A Selkie Tale - Vocal Score
COMPOSER:
Peter Maxwell Davies
PUBLISHER:
Chester Music
PRODUCT TYPE:
Vocal Score
INSTRUMENT GROUP:
Vocal
A Selkie Tale is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by seven- to eleven-year-olds year olds. Four solo roles and several separate chorus groups give scope for the participation of alarge number of children of all ability levels. The story is a humorous
Specifications
Composer | Peter Maxwell Davies |
Publisher | Chester Music |
Instrumentation | Vocal and Piano |
Product Type | Vocal Score |
Instrument Group | Vocal |
Style Period | Post 1901 |
Genre | Classical |
Style Period | Post 1901 |
No. Pages | 40 |
No. | MUSCT55030 |
Description
A Selkie Tale is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by seven- to eleven-year-olds year olds. Four solo roles and several separate chorus groups give scope for the participation of alarge number of children of all ability levels.
The story is a humorous version of the Orkney folk-tale of an islander kidnapping a Selkie wife - a creature who is a seal in the sea and a woman on the land. Things gohilariously wrong, with the Selkie wife escaping to rejoin her companions in the sea, and Mansie, the islander, facing a most uncongenial alliance with his cousin and housekeeper, Miss Trowie-Tattibogle.
Vocal score.
This isa special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.
The story is a humorous version of the Orkney folk-tale of an islander kidnapping a Selkie wife - a creature who is a seal in the sea and a woman on the land. Things gohilariously wrong, with the Selkie wife escaping to rejoin her companions in the sea, and Mansie, the islander, facing a most uncongenial alliance with his cousin and housekeeper, Miss Trowie-Tattibogle.
Vocal score.
This isa special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.