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4 The Abandoned Funhouse—
Brian Balmages.
Written for the true beginner,
this piece takes the listener on an eerie tour that can
best be described as an unsettling experience with
a touch of curiosity and anxiousness. Piano and
optional celesta (playable on a keyboard) create a
haunting background reminiscent of a film score.
Instruments move mostly by stepwise motion, and
all string crossings involve an open string. No eighth
notes are used, and many instruments use only five
or six notes.
10592171 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
Asobu—Keiko Yamada. In Japanese asobu
means "play." Your students will love playing this
simple pentatonic tune over and over again. Pure fun
for the youngest of students to inspire them to keep
working hard on their instruments.
10457529 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
Aunt Rhodie's Appetite—
arr. Joseph Compello.
A delightful complete
first concert for your first-year string orchestra, built
around the story of Aunt Rhodie and the Old Grey
Goose. Includes narration for a group of actors that
will complete the fun!
10046230 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
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Chanukah Festival—arr. John O'Reilly.
Absolutely perfect for your beginning orchestra!
Familiar melodies of the Chanukah season are
skillfully presented in an arrangement that stays right
within the requirements of students working in their
first method book.
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Chanukah Lights and Dreydls—
Doris Gazda.
Two of the most popular of
Chanukah tunes are arranged here for the youngest
of students. Although simple, it gives the very young
player the chance to sound wonderful for their
parents at the very first holiday concert.
10592881 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.00
Chopsticks Prism—Doris Gazda. Here is a
versatile and delightful setting of the ever popular
Chopsticks for the youngest of string players. The
simple, easy to learn melody is stated and then
it takes on new forms. Challenge your students
by varying the style, dynamics, articulations and
bowings to create a fun piece that students will
enjoy! Involve the students by allowing them to
create and perform their original variations!
10308766 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
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Christmas Sampler—arr. Mark Williams.
Here's the piece you need for that very first holiday
concert! Using only a one-octave D major scale
and no eighth notes, Mark Williams has combined
several favorite carols and provided interesting parts
for all instruments to ensure a motivational concert
experience. Includes: Jolly Old St. Nick; O Come,
Little Children; Jingle Bells and Good King Wenceslas.
2375434 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.00
Chronicles—Larry Clark. A solid, upbeat fanfare,
this work uses only the first 6 notes of the D major
scale. It challenges the students with an array of
dynamic and articulation contrasts, while reinforcing
their counting abilities. After the main theme is
stated, a contrasting lyrical section is developed as
it builds to the final statement of the main theme,
followed by a short coda to complete the work.
Chronicles has all the elements of a great contest
piece for beginners!
10308775 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
Classic Christmas Medley—
arr. Susan H. Day.
The perfect holiday concert
centerpiece for your first and second year players,
with optional parts for beginners. This expert
medley smoothly combines Jingle Bells, Jolly Old
St. Nicholas, Silent Night, and We Wish You a
Merry Christmas. The beginner parts are mostly on
open strings, and add interesting rhythms and light
harmonies to the regular setting. Classic indeed!
10370761 Multi-Level Orchestra. . . . . . . . . . 60.00
Colossus—Larry Clark. As the title implies, this
piece is intended to sound huge, even though it is
written for the youngest of students. The piece is set
in a fanfare style with strong open intervals, but the
technical demands have been limited for beginning
players. Some tension chords with dissonant notes
are used to add to the drama of the piece. A very
sophisticated sounding piece for young players!
10366546 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.00
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The Debut Concert for Strings—
Anne Svendsen.
Debut Concert for Strings
is a collection of eight short pieces composed
specifically for your beginner string ensemble.
Beginning with works using easy first finger and
pizzicato, it works through to harder, faster-paced
pieces. It incorporates notes, rhythms, and time
signatures encountered during your students' first
year of learning.
10626646 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110.00
Do-Re-Mi—arr. Lloyd Conley. What could be
better for beginning orchestra? Children everywhere
know and love this song about music from the
Broadway musical "The Sound Of Music." An
absolute delight to learn and play, this will be a
positive, memorable experience for your beginning
players! A wonderful choice for that first concert!
5645213 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.00
Enter the Heroes—Elliot Del Borgo.
Here's a heroic sounding original your orchestra
will love to play! The music uses simple scalewise
movement and easy skips in the key of D, yet still
sounds bold and dramatic. Enjoyable for players
and audience alike!
2472082 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
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Entry of the Tumblers—Elliot Del Borgo.
An ideal piece for early string orchestra! Although it
can be played by any student who has learned the
D scale, Del Borgo's creative composing makes
it sound much harder than it is. Thanks to some
contrary motion, scalewise passages in harmony,
even a small section in minor, your beginning
orchestra will sound quite impressive.
2465748 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
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Fiddler's Hoedown—arr. Robert Gillespie.
Everyone knows young string players love that
fiddle sound, and this fun piece based on Boil Them
Cabbage Down will motivate all your students! It's
very, very easy to play, suitable for students who
have only been studying for a short time. Using
only the D major scale, quarter notes and quarter
rests (with optional bass shifting), this piece offers a
guaranteed way to excite your beginners!
2433084 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.00
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First Christmas March—John O'Reilly.
It just doesn't get any easier than this! Using only
six notes, this creative medley of familiar holiday
tunes is perfect for that first concert that your
beginners will play. Stringing together O Come, All
Ye Faithful; Good King Wenceslas; God Rest Ye,
Merry Gentlemen and Jolly Old St. Nicholas, this
super piece has no tempo changes, which virtually
guarantees success!
2346286 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.00
First Concert Suite—Susan H. Day. Here is
a set of three stylistically different pieces that are
perfect for your students' first concert. Pizzicato
Party utilizes pizzicato on open strings. Noah's Arco
again uses open strings, this time with the bow.
Suite Sweet Slurs introduces slurring of notes in
groups of two over a light, sweet melody.
10304011 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
First Finger Suite (Three Movements
for Open Strings and First Finger)—
R. Anne Svendsen.
This work requires only open
strings and first finger only! (The bass will need
2nd finger briefly in the last movement.) The three
movements are: Rain Dribs; Little Japanese Girl
and Autumn Rhumba. There's also a very handy
set of preparatory exercises and warmups to help
your students.
2702915 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.00
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First Scale March—Mark Williams. What a
perfect way to celebrate learning that very first scale!
Using only a one-octave D-major scale and quarter
notes, all sections join in the fun as the scale is
played both forward and backward in the tuneful,
easy march. Lots of interplay between the high and
low strings help to make this a highly interesting and
educational first-year selection.
2397552 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.00
Hunters' Chorus (from "Der Freischutz")—
Carl Maria von Weber/arr. Meyer.
Masterfully arranged using only a one-octave D
major scale and eighth notes, this arrangement
will make your beginning strings sound amazingly
mature. An excellent early introduction to the
classics. This piece is also very familiar to Suzuki
students, which is always a plus.
2397578 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.00
Impulse—Brian Balmages. For the very
youngest musicians, this highly energetic piece
does not use eighth notes, is based on a one-octave
D Major scale, and uses mostly stepwise motion
throughout. Despite these features, the music is
powerful and aggressive.
10512570 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
Jazzy Old Saint Nick—Douglas Wagner.
All the jazz is in the piano! The string parts are a
straightforward arrangement of Jolly Old Saint
Nicholas that your students could handle after only a
few months of instruction. Some pizzicato sections
add a delightful change and are fun for the students.
This is a winner at their first holiday concert!
2478026 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.00
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Kon'nichiwa—Keiko Yamada. This piece is
"hello," with a smile on your face. It is meant to be
simply delightful for the youngest of string students.
The melodic material is based on the pentatonic
scale, and all of the material is within reach of
students who have only played a short time.
10592884 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.00
Maiden's Rescue—Jeremy Woolstenhulme.
A bold programmatic work composed for beginning
string orchestra, young players will take on the
challenge of rescuing the fair maiden with quarter
and half notes. The legato melody and strong
harmonies evoke images of salvation for the damsel
in distress!
10366968 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.00
March and Canon for Strings—Tom May.
Based on the famous Canon in D by Pachelbel, this
work helps students reinforce basic rhythms using
half, quarter, and eighth notes in a well-designed
ensemble setting.
10427557 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.00
BEGINNING STRINGS
Pepper has created a beginning string orchestra grade level aimed at those groups preparing for their first
concert. Beginning or "First Performance" level works have these characteristics: almost entirely pieces in
the key of D, occasionally G; most pieces use only the first 5 or 6 notes learned; no dotted rhythms except
for very familiar pieces like Amazing Grace or Ode to Joy; "Low 2" (C naturals/F naturals) avoided in
violins and violas (pieces selected in the key of G will be pentatonic); no extensions for cello; the music
corresponds with the first half of any of the major string methods; lots of unison playing.
