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Carl Orff, Gunild Keetman
Music For Children: Orff-Schulwerk

Album UK 1990 on SCHOTT label
Classical, Children's Music, Folk, World and (Educational, Folk, Nursery Rhymes, Modern)

DISC 1: Tracks 1-20 are examples of speech work, rhythm, pentatonic melody in different keys, use of percussion instruments in various ways, and the building of simple forms. Tracks 21-39 enlarge the melodic range to the 7 notes of the major key. Drone bass and ostinato accompaniments give way to the use of alternating tonic and supertonic triads and tonic and submediant triads. DISC 2: Tracks 1-16 use dominant and subdominant triads in the major key and a number are in the minor pentatonic scale. Tracks 17-35 explore aeolian,dorian and phrygian modes; drone bass, I & VII chords and I & III chords. DISC 3: Tracks 1-13 use dominant (major and minor) and subdominant triads in the minor key. Tracks 14-26 use mostly modal melodies (many are Welsh, Irish or Scottish).

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	Carl Orff voc, 1895-1982 DE composed by, arranged by, directed by, ensemble, album by
	Gunild Keetman rec, DE composed by, arranged by, album by
	Margaret Murray , DE adapted by (text), arranged by, liner notes
	Downside Preparatory School For Boys choir
	Edisford Primary School, Clitheroe choir
	Kammerchor Der Staatlichen Hochschule Für Musik München , choir
	Llangefni County Primary School, Anglesey choir
	Pelham Primary School, Bexleyheath choir
	Roehampton Gate Primary School, London choir
	Sutton High School For Girls, Surrey choir
	Whitgift School, Croydon, Surrey choir
	Hermann Regner , 1928-2008 AT directed by, ensemble
	Jessica Bevan soloist
	Tia Kuchmy soloist

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