Crystal balls hoop earings and traveling caravans are some common images associated with Gypsies. Soon Hee Newbold brings these images to life in this exciting new work in the style of Hungarian dances and traditional gypsy music. Inspired by classic violin pieces such as Tzigane and Csárdás A Gypsy Tale is sure to become a favorite with your developing string players. Optional trills and grace notes add more difficulty and style.

Written to celebrate the 110th Anniversary of the Joliet Township High School Orchestras of Illinois, 'Stone and Steel' is a modern concert overture by Richard Meyer that treats the listener and performer to a myriad of styles and moods. The piece begins with a heavy, ponderous theme marked 'Molto pesante,' which depicts the limestone quarries that first earned Joliet the nickname 'City of Stone' in the early 1800s. The mood soon changes and we can visualize huge barges laden down with stone, making their way through the city's large lift bridges and into the famous Illinois and Michigan Canal on their way to regional customers. With the construction of a steel mill in 1869, Joliet became known as the 'City of Steel.' Stone and steel were now shipped by both canal and railroad, and this exciting new age is represented by a modern, fast-moving theme in a bright major key. The two themes, 'stone' and 'steel,' are then further developed, and the piece culminates in a majestic, celebratory final statement of the 'steel' theme. (6:00) / Orchestre A Cordes

Depicting some of the composer's favorite legends of the Middle East Arabian Dreams is written in several sections. Beginning with imagery suggesting a fiery sunrise the piece is soft and reflective in nature. Becoming more animated it quickly progresses into the faster pace of market life before culminating in a magnificent ride on a galloping horse through a desert oasis. Soon Hee Newbold at her best!

This new publication from veteran composer Robert Jager was written in honor of Elizabeth Green the esteemed music educator who had a profound effect on so many successful band and orchestra conductors. Robert's gentle sensitivemovement is contemporary writing at its very best and well suited to a string orchestra looking for top quality literature.

Explore the rich and important history of the Underground Railroad in this serious festival work. Opening with a solemn chorale themes in the cello and bass soon take on the character of traditional spirituals. As the piece moves into a lively allegro section the music becomes much more dramatic depicting the excitement nervousness and extreme courage displayed by those who were able to escape to freedom. Inspirational!

Newtown veut qu'on se souvienne comme un centre de transformation. Composé par un résident Newtown, cette musique est un vibrant hommage aux anges déchus de Newtown et de leurs familles et plus encore. C'est une célébration de l'amour sur le mal et la musique rôle clé que peut jouer une force de guérison dans une communauté. Le dispositif comprend deux ensembles de pièces (grade 2 et de grade 3, respectivement) afin que les étudiants plus âgés et les plus jeunes peuvent jouer la pièce, ensemble ou séparément. / Orchestre A Cordes

Par WILLIAMS JOHN. This new string orchestra arrangement by James Kazik captures all the wonder (and waggish humor) of the hit 1990 movie Home Alone. Retaining many of the quirky rhythms and chromaticism of the original, this arrangement will provide opportunities for your students to grow and develop in the context of this fun and accessible medley. / Date parution : 2023-01-24/ Répertoire / Orchestre à Cordes

Disney's hottest show just gets hotter and its infectious tunes are loved by teens everywhere. Your string orchestra can perform three of the best-known songs with this outstanding montage from Ted Ricketts including BreakingFree Start of Something New and We're All in This Together. Dur: 4:00

Concerto for String Orchestra - the magnum opus of Grayna Bacewicz (1909-1969) the outstanding composer and violinist - was composed in 1948 and at once became one of the most frequently performed works of this Polish artist. This masterpieceof neoclassicism fascinates as much by its invention and virtuosic briliance as its harmonious combination of formal elements of a traditional nature with new tonal ideas. The form of the three-movement Concerto oscillates between that of the baroqueconcerto grosso and the early classical sonata cycle. The neoclassical tendency is evident above all in the articulation of the musical structure in keeping with the rigours of periodicity and the manner of developing thematic threads derived fromthem while the concertato character of particular movements and the generally linear texture indicate baroque connections. The first movement (Allegro) - in the form of an early classical sonata allegro - begins with a subject with energeticfigurations emblematic for the whole piece and based on a constant pendulum-like semiquaver movement anchored securely on D. It is precisely because of the nature of this subject that Bacewiczs work has been compared to the Brandenburg Concertosby Jan Sebastian Bach The second movement (Andante) while retaining its concertato charakter is at the same time an example of the composers ability to create emotionally serene lyrical moods and her sense of cantilena derived from the spiritof romantic song (a motto-subject presented at the beginning by cello solo). In this movement it is both the process of evolution and the instrumental colouring which constitute the constructional agents forming here a self-containedvalue. In thethird movement (Vivo) the composer returns to her favourite type of music understood as an expression of pure motion in the form of figural motives with infinite transformational possibilities. The spontaneity of the music the constant mutabilityof the tonal situations and the sophisticated acerbic harmonies - as Witold Lutosawski described them - form a colourful mosaic built in the structural skeleton of a sonata rondo. Concerto for String Orchestra is not only proof of thestylizing tendency of the composer but also of an unerring intuition concerning the technical and expressive possibilities inherent in a string instruments ensemble. [Magorzata Gsiorowska translated by Ewa Cholewka]

This Simple Symphony is entirely based on material from works which the composer wrote between the ages of nine and twelve. (The actual sources are given in footnotes to each movement.) Although the development of these themes is in many places quite new, there are large stretches of the work which are taken bodily from the early pieces - save for the re-scoring for strings. It is suitable for string quartets or string orchestras, being scored for Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello and Double Bass.

for string orchestra with piano and percussion Instrumentation : string orchestra with piano and percussion Version : score and parts Description : This arrangement of the world-famous hit 'O Fortuna' is intended for school orchestra and amateur ensembles, allowing amateur orchestras to give impressive performances of Orff's masterpiece. For this purpose, the violins can be played in the first or third register throughout. Additional parts, also for violins, have been added as a replacement or reinforcement of the viola section. As usual, the sound can be reinforced by means of additional instruments (piano and a little percussion).Date de parution : 26/03/2007 Nombre de pages : 46 Format : New Edition portrait

This dramatic and best-selling choral classic is now available with orchestration. This moving work of the glory of music is treated with great depth and musical-textual imagery with all its voicings. Available: SSAA (new!); SATB;TTBB; Orchestration Score and Parts; StudioTrax CD.