This playfully spooky original is a perfect light selection for your beginning orchestra! The catchy and eerie E minor melody utilizes simple quarter, half, and whole-note rhythms, and the minor second

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

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

Though perfect for Halloween, Arachnid's Lair can be performed any time of year. The dark, subtle introduction with molto crescendos and decrescendos hint at the sinister plan an arachnid has for

Perfect for young orchestras, this Halloween bass-tacular features the entire bass section playing riffs and walking bass lines. The piece is written in first position for violins, violas, and cellos, but

A perfect addition for your spooky fall concert! With eerie string techniques such as pizzicato, accents, tremolo and some first-finger slides - plus a touch of castanets for "bones" rattling - this simple

It's great for year-round use, but would be especially scary at Halloween.  The composer describes it as "a dark and sinister night full of strange happenings and ghoulish encounters."  Opening

Each section plays the melody in this spooky D minor composition. With great opportunities for rhythmic skills, the piece includes hand percussion and space for haunted castle sounds.

Archeologists explored the tomb of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun in the 1920s. What followed were mysterious illnesses and deaths which were soon called "the curse of King Tut" or "the mummy's curse." This

This dark and shadowy waltz elegantly weaves a spell in D minor, dancing through a twisted web of accidentals as it shifts and changes to E minor. Players get to work on extended and low-one finger

Experience an imperial work that smolders with a stately intensity, marching forward with a precise and forceful energy. Set in A minor and 2/4 time, engaging melodic figures unfold with unflinching focus

Students will love the contemporary style as they explore a variety of articulations, dotted rhythms, and offbeat eighth notes. Every section gets a turn at playing the melody, with special interest in the

The intense melodic theme throughout utilizes simple 16th note double-stop passages. The strong melodic material for the lower strings and beautifully haunting middle section will capture the imagination of

Here are all your favorite "scare tactic" tunes, assembled in clever fashion in a quick-fire medley with as many as can fit into two minutes or less. Includes: Jaws; Night on Bald Mountain; Funeral

It's spooky, bluesy fun for beginners with a catchy tune that's terrific for most any first or second year performance. Everybody gets to play the E minor rock riff, and there's a good mix of pizzicato and

In this suspenseful tune reminiscent of a horror movie soundtrack, students will perform extended techniques such as harmonic glissando, playing behind the bridge, ponticello, and more. Optional percussion

Especially well suited for first-year students, this dark-sounding piece will give students a mature, full sound. Written in B natural minor, it utilizes only the notes of the D major scale with easy finger

The ghouls and goblins emerge at midnight to the Dies Irae theme and begin an all-night dance party! This mash-up combines Halloween classics with funk and hip-hop syncopated rhythms. All sections

This timeless theme from the "Halloween" franchise is one of the creepiest tunes ever written. This accessible arrangement maintains all of the eerie feeling of the original while staying in 4/4. Violin 1