A Lo Menos Amemos is a work for winds, percussion, strings, and SAB choir based on a beautiful love poem by the Spanish poet Amado Nervo called "Amemos" (in English, "Let's Love"). The lyrics propose an optimistic outlook on life‘s uncertainties, proclaiming…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Taken from the original version for Jazz ensemble by David Samuel, Caryn Wiegand Neidhold has realized it for the young string orchestra. It is a bluesy, swinging chart with lots of tutti rhythms making this an excellent choice for a young ensemble just…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
David Samuel, Caryn Wiegand Neidhold
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
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
Set in D locrian mode (with notes of the E-flat major scale), this is a dark, engaging work that plays with the word "Centrifugal," which refers to the force that acts on objects within a rotating frame, directing them away away from the axis (e.g. the…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Elegy for Bass Trombone & String Quartet elicits the multifaceted feelings of grief beginning with the trombone playing a solemn lyrical line in A minor against a quiet backdrop of ascending sixteenths of intervals of sixths and fifths in the string…
Style:
Brass, String
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Jam among the stars with Galaxy Jam, an inventive rock take on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in E minor. The jam section encourages your students to be creative with instrument percussion improv and solos with suggested notes.
Grade Level: 1.5 Copyright: 2022…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Caryn Wiegand Neidhold
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Juxtaposing two original these, each representing soul and creativity,"Rising Star pays a musical tribute to the life of a student who was taken too soon.Program NotesRising Star was commissioned by parents Tom & Karen Wilson, and sister Jodi Guzak in…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Set the World on Fire is a breathtaking work for SATB choir and wind ensemble using quotes from the writings of St. Catherine of Siena. "You are an ever-burning fire; You are a fire which drives away all coldness and illumines minds with its light, and with…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
David R. Gillingham
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Even the youngest students get to play Vivaldi’s beloved Four Seasons in this inventive arrangement. All string sections use tremolo and col legno in addition to fermatas, cesuras, and aleatoric elements that require students to watch the conductor closely.…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Caryn Wiegand Neidhold
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing
Ahoy Ye Mateys, your beginning string players will love this pirate inspired piece written in dramatic e minor. The lilting ¾ time will have your musicians and audiences dreaming of adventure on the high seas. You will be glad you selected this fun and…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Caryn Wiegand Neidhold
Publisher:
Excelcia Music Publishing