Into the Midnight Forest F.J. Haydn

Into the Midnight Forest F.J. HaydnInto the Midnight Forest is a perfect selection for a string orchestras first concert! Using only quarter notes and half notes in B minor (relative of D Major), the composition has a mysterious march through the darkness feel that students will enjoy playing. Easy bowings, limited range, and a viola part that doubles 2nd violin, Into the Midnight Forest is a work that will make a first year orchestra sound marvelous.

and "Shortnin' Bread" with many original touches

Joseph Clark

This unusually beautiful string work will leave your audience moved emotionally and impressed with your groups ability to play with great sensitivity and expressiveness

for those orchestras who wish to perform it with a handbell ensemble

composed by Tielman Susato and Giorgio Mainerio

Written at a level 2

Other techniques explored in this very playable arrangement by John Beeman include slides and guitar style pizzicato

and a great deal of dynamic contrast all come into play in this exciting yet very playable new work

the intense

It is an excellent work for developing flexibility in the bow

simple ending

has contributed this stunning quasi-bluegrass work to the string orchestra repertoire