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Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: ScoreFour Songs from Grimm's : for SATB choir and piano VOCAL SCORE PRICING [eScore] / music by Luke Byrne ; lyrics adapted by Luke Byrne from Grimms' fairy tales.by Luke Byrne (2017)
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I became acquainted with Grimms' tales through reading The Singing Bones by the peerless Australian author and artist Shaun Tan. In his book, Shaun Tan does not simply illustrate or re-tell these rough, gruesome and enthralling stories, but creates a single clay sculpture for each story he chose, accompanied by a short excerpt of text. Together these capture an essence of each story.
The four stories that I have chosen may never be as famous as "Cinderella" or "Hansel & Gretel", but they are no less wonderful, especially the last one, "Foundling". In both this and "The Worn-out Dancing Shoes" I have taken my cue from Shaun Tan and aimed to capture an essence of each story: an atmosphere of foreboding, a repeated, simple plea from one child to another.
However, in some instances I just had to tell the whole story, and "The Mouse, the Bird & the Sausage" can be told like a synopsis without losing its wit and high moral tone. Similarly "The Three Snake Leaves" is such a rollercoaster of a yarn that I had to musically set as much of its drama and brutality as possible.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (50p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Medium — Virtuosic piano part
Duration: 17 min.
First performance by NSW Public Schools Singers, Elizabeth Scott — Oct 17. Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Includes program notes and copy of full lyrics.
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This edition produced 2019.
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