String Orchestra Sheet Music Downloads

This spirited dance offers a lot of rhythmic excitement and features a string quartet from within the orchestra. Multi-meters, pizzicato, and other string techniques create interest in this original w...

A dynamic musical depiction of a race on the legendary bike route around Clinton Lake in northeast Kansas.

This arrangement is based on Bach's famous inventions for keyboard and includes upper position work for each section.

This original work was commissioned and premiered by the 2004 Texas Music Educators Association Region 18 Junior High Honors Orchestra in Austin, Texas, Lance Armstrong's home. It is a tribute to the...

This original work features classic harmonic progressions that are treated with a touch of modern style.

This happy selection is based on one of the most famous of all Swedish compositions, Swedish Rhapsody No. 1. A setting for younger players, it captures the spirit and joy of the original work. (3:23)

This symphony is one of five sinfonias written by this composer. The original instrumentation called for a pair of flutes, oboes and horns. The flute and oboes generally double the violin parts while...

This clever work is a lively 3/4 scherzo for high school string orchestra which utilizes the technical abilities of all the strings. In addition to the high school composition, the composer has writte...

Serenade, one of Haydn's most famous melodies, comes from a string quartet in which first violin plays the melody. This lovely adaptation, set in the key of G, allows you to feature either a solo viol...

Here's that showcase for your first violins you've been looking for! The first violins divide into two parts while the rest of the orchestra accompanies them through this sprightly dance. Hornpipes ar...

Here's a great addition to the string orchestra repertoire. Taken from a sonata for two violins, this offers you two movements of solid Baroque string playing, a larghetto and an allegro. This is the...

Here is a showpiece for medium- to medium-advanced-level string groups. Based on authentic source materials from the Native American Shawnee people, this work is not only a tour de force for more adva...

Your group will love creating the train noises on their instruments in this famous spiritual about the underground railroad! This delightful arrangement uses easy harmonics to imitate the whistles and...

After opening adagio misterioso with cadenza-like solos for concertmaster and first cellist, the work builds in intensity until a bold marking of allegro con fuoco takes the music to a new level. This...

This dramatic work will bring out the strongest playing yet from your musicians! The music calls for some really nice interplay between sections, including sudden dynamics changes, staggered entrances...

Here is one of Mozart's most famous quartet movements, carefully transcribed for the medium-level string orchestra. It remains very true to the original in style, nuance and bowings, but is slightly s...

Based on Zydeco music and Cajun fiddling style, this clever arrangement passes tunes playfully from one section to another, sometimes over a pizzicato walking bass line. This top-seller is full of ene...

This famous violin showpiece sounds great as a full orchestra work! Although written by Italian Vittorio Monti, this well-loved work is regularly played by Gypsy orchestras throughout Hungary, Romania...

Interesting harmonies and melodies make this hauntingly beautiful work something special. Cellists will be challenged, while 2nd violins and violas are featured with melody in the middle section.

The dark, minor sound of this piece, coupled with the pizzicato effects depicting rain, make this an interesting programmatic work for strings! All sections have a chance at the melody. It is easy to...

The winner of the 2008 Texas Orchestra Directors Association composition contest! This American tour de force has shades of Copland mixed with exciting fiddling motives and themes fit for a Hollywood...

The title of this exciting musical depiction is, of course, the residence of Sherlock Holmes. The three musical motifs depict Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and the arch-villain Professor Moriarity. The...

Marvelous string effects combine with a haunting melody to tell the tale of Louis and Clark's native Indian guide. This piece won the 2009 Texas Orchestra Directors Association composition contest. It...

Young string players always like a swashbuckling adventure - especially one that makes them sound so good! The intriguing minor/modal themes, with lots of unisons and doublings, makes them sound more...

This one has it all: smooth legato playing, spiccato bowing, wonderful dynamic changes, an accelerando into the big finish, and even an optional timpani! Written in a classical, symphonic style, it wi...