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Dancing Songs

composer: Phillip Rhodes

Instrumentation: children's choir and Orff-instruments
Publisher: Schott Music Corporation
Duration: 17' 0''
Edition: score
Language: English
Series: Orff-Schulwerk - Music for Children (American Edition)
62 Pages
ISMN: 979-0-2201-17
Order number: SMC 35

Price: 24,95 €

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Description:

A song cycle for voices and Orff instruments. Two instrumental interludes, providing opportunity for movement and dance, allow the performance of the work as a single larger piece. The contemporary harmonies create a dramatic and sophisticated experience for junior and secondary school grades. A useful mini-score s provided.


Content:

Prelude
Summer Dance
Interlude
The Camel Dances
Interlude
Rain Dance
Postlude


Author

Carl Orff was born in Munich on 10 July 1895. Already in 1900 he was taking piano, cello and organ lessons. In the same year his first printed work (Eiland, ein Sang vom Chiemsee) was published, and he took his first systematic courses of music theory. In 1912 Orff composed his first choral work (Also sprach Zarathustra) and an early opera (Gisei, das Opfer, completed in 1913). ...more

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