Dancing Centipedes was composed in the early 1990s and is a lively, fun and rhythmic piece for the junior string orchestra. There are accessible technical and musical challenges for each instrument and the alternating metres of 5/4 and 6/4, alongside a range of articulations and dynamic contrasts, help to provide useful new study and performance material for young musicians.

Parts are provide for Violin 3 and Viola, each playing the same music, and both lines are included in the score.

Dennis Leogrande writes: "Please keep in mind that these are happy centipedes - that's why they are dancing!"

Dennis Leogrande has been a music educator and supervisor of music in New Jersey (USA) public schools where has has taught band and string instruments to students aged four to eighteen years, as well as directing bands, jazz ensembles and orchestras.

He holds a Masters degree in Music Education from New York University and a Supervisor of Music degree. In addition to his teaching, Dennis Leogrande has written numerous works for the educational market, composed for animated films, and operates a digital recording studio where he records local artists.

Recital Music publish a number of exciting and accessible string orchestra pieces by Dennis Leogrande.