Sheet Music by Women Composers for String Orchestra: Artistic Excellence

Poem for violin and string orchestra was composed in 1972. The members of the generation who grew during the great Shostakovich era are of course marked by him. The young composers not only admired hi...

This duo for violin and violoncello is with its light- hearted, jazzy refrains very close to the music of Dave Brubeck, but in its middle sections it very often drifts off into more experimental realm...

Add a unique programming twist with this fantastic piece that blends humor with darkness. The "spooky" opening uses playable chromatics to set the stage for the "thing," which comes across as potentia...

Add a unique programming twist with this fantastic piece that blends humor with darkness. The "spooky" opening uses playable chromatics to set the stage for the "thing," which comes across as potentia...

End your first year with three American folk songs about water, each of which is passed around the orchestra. Learning opportunities abound, both with the bow and pizzicato. There are some easy double...

As you might imagine from the title, this piece is a bit dark and foreboding. It hovers around E minor but also has some more lyrical passages that add excellent contrast to the more rhythmic sections...

As you might imagine from the title, this piece is a bit dark and foreboding. It hovers around E minor but also has some more lyrical passages that add excellent contrast to the more rhythmic sections...

This is an intriguing and creative composition featuring a winding chromatic melody that suggests imps and goblins dancing deep in a haunted forest. A great selection for a Halloween concert!

This is an intriguing and creative composition featuring a winding chromatic melody that suggests imps and goblins dancing deep in a haunted forest. A great selection for a Halloween concert!

Violoncello & Strings

Showcase your beginning strings with this easy pizzicato piece in the classic Leroy Anderson style. Lauren Bernofsky uses a cuckoo clock motive presented in just three-part harmony for performance fle...

Showcase your beginning strings with this easy pizzicato piece in the classic Leroy Anderson style. Lauren Bernofsky uses a cuckoo clock motive presented in just three-part harmony for performance fle...

Inspired by the poem of 19th century English poet Christina Rossetti (also the author of "In the Bleak Midwinter"), Frog and Toad provides a wonderful change of pace. The frog theme is lighthearted in...

Inspired by the poem of 19th century English poet Christina Rossetti (also the author of "In the Bleak Midwinter"), Frog and Toad provides a wonderful change of pace. The frog theme is lighthearted in...

Even the most humbug-y of audience members will have to laugh at this new take on the traditional birthday song. After the melody is presented in a minor key, it works its way through a series of tong...

Even the most humbug-y of audience members will have to laugh at this new take on the traditional birthday song. After the melody is presented in a minor key, it works its way through a series of tong...

Looking for a fun, yet stimulating piece for your group? Then how about some music from Mars? This fantastic original contains all the notes from traditional minor and major scales, but you have never...

Looking for a fun, yet stimulating piece for your group? Then how about some music from Mars? This fantastic original contains all the notes from traditional minor and major scales, but you have never...

Take your orchestra in a new direction with this infectiously catchy tune. Written by a seasoned composer of pedagogical music for strings, the piece features extremely playable chromatic passages. Th...

Take your orchestra in a new direction with this infectiously catchy tune. Written by a seasoned composer of pedagogical music for strings, the piece features extremely playable chromatic passages. Th...

Academic Festival March features a range of textures, dynamics, and articulation while highlighting a stately dotted motif using hooked bowing patterns throughout. Though written primarily in approach...

The mice are on the move in this entertaining novelty march. Throughout the work, the audience will chuckle at the sound of the squeaking-mouse battle cry (drawing the bow behind the bridge). Complete...

The mice are on the move in this entertaining novelty march. Throughout the work, the audience will chuckle at the sound of the squeaking-mouse battle cry (drawing the bow behind the bridge). Complete...