Grade 1 (Amethyst Series)

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  • Ashtown Overture
    Ashtown Overture $38.00 Choose Options
    A pleasant work for early strings. Slow and reflective, this work utilizes many early string techniques and surprising harmonies.Genre: String Orchestra | # of Players: 8-8-5-5-5 Level: 1 | Duration: 3:20...
  • Bolero for Strings
    Bolero for Strings $50.00 Choose Options
    A great way to introduce your beginning ensemble to the "Bolero" style, this original work features a legato melody over a steady ostinato pattern that can be enhanced with optional snare drum. Well within the capabilities...
  • By Hook or By Crook (String Orchestra Gr. 1)
    By Hook or By Crook (String Orchestra Gr. 1) $48.00 Choose Options
    Written in e minor, By Hook or By Crook a mature-sounding selection that should come together quickly for most ensembles. All students have an opportunity to play the melody and the call-and-response writing between the...
  • Caterpillar Holiday
    Caterpillar Holiday $60.00 Choose Options
    Caterpillar Holiday introduces students to a style of playing that is aurally appealing and familiar, yet technically different from the standard string repertoire.Genre: String Orchestra | # of Players: 8-8-5-5-5 Level: 1 |...
  • Danza Rusticana
    Danza Rusticana $55.00 Choose Options
    In the style of a Middle European folk dance, this vigorous and energetic piece is somewhat reminiscent of the style of Bela Bartok with a gritty bowing style that should produce a big, solid tone. A rewarding piece for the...
  • Debut Concert for Strings, The
    Debut Concert for Strings, The $110.00 Choose Options
    The Debut Concert for Strings is a collection of eight short pieces composed specifically for your beginner string ensemble. With works graded from easy first finger and pizzicato work through to harder faster-paced...
  • Erin Isle Sketches
    Erin Isle Sketches $60.00 Choose Options
    This work captures the essence of Irish folk music and is based on “Banna Strand”, “Cockles and Mussels”, and “The Minstrel Boy”. Carefully written with an eye toward fullness of sound and...
  • Ghost of Old Tom, The (String Orchestra Gr. 1)
    Ghost of Old Tom, The (String Orchestra Gr. 1) $60.00 Choose Options
    The Ghost of Tom is from England and has a creepy story. It's from a children's rhyme from the Dark Ages when a man named Tom was hung for murdering children and the villagers left his body hanging in the tree refusing to...
  • Gone Troppo (orchestra)
    Gone Troppo (orchestra) $60.00 Choose Options
    These simple melodies and gentle rhythms have been combined into a delightful and refreshing piece for young musicians from the pen of a young musician.Genre: String Orchestra | # of Players: 8-8-5-5-5 Level: 1.5 | Duration:...
  • Grasshopper Chomp, The
    Grasshopper Chomp, The $60.00 Choose Options
    The Grasshopper Chomp encourages students at this level to produce a full tone through the confident use of fast bow strokes.Genre: String Orchestra | # of Players: 8-8-5-5-5 Level: 1 | Duration: 1:10 InstrumentationViolin...
  • Guard of Honor
    Guard of Honor $48.00 Choose Options
    A stately concert march that will encourage solid bowing and a firm tone, this piece gives all sections lead material. Therefore, all players will feel they are making an important contribution to the overall impact of the...
  • Gulpy the Goldfish
    Gulpy the Goldfish $60.00 Choose Options
    Gulpy the Goldfish is designed for training beginner string ensembles to develop rhythmic cohesiveness. Genre: String Orchestra | # of Players: 8-8-5-5-5 Level: 1 | Duration: 1:55 InstrumentationViolin 1 Violin 2 Violin 3...
  • Holiday Bell Carol
    Holiday Bell Carol $60.00 Choose Options
    This piece will make an ideal holiday program selection. It is reminiscent of Ukranian Bell Carol but is much easier to play. The textural varieties and straightforward harmonic background give the piece a mature sound, and...
  • Joyous Sounds of Christmas, The
    Joyous Sounds of Christmas, The $60.00 Choose Options
    A very playable suite of three Christmas carols (“Good King Wenceslas,” “Away in a Manger,” and “Oh Come, All Ye Faithful”) this grouping will make an enjoyable addition to any Christmas...
  • Koala Can-Can, The
    Koala Can-Can, The $60.00 Choose Options
    Suitable for full and string orchestra, The Koala Can-Can is one of a series of pieces in a collection of string orchestra music written for Australian school orchestras. It has been re-scored to include winds and percussion...
  • Kookaburra Patrol, The (orchestra)
    Kookaburra Patrol, The (orchestra) $60.00 Choose Options
    All about a kookaburra in "an old gum tree", the piece is written as a "patrol" beginning with a distant "pizzicato style" pulse building to a rousing middle section which fades to a distant drum beat again with the...
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