Music for Helmut Vaag's children's play "Unbearable Little Elephant" | Tarkpea, Vladimir

Composer: Tarkpea, Vladimir
Years: 03.09.1908 - 30.11.1978
Title: Music for Helmut Vaag's children's play "Unbearable Little Elephant"
Genre: Music to plays
Instrumentation: soloists, orchestra: clarinet, trumpet, percussion (campanelli, tambourine, gran cassa, tam-tam, piatti), piano, strings
Number of movements: 26
Titles of movements:
1. Overture. Moderato
2. Prologue and Act 1. Allegro moderato
2a. Scene 1. L'istesso tempo
3. Giraffe. Allegro moderato
4. Little Elephant. Allegro
4a. Paboon
5. Ostrich, Hippo, Paboon, Giraffe
6. Little Elephant. Andantino
7. Interlude. Allegro
7a. Ostrich. Allegro molto
8.=7.
9. Parrot's Lullaby
10. Interlude. Allegro moderato
10a. Lion. Allegro
11. Change to Scene 5. Allegro
12. Scene 5. Limpopo River. Pochissimo meno mosso
13. Python
14. End of Scene 5. Allegro
15. Prelude to Act 2. Allegro marciale
16. Scene 6. L'istesso tempo
17. Lion's Dance Song. Allegro moderato et pesante
18. End of Scene 6. Interlude. Allegro
19. Scene 7. Allegro
20. Change to Scene 8. Allegro moderato
21. Scene 8. Little Elephant Appears. Allegro moderato
22. Final Song and Postlude. Allegro moderato
Text: Rudyard Kipling, Galina Vladychina
Incipit (lyrics): Elevandipoeg kord oli džungli loomapere seas.
Year: 1948.

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