Gordon Jacob

Six Songs About Beasts

Gordon Jacob's Six Songs About Beasts is a work for Unison Voices and Piano Accompaniment, featuring six individual songs about dinosaurs, pigs, snails, penguins, Biblical Mokes andMan.
Jacob was a highly revered composer for wind instruments and writer of instructional books. His Six Songs About Beasts is a fantastic collection, often humourous, that soundsgreat with the Unison Voices combining so well with the Piano Accompaniment. The joy of these six songs is that the music captures the distinct traits and characteristics of each individual animal so brilliantly, using allthetechniques available to represent, in music, each beast, until finally a celebration of man.