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Energize your performers and audience alike with this fun and dynamic work. This exciting musical adventure is set in D major and fuses American fiddle tune "Bile'em Cabbage Down" with fiery string lines. The lush, romantic middle section will melt your heart with its expressive melodies. An excellent selection for a maturing string group.

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Here is a fun and unconventional piece for solo unaccompanied violin. Mixing performance elements of violin pizzicato and ukulele strumming, this piece is sure to broaden any musicians' horizons.

Pizzicato Paradise

Violin Solo

This dark and vivid original concert work portrays our world after the apocalypse. Foreboding lines from the lower strings combine with the upper register of the violins, creating an ominous sound.  A bass drum is struck on the first beat of each measure, which adds to the haunting effect.

Apocalypse

String Orchestra Part Bass Drum Required

This piece portrays both the reflective and celebratory sides of the Hanukkah season. The music weaves between minor and parallel major keys and from legato to staccato articulations creating a vivid musical portrait of Hanukkah. An elegant addition to your holiday program.

Two Moods of Hanukkah

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

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The piece lives up to its name with its unrelenting pulsating rhythms, and menacing theme in E minor.  It offers a great opportunity to work on staccato or spiccato bowing.

Momentum

Here is a fun piece for young orchestras that emulates the light character of carousel music. A great piece for introducing left-hand pizzicato as well as eighth- and sixteenth-note rhythms. High strings reinforce low first and second fingers. Violin 1 plays two easy low fourth fingers on the D string.

Carnival Carousel

Here is a classical sounding work that boasts of a full sound but at the beginning level.  The 2nd violins are the time keeper as the staccato notes create a playful character.  Low strings keep the pulse with a repeating eighth note pattern.  A nice concert work for beginners!

Beginner's Luck

With its dark harmonies, contagious melodies and bright tempo, this work is enjoyable for all sections. It captures the essence of the glowing and flickering candles of the menorah.

The Menorah

Starting with a beautiful duet between violin and cello, this fantasia rendition of a holiday classic is sure to embrace audiences of all ages. Each section gets a chance to play the melody in either legato or pizzicato. Students will have the chance to work on balancing melodic lines with contrapuntal accompaniment.

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

This classic, beautiful hymn is a great introduction to tone production, phrasing and ensemble sonority for developing strings. It is sophisticated yet accessible and is sure to be a welcome addition to your repertoire.

Be Still, My Soul

"A Pizzicato Lullaby"-Here is an unconventional yet refreshing take on unaccompanied solo violin repertoire. Imagined as a lullaby for New York City (The City that Never Sleeps), this solo offers smooth melodic lines intertwined with chords creating a guitar like feel throughout. Played entirely pizzicato, this accessible violin solo is sure to broaden any violinists’ musical horizons.

A Pizzicato Lullaby

Furioso takes you on an exciting and frolicking ride with A and B-flat harmonic minor scales. With delicate legato melodies, harmonic shifts, and syncopation, this challenging and programmatic work is sure to become one of your students' favorite pieces to perform!

Furioso

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This melodious solo piece creates a brilliant image of sadness and passion. A tired soul defiantly lays down their zeal for the traditional violin precepts and moves forward on an unknown and uncharted course. This advanced level piece is sure to be exciting and challenging for developing violinists.

Farewell to the Violin

This energetic piece captures the essence of a small child's excitement on Christmas morning. With a timeless sleigh bell accompaniment and very accessible rhythms and harmonies, this piece is sure to add a little more fun to your holiday concert!

Welcome Christmas Morning

Here is a dark yet fun programmatic work which evokes images of impending doom. This original concert work is sure to captivate beginning string ensembles and take them on an emotional ride!

Doomsday

With a high-energy groove, this work takes the orchestra on an exciting musical journey of adventures in a big city. With improvisatory-like lines, it will definitately captivate your students.

High Rise

New Beginnings

String Quartet

This classic work by Bach has been artfully arranged to help bring Baroque-style playing to developing musicians.

Bach Gavotte

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