the animals’ ballet volume 1
The Animals’ Ballet Vol.1 is the first part of Beate Marion Willma’s The Animals’ Ballet - a collection of twelve pieces for piano (four hands) inspired by the art work of Danish artist Hans Scherfig.
Volume 1 includes the following 6 pieces:
Elephants on their way
Two Lions
Gibbons
The Baby Hippo
Jungle Pond with Crocodiles
Two Flamingos
In the book, each piece is introduced by a short poetic text written by Beate Marion Willma. The book also includes an introduction to how the music can be used to teach piano students different techniques and translations of the poetic texts into Danish, German, French, Spanish and Italian.
Below we provide a short description of each piece and what to expect.
The sheet music for ‘The Animals' Ballet Volume 1’ by Beate Marion Willma can be purchased from Nodehuset.dk:
https://www.nodehuset.dk/vare/the-animals-ballet-vol-1-12-pieces-for-piano-four-hands-and-friends
Listen to the music just below!
Elephants on their way. In this song, listen to the big and slow adult elephants and wait for the energetic and playful young ones!
Two Lions. Join the Lions for a peaceful and lazy midday nap in the sun.
Gibbons. Listen to the playful and energetic gibbons as they move from tree to tree, chasing each other!
The Baby Hippo is pink and new. The music reflects its feelings about exploring the world.
The Jungle Pond is calm and peaceful - until the crocodiles suddenly show up!
The two Flamingos enjoy life and each other in this composition that displays love and harmony.
You can listen to the music on all major platforms!
