The music is falling apart! Or is it? This creepy-crawly composition starts deep underground in the cello and bass sections with an ominous theme, soon joined by the creaking, scratching, and screeching of

The first snowflakes falling outside! There is no greater distraction for students. Perfect for first-year students' winter concert, the flexible instrumentation scoring allows each string instrument the

This cinematic overture-style work will immediately entrance your audience with the rapidly unfolding colors and textures of the opening. It combines several glorious fanfares and sweeping lyrical lines in

A beautiful, joyous melody and driving rhythms create a message of hope in this uplifting original work. Perfect for a developed middle school or high school string orchestra, this piece features simple

Imagine cruising down Highway 101 in Southern California, the convertible top down, wind in your hair, radio set to your favorite rock station - this is the vibe of The 101. Carefully crafted using

This easy introduction to the blues scale features a quintessential walking bass line in low strings and piano. With a theme that reinforces F-natural, C-natural, and B-flat finger patterns, every

A set of four contrasting folk tunes introduces common 16th-note patterns to beginning students. This concert etude allows students to practice each pattern in different contexts: melodies, accompaniments,

Written to simultaneously depict the journey of graduating seniors with the composer’s own journey to the other side of the world without his family, the music pulls at every emotional string it can

This rocking piece for beginning strings is based on the interval of a perfect fifth - thus the title! Students can practice easy string crossings on open strings, simple rhythms, and stepwise finger

A beatbox piece for orchestra! Beatbox percussion sounds imitate effects normally made by a drum set, and these vocal syllables are woven into the parts of each section of the orchestra. The same parts are

A fantasy-inspired piece driven by a romantic, epic and lush melody, with a nostalgic and bittersweet sound. A Lifetime Ago was composed by Sid Acharya, an award-winning composer from Australia, and