Kingfishers Catch Fire
Grade 4
© 2012, GIA Publications, Inc.
Item #: B-B07407 Status: Available
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Description:
This bundle includes:
1. A digital PDF of the Teacher Resource Guide from the Teaching Music textbook
2. An mp3 recording of the work
The composer writes -
A “kingfisher” is a bird with beautiful, brilliantly colored feathers that look in sunlight as if they are on fire. Kingfishers are extremely shy birds and are rarely seen, but when they are seen, they are undeniably beautiful.
The first movement, “Following falls and falls of rain,” is suspended in tone, but with hope, depicting the kingfisher slowly emerging from its nest in the early morning stillness, just after a heavy rain storm. The second movement, “Kingfishers catch fire,” imagines the bird flying out into the sunlight. The work ends with a reference to (and a bit of a pun on) Stravinsky’s “Firebird.”
Kingfishers Catch Fire is approximately twelve minutes in duration.
Format: ZIP