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Composers Bureau
Music for Young Performers
String Ensembles
Violins
- Samuel Adler
- A Dozen for Two for two violins. Suzuki-type pieces for beginners, duets and canons.
- John Beall
- Variations on John Henry for 3 violins, intermediate on up
- Larry Bell
- Four Pieces in Familiar Style for 2 violins. High School
- Helmut Braunlich
- Six Studies in Contingency for 2 violins. Moderate.
- Kirke Mechem
- Ten Easy Violin Duets for 2 violins. Ages 8-18, Easy to Moderate.
- Alan Shulman
- Theme & Variations for 2 violins. Presser. Elementary.
- Wallace De Pue
- Gessu Bambino for four violins. High school.
Violas
- Alex Shapiro
- Voila!, for solo viola. A simple, soulful melody which includes a student's introduction to open double stops and pizzicato. Ages 7-14.
Cellos
- Lauren Bernofsky
- Dinosaur Damag, ages 5 - 9
- Dancing on the Steps, ages 5 - 7
Will Gay Bottje
- Marti Epstein
- Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra for solo cello, 4 celli, 2 violins, 2 pianos 8 hands and percussion. Ages 12-14.
- Alan Shulman
- Five Duos for Student and Teacher - two cellos. Weintraub/Shawnee. Intermediate.
String Duets
- Larry Bell
- Sleep Song for violin and piano. Ages 6-10.
- Jerry Casey
- A Modal Suite, pieces for viola and piano. Ages - late first year student/second year student.
- Ruth Schonthal
- Divertimenti for Young Virtuosi, a collection of Duos in the form of mostly Suites for various combinations of instruments.
- Alan Shulman
- Duet - for violin and viola or violin and cello. Presser. Elementary.
- James Yannatos
- 5 Variations on Sur La Pont D'Avignon for violin and piano. Ages 6-10
- Miniatures for Treble Clef and Bass Clef, ages 5-10, easy
- Romance, for violin/piano. Ages 10-16.
- Judith Lang Zaimont
- Music for Two - for any two treble instruments; performed everywhere from middle school through college.
String Trios
String Quartet
- Sondra Clark
- Minnesota Summer (5 movements) for string quartet. Level 6.
- Tina Davidson
- Paper, Glass, String & Wood for triple string quartet (professional quartet and 2 student quartets) For high school, intermediate to advanced
- Wallace De Pue
- Gesu Bambino (traditional Xmas) arr., for 4 violins. Ages 15-17.
- Daniel Dorff
- It Takes Four to Tango for string quartet. High school. 3 minutes. Presser.
- James M. Drew
- Mikrosonata for string quartet and piano, upper intermediate level, Junior-Senior High School.
- Karel Husa
- Four Little Pieces for string quartet, 14 minutes. Schirmer. Ages 12-14, Difficulty 3-4.
- Margaret Shelton Meier
- Christmas Quodlibet for string quartet. Easy to Medium.
- Joshua M. Missal
- Check with these publishers for titles of Joshua M. Missal's music for young performers or contact the composer.
- B. Charmian Tashjian
- String Quartet. High School.
- James Yannatos
- Bits and Pieces for string quartet or string orchestra, ages 10-16.
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