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Music By: Camille-Saint- Saens Poetry By: Ogden Nash

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Music By: Camille-Saint-Saens Poetry By: Ogden Nash . Camille Saint-Saens. Camille Saint-Saens, a late-Romantic French Composer. Composed Carnival of the Animals while vacationing in a small Austrian Village in 1886. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Music By: Camille-Saint-Saens Poetry By: Ogden Nash

Music By: Camille-Saint-Saens

Poetry By: Ogden Nash

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• Camille Saint-Saens, a late-Romantic French Composer.

• Composed Carnival of the Animals while vacationing in a small Austrian Village in 1886.

• Afraid that the composition would seem frivolous and others would not take his work seriously, he refused the publish it.

• Only the Movement the Swan would be released for the public.

• Only close friends, such as Franz Liszt, would hear the composition in it’s entirety.

• After much persuasion, Saint-Saens agreed to release the composition to the public only after he passed away.

• Since February 1922 it has been one of his most famous works

Camille Saint-Saens

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Introduction

IntroductionCamille Saint-Saens

Was wracked with pains,When people addressed him,

As Saint Saens.He held the human race to blame,

Because it could not pronounce his name,So, he turned with metronome and fife,

To glorify other kinds of life,Be quiet please – for here begins

His salute to feathers, fur and fins.

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I. Introduction et marche royale du lion (Introduction and Royal March of the Lion).

The LionThe lion is the king of beasts,And husband of the lioness.

Gazelles and things on which he feasts

Address him as your highoness.There are those that admire

that roar of his,In the African jungles and

velds,But, I think that wherever the

lion is,I’d rather be somewhere else.

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II Poules et coqs (Hens and Roosters)

Cocks and HensThe rooster is a

roistering hoodlum,His battle cry is cock-

a-doodleum.Hands in pockets,

cap over eye,He whistles at

pullets, passing by.

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III Hémiones (animaux véloces) (quick animals)

The Wild JackassHave ever you harked to the

jackass wild,Which scientists call the onager?It sounds like the laugh of an idiot

child,Or a hepcat on a harmoniger,

But do not sneer at the jackass wild,

There is a method in his heehaw,For with maidenly blush and

accent mildThe jenny-ass answers shee-haw.

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IV Tortues (Tortoises)

The TortoiseCome crown my brow with

leaves of myrtle,I know the tortoise is a turtle,Come carve my name in stone

immortal,I know the tortoise is a tortle.

I know to my profound despair,

I bet on one to beat a hare,I also know I’m now a pauper,Because of its totley, turtley,

torper.

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V L'éléphant (The Elephant)The Elephant

Elephants are useful friends,Equipped with handles at

both ends.They have a wrinkled moth

proof hide,Their teeth are upside

down, outside,If you think the elephant

preposterous,You’ve probably never seen

a rhinosterous.

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VI Kangourous (Kangaroos)

KangaroosThe kangaroo can jump

incredible,He has to jump because he

is edible,I could not eat a kangaroo,But many fine Australians

do,Those with cookbooks as

well as boomerangs,Prefer him in tasty

kangaroomeringues.

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VII AquariumThe Aquarium

Some fish are minnows,Some are whales,

People like dimples,Fish like scales,

Some fish are slim,And some are round,They don’t get cold,

They don’t get drowned,But every fishwifeFears for her fish,

What we call mermaidsThey call merfish.

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VIII Personnages à longues oreilles (Characters with Long Ears)

MulesIn the world of mulesThere are no rules.

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X Le coucou au fond des bois (The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods)

The Cuckoo in the Wild

Cuckoos lead bohemian lives,

They fail as husbands and as

wives,Therefore, they

cynically disparageEverybody else’s

marriage.

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X Volière (Aviary)Birds

Puccini was Latin, and Wagner Teutonic,

And birds are incurable philharmonic,

Suburban yards and rural vistasAre filled with avian Andrew

Sisters.The skylark sings a roundelay,The crow sings “The Road to

Mandalay,”The nightingale sings a lullaby,And the sea gull sings a gullaby.That’s what shepherds listened

to in ArcadiaBefore somebody invented the

radia.

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XI Pianistes (Pianists) Pianists

Some claim that pianists are human,

Heh, and quote the case of Mr. Truman.

Saint Saens on the other hand,

Considered them a scurvy band,

A blight they are he said, and simian,

Instead of normal men and wimian.

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XII Fossiles (Fossils)Fossils

At midnight in the museum hall,The fossils gathered for a ball,

There were no drums or saxophones,

But just the clatter of their bones,Rolling, rattling carefree circus,

Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas,

Pterodactyls and brontosaurusesSang ghostly prehistoric choruses,

Amid the mastodonic wassailI caught the eye of one small

fossil,“Cheer up sad world,” he said and

winked,“It’s kind of fun to be extinct.”

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XIII Le cygne (The Swan)

The SwanThe swan can swim while sitting down,For pure conceit he

takes the crown,He looks in the mirror

over and ovea,And claims to have

never heard of Pavlova.

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XIV FinaleThe Grand Finale

Now we’ve reached the grand finale, On an animalie, carnivalie, Noises new to sea and land, Issue from the skillful band,

All the strings contort their features, Imitating crawly creatures,All the brasses look like mumps from blowing umpah, umpah,

umps,In outdoing Barnum and Bailey, and Ringling, Saint Saens has

done a miraculous thingling.

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Primary ~ Pre-K & KinderMaterials PPT-Ebook Move it DVD-Follow along

with dancers Kids can Listen & Move

Dance instructions Listening map with dance

instructions.

Passport Entry: Draw or Write about…

An animal that you would like to be in the carnival of animals

What type of instrument should represent your animal?

Expectations Remember…

Listen and follow along with the story and music.

Hear how the music represents the animals.

Be respectful and safe with yourself and others while you’re dancing.

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Lower Elementary ~ 1, 2, & 3 Choose a poem of an insect or animal by Ogden Nash, the poet of Carnival of the Animals.

Get into small groups with people who want your animal or insect also.

Read the poem together Create a composition using

xylophones, glockenspiels, and other percussion instruments that represent your animal or insect.

Passport Entry: Write about… What poem your group did. What kind of instruments

you used in your composition.

What you learned.

Performance1. Introduce each

member of your group

2. Read the poem to the audience

3. Perform your composition to the

class

Remember…The goal is to make the music sound just like the poem of your animal or

insect.

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ExpectationsRemember… Always treat the instruments with respect. Which mallets go with each instrument. Be gentle and safe with all instruments and

members of your group. Be respectful during everyone’s

performance… Eyes on the performers, sit up, listen silently, and applaud when finished.

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Upper Elementary ~ 4, 5, & 6 After listening to Carnival of the Animals,

what kind of animal or insect would you add to the carnival?

Write a poem using a Haikou, an acronym, or rhyming foundation something similar to Nash, about your animal/insect in your Passport.

After creating your poem, what type of music would you hear for your animal/insect? Instruments, tempo, melody, harmony, etc…

Read poem and/or composition to class… You may work separately or in small groups,

3 or less. Remember… you only have 45 minutes