Details
- Instrument:
- Cello Double Bass Piano Viola
- Ensembles:
- String Orchestra
- Publishers:
- Carl Fischer Music
- UPC:
- 680160904112
- ISBN:
- 9781491146613
- Format:
- Score Set of Parts Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Physical
- Level:
- Grade 3
- Musical forms:
- Variations
- Artist:
- Bud Caputo
- Arrangers:
- Bud Caputo
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Main Key:
- D major
- Number of Pages:
- 81
- Size:
- 9 x 12 inches
- Shipping Weight:
- 1 pounds
SKU: CF.CAS101
Composed by Patty Hill; Mildred Hill. Arranged by Bud Caputo. Folio. Carl Fischer Concert String Orchestra Series. Score and parts. With Standard notation. 81 pages. Duration 0:03:47. Carl Fischer Music #CAS101. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CAS101).ISBN 9781491146613. UPC: 680160904112. 9 x 12 inches. Key: D major.
Happy Birthday Theme and Variations is a novelty arrangement that incorporates traditional melodic variation techniques along with familiar classical-music themes to entertain your audience. Challenge your students and audience to identify these melodic fragments.
Use this selection to celebrate someone’s birthday or just for fun in a concert setting . The Theme and Variations on Happy Birthday for String Orchestra is a novelty arrangement that incorporates some traditional melodic variation techniques and the use of familiar classical-music themes to entertain your audience . Challenge your students to identify these melodic fragments . Melodies are shared among all parts and all players remain in first position . The arrangement resembles a Broadway show overture in that it will require students to be flexible, as they are asked to change meters, tempos, dynamics, articulations, musical styles, and bowing techniques .
About Carl Fischer Concert String Orchestra Series
This series of pieces (Grade 3 and higher) is designed for advancing ensembles. The pieces in this series are characterized by:
- Expanded use of rhythms, ranges and keys but technical demands are still carefully considered
- More comprehensive bowing techniques
- Viola T.C. included
- Careful selection of keys and degree of difficulty for advancing musicians
- More by this Composer:
- Bud Caputo Bud Caputo Cello Bud Caputo Trombone Bud Caputo Tuba
- Instrument:
- Strings Cello Strings Double Bass Piano and Keyboard Piano Strings Viola
- Artists:
- Bud Caputo
- Ensemble:
- String Orchestra
- Publisher:
- Carl Fischer Music