American Patriotic Tunes for String Ensemble
Arr. Robert Gardner

Flexible instrumentation for small ensembles, mixed grade levels, or the string orchestra. Perfectly arranged at an intermediate level...more.

Violin Book...$7.99

Coming Soon...Thank, You Soldiers!
The perfect piece to commemorate 9/11 and honor those still fighting for our freedom. A combined concert band, string orchestra, and full orchestra accompaniment for choir performance of the Internet sensation, Thank You, Soldiers, is scored to provide maximum flexibility.

Accompaniment...$60.00

Violins Go Vivaldi
Arr. Goran Berg

These arrangements, with reproducible parts, will challenge the advanced violin student’s ensemble playing skills and can be played both as chamber music with four players or in a group setting with many players in each part...more.

Book...$34.99

Sound Innovations for String Orchestra Book 2 Now Available!

Book 2 continues your student's musical journey with segmented presentation of new concepts and introducing ensemble playing. The book contains four levels, each of which are divided into several sections that introduce concepts separately and provide plenty of practice and performance opportunities to reinforce each lesson...more.

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Student Book, CD & DVD...$8.99
Conductor's Score...$44.99

Fossils and Other Footprints
William Dick
Alfred Author

I have been fascinated with fossils from early childhood when my family went on vacation to Utah and visited a dinosaur foot track area. In Texas where I live, there are also many fossil footprints in the rocks along rivers and streams. They make me think of the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

(A Psalm of Life)

As a string teacher I like footprints of a different kind. Actually the imprint I am interested in is the indentation that the string leaves in the fingertip when the finger is taken off the string. From that imprint or “fingercut” as I call it, I believe you can tell much about the left hand’s posture and the way the fingers are being used.

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Learning Together
Mastery for Strings

New Orchestra Music for Your 2011-2012 School Year!

Don't miss the awesome new music in our 2011-2012 String Promotional Catalogs! Click HERE to view the 2011-2012 Belwin String Catalog and click HERE to view the 2011-2012 Highland/Etling String Catalog.