaining its rhythm...

The Pavane, Op. 50, is by French composer Gabriel Fauré written in 1887. It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional chorus. Obtaining its rhythm...

Gustav Holst served as the Director of Music at St. Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, London between 1905 and 1934. Originally titled Suite in C, Holst's St. Paul's Suite was one of many pieces the...

A metrical tour de force, FIVE BY FIVE explores the intricacies of metrical patterns of five. The slow, stately opening is followed by a shifting passage of eighth-note patterns over an ever-changing...

A metrical tour de force, FIVE BY FIVE explores the intricacies of metrical patterns of five. The slow, stately opening is followed by a shifting passage of eighth-note patterns over an ever-changing...

Indulge in an expression of true lyricism with this incredibly beautiful work about the tranquility of sleep. Melodies constantly weave in and out of each other as the work develops both melodically a...

An emotionally charged and personal work. Written to simultaneously depict the journey of graduating seniors with the composer's own journey to the other side of the world without his family, the musi...

This powerful, heartfelt work pays tribute to a student gone too soon, who left behind a melody he composed as part of a class project. Balmages takes this melody and develops it into a full-blown fan...

Cool meets the school orchestra! Your orchestra will need to wear sunglasses while they learn to swing the eighths! Jamming the C bl scale, J.D. Meets the Rhythm Section includes complete, written-out...

America the Beautiful is arranged with a simple approach to a melody of national treasure, but with a harmonic concept that offers an inescapable feeling of warmth, honor, and patriotism.

America the Beautiful is arranged with a simple approach to a melody of national treasure, but with a harmonic concept that offers an inescapable feeling of warmth, honor, and patriotism.

2014 marks the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of OZ, one of the most loved movies of all time. Relive the cinematic masterpiece through this fast-paced miniature re-creation, punctuated by points of n...