The holiday season is a time of joy, merriment, excitement, and traditions. One such time-honored tradition is the holiday string concert, which is often the debut performance for young musicians. This event is a celebration, not only of the holidays, but…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Matthew R. Putnam
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Anthem of Triumph is for all of the students who have made it to their first spring concert! Utilizing only the first 6 notes of the D-major scale, composer Tyler Arcari has crafted an exciting anthem for young musicians. Perfect for beginners or as a…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Tyler Arcari
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Perfect for the first holiday concert, this new work, in the style of a “Cha cha”, has ample teaching opportunities. Using only the first 6 notes of the D-major scale, Cha Cha Christmas is perfect for your first concert.
Grade Level: 0.5 Copyright: 2020…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Larry Clark
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Set your beginners up for success this Christmas with this interactive work! Full of theatrics and audience participation, it’s a winning combination of function and flair! Using only the first six notes in the D scale (and a few random ringtones on your…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Tyler Arcari
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Using only the first six notes of the D scale, composer/arranger Tyler Arcari found a way to combine, in quodlibet, four classic carols into a delightful setting for the youngest of orchestra musicians. Your first-year students will shine as they delight…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Tyler Arcari
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
This clever version of the classic Christmas carol, Up on the Housetop, is a brilliant addition to the beginning string orchestra repertoire with opportunities to work on strengthening pizzicato. Your students will love this one, and parents will too!
Grade…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Amy Riebs Mills
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
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
Festal Intrada was written to commemorate The Queensland Catholic Colleges Music Festival’s 20th Anniversary celebrated in August of 2010. With an energetic fanfare opening the work, Festal Intrada is effervescent and sparkling with dynamism and strength.…
Style:
Brass Band
Composer:
Ralph Hultgren
Publisher:
Brolga Music
The work is a celebration of the pioneering spirit of those who founded the school, then on the margins of the unexplored bushland that surrounded the fledgling city of Brisbane. It is fitting that the march uses as its first theme, The Ballad of Cobb and Co…
Style:
Brass Band
Composer:
Barrie Gott
Publisher:
Brolga Music
Tracing a rich musical history, the Maryborough Brass Band beginning its life as the Junior Naval Band, was re-named Maryborough Federal Band Queensland in 1919. Amalgamating with the Maryborough Senior Naval Band in 1939, a further name change came in 1964…
Style:
Brass Band
Composer:
Barrie Gott
Publisher:
Brolga Music