This fun-loving original is guaranteed to motivate beginning string players by highlighting the strengths of every section. Unison cellos and basses start off with an 8-bar groove in A minor before upper

This fun Grade 1+ piece is designed to help students develop the skill of quickly switching between arco and pizzicato, while also providing experience playing left-hand pizzicato and using the fourth

The rigadoon was a seventeenth century dance enjoyed in both England and France, and this Henry Purcell work is one of the earliest examples. The stately tune is accessible for even the youngest of players.

This Grade 1 feature for cello and bass is loosely based on the traditional Lightly Row theme. Written in ABA form, it is played pizzicato throughout and is set in A minor. The B section features

Spires is written in three voices: first violins, second violins/violas doubled, and cellos/basses doubled. Unison passages allow the teacher to focus on establishing ensemble skills such as