The Mountain City Fiddlers Set Type:Full Set

The Mountain City Fiddlers Set Type:Full SetThe Mountain City Fiddlers is titled after the Fiddlers Convention of 1925, which was held in Mountain City, Tennessee. The piece opens with violin and cello solos in A major, with stomping feet and clapping hands adding to the mood! All sections of the orchestra share in the fun as the numerous melodies are passed around. This piece is a great way to reinforce work on double stops!

and is perfect for reinforcing your students' skills of counting and playing rhythms using quarter

every section of the orchestra gets the melody (and gets to use all four strings)

expertly scored work would be perfect to include on a winter holiday concert

a scene for the perfect beach party

The informed bowings and fingerings help make this wind piece a natural for strings

Working with a classic keyboard composition

This driving figure can be heard several times throughout the piece with melodic material built over it

reverberant interiors

presented by the cellos and basses

while broadening the limited harmonic vocabulary of the original

The music for Mexican Hat Dance (Jarabae Tapatio) was written by Jesús Gonzáles Rubio in the 1800's

The slow - fast - slow format works very effectively