Modern Classical Music Sheet Music for String Orchestra

Papa Haydn’s *Parrot* for string orchestra is an adaptation of Winkelmans’ second string quartet of the same name. In 2022, at the request of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the composer arranged three of...

Papa Haydn’s *Parrot* for string orchestra is an adaptation of Winkelmans’ second string quartet of the same name. In 2022, at the request of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the composer arranged three of...

The Work This work is conceived as an intense journey into the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Like a courageous and enchanted visitor, the listener moves through the winding paths of lush vegetation...

The Work This work is conceived as an intense journey into the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Like a courageous and enchanted visitor, the listener moves through the winding paths of lush vegetation...

2 piccolo trumpets and string orchestra or organ Exact instrumentation: Strings: 8.6.6.5.4

Four Shakespeare Sonnets for baritone and string orchestra was composed to commemorate the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth in 2014. For more than 40 years, I have enthusiastically com...

Four Shakespeare Sonnets for baritone and string orchestra was composed to commemorate the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth in 2014. For more than 40 years, I have enthusiastically com...

A pavane is a very old, elegant dance form. Ravel's masterwork is notable for its supremely sensitive nuances, and is representative of the school of French composition so much in favor at the turn of...

A pavane is a very old, elegant dance form. Ravel's masterwork is notable for its supremely sensitive nuances, and is representative of the school of French composition so much in favor at the turn of...

Béla Bartók for beginning strings! All the parts are reinforced in the piano accompaniment guaranteeing a superb presentation. Fine opportunities exist to develop outstanding characteristic tone quali...

Mentored by the likes of William Grant Still, Paul Hindemith, and Howard Hanson, Kay was an impressive composer by any metric, winning a Fulbright Scholarship, the prestigious Rome Prize, a Guggenheim...

A re-discovered classic, this gem for String Orchestra was written by Howard Hanson (1896-1981) for the American String Teachers Association and first performed in 1976 at the Music Educators National...

A nice showcase piece for your beginning string orchestra. There are lots of opportunities to get them frolicking around the fingerboard with many repeated eighth note patterns. The piece is tuneful a...

A beginning string orchestra piece of elephantine porportions! Sean O'Loughlin is able to deliver time and time again exciting music that students love to play. His pieces sound much more difficult an...

The Terracotta army that guards the tomb of China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang is nearly 8,000 warriors strong. This new piece for beginning ensembles depicts these magnificent stone soldiers. Compos...

This standard for beginning strings has a new twist to it. The melody is much easier to teach in 4/4 rather than in 3/4. It is still in D major and contains no altered fingerings. The tempo marking is...

Ulysses Kay favored neoclassical tendencies in his works, featuring lyricism, contrapuntal textures, clear formal designs and a tonal, yet chromatic harmonic vocabulary, all of which are evident in hi...

Mark Revell's Spring Forward is composed in a similar style to his commercial music (such as his LG Signature commercial, found in this YouTube link). This work was written to express the joys of spri...

Ancient Wonders Suite is a musical description of four of the wonders from the ancient world. Movement one describes the awe-inspiring grandeur of the Temple of Artemis located in Ephesus (present-day...