Using a technique called "videomotion" (namely panning and editing on film strips), these three programs in the music appreciation series introduce young viewers to well-known classical pieces. All three are illustrated by David Prebenna. In Saint-Saens Carnival of Animals, children are shown how various musical passages are used to imitate or suggest hens, mules, tortoises, kanga roos, donkeys, etc. Saint-Saens wrote the piece in 1886, primarily as an amusement for his close friends and himself; published after his death in 1921, Carnival of Animals is today considered one of the lightest and funniest scores in the standard repertory. More striking both visually and aurally is Saint-Saens Danse Macabre, a gloriously cheerful celebration of ghost dance in a cemetery. Although some of Prebenna's images are unsettling, it's unlikely that children will lose attention, as they might in Carnival of Animals. The last tape, Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, is mainly known to children through the superb animation of Walt Disney's Fantasia. While not Disney, Prebenna has done a creditable job of translating Dukas' soaring, and impish, composition into active, snowballing images. Although, as we said, these programs do not use full animation, they are more than just filmstrips transferred to video. Recommended for elementary level students and larger public libraries.
Carnival Of Animals Second Edition; Danse Macabre Second Edition; The Sorcerer's Apprentice Second Edition
(1986)/Children's/24 min./$45.75/Educational Audio Visual, Inc./public performance rights included. Vol. 2, Issue 2
Carnival Of Animals Second Edition; Danse Macabre Second Edition; The Sorcerer's Apprentice Second Edition
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