Texas UIL String Orchestra Grade 4

A chirping three-note figure flits antiphonally among the upper strings before taking off into an extended melody for the viola and cello. Each part alternates freely between melody and accompaniment using

Your string students can finally experience performing Debussy's masterpiece. This arrangement still contains all of the impressionistic beauty with only the pianistic arpeggios removed. With its very

This original piece is written in the style of a bourree, a type of dance from the Baroque tradition with a feel in two and which features frequent quarter-note pickups in the melody. This is

This classic work was extracted from a larger scored work that Joseph Haydn wrote while in the service of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy. The original work excludes the original wind parts, and playing the

The title says it all! This piece is an intense and driving study in sixteenth-note rhythms. Long legato lines over pulsing sixteenth-note figures along with a contrasting lyrical section utilizing con sord