Grade Level: 3 T h e H i g h l a n d / E t l i n g S t r i n g O r c h e s t r a S e r i e s To olk Dances y Nira Chen and Nicholas Rouanis Arranged y Lauren ernosky i n s t r u m e n t a t i o n Conductor Score 1 Violin 8 Violin 8 Viola 5 5 String ass 5 Want your students to all in love ith music Then this is the piece or you! These to gems o olk dance music have een artully arranged or intermediate string orchestra. Have a hot violinist in your orchestra that you d like to shocase Misirlou egins and ends ith impressivesounding solo cadenzas raming the unorgettale theme. Dodi Li is a hauntingly eautiul love song and in this enchanting arrangement each instrument gets a chance to play melody and harmony and pizzicato. revie Only A DVSON O lease note: Our and and orchestra music is no eing collated y an automatic highspeed system. The enclosed parts are no sorted y page count rather than score order.
rogram Notes To olk Dances is taken rom a collection o olk dances that arranged or string orchestra as a 50th edding anniversary git to my parents ho met hile olk dancing. Dodi Li is ased on a Here love song ritten y Nira Chen. This hauntingly eautiul music is a avorite at eddings and it has also een used or olk dancing. Misirlou is an interesting case o hat can happen to a piece o olk music in the hands o ell the olk. Originally a Greek tune y Nicholas Rouanis this intriguing piece has also een adapted into various other cultures including klezmer (traditional East European eish music) Middle Eastern elly dance music and American sur-rock. The piece gets its color rom its scale hich contains to augmented seconds. Notes to the Conductor The melody in Dodi Li is passed around the various instrument groups making it an excellent opportunity to ocus on voicing. The melody should alays e heard clearly aove any accompanying lines. The accompaniment ill sound est hen the dierent characters in the music are rought out. n the accompaniment igure eginning at measure Violin and Viola should aim or a delicate and almost pale sound as a ackdrop to a more roustly played theme in the loer strings. izzicati should e arm and graceul never strident. And inally longer sustained notes such as at measure 1 in the loer strings are est heard as a quiet undercurrent to the other voices quieter than even the syncopated igure in the Violas. Ater the eginning o these notes the sound should die aay slightly so e can etter hear the moving lines. Grace notes should e played eore the eat. The cadenzas in Misirlou can give the solo violinist a chance to indulge in a great deal o musical lierty. The other players o the orchestra can then learn to rely solely on the conductor since the time ill not e constant. The tune itsel should e gutsy and earthy ith heavy eight on the eginnings o syncopated igures as in the eginnings o measures 13 and 1 in the violins. art o the intrigue o this piece is due to the tempo hich should e steady and never pushing orard. The ass line in the loer strings should e short secco and ostinately so throughout the main ody o the movement. The last it o spice is provided y the Violas. At measure 20 or example: or the lavor to e ust right make sure any notes ith dots are very short and grace notes are quick and eore the eat. revie Only
CONDUCTOR SCORE Duration - 5:30 Violins Viola String ass # # # #. # # Cantaile ( = 10). # 6 or My arents On Their 50th Wedding Anniversary To olk Dances 1 N simile. Dodi Li a 7 2 3 8.... Music y Nira Chen Arranged y Lauren ernosky 9 simile.. 5... # revie Only 198 (Reneed) SRAEL COMOSERS LEAGUE ULCATONS LTD All Rights Controlled and Administered y EM MLLS MUSC NC. (ulishing) and ALRED ULSHNG CO. NC (rint) This Arrangement 2008 SRAEL COMOSERS LEAGUE ULCATONS LTD All Rights Reserved including ulic erormance. 10 3
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10 Violins Viola String ass 3 3 3 3 3 Solo reely ( = 8). p p p p p 1............ Misirlou 5 2. } } 3 # Music y Nicholas Rouanis } } 3 n revie Only 5 3 3 3 3 3 5 6 7 191 COLONAL MUSC ULSHNG CO. NC. Copyright Reneed and Assigned to EM GROVE ARK MUSC NC. Exclusive Worldide rint Rights or EM GROVE ARK MUSC NC. Controlled and Administered y ALRED ULSHNG CO. NC. This Arrangement 2009 EM GROVE ARK MUSC NC. All Rights Reserved including ulic erormance
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