Modern Classical Music Sheet Music for String Orchestra

Ritus was originally written as an opener for the African Suite by Abdullah Ibrahim. It creates a fusion between different shades of African and European musical traditions and paints a colorful, expa...

The Six sound islands were composed for a concert programme entitled 'Reigen' (round dance) that the composer curated, and were intended to provide an atmospheric bridge between dances by Ligeti, Bart...

The Five Concertini for string orchestra is a tribute to Antonio Vivaldi, who composed over 500 solo concertos. The work consists of five micro-concertos for the five section leaders of the string orc...

This is the big beautiful piece for that special quiet place in your next concert or festival. Inspired by the inscription on a James Dean statue. Unforgettably moving!

This, my first concerto, and the work I hold dearest even today, nevertheless cost me not only three months of composition but also several years of doubt and revision. It was first performed in Canne...

This concerto, commissioned by the German-Canadian Amadeus Duo, is a triple 'omaggio' to Ravel, Sor and the Argentinian Astor Piazzolla. While certain typical characteristics of the three composers ar...

A valuable addition to the concert literature which is also an excellent teaching vehicle: introduces various Musical elements including the study of triplets and accessible contemporary harmonies. Th...

A valuable addition to the concert literature which is also an excellent teaching vehicle: introduces various Musical elements including the study of triplets and accessible contemporary harmonies. Th...

Here is Ravel's most famous full orchestra work transcribed for strings! To recreate the vivid textures of the original, rich divisi writing is used throughout, and soloists in both celli and violin a...

Here is Ravel's most famous full orchestra work transcribed for strings! To recreate the vivid textures of the original, rich divisi writing is used throughout, and soloists in both celli and violin a...

An original work for string orchestra, by a master composer, Olympiad was composed in a quasi-Baroque style. In three movements, the second of which features a lyrical melody for violas and cellos, th...

A sophisticated, original three-movement work for string orchestra, this is a terrific addition to the repertoire. Opening with great energy and moving sixteenth notes in the first movement, the secon...

Starting with the lively, contrapuntal Overture in ritornello form, Concertino for Strings demands only moderate technical facility. Movement II (Dirge) features cellos and basses in a pizzicato walki...

Three separate movements of classic Americana: The Arkansas Traveller; The Colorado Trail and Turkey in the Straw. As the pioneers moved west, they took their songs with them, singing them on the trai...

Three separate movements of classic Americana: The Arkansas Traveller; The Colorado Trail and Turkey in the Straw. As the pioneers moved west, they took their songs with them, singing them on the trai...

In the Middle Ages, a triptych was an altar piece with a large central panel and two flanking panels which, as certain times of the church year, could be folded to cover the picture on the central pan...

Alexander Luigini (1850-1906) was an Italian violinist, conductor and composer who was born in France and spent most of his life there. Ballet Egyptien (1875) is his best known work, gaining great pop...

Spirited Dance exemplifies the spirited exuberance of the youthful musicians for which it was composed. Using the Lydian mode in several transpositions, the work contrasts shifting meters and syncopat...