Animal Cracker Suite and Other Poems - for Children's Voices and Orff Instruments - Performance Score

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