Spiders on the Loose Pasquale Tassone

Spiders on the Loose Pasquale TassoneSpiders on the Loose: Students will love this easy piece which portrays spiders insidiously creeping and crawling up their arms, represented by eighth notes. Each section gets to play the exciting melody and develop their skills in the key of e minor, including low C naturals. Please observe the crescendo starting at m. 15 as the spiders crawl up the arm and reach the neck! (Screaming at m. 17 is permitted with the forte!) Students can make up their

"Down by the Salley Gardens" is based on a poem by Yeats written in 1889

It can be shortened by eliminating the repeated section

from G to D

With beautiful melodic passages

and directors could take more repeats to let more students solo

Goblin Dance was not conceived with any specific occasion in mind but would certainly be an appropriate addition to a fall or Hallowe’en themed concert

Optional piano

originally in A major for solo piano

It also provides music from women composers such as Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)

There are many opportunities for upper strings to use 4th finger (instead of going to the next open string) when the note that follows stays on the same string

and the students and audience will love its fresh approach to string writing

a wide variety of scoring techniques