Using only the first 6 notes of the D-major Scale, composer Peter Terry has created a fun and engaging piece that features optional Gioro. This work is also great for introducing lighter articulations to your ensemble.
Grade Level: 1 Copyright: 2020 Publisher…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Peter Terry
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Strong from the start, Dark Matter will engage the students with bold sounding minor music. The piece has the flavor of action movie music but for beginning students. This piece will come together in a hurry, and students will love playing it again and again…
Style:
String Orchestra
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Publisher:
Wingert-Jones Publications
Every fall, flocks of up to a million starlings create fluid formations of wheeling and darting birds called murmurations. Composer Peter Terry depicts this sea of birds, whose beautiful, hypnotic motions move as a vast single cloud that can block out the sun…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Peter Terry
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Newcomer Liam Ramsey-White flies out of the gate with Dragon’s Flight! Liam knows how to write for string orchestra and it shows with this dynamic and intense work. Students will take a journey alongside this ancient and mythical creature in this light and…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Liam Ramsey-White
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Composer Sean O’Loughlin continues to inspire students with his dramatic writing, and this string orchestra work is no different. Endeavour is inspired by the brilliant scientists and astronauts that make travel into space possible. Look to the stars with…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Sean O'Loughlin
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
UIL Concert & Sight-Reading Evaluation Information
2C MS, 3C MS, 1B JH, 2B JH, 3B JH, 1A HS, 2A HS, 4A HS - Non-Varsity
Grade Level: 1 Copyright: 2021 Publisher: RBC Publications Category: String Orchestra
Sample PDFs
uils10121-evening-rain-nickson-…
Style:
String Orchestra
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Publisher:
RBC Publications
Eventide Voyage is an exciting journey for your young musicians. Your orchestra will love the waves of texture changes with double-stops, pizzicato, accents, and many dynamic contrasts. Since all instruments get a turn at the helm, your students will go…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Marc Allison
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
UIL Concert & Sight-Reading Evaluation Information
Conference 1C -1B
Grade Level: 1 Copyright: 2022 Publisher: RBC Publications Series: Sightreading Series Category: String Orchestra
Sample PDFs
uils10122-friday-frolic-Preview-Score.pdf
Style:
String Orchestra
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Publisher:
RBC Publications
The Grasshopper Chomp encourages students at this level to produce a full tone through the confident use of fast bow strokes.Program NotesThe Grasshopper Chomp encourages students at this level to produce a full tone through the confident use of fast bow…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Anne Svendsen
Publisher:
Brolga Music
The definition of gravitas (dignity, seriousness, or solemnity of manner) perfectly describes the style of this piece. It contains some carefully placed descending dissonance in the introductory material that is used throughout the piece to make even the…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Larry Clark
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing