String Ensemble

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Repertoire examples for String Ensemble, based on recommendations from orchestration treatises and college syllabi.

Recommended Listenings

The Technique of Orchestration

KENNAN AND GRANTHAM (2002, P. 75), THE TECHNIQUE OF ORCHESTRATION.

Suggested listening for String Ensembles. Playlist available here on Spotify.

“Vivaldi, Concertos. Corelli, Concerti Grossi.

J. S. Bach, Suites for Strings; Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 and 6. C. P. E. Bach, Symphony No. 3 in C major.

Handel, Concerti Grossi.

Mozart, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Divertimentos.

Tchaikovsky, Serenadefor Strings, Op. 48.

Strauss, Metamorphosen.

Schoenberg, Verklarte Nacht.

Bloch, Concerto Grosso for string orchestra (with piano). Bartok, Musicfor String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta.

Vaughn Williams, Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Stravinsky, Apollon Musagète.

Barber, Adagio for Strings.

William Schuman, Symphonyfor Strings.

Copland, Third Symphony, 3rd movt., beginning.

Persichetti, Symphony for Strings.

Penderecki, Emanationen for Two String Orchestras; Threnodyfor the Victims of Hiroshima.

David Amram, Autobiographyfor Strings. Ned Rorem, Pilgrims.

Torn Takemitsu, Requiem.”