“Ryleigh’s Waltz”was the winner of the 2017 South Carolina Music Educators Association Grade 1 Sight Reading String Orchestra Composition Project. As with all of Shapiro’s pieces for young students, each musician is given the opportunity to play the melody, and as often as possible, accompanying parts are in the form of countermelody. This horizontal structure of composition gives each student interesting and “hearable” (perceivable) parts with which to develop their technique.
The form of this composition is A B A A.
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