The Circle in the Square: Music for Young Performers

Music for Young
Performers:
pieces for piano,
violin, and string
ensembles

by Cliff Crego

Pieces for Piano Solo

The Little Fox for piano solo (difficulty: 3/4; score, 2 pages)
The Pear-shaped Lute for piano solo (difficulty: 3; score, 2 pages)
Times Four for piano solo (difficulty: 4; score, 4 pages)
Old Joe for piano solo (difficulty: 4; score, 2 pages)
The Silver Braid (difficulty: 4; score, 2 pages)
Mist on Snowy Mountain for piano solo (difficulty: 3; score, 2 pages)
...Away... for piano solo (difficulty: 4; score, 2 pages)
Light on Quiet Water for piano solo (difficulty: 3/4; score, 2 pages)
The Circle in the Square (difficulty: 4/5; score, 5 pages)
The Little Triangle (difficulty: 5; score, 3 pages)
Magic Square for piano solo (difficulty: 5; score, 2 pages)
Intro: Pigweed Poems: Too Fast for Me! score with children's rhyming poem
(difficulty: 6; score, 2 (11" x 17") (A3) pages)

Pieces for Children's Choir

Soybean Pie! for double children's choir & percussion instruments
go to pages of the score | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
go to text of rhyming poem, Soybean Pie!

clip of soybean

[Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
score and poem Soybean Pie!: pdf
[seven 11" x 17" (A3) pages 136 K]

[Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
a percussion perormance model
of Soybean Pie!: mp3 [1.4 Mb]

Pieces for Violin and Piano

The Little Fox version for violin and piano (difficulty: 4/5; score, 5 pages)
(version for solo voice and percussion, The Little Fox: Voice)

| listen to a MIDI version of The Little Fox (REQUIRES QuickTime) |
is 5 for young performers, violin and piano (difficulty: 5/6; large 11 x 17 format (A3); 5 pages)

| listen to a MIDI version of is 5 (REQUIRES QuickTime) |

| NEW: download PDF of is 5—for violin and piano (includes violin part: 100 K)
[REQUIRES Acrobat Reader]
Old Joe version for violin and piano (difficulty: 3; score, 2 pages)

Pieces for String Duo

the little triangle duo for violin and cello, or small string orchestra
(difficulty: 5/6; score, 3 pages)

| listen to a MIDI version of little triangle (REQUIRES QuickTime) |

NEW: Download MP3
of Duo Wild Iris performing
Cheltenham Duo IV
[2.2 Mb]

| Or listen to Duo IV
streamed RealAudio |

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the chletenham duo I for young performers, two violins (difficulty: 5; score, 2 pages)

| listen to a MIDI version of cheltenham duo I (REQUIRES QuickTime) |

| download PDF of Cheltenham Duos—complete [REQUIRES Acrobat Reader]
cheltenham duo II for young performers, two violins (difficulty: 5; score, 2 pages)

| listen to a MIDI version of cheltenham duo II (REQUIRES QuickTime)

| download PDF of Cheltenham Duos—complete [REQUIRES Acrobat Reader]
cheltenham duo III for young performers, two violins- sempre pizzicato (difficulty: 5; score, 1 page)

| listen to a MIDI version of cheltenham duo III (REQUIRES QuickTime)

| download PDF of Cheltenham Duos—complete [REQUIRES Acrobat Reader]
The Cheltenham Duos IV—for two violins (c. 4') | pages of score 1 | 2 |

| listen to Cheltenham Duo IV [REQUIRES QucikTime] or listen in streamed RealAudio |

| download PDF of Cheltenham Duo IV (two 11" x 17 "pages (A3))
[requires Acrobat Reader] | [68 K]]
The Cheltenham Duos V—for two violins (c. 2' 50") | pages of score 1 | 2 |

| listen to Cheltenham Duo V [REQUIRES QucikTime] or listen in streamed RealAudio |

| download PDF of Cheltenham Duo V (two 11" x 17 "pages (A3))
[requires Acrobat Reader] | [68 K]]

| listen to Maya Bennardo perform both voices of Duo V [RealAudio] |
The Cheltenham Duos VI—for two violins (c. 2' 15") | pages of score 1 | 2 |

| listen to Cheltenham Duo VI [REQUIRES QucikTime] or listen in streamed RealAudio |

| download PDF of Cheltenham Duo VI (two 11" x 17 "pages (A3))
[requires Acrobat Reader] | [68 K]]

| NEW: listen to The Cheltenham Duos I - VI—complete [RealAudio]

| download PDF of Cheltenham Duos—complete (thirteen 11" x 17 "pages (A3) [350 K]]
The Cheltenham Duos VII—for two violins PDF only (2 A3 pages 56 K)

| listen to a performance model of Cheltenham Duo VII (requires QuickTime)
The Cheltenham Double Duo VIII—for four violins | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |

Double Duo: score PDF (7 A3 pages 200 K) [REQUIRES Acrobat Reader]

Double Duo: parts PDF (12 A4 pages 227 K)

| listen to a model of Cheltenham Double Duo VIII (requires QuickTime)

Pieces for String Quartet/Quintet

...away... for string quartet (difficulty: 4; score, 5 pages 11" x 17" (A3))

| listen to a simple computer model of . . .away. . . [requires QuickTime]* | [c. 4']

| NEW: download PDF of away—for string quartet [REQUIRES Acrobat Reader]
times four quartet for string quartet (difficulty: 4; score, 5 pages (A3))
mist on snowy mountain for string quintet and piano (difficulty: 5; score, 2 pages (A3))

| listen to a MIDI version of snowy mountain (REQUIRES QuickTime) |
stonepine mountain for string quintet and piano (difficulty: 5/6; score, 3 pages (A3))

| listen to a MIDI version of stonepine mountain (REQUIRES QuickTime) |
wanderer for string orchestra (difficulty: 6/7; score 9 pages)

| listen to a MIDI piano version of wanderer (REQUIRES QuickTime) |

| go to Photograph and Poem |

Arrangements for Strings (and Keyboard)

Wondrous Love version for two violins (or voices) and organ (or piano)
(difficulty: 3; score, 3 pages)
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize strings and piano (difficulty: 4; score, 2 (11" x 17") pages)

| listen to a MIDI version of Keep Your Eyes on the Prize (REQUIRES QuickTime) |
Turkey in the Straw violin: one easy; one hard (difficulty: 2 (11" x 17") pages)

| listen to a MIDI version of Turkey in the Straw (REQUIRES QuickTime) |
My Lodgings on the Cold Ground violin: one easy; one hard (difficulty: 3 // 8; score, 3 pages)

| listen to a MIDI version of Cold Ground (REQUIRES QuickTime) |
See also: The Trillium Collection a set of six compositions based on traditional
celtic fiddle tunes for string trio (versions for violin, viola and 'cello and two violins
and viola) for young performers [scores and parts of both versions availableas PDFs]

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(Last update: XII.31.2003) Comments and questions
are welcome. You can write Cliff Crego directly
at score-info@cs-music.com