GRADE .5 Don Gato sounds pretty irritated in this piece for string orchestra that is performed pizzicato only.
GRADE .5 Students get the opportunity to play in 3/4 with the first 6 notes of the D major scale and their open strings in The Lost Toy. As an ensemble piece, the melody is spread between the different instruments, but it also can also be performed as a string solo with the separate parts.
GRADE .5 - 1 The main melody was composed by Sara, a 1st year string student!
GRADE 1.5 This flexible round for four instruments highlights slurs in a slow minor key.
GRADE 1 This flexible round for four instruments is written in a pop style.
GRADE 1.5 This flexible round for four instruments allows students to practice eighth and sixteenth note patterns while sounding like the reoccurring music from the music Hamilton.
GRADE 2 This flexible round for four instruments is written to sound like the pop classic Take On Me.
GRADE .5 - 1 I had the privilege of taking a strings course with Betsy Maliszewski, who teaches the classic eighth & quarter bowing pattern to the phrase “I like choc-late ice cream.” As a way of expressing my appreciation to her for sharing her time and wisdom with me, I wrote this piece for beginning string students.