Sheet Music by Women Composers for String Orchestra: Artistic Excellence

This piece is intended to help students at the very beginning levels make 'real' music, using only open strings and pizzicato. The piano part is essential.

This all-pizzicato work for young strings imitates an African instrument called the kalimba (also known as an mbira or thumb piano.) This lovely-sounding instrument consists of a series of metal tines...

Los Caballos de Andalucia (The Horses of Andalusia) by R. Anne Svendsen is a rhythmic Spanish-flavored piece in 3/4 time that would suit middle school level players. The key is E minor with the notati...

Written in C Major, the 3rd violin and piano parts are included. With a poem about the nocturnal marsupial from Australia and their habits, this work for beginning to developing strings encourages the...

Grade 1 1/2 * This piece in D Major offers easy optional violin/cello parts, and a piano part is included.

Roaches in the Pantry is a fun piece for young players in D Major and D Modal. It is written in ABA form with presto scurrying in the beginning and ending section, with a slower mysterioso middle sect...

This lyrical work will show off your strings expressive side. The music, set in 3/4 time, moves seamlessly between a D major and B minor tonalities, and uses the notes string players learn first and k...

Not a jig or a reel, but a very flowing original melody that evokes images of the sea. First violins must play in 3rd and 4th position while lower strings play the wide-spread broken chords which give...

This bright waltz in G major from south of the border will bring the spirit and fun of a Mexican holiday to your orchestra! This likeable, light work introduces some rhythmic challenges, pizzicato acc...

Explore a rhythmic way to use open strings and 1st finger in this ragtime-inspired original! In G major, students can become corfortable learning half position, or simply the backward extension of the...

Ancient Days creeps in and rises to a crescendo with a driving, primodial melody. The work's Dorian modality is emphasized by arpeggiated lower string accompaniment, while upper voices have an opportu...

This piece depicts the magic of butterfly migration with only open strings and first finger (using all strings).  The butterflies disappear into the sky with a soft, delicate pizzicato ending. &n...

Written in C Major, the 3rd violin and piano parts are included. With a poem about the nocturnal marsupial from Australia and their habits, this work for beginning to developing strings encourages the...

Grade 1 1/2 * This piece in D Major offers easy optional violin/cello parts, and a piano part is included.

Roaches in the Pantry is a fun piece for young players in D Major and D Modal. It is written in ABA form with presto scurrying in the beginning and ending section, with a slower mysterioso middle sect...

This lyrical work will show off your strings' expressive side. The music, set in 3/4 time, moves seamlessly between D major and B minor tonalities and uses the notes string players learn first and kno...

This bright waltz in G major from south of the border will  bring the spirit and fun of a Mexican holiday to your orchestra!  This likeable, light work introduces some rhythmic challenges, p...

Explore a rhythmic way to use open strings and 1st finger in this ragtime-inspired original! In G major, students can become corfortable learning half position, or simply the backward extension of the...

Ancient Days creeps in and rises to a crescendo with a driving, primodial melody. The work's Dorian modality is emphasized by arpeggiated lower string accompaniment, while upper voices have an opportu...

This piece depicts the magic of butterfly migration with only open strings and first finger (using all strings). The butterflies disappear into the sky with a soft, delicate pizzicato ending. Bowing s...

In this tribute to film music of the spy-movie genre, our Secret Agent 440 tries to keep a low profile while exploring chromatics, dynamics, double stops and diverse articulations. When things get too...

Here is a set of 4 wonderful jazz tunes written to the changes of some of our most-beloved jazz standards. Each tune is neatly arranged so that the melody can be played by any section or individual, a...

Here is a set of 4 wonderful jazz tunes written to the changes of some of our most-beloved jazz standards. Each tune is neatly arranged so that the melody can be played by any section or individual, a...

Clara Schumann's Trio, op. 17 was her only piano trio composed during her stay in Dresden in 1845-1846. Completed in the summer of 1846 while her husband, Robert Schumann was extremely ill.