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This is an excellent selection for an important concert with your string orchestra! Technical demands are kept well in check. First violins require some third-position work, but all other parts can be played entirely in first position. Fun for players and audiences alike! In addition to the medium-level string parts, this arrangement also includes optional parts for easy violin, beginning violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, timpani, and percussion.

1812 Overture

String Orchestra Multi-Level with optional easy string parts

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Randall Standridge Music, LLC

Cold air spins and an arctic chill sets in: a polar vortex has arrived. This work for multilevel orchestra encapsulates this wintery weather phenomenon through its driving D dorian tune, biting spiccato, and swirling motives. Perform the A parts (Grade 3) on their own, or add in multiple levels to include even your youngest beginners.

Polar Vortex

String Orchestra Multi-Level

Carl Fischer LLC

Bring together students of all levels for a magnificent festival of music! Perfect for pyramid concerts or combined district performances, this exciting multilevel arrangement includes parts for beginning, intermediate, and advanced string players. Timpani and optional advanced wind parts are also provided to create a full orchestra experience if desired. This brilliant arrangement allows everyone to participate in the epic themes of Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" finale. A wonderful collaborative selection to inspire students in your program.

A New World Festival

This arrangement can be performed by an advanced orchestra alone or as a festival feature with the addition of optional intermediate and beginning string parts. Ideal for summer string camps with mixed-ability ensembles.

Summer from The Four Seasons

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MakeMusic Publications

A celebratory and extremely versatile work, the majestic lines sweep throughout the ensemble amid a backdrop of pulsating rhythms. Perform it with your developing ensemble alone or add the more accessible supplemental parts (included). Whether students have just learned the first few notes or even if they only know open strings, there is a part to include them! There are many performance applications for exciting work. (2:20)

Golden Grove

String Orchestra Score & Parts

FJH Music Company Inc

Here is a three-part flexible arrangement of this exquisite original work for beginning orchestra. The B-minor modal tonality brings out that melancholy Russian sound while using notes familiar to all players. This work sounds rich and interesting while using only quarter, half, and whole note values. Piano is optional.

The Russian Music Box

Highland/Etling Publishing

This piece combines elementary, middle school, and high school string orchestras, each playing age-appropriate material, making for the perfect closer to an all-city multi-level concert. During the course of this energetic rondo, each group is featured on their own melody. As the piece unfolds, the melodies are creatively combined, keeping all the players on their toes and active at all times. Grade levels for the three groups are: elementary - Grade 1.5; middle school - Grade 2.5; high school - Grade 3.5.

A Festival Rondo

This musical homage to the Blue Ridge Mountains is fully adaptable for flexible string orchestra and will be an instant hit! Written in the style of an Irish reel, this work reflects the influences of bluegrass and even New Orleans march style. The fusion culminates in a spirited groove for your orchestra. Get out the washboards and spoons and prepare to have a great time!

Blue Ridge Reel

String Orchestra with Percussion Optional

Commissioned by the National String Project Consortium, this gorgeous lyrical work for beginning and developing string students can be performed alone as an intermediate-level piece or with multi-level supplemental parts (available separately). Orchestrated to celebrate inclusion and diversity, the multi-level option is designed to sound far "greater than" the intermediate version alone. An outstanding choice for a festival setting or pyramid concert.

Greater Than...

Expertly rescored for flexible instrumentation, this piece captures all of the energy and spirit of the original! Opening with the powerful sound of open fifths, this work transports the listener back to medieval times. Experience a life of festivals and celebrations in a magnificent castle as the melodies work their way through all sections of the orchestra. Exciting and jovial!

Gaelic Castle

This outstanding work, now available in this flexible instrumentation edition, is an exhilarating take on the dynamic spirit of the ancient Vikings! Open-string double stops, pizzicato, and optional percussion create a dramatic sound that will transport you into a legendary seafaring adventure. Each instrument part is featured while working on various bowing styles and dynamics. Violins utilize low second finger, while basses have limited low first fingers. Piano and percussion add to the flair and drama. This is a must-have in every orchestral library.

Viking

String Orchestra with Percussion Optional Full Flex

Alfred Publishing Belwin Division

Driving rhythms, powerful melodies, light pizzicato, and sharp dynamic contrasts capture both the power and stealth of the anaconda in this great original work! Perfect for practicing scale technique, eighth rests, accents, and part independence. Sure to be a favorite!

Anaconda

String Orchestra Score & Parts Flexible

A standard classical masterpiece expertly adapted for young strings orchestras. An excellent selection for exposing young players to classic repertoire. Cut time, simple tempo changes, scaler eighth note passages and a variety of bowings and dynamics are explored. Violin 2/Viola are doubled. An excellent choice for concert or contest!

Finale from Serenade for Strings

Combine a driving tempo in 3/4 time with notes on the G string in the lower range of the instruments playing in E minor and you get the intensity that is G Force! A sharply contrasting slower middle section played both arco and pizzicato adds just the right amount of variety and musicality.

G Force

Neil A. Kjos Music Company

This commissioned piece was written so that elementary, middle, and high school orchestras could come together and perform a piece that all could play. The result is this multi-grade original work perfect for any pyramid concert, filled with rich sounds and rhythms reminiscent of the labor and excitement of a growing city skyline - specifically, New York City!

Skyline Rising

An exciting piece that explores self-paced developing music for any combination of string instruments. Inspired by Terry Riley's In C, the piece includes short fragments that performers move through at their own pace. Explore pacing, development, and orchestration with this piece that works in a variety of performance settings!

Arith-Metric No. 1 for Strings

Written for the true beginner, this piece takes the listener on an eerie tour that can best be described as an unsettling experience with a touch of curiosity and anxiousness. Piano and optional celesta (playable on a keyboard) create a haunting background reminiscent of a film score. Instruments move mostly by stepwise motion, and all string crossings involve an open string. No eighth notes are used, and many instruments use only five or six notes. This adaptable version will give you the flexibility to perform this with many different ensembles!

The Abandoned Funhouse

String Orchestra Score & Parts Keyboard Required - for Adaptable 3-Part String Ensemble

Alfred Music Publishing

Give your string orchestra a chance to learn the all-important skills needed to accompany a soloist with this compact one-movement work that features a soloist on any string or wind instrument: oboe, viola, tuba - you name it! Catchy melodies explore various moods and modes. The constant give and take between the soloist and strings keeps every section of your group active. There is even a short cadenza toward the end of the piece to offer everyone on stage a complete concerto learning experience.

A Chameleon Concerto

Perfect for combined concerts or blended-level ensembles, this piece provides a celebration of music where all students can participate! The Grade 2.5 piece can be performed alone or with beginning-level parts that use only simple rhythms on open strings or first-finger notes. The G major piece features energetic accompaniment patterns and open-string double stops for a big fanfare of sound.

Festival Fanfare

Pick 'n' Mix Strings

With multiple part options to suit all playing levels – whether advanced players, complete beginners, or all those in between – everyone will enjoy this new arrangement of the famous New Zealand sea shanty. The melodic interest of the verses is passed between instrument sections and develops musically throughout, while the catchy, repeated chorus provides a great hook for everyone to join together.
 
The concept of all Pick 'n' Mix Strings arrangements is that you just choose the parts that are most suited to your players – you don't need to try to cover every single possible part. If you don't have any players for the more advanced parts, this doesn't matter at all. Alternatively, experienced ensembles might want all players on advanced parts. You may well use a mixture of some advanced parts and other simpler parts. You can even have a very early beginner ensemble using just the parts for open strings and first fingers, with a teacher playing the main tune on piano. 
 
In addition to the regular score and parts, there are also optional versions of each part with the string fingering written in; letter names written in; an extension score; a a reduced score; an optional piano accompaniment; and an optional piano reduction. There are tried and tested suggested bowings included in all string parts. Should you wish to use alternative bowings to those printed, versions of the score and parts without bowing are available by request.

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