A Third Set of Theatre Tunes

The Graded Piano Player series is ideal for anyone seeking well-crafted arrangements of tunes they love for leisure exams and to use as fun and technical repertoire between grades. The third volume in The Graded Piano Player series offers popular repertoire for pianists at Grades 3-5 and is filled with classic tunes and songs from Disney TV and film jazz pop and musical theatre. Each piece in this collection has been rigorously researched edited and fingered by top educationalists and meticulously arranged to progress in line with the ABRSM and Trinity graded Piano examinations.

Music-theatre works-The poems which form the basis of this work were inspired by a miniature mechanical organ playing eight tunes once the property of George III. A scrap of paper sold with it explains that 'This Organ was George the Third for Birds to sing'.Peter Maxwell Davies then set these poems to music and devised them as a semi-theatrical work for Male Vocalist Piano Violin Cello Flute Clarinet and Percussion. The songs are to be understood as the King's monologue while listening to his birds perform and incorporate some sentences actually spoken by George III. The resulting work Eight Songs for a Mad King was completed in 1969 and stands as one of the mostdistinctive and arguably one of the most disturbing musical works from the twentieth century.This is the vocal score which includes a Piano accompaniment.