Partitions pour formations orchestrales

Floating in a Dream: Close your eyes and imagine you are floating while you are dreaming, best accomplished with the help of a beautiful melody accompanying the dream. This piece uses legato style bow...

Spiders on the Loose: Students will love this easy piece which portrays spiders insidiously creeping and crawling up their arms, represented by eighth notes. Each section gets to play the exciting mel...

Elgar’s Andante and March was taken from a set of pieces by Edward Elgar for violin and piano that I used to play with my daughter when she was a young violin student. I appreciated that a young violi...

Harvest Moon Dance was inspired by the beautiful full harvest moon and imagining a joyful barn dance to celebrate the autumn harvest. The piece has a double-stop intro and interludes to provide that c...

Smoky Mountain Lullaby is influenced by the music of Appalachia which in turn was influenced by the ballads, hymns, and fiddle music of the British Isles. To me, this piece feels like a love ballad, b...

Andiamo! (“Let’s Go!”) This piece was written to feature the viola section, they start the frenzied melody and we’re off! After a trip to Italy, the composer fondly remembered one phrase the tour guid...

Baile De La Noche (Dance of the Night) is a lilting Latin piece that evokes images of an evening of dancing and merriment. Care has been taken by the composer to make sure all sections of the orchestr...

Ballad and Jig opens with singingly expressive melodies in G major, allowing the orchestra to focus on playing in a connected ballad style. The lively jig section of the piece features energetic and m...

Battle Cry is meant to embody the warrior spirit! With heavy articulations and driving rhythms, the piece should be played mostly in the lower half of the bow with strong accents and attention to arti...

Big Sky Overture: Sweeping melodies punctuated by energetic rhythmic motives make this original overture perfect for concert and contest. Observing traditional overture form, the main theme is set fir...

The Mountain City Fiddlers is titled after the Fiddlers Convention of 1925, which was held in Mountain City, Tennessee. The piece opens with violin and cello solos in A major, with stomping feet and c...

Rondo Recipe is a light-hearted work to be approached in the classical style. The “dash of Mozart” is not a facetious quote for there is in fact a small quote of music that is by Mozart hidden within...

Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was the first classical composer of African ancestry. Born in the French colony of Guadeloupe, Saint-Georges was taken to Paris by his father to be rais...

Winds of Arabia will evoke images of the exotic Arabian desert. The mode, meter and pizzicato passages help provide the Middle Eastern sound that drives this camel caravan through the desert. The sync...

A storm of fiddle tunes and ostinatos portray a flash flood rushing down a southwestern slot canyon in this fast-paced outing for advancing string orchestra. Conceived as an American response to the 4...

Le mélange ultime du Canon en ré de Pachelbel et de la grandiose Ouverture 1812 de Tchaïkovski est captivant pour les élèves et le public. Les violoncelles et les basses ne s'ennuieront pas et pourron...

Score , Partitur of Concerto in C major GWV 301 for Bassoon, Strings and Basso continuo Among his solo concertos, the four works for solo bassoon are particularly significant: he did not assign more s...

Parts , Stimmen of Concerto in C major GWV 301 for Bassoon, Strings and Basso continuo Among his solo concertos, the four works for solo bassoon are particularly significant: he did not assign more so...

Score , Partitur of Concerto in C minor Bb GWV 307 for Bassoon, Strings and Basso continuo Among his solo concertos, the four works for solo bassoon are particularly significant: he did not assign mor...

Parts , Stimmen of Concerto in C minor Bb GWV 307 for Bassoon, Strings, and Basso continuo Among his solo concertos, the four works for solo bassoon are particularly significant: he did not assign mor...

Piano reduction , Klavierauszug of Concerto in C minor Bb GWV 307 for Bassoon and Piano - with seperate bassoon part Among his solo concertos, the four works for solo bassoon are particularly signific...

Score , Partitur of Concerto in D major GWV 310 for Flute, Strings and Basso continuo, score 18 p. The Concerto GWV 310 follows the three-movement type that Antonio Vivaldi had devised in Italy, consi...

Parts , Stimmen of Concerto in D major GWV 310 for Flute, Strings and Basso continuo, 5 parts. The Concerto GWV 310 follows the three-movement type that Antonio Vivaldi had devised in Italy, consistin...

Piano reduction , Klavierauszug of Concerto in D Major GWV 310 for Flute and Piano The Concerto GWV 310 follows the three-movement type that Antonio Vivaldi had devised in Italy, consisting of two fas...

Score , Partitur of Concerto in D major GWV 311 for Flute, Strings and Basso continuo, score 23 p. Graupner by no means follows Vivaldi's Italian three-movement model in all of his concertos. In his C...