"Dance of the Night Creatures" for Beginner Symphony Orchestra, by Alison Harbottle - score & parts

Grade: 0.5 Duration: 2'30"

Written for the combined beginner instrumentalists at my children’s school, “Dance of the Night Creatures” brings together your beginner Concert Band & beginner String Ensemble to give your students their first

"Dance of the Night Creatures" for Beginner Symphony Orchestra, by Alison Harbottle - score & parts

Grade: 0.5 Duration: 2'30"

Written for the combined beginner instrumentalists at my children’s school, “Dance of the Night Creatures” brings together your beginner Concert Band & beginner String Ensemble to give your students their first orchestral experience! This piece intentionally uses a limited range of notes & rhythms suited to wind, brass, percussion & string students who have been playing for approximately 1 year. Not every school programme has every instrument, so this exciting work has been carefully designed so it can easily be performed with the most common range of instruments – it was even performed for the first time with no trumpets! Containing simple articulations & dynamics, plenty of unison rhythms, & opening in the intriguing key of G minor but modulating to G major for a celebratory finish, this piece for Beginner Symphony Orchestra is sure to be a crowd-pleaser at your end of year concert!