About The Music
Cha Cha Coconuts, is an energetic Latin-American style piece influenced by Afro-Cuban rhythms, making use of the cha-cha dance rhythm for its motif.
Easy Street Boogie is a fun “Boogie woogie” style tune that utilizes the Jazz shuffle beat. A solo section gives a chance for players to explore improvisation and build upon their own ideas.
In A Spanish Courtyard explores the character and flavor of spanish music and how it is used with the traditional dances of hispanic culture.
New Bolero begins simple, then adds new repetitive parts at each restatement of the melodic passages played by the recorder, teaching students how adding parts and gradually increasing volume (dynamics) over the entire musical work creates intensity and energy.
Quiet Dance provides a contrasting musical moment in a concert setting and a teachable moment to audiences to “get quiet” so as not to disrupt the performance and miss the best parts - the performance by the students!
Tango By The Sea uses syncopated rhythms and is based on the tango dance. The minor key and sounds of the ocean sets a picture of two dancers, dancing the tango on the sand at sunset. Use the included ocean sounds audio track in live performance to add atmosphere and imagery!
The Happy Blacksmith is a lighthearted song that incorporates the sound of the blacksmith’s hammer for musical effect by using an iron skillet to create the sound of the anvil. Also includes a recorder part and the original “Happy Blacksmith” song with printable music and lyrics for singers.
Waltz Humoresque is a waltz with a sense of humor. The bass drum/Tubano part is the humorous element, happening unexpectedly, as if rudely interrupting a conversation, or the punch line to a joke.
Easy Street Boogie is a fun “Boogie woogie” style tune that utilizes the Jazz shuffle beat. A solo section gives a chance for players to explore improvisation and build upon their own ideas.
In A Spanish Courtyard explores the character and flavor of spanish music and how it is used with the traditional dances of hispanic culture.
New Bolero begins simple, then adds new repetitive parts at each restatement of the melodic passages played by the recorder, teaching students how adding parts and gradually increasing volume (dynamics) over the entire musical work creates intensity and energy.
Quiet Dance provides a contrasting musical moment in a concert setting and a teachable moment to audiences to “get quiet” so as not to disrupt the performance and miss the best parts - the performance by the students!
Tango By The Sea uses syncopated rhythms and is based on the tango dance. The minor key and sounds of the ocean sets a picture of two dancers, dancing the tango on the sand at sunset. Use the included ocean sounds audio track in live performance to add atmosphere and imagery!
The Happy Blacksmith is a lighthearted song that incorporates the sound of the blacksmith’s hammer for musical effect by using an iron skillet to create the sound of the anvil. Also includes a recorder part and the original “Happy Blacksmith” song with printable music and lyrics for singers.
Waltz Humoresque is a waltz with a sense of humor. The bass drum/Tubano part is the humorous element, happening unexpectedly, as if rudely interrupting a conversation, or the punch line to a joke.
