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Why should the band have all the fun? This light-hearted Sousa-style march will help your beginning orchestra sound great and feel confident. Set in D major, this melody is constructed of interval jumps to open strings, promoting solid, accurate finger placement. Each section is featured prominently, giving everyone a chance to shine!

Celebration March

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Double basses are featured first with the primary lumbering melody, later joined by a graceful and serene theme in the upper strings. This diatonically E Dorian piece features full harmonies that will give your beginners a sophisticated sound.

Moonlight Caravan

Slipknot lives in the part of the Venn diagram where fiddle music intersects with the rhythms and grooves of classic funk. Students will engage with 16th note rhythm patterns and pre-shifting skills (repeatedly sliding up to the open string octave harmonic is the hook in this piece).  There is, of course, a designated solo section that gives budding improvisers an opportunity to express themselves.

Recognizing that not every program includes an improvising component, I have also included solo parts for each instrument (the violin solo is the same for 1st and 2nd) so you can let your hot shot players have at it during the solo section even if you don't teach improvisation.

Slipknot

A double bass section feature! Using positions I-IV in the bass, the part sounds and looks harder than it really is, making your bass section look and sound great. Perfect for beginning bassists who are comfortable in IV position as proscribed in several popular methods. Scoring gives each section an interesting part while leaving lots of space for the basses to be heard in the texture.

Creatures of the Deep

This aggressively rhythmic piece imagines life on board a buccaneer ship! Each section of the orchestra is featured playing the melody, building to a rousing canon where all sections join in Second violin and viola parts are nearly identical to help directors cover all parts when instrumentation may be lacking.

Buccaneer Chanty

A tempestuous tour de force, using detache, staccato, slurs, accents and pizzicato techniques to illustrate the different facets of a blustering thunderstorm. The entire piece can be played without low-2 finger patterns in the violins and violas, but "low notes optional" passages offer advancing cellists, violists, and violinists the challenge of high three and extended fourth finger on the G string.

Summer Storm

Suggesting a journey fraught with peril, Intrepid features lyrical melodies played over a churning, bubbling accompaniment. Three-bar phrases in the opening theme
give the piece an urgent, breathless quality. The technique focus is on bowings and articulations, particularly zeroing in on dotted rhythm hooked bows.

In some passages, the cellos split into divisi parts, giving more advanced players the opportunity to play in upper positions.  The upper cello divisi part may be omitted at the discretion of the director, as the notes are covered in the violas.

Intrepid

This rhythm-driven piece features extended techniques on string instruments including sul ponticello, col legno battuto, percussive tapping and slapping, and Bartok pizzicato. The orchestra sections build up layers of rhythm and sound, with a rhythm canon forming the core of the piece. Besides making the orchestra sound like a giant machine, the material is reminiscent of music from a spy movie, hence the name.

Machinations

Imagine a creature so vile, so dastardly, and so remorseless that its
  sole means of sustenance is stealing the bagels of unsuspecting
  individuals.  A creature so deviously
  cunning and crafty that it may, without difficulty, remove your bagel from
  your very person as you are about to eat it and gobble it fully before you
  even notice it missing.  This is the
  Bagel Monster.
    
    
    
    Composed for beginning string orchestra in the key of A Dorian, this
  dramatic piece exercises student's G major finger pattern chops.  Melodic material is shared generously among
  all sections.  Great fun for your
  students and your audience!

The Bagel Monster

This piece is the soundtrack to an imaginary monster movie, with all the requisite musical highlights: an action-packed chase sequence, a courageous hero's theme, some terrifyingly suspenseful edge-of-your-seat moments, and a spectacular final conflict! Technical highlights include differentiating between F sharps and F naturals; drawing a contrast between staccato, legato, and detach bow strokes; tremolo, col lego battuto, and extremes in dynamics.

Monster Movie!

This piece calls to mind a beginner's first tango lesson, starting out by a musical depiction of footsteps falling pedantically in the characteristic slow, slow, quick, quick, slow rhythm. A musically satisfying piece written with the technical limitations of beginning string students in mind, this piece captures the dramatic feeling of an authentic tango. Contrasts in articulation and dynamics add to the drama and intrigue.

The Tango Lesson

Composed by George Frederick Root during the Civil War, the Battle Cry of
  Freedom expressed pro-Union and anti-slavery sentiments and was a popular
  morale builder among Union Troops. This arrangement opens with images of
  marching troops and soldiers voices singing, progressing into a
  military-style march. After a more introspective moment at m. 46 (with
  optional solo parts), the tune grows into its bombastic conclusion.

Rally Round the Flag

This miniature tone poem depicts the changing colors in the sky at dawn.  This piece is designed to draw a lush, gorgeous sound out of a young string  orchestra. Long, dramatic phrases demand careful attention to bow  distribution and steady counting.

Daybreak

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