Composing with Purpose Level 1 Noe Benitez

Composing with Purpose Level 1 Noe Benitez"Composing with Purpose Level 1" is an innovative composition curriculum for beginning string students. It provides an entire years worth of composing lessons that fit seamlessly into large group rehearsal settings. The lessons are sequenced along with first year lesson books and help reinforce playing skills and deepen students musicianship as they learn each new technique on their instrument. "Composing with Purpose Level 1" is designed to be

making it especially suitable as a concert finale

a relaxing tempo

with strings and percussion

The informed bowings and fingerings help make this wind piece a natural for strings

Guaranteed to delight your performers and audience alike

Students will enjoy playing this lush

The title "Ironwork" alludes both to the genre of heavy metal music and to the art of blacksmithing

and of course the above-mentioned frog guiro

splashes of percussion sounds

evoking the urgency and excitement of a chase

Optional techniques in this work that will enhance your students virtuosity include "chopping" in the cello part and an improvised solo violin part

the cellos and basses set a new scene