Artist Level (correlates with Book 1 p. 42) Based on Pop Goes the Weasel. Dur: 1:05

Flexible arrangements of three irresistible pieces from popular Christmas songs for young string players: perfect for concerts or just for fun!For Violin optional Viola Cello and Double Bass (up to approximately Grade 2 standard) plus additional open-string parts so beginners can be included with Piano accompaniments.Put the CD-Rom in a computer to access PDFs of all ten instrumental parts and print out as many as are needed. Put it in a standard CD player to hear the free audio tracks of the Piano accompaniments - ideal for rehearsals and performances.

For solo Cello Timpani and Strings.Popule Meus was commissioned through the Magnum Opus project: Kathryn Gould founding patron and commissioner and Meet the Composer project manager.It was first performed on 6thFebruary 2010 by Yuri Hooker (cello) and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Micklethwate. Composer's Notes 'Popule Meus is a meditation on the Judaic and Christian text ?O my People whathave I done to you?? but itis also a Universalist contemplation of the wholesale rejection of God by modern man. However much manrejects God he cannot escape Him and indeed he is condemned to the supernatural by his deiformnature. InHindu terms he is the Absolute Ayam Atma Brahma (The Self is the Absolute).In this work the solo cello is the All-Compassionate One while the timpani represent man in his vain andpointless rejection. Although the solocello and strings and the timpani share the same material (four ideas aregradually revealed and they revolve four times during the piece) the timpani music is violent and becomesincreasingly frenzied and contracted while thecello and strings remain still and serene.So even in winning the Darkness loses and even in losing the Light wins. Passion Resurrection andRedemption; or in Hindu terms Atma (The Absolute) alone is real Maya (The Relative) ismerely illusion.'

Par GREENWOOD JONNY. Jonny Greenwood, multi-instrumentalist of  rock band Radiohead, was nominated for the BBC British Composer Awards, for Popcorn Superhet Receiver in 2006.  Inspired by radio static and the extended, dissonant chords of Polish Composer Penderecki's Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima, the peiece was also used in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie There Will Be Blood.   / Instrumental Music / Répertoire / Orchestre à Cordes

The latest in a series of pieces written for CoMA string players  Bee Haven is a sound environment an imaginary outdoor space populated by plants flowers and bees. The sound of honeybee humming is the main focus of the work; around this the bees’ ‘haven’ (a living environment free from agricultural poisons and habitat destruction) is created through quiet air noise and gentle brushing of the instruments. There are no events in the piece save one brief flurry of rain; placing themselves within it listeners become part of the imagined space for the duration of the work.

HL Pop Specials for Strings-Recorded by such diverse artists as Bob Dylan Bon Jovi and Justin Timberlake Hallelujah was also heard in the movie Shrek and most recently during the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Vancouver. Robert's setting is justright for string groups who want to perform popular songs from artists they love.

Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog-Not the Christmas tune but the pop-rock anthem all about a bull frog. Every string group should have a chance to perform this with Larry's version that features each-to-teach syncopations and pop stylings for string players.