Schott Animal Cracker Suite and Other Poems Schott Series Composed by Deborah A. Imiolo-Schriver

Animal Cracker Suite is a set of four original poems arranged for speech chorus, body percussion, and percussion ensemble. Twenty-one additional original poems are included for teachers and students to make their own musical settings. Introduction · Part I: Animal Cracker Suite · Instrumentation and Abbreviations · The Poems · Suggestions for Performance · 1. The Bullfrog · 2. Starfish · 3. Laughing Hyena · 4. A Woodpecker · Part II: Poems Set Rhythmically · Merry-Go-Round · Jacob · The Spider Plant · The Magic Carpet · Let's Pass Our Shoes · Toronto Song · Dinosaur · Milkman · Part III: Other Poems for Musical Setting · Timothy Turtle · Graduating · Baby Bug · The Clockman · Fantasy Island · Mammals · Under the Mistletoe · Halloween · Slippery Seapuppy · There's a Ghost · The Happy Little Family · Fifty Nifty Sailors · The Death and Birth of Autumn · Two Musicians · I'm Sick of Being Sick · The North