For this engaging nautical music journey, the writer has chosen the traditional sea song 'The Drunken Sailor' as a basis for this composition. After a ruggedly rhythmic unison opening statement of thi...
The sentimental lyrics of Auld Lang Syne are based on a Scottish poem by Robert Burns from 1788. The music is a pentatonic Scot folk melody that was probably originally performed at a moderately fast...
This arrangement of O Come, O Come Emmanuel captures a sense of anticipation found in the meaning of this popular carol. Contrasting moods are created shifting between long, sustained playing and more...
This arrangement was written to celebrate a popular Latin American Carol, 'Los Peces en el Rio', translated as, 'Fish in the River.' In a nutshell, the song is about fish in a river that swim by Mary,...
Let your students show off their very best lyrical playing using this gorgeous arrangement of a traditional Scottish love song. Parts for all instruments have melodic interest as the melody flows thro...
The lyrics of this familiar song were by playwright Ben Johnson, who in 1616 wrote a poem called Song to Celia. The music probably dates back to about 1790. Musically, after a brief introduction, the...
Space Ninja is an energetic piece for young orchestra and percussion. Featuring an accentuated spiccato rhythmic melody, this composition combines Eastern sounds with sonorous American harmonies. It i...
Into the Midnight Forest is a perfect selection for a string orchestra’s first concert! Using only quarter notes and half notes in B minor (relative of D Major), the composition has a “mysterious marc...
La Valentina is a Mexican folk song that is played by many mariachi groups in Mexico and across the United States. La Valentina was written as a tribute to Valentina Ramirez Avitia who fought in the M...
Early in 1781, during the American War for Independence, Colonial General Nathaniel Greene and British General Lord Cornwallis covered over 250 miles across North Carolina with their armies in an atte...