Animal Cracker Suite and Other Poems

Animal Cracker Suite is a set of four original poems arranged for speech

chorus, body percussion, and percussion ensemble. Twenty-one additional original poems are included for teachers and students to make their own musical settings. Introduction • Part I: Animal Cracker Suite • Instrumentation and Abbreviations • The Poems • Suggestions for Performance • 1. The Bullfrog • 2. Starfish • 3. Laughing Hyena • 4. A Woodpecker • Part II: Poems Set Rhythmically • Merry-Go-Round • Jacob • The Spider Plant • The Magic Carpet • Let's Pass Our Shoes • Toronto Song • Dinosaur • Milkman • Part III: Other Poems for Musical Setting • Timothy Turtle • Graduating • Baby Bug • The Clockman • Fantasy Island • Mammals • Under the Mistletoe • Halloween • Slippery Seapuppy • There's a Ghost • The Happy Little Family • Fifty Nifty Sailors • The Death and Birth of Autumn • Two Musicians • I'm Sick of Being Sick • The North

Publisher:    Schott

Item Number:    HL 49012186

Series:    Schott

Pages:    36