All of music in this section has been generated over the last thirty years for 9 -13 middle schools. There is a number of occasional pieces, starting with Tip Toe Tango, on this page. The instrumentation for these varies. Tip Toe Tango is written for Violins 1 and 2 (of equal difficulty) and Viola and Cello - rather easier. A piano accompaniment is necessary in all cases.
There are also pieces for classroom performance. All these pieces conform to the same orchestration:
a melody suitable for descant recorder, violin, oboe, flute, doubled on the piano
a glockenspiel part (hard beaters best)
two xylophone parts (soft beaters best)
a single line keyboard part doubled on the clarinet (optional)
a percussion part (optional)
a piano part
A strength of the pieces is that they can be performed by melody and piano accompaniment alone. The other elements of the instrumentation enhance the music but are not, strictly speaking, necessary.
There are seventeen classroom pieces altogether. Try the links below to get a flavour of both occasional and classroom music.
All original pieces on this web site are copyright. If you want a copy of any of the pieces for the approximate cost of copying, please get in touch.