Contemplation - String Orchestra By Elena Roussanova Lucas A beautifully fluid ballad encouraging your young band's highest musical attributes. Distinctive dissonances will bring out a most musical performance reinforcing balance, blend, and...

The soloist “sizzles,” the orchestra “supports” and the performance is a first-class musical experience in this adaptation of music from one of the greatest composers of light classical music. Using the exact pitches of the original as well as the...

Sure to become a standard! This beautiful transcription keeps the original key of the work and all string lines intact, with some re-voicing of the oboe parts to preserve Bach’s counterpoint. The meter has been changed from 3/8 to 3/4 time, allowing...

From Book I of Bach's The Well-Tempered Klavier, this lively reworking of the “Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor, No. 22” provides students the wonderful experience of playing Baroque counterpoint in a minor key. Though rhythms are not complex,...

The “Late Quartets” of Beethoven have been considered unreachable for student musicians, and yet, by changing key and simplifying certain passages, this arrangement makes one of Beethoven’s most famous and exuberant quartet movements available for...

Klezmer music is especially suited for strings and piano. This vibrant piece with expressive melodic lines transforms into an up-tempo dance that continually gains momentum. Colors are added through the use of arco and pizzicato glissandi, tremolo,...

Some of the earliest tunes that we learn as children are rounds and canons. This piece takes it to a whole new level. One of the most expressive piano and violin sonatas, this piece is well suited to the string orchestra and offers every section the...

Hailed as one of the world’s most beautiful arias, this piece will be the emotional highlight of any concert. With its many tempo nuances, this piece is perfect for working on musicianship and will allow your string orchestra to give its most...

These spirited variations from a Russian folk tale will delight students with their dance-like quality. The variations of the melody move and flow and are played by the violins, violas and cellos. Arranger: Elena Roussanova Lucas ITEM:...