Partitions folk pour orchestre à cordes

Deborah Baker Monday a créé un délicieux arrangement de deux des sections des Six Studies in English Folksong de Ralph Vaughan Williams. Composé à l'origine pour violoncelle et piano, le compositeur a...

This arrangement of two songs from western Africa -- "Ise Oluwa" from Nigeria and "Banuwa" from Liberia -- has everything a teacher could hope for in a concert selection: variety, excitement, and simp...

Your students will love playing this well-crafted setting of the traditional Welsh folk song. Written in AABA form in 3/4 time, the tempo is lively (quarter note = 92) and all parts have an interestin...

This great Irish hymn features a simple yet lyrical melody accompanied by rich, resonant chords and easy arpeggios. Basic note values, occasional slurs, and some divisi cello passages to supplement a...

This fun and energetic Jamaican folk song is expertly arranged here for grade 1+ groups. Everyone gets to play the melody, and plenty of great teaching tools are included, from bowing to fingerings, a...

Take the age-old favorite Turkey In The Straw, mix it with a boogie bass line and add some easy fiddle techniques, and you have the winning recipe for this guaranteed crowd-pleaser. Thanks to Frank's...

Based on the classic fiddle tune Goin to Boston, this is a great hoedown number for strings. It comes complete with several special techniques including bluesy note slides, shuffle bowings, hand slaps...

Images of a late night celebration in the European countryside come alive in this spirited original featuring easy double stops, spicy pizzicatos, and dramatic pitch slides. Duration 2:05. Available i...

Most often heard during the Christmas season but appropriate all year long, this familiar English tune lets students focus on playing with warm expression and good intonation. Great change-of-pace far...

Your students will love playing this fun-filled creative holiday arrangement. Combining Boil Em Cabbage Down with Jingle Bells, this grade 1+ piece is a great high energy piece to add to your next Chr...

With its rich, fully-bowed lyrical passages and contrasting pizzicato, "koto-like" textures, this original with a sophisticated sound is a great tool for teaching bowing technique that audiences will...

The arranger has taken this lively melody and added easy fiddle-style touches, a pinch of pizzicato, some simple double stops, open string ostinatos and fun-loving bass lines to create a winner that p...

This beautiful setting in G of the great Scottish tune encourages first-year students to play with good expression, intonation, balance and blend. The shortest note value is a quarter note, and the so...

Pour contraster agréablement avec le caractère essentiellement rythmique de ce thème de fête familier, cet arrangement comporte un interlude lyrique avant le D.S. et la coda. Bien que la partie de pia...

As a pleasing contrast to the predominantly rhythmic character of this familiar holiday theme, this arrangement features a lyrical interlude before the D.S. and coda. Though the piano part is optional...

This beautiful melody has been sung for more than 600 years, and is often referred to as the national anthem of Korea. The melody is based on the pentatonic scale, which is very common in music from A...

This fast-paced arrangement of the great American favorite will be a terrific addition to your school program. Scored in an authentic fiddle style, students will love the exciting rhythmic drive and a...

This arrangement of a traditional Canton tune is a vivid, festive allegro that paints a picture of people holding and shaking large lion masks as they dance through the streets to celebrate the Chines...

Driving grooves and asymmetrical melodic patterns break and turn to spin a festive, celebratory string dance in the Indian style that's all the rage! This piece takes advantage of every possible mediu...

A wonderful overture for developing string orchestras.

This popular Celtic melody has been framed in an unforgettable and lively interplay of parts. For the classically trained, Celtic music is the most appealing crossover into world styles for string pla...

With a title that translates to Canoe Children in English, this is a lively medley of three Brazilian children's songs -- Capelinha de Melao (Little Chapel of Melon), A Canoa Virou (The Canoe Tipped O...

Pronounced "Away Tina", a little bit of syncopation goes a long way in this fun arrangement of the South African folk tune for grade 2 strings. Students will play pizzicato, clap and tap, lead and fol...

Featuring simple fiddle-style figures, this winning original in G opens with pyramid entrances by each section and a tutti presentation of the main theme before the canonic portion begins. When the ro...