
Teaching the World to Play!

Robert D. McCashin, DMA, is Professor Emeritus and former Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at James Madison University. He recently retired from academe after a 43-year career of conducting and applied string teaching at the college/university level. He earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in violin performance from Louisiana State University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of Arizona. He was awarded JMU’s Distinguished Teacher Award for the College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2015.
From 1992 through 2016, Dr. McCashin was Music Director for the JMU Symphony, Chamber Orchestra and Opera Orchestras, and taught all relevant orchestral conducting and academic courses within the MM and DMA orchestral conducting curricular core, as well as applied studio strings. Dr. McCashin, a violinist, has been a successful writer and arranger of educational publications, having now published nearly 80 works for the Grade I through V educational performance levels.
Prior to his position at James Madison University, Dr. McCashin served on the faculties of the University of Texas at Arlington and Texas Wesleyan University. During his tenure in Texas he performed with the Fort Worth Symphony, Fort Worth Opera Orchestra, Wichita Falls Symphony, Gallery String Quartet, and the University Piano Trio, and performed extensively as a freelance violinist throughout the North Texas region. He was the founding conductor of the Arlington Youth Symphony, served as conductor for the Trinity Symphony and the Arlington Opera Association, and associate conductor of the Youth Orchestras of Greater Fort Worth. In addition, he maintained a substantial private violin studio of students at all levels. In addition to the publications he writes for The FJH Music Company Inc., he writes for other major publishers and the many compositions and arrangements he has written have become bestsellers and Editors’ Choice selections in the educational music arena. He is co-author of the popular string class methods, New Directions® for Strings and A Scale in Time, published by The FJH Music Company Inc. He also co-authored a popular collection of pieces for young string players, String Premiere.
Explore Publications by Robert D. McCashin
Title | Ensemble | Series | Grade | Item | New! |
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Helter-Skelter | String Orchestra | ST6001 | |||
Symphony No. 4 First Movement | String Orchestra | ST6007 | |||
Slavonic Dance, Opus 46, No. 1 | String Orchestra | ST6008 | |||
Egmont Overture | String Orchestra | ST6034 | |||
Cantabile from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 | String Orchestra | ST6040 | |||
Concerto in D Major First Movement | String Orchestra | ST6042 | |||
Andante from Symphony No. 5 | String Orchestra | ST6061 | |||
Dumfries Place | String Orchestra | ST6062 | |||
Carillon from L'arlesienne Suite No. 1 | String Orchestra | ST6063 | |||
Introduction and Allegro | String Orchestra | ST6064 | |||
Academic Festival Overture, Opus 80 | String Orchestra | ST6080 | |||
Slavonic Dance, Opus 46, No. 8 | String Orchestra | ST6082 | |||
Prelude to Te Deum | String Orchestra | ST6083 | |||
Sonata in G | String Orchestra | ST6084 | |||
Symphony No. 104 "London" First Movement | String Orchestra | ST6097 | |||
Marche Militaire in D Major | String Orchestra | ST6110 | |||
Danse Russe Trepak from The Nutcracker | String Orchestra | ST6129 | |||
Suite from Don Juan | String Orchestra | ST6130 | |||
Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" First Movement | String Orchestra | ST6131 | |||
Allegretto from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 | String Orchestra | ST6149 | |||
Variations on Paganini | String Orchestra | ST6150 | |||
Largo from Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" | String Orchestra | ST6153 | |||
Blue Danube, The | String Orchestra | ST6162 | |||
Themes from The Merry Widow | String Orchestra | ST6179 | |||
Little Suite for Strings | String Orchestra | ST6181 | |||
Russian Easter Overture | String Orchestra | ST6183 | |||
Sonata No. 8 | String Orchestra | ST6184 | |||
Gymnopédie No. 1 | String Orchestra | ST6203 | |||
Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila | String Orchestra | ST6213 | |||
Minuetto from Symphony No. 35 "Haffner" | String Orchestra | ST6216 | |||
Themes from Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" | String Orchestra | ST6220 | |||
Minuet from Petite Suite | String Orchestra | ST6229 | |||
Pizzicato Polka | String Orchestra | ST6239 | |||
Symphony No 2 in A Major | String Orchestra | ST6242 | |||
Two Scenes from Kinderstucke | String Orchestra | ST6246 | |||
Fandango! | String Orchestra | ST6260 | |||
Allegro Molto from Symphone No.1 | String Orchestra | ST6264 | |||
Overture to Idomeneo | String Orchestra | ST6265 | |||
Concerto in C Major | String Orchestra | ST6271 | |||
Suite from the Magic Flute | String Orchestra | ST6282 | |||
To A Wild Rose | String Orchestra | ST6293 | |||
Allegro from Sinfonia No. 6 | String Orchestra | ST6315 | |||
Balletto | String Orchestra | ST6316 | |||
Suite for Strings | String Orchestra | ST6321 | |||
Lyric Pieces | String Orchestra | ST6324 | |||
Allegro Moderato | String Orchestra | ST6336 | |||
Allegretto from Symphony No 3 | String Orchestra | ST6340 | |||
Pavane and Lesquercarde | String Orchestra | ST6344 | |||
Grave and Allegro | String Orchestra | ST6348 | |||
Presto in D Major | String Orchestra | ST6367 | |||
Romance for Strings | String Orchestra | ST6370 | |||
Allegro from Concerto in D Major | String Orchestra | ST6374 | |||
Pavane and La Volta | String Orchestra | ST6394 | |||
Allegro con brio from Sym No 8 | String Orchestra | ST6399 | |||
Presto from Sym No 1 | String Orchestra | ST6400 | |||
Puicinella | String Orchestra | ST6414 | |||
Overture to Rienzi | String Orchestra | ST6415 | |||
Menuetto From Symphony No 5 | String Orchestra | ST6417 | |||
Allegro from Serenade No 1 in D | String Orchestra | ST6418 | |||
Concerto Grosso in D Major | String Orchestra | ST6439 | |||
Largo and Presto | String Orchestra | ST6441 | |||
Preludio to La Traviata | String Orchestra | ST6442 | |||
Symphony No 6 | String Orchestra | ST6443 | |||
Overture to Rob-Roy | String Orchestra | ST6463 | |||
Fingal's Cave | String Orchestra | ST6465 | |||
Prelude to Die Miestersinger | String Orchestra | ST6467 | |||
Sinfonia in D Minor | String Orchestra | ST6468 | |||
Larghetto and Allegro from Sonata No. 4 | String Orchestra | ST6491 | |||
Symphony No. 1 First Movement | String Orchestra | ST6492 | |||
Overture from Suite No. 3 in D Major | String Orchestra | ST6493 | |||
Album for the Young | String Orchestra | ST6496 | |||
Suite from Carmen | String Orchestra | ST6497 | |||
Suite in D Major from Sonata a Quattro (WoO 4) | String Orchestra | ST6525 | |||
Passo Mezzo from Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 1 | String Orchestra | ST6526 | |||
Polka from Czech Suite | String Orchestra | ST6538 | |||
Andante and Allegro from Symphony No. 10 | String Orchestra | ST6541 | |||
New Directions® For Strings Book 2 | String Orchestra | New Directions® For Strings | SB304 | ||
Scale in Time, A | String Orchestra | A Scale in Time | SB306 | ||
New Directions® For Strings Book 1 | String Orchestra | New Directions® For Strings | SB303 |