Product Description
Take a trip around the world with your students,
experiencing the music and styles of eight countries and regions: The United
States, Italy, Mexico, the Middle East, China, Austria, Russia and France. The
popular Christmas carol We Wish You a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year is set in the style of music
representing each of these locations. Your students will enjoy seeing how a familiar
melody can be changed into something quite different but still maintain its
original identity.
This arrangement is for multi-level string
orchestra. It contains Twinkle parts for violin, viola and cello which consist
mostly of open strings and can be learned by rote. The Violin Book 1 part is
intended for students who have completed most of Suzuki Violin School, Book 1. The Advanced Violin part makes extensive use
of third position while the Violin I part contains only a few passages extending
to third position. Other parts remain in first position. The piece contains key
changes, tempo changes, and chromatic passages along with spiccato passages. The work is approximately 8 minutes long.
Included are full orchestral score, 4 parts each of
the twinkle violin, viola and cello parts, 4 parts each of Advanced Violin,
Violin I, Violin II, Violin Book 1, Viola and Cello. Three parts each of Violin
III (Viola treble clef, if needed) and Double Bass. Also included is one piano
part, intended for rehearsal purposes and optional in performance.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.