String Orchestra

Essential Technique for Strings is a book of studies to help the intermediate player develop the skills necessary for playing in an orchestra. Its flexible sequence allows you to choose pages from the three major sections: higher positions and shifting, keys and scales, and bowings and special techniques.

Essential Technique for Strings is a book of studies to help the intermediate player develop the skills necessary for playing in an orchestra. Its flexible sequence allows you to choose pages from the three major sections: higher positions and shifting, keys and scales, and bowings and special techniques.

The dances (variations) from Swan Lake offer your students a new insight into the ballet music of Tchaikovsky. Rich, memorable melodies with dramatic flare, coupled with the ethnic dance rhythms make this work a winner for the concert stage. Includes: Hungarian Czardas, Spanish Bolero, and Neopolitan Tarantella.

Santana's biggest hit from the '70s is cool Latin rock at its best, and is now available in this very easy version that has been cleverly written without syncopation. Your developing players will be able to play this all-time favorite with confidence.

Leave it to Mannheim Steamroller's Chip Davis to give Tchaikovsky's masterwork a new twist with an infectious, funky bass line, rock drums and a groove that takes ballet music to a different level. A perfect freshener for your holiday concert.

Grade 3-4 This piece combines the simple, elegant thematic material of the Elizabethan church composer Tallis, expanded and modernized through the luxurious harmonies of Vaughan Williams. Jamin Hoffman's lush setting is adapted and re-scored from the original version for two string orchestras plus solo quartet. Fantasia was used with great effect in the recent film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Dur: 2:30