Partituras de Joseph Compello para orquesta de cuerda

A nice showcase piece for your beginning string orchestra. There are lots of opportunities to get them frolicking around the fingerboard with many repeated eighth note patterns. The piece is tuneful a...

Imagine the ominous sound of an oncoming storm rumbling through a prehistoric forest, punctuated by the lumbering footsteps of the T-Rex, shaking the ground as it advances on its prey. T-Rex allows yo...

This three-movement suite from HandelÔÇÖs familiar Water Music is a great way to teach classical style with its three contrasting sections. The Allegro, with its lively repeated notes is as perfect fo...

Carl Fischer Music presents the sequel to the already popular Aunt Rhodie's Appetite. Now Aunt Rhodie has eaten too many hot cross buns and needs to go on a diet! This is a great opportunity to showca...

This piece skillfully combines simplified versions of themes from BeethovenÔÇÖs Symphony No. 5, The New World Symphony by Dvorak, and the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky. Without the scope of a full orch...

Pepperoni Pizza-cato is a 'sempre pizzicato' piece that is so incredibly cute, it will make your very beginning string players sound advanced. Students will love to play it, and parents will enjoy lis...

This antiphonal style voluntary is filled with a regal English flavor and sound worthy of the coronation of a king or queen. To add to its courtly feel, Compello has included an optional timpani part...

Instrumentation: Violin I, Violin II, Violin III (Viola TC), Viola, Cello, Bass, Chimes, Piano This modal piece has a dark, other worldly sound that students love to play. It's as if it is from the pa...

Joseph Compello's Great Plains Saga for the beginning string orchestra students depicts wide open spaces, rugged terrain, and covered wagons heading West through the American plains. Students will lov...

G Major, D Major

String teachers are always trying to encourage their students to play with more bow. Composer Joseph Compello gives very beginning students the chance to do just that in his piece, Arco-ology. There i...