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Part ominous and part hopeful, this intense original work features lots of driving syncopated eighth notes and eighth-note rests along with staccato and tenuto accents contrasted with slurs and lyrical sections. It's the perfect tool to teach a wide variety of musical concepts. Melodic and engaging parts for all sections.

Burn Brightly

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Perhaps the most famous example of Brazilian Choro music, this piece is made accessible to high school players in this sterling arrangement featuring a whistle and a section that uses strings as percussion instruments. Highly recommended!

Tico Tico

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With its dynamic rhythms and soaring melodies, this exhilarating piece for intermediate players ready to ignite their passion for performance captures the essence of a burst of energy from start to finish. A blend of technical challenges and expressive opportunities encourages musicians to explore their artistry and teamwork. Performers navigate through vivid contrasts and energetic motifs, creating a memorable experience for audiences and players alike.

Flare

Young ensembles will indeed make a triumphal entry with this perfect concert opener. The piece begins with a sweeping, fanfare-like theme soaring above a driving rhythmic accompaniment, only to intensify as the fanfare is echoed in the second violins. A great introduction to polyphonic textures, compound meters, and polyrhythms.

A Triumphal Entry

Based on the French Canadian Huron Carol, this lush, expertly scored work will be perfect to include on a winter holiday concert. Includes an optional hand drum part. This dramatic work features a driving rhythm underneath the soaring tune, punctuated by flowing legato moments. Really nice!

'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime

String Orchestra Score & Parts with opt. Hand Drum

Perfect for a spooky fall concert – with simple rhythms and finger patterns, your beginning players can feel confident and sound great on this piece. Encourage your students to pay attention to the articulations such as the accents and staccatos to really bring the magic to life!

Dark Magic

Combining themes from two Bartok piano pieces from his collection For Children, the essence of Bartok's East European style has been captured in an arrangement playable by less experienced string players. This captivating and skillful arrangement uses Folk Dance and A Magic Game, combining the two main themes at the end of the rousing conclusion.

Echoes of Bartok

Pulsing eighth notes accompany graceful melodic lines in this engaging work for string orchestra. Written with young musicians in mind, players can experience a range of elegant harmonies without excessive demands on any individual performer. A slower, brooding middle section changes the energy before bursting back into the original content, launching your performers skyward!

Skyward

An uplifting, jazzy arrangement of the beloved gospel song. The swing style and optional piano and drum set give this classic tune a wonderful, fresh spirit! All sections of the orchestra play the melody, and the interplay between upper and lower strings during the contrasting middle section keeps everyone busy and engaged. Your students and audience will be tapping their toes and swinging along!

Let It Shine!

This French carol tells the Christmas story from the perspective of shepherds out in the field playing simple instruments. Beginning with a rhythmic drone in the low strings, countermelodies and fantasia-like writing lead to a dissonant ending on a final haunting chord.

Pat-a-pan

Step into a creepy old mansion with this light and fun arrangement. A creepy melody based on easy rhythms along with colorful orchestrations such as dissonances, easy chromaticism, pizzicato, tremelos, glissandos, shuffling feet, screams, and optional percussion including flexitone and vibraslap will have musicians wanting to practice over and over. Players will also have the opportunity to reinforce dynamics and multiple fingering patterns. The perfect choice for a Halloween, pops, or spring program!

The Haunted Mansion

String Orchestra with Percussion Optional

This 16th-century Christmas carol originated in the Catalonian region of northeastern Spain. This string orchestra arrangement is the theme followed by four variations featuring cello and bass melody, rhythmic figures, waltz style, and a jubilant march as a finale.

Fum Fum Fum

A dark, energetic work from the opening frenzy to the thrilling finish! Inspired by an annual citywide contest to "search for the medallion and win the prize," it imagines long-ago pirates searching for treasure along with modern-day medallion hunters. Each section of the orchestra plays the frenetic melody contrasted with a contemplative middle section. There are sudden time signature changes that add mystery and interest for both players and audience. The race is on!

Medallion Hunt

Marked "heavy speed metal," this piece is an intense cello and bass-driven rocker that makes the "string metal" genre accessible to younger players. This exciting, edgy work adapts heavy metal guitar stylings to the bowed strings.

Fire in the Forge

Imagine the fire-spewing, eyes-blazing, slimy-scaled mythical creature in this dramatic work! This excellent teaching piece features many techniques, including hooked bowings, slurs, lifts, accents, pizzicato, tremolo, and a few high three-finger patterns in upper strings. Written in the keys of A minor and E minor, all parts have interesting moving lines and melodies as well as wonderfully rich chordal harmonies. Sure to be a pleasing addition to any concert or festival.

Dragon Fire

Written as a tribute to Valentina Ramirez Avitia, who fought in the Mexican Revolution at a time when women were not allowed in the Mexican military, this folk song tat is played by many mariachi groups in Mexico and across the United States. She wore her brother's clothes, hid her hair, and used the name Juan Ramirez - and gained the rank of lieutenant. Although this story feels familiar, this full and lush arrangement is fresh and engaging for all students!

La Valentina

As the title indicates, this gorgeous work is reminiscent of the fresh, clear air after a storm passes. The beautiful flowing lines bring on tranquility, and the rich soothing tapestry of lower voices creates an interwoven relaxation. Stunning!

After the Rain

La Mariposa, or "The Butterfly" in English, gives students exposure to Latin music in the form of the mambo, a syncopated style of music and dance that originated in Cuba in the early 1900s. Alternating between D major and D minor, the melodic material in La Mariposa is evenly distributed between the high and low strings. The easy optional percussion parts add great dimension to the Latin feel of this piece.

La Mariposa

Written to evoke images of a radiant fall in the high country, this work features interesting melodic lines in all parts, a relaxing tempo, a variety of articulations, and 3/4 time. Serene!

Aspen Glow

A fun and short programmatic composition for beginning players: An isolated dark tower stands deep in the woods. A knight rescues a princess from the dungeon of an evil dragon. Now the two must escape from the dark tower before they are discovered. Scored in B minor, all parts remain in first position with no accidentals or tricky bowings. A high-energy piece guaranteed to make any orchestra sound full and exciting.

Escape from the Dark Tower

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