This light and Bounding work by composer Bud Woodruff is going to be one your students ask to play again and again. Wonderful for working on technique at this level, this accessible work is perfect for festival performance!
Grade Level: 1.5 Copyright: 2022…
Style: String Orchestra
Composer: Bud Woodruff
Publisher: Wingert-Jones Publications
Brave Fires, featuring Drum Set, is a cool and fun new work about a serious subject. Composer Caryn Wiegand Neidhold writes “Brave Fires honors the families impacted by devastating forest fires in Northern Nevada and Northern California and recognizes…
Style: String Orchestra
Composer: Caryn Wiegand Neidhold
Publisher: Excelcia Music Publishing
Written to describe the feeling of waking up after an annoying dream, Breaking Free is an intense concert opener. With semi-lyrical writing in the middle of the work, students will have an opportunity to show off their musicianship as well as their strong,…
Style: String Orchestra
Composer: Tyler Arcari
Publisher: Excelcia Music Publishing
Breaking Their Hold is a bold and aggressive work for orchestra. The intense percussion and dramatic themes are sure to move any audience.Program NotesBreaking Their Hold is a bold and aggressive work for orchestra. The intense percussion and dramatic themes…
Style: Full Orchestra
Composer: Noah D. Taylor
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
This unique work for Full Orchestra with Choir is a remarkable display of hope and joy. Yukiko Nishimura is in her element with this work, wonderfully scored and perfectly balanced – your ensemble will sound great. This piece is perfect to open your program…
Style: Full Orchestra
Composer: Yukiko Nishimura
Publisher: Excelcia Music Publishing
An opening adagio presents lush harmonies and beautiful orchestration, but the excitements builds at the allegro with staccato playing and cascading passages. A great piece for developing strings.
Grade Level: 3 Copyright: 2003 Number of Players: 8-8-5-5-5…
Style: String Orchestra
Composer: Jeffrey S. Bishop
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
The Broom O’ the Cowdenknowes, also known as “Bonny May,” is a traditional Scottish ballad who’s origin is unknown, but is traced to the seventeenth century. This vibrant arrangement can be played by either full or string orchestra.Genre: Full or String…
Style: String Orchestra
Composer: Dan Adams
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
In an attempt to musically capture that creepy feeling of walking in the dark, Composer Bud Woodruff brings us a spooky new work for String Orchestra. Perfect for that first Fall Concert!
Grade Level: 2 Copyright: 2022 Series: Intermezzo String Orchestra…
Style: String Orchestra
Composer: Bud Woodruff
Publisher: Excelcia Music Publishing
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 upper and lower strings will reinforce…
Style: String Orchestra
Composer: Bradd Parton
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
UIL Concert & Sight-Reading Evaluation Information
Grade Level: 3.5 Copyright: 2023 Series: Sightreading Series
Sample PDFs
uils60123fs-bywater-brook-fryklund-preview-score.pdf
Style: String Orchestra
Composer: Aaron Fryklund
Publisher: RBC Publications