Hadyn's Menuet alla Zingarse is one of 11 Classical pieces for intermediate string ensemble included in Richard Young's Comprehensive String Pedagogy & Curriculum. A portion of the proceeds of sales for all CSPC music goes to support free music education at The People's Music School.

Even though it looks so simple, this early Haydn menuet is one of the most rhythmically advanced movements for strings in the entire Classical period. Because the syncopations and metric groupings in this piece are so tricky, it should be taught in conjunction with Peanuts, which has similar challenges. Solving the rhythmic problems in this Haydn menuet and in Peanuts will make it easier for students to later master the even more difficult syncopations in the Latin American pop song, La Mayonesa, and in the Beethoven scherzo from Op. 18 #6.
 There is an old joke among professional string quartet players about another piece that has many dangerous rhythmic pitfalls: Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Op. 133. Here is the joke...
 Question: What do you do when you get lost in the Grosse Fuge?
 Answer: You knock over your music stand so you have an excuse to stop and begin again.
 -Richard Young

Full program notes are included with the score. There are fingerings and bowings in all the string parts of every one of CSPC's pieces. These "cooked-in" technical solutions target the particular levels of the students. They are not just pragmatic but "musical."

Please note that due to a loss of source files, the PDF files of the music have been generated from scanned copies of printed parts. While every effort has been made to produce high quality parts, the limitations of scanning will result in some degradation of print quality.