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Off to Ca! One of my favorite activities as a child and one I still enjoy to this day is caing in the oods. Hiking through trails and observing all that nature has to offer during the day and gazing at the moon or the stars at night by the cafire are exeriences I ill cherish forever. I hoe you enjoy this nature-insired collection. Art by Myles Mathis Myles Mathis is a self-taught artist ho lives in Mission, B.C. Although he has orked in various mediums since childhood, he has focused mainly on atercolours since 996. His atercolours, hich have been exhibited in numerous art shos throughout the Fraser Valley, feature a ide scoe of subject material including landscaes, seascaes, animals, and human interest. He has received several aards for his art including B.C. Wildlife Artist of the Year for 009. He is currently a member of the Mission Arts Council and has been a member of the Mission Arts Association and the Fraser Valley Watermedia Society in Abbotsford. Many thanks to Myles for ainting the cover and draing the sketches for this collection.
Contents Sider Webs......................... Don t Pick the Mushrooms!........... Bull Frog.............................6 Cafire Stories..................... 8 Middle Part for Cafire Stories.......9 Starry Night......................... 0 Banana Slugs........................ Hoing Rocks...................... Sord Ferns........................ Dancing Moon.......................6 Songbird............................ 7 Enormous Tree...................... 8 Tall as a Tree........................ 9 Rickety Bridge..................... 0 Little Robin......................... At the Pond........................ Teacher Notes......................
Lively As Sider Webs the lead - er on the trail, I'm the first to see. Sloer Si - der ebs are ev' - ry U - here, U f e - ven stuck to me! Teacher Duet (Student lays an octave higher than ritten) R.H. L.H. Lively U u Sloer Coyright 0-06
Moderately White, Don't Pick the Mushrooms! ink and red ones, yel - lo and blue, 9 black ones, or - ange ones but not.. Some are small and skin - ny, oth - ers big and for you! round. f Don't (both hands) ick the mush - rooms! Leave them in the ground! Coyright 0-06
6 6 Haily What's Get that mov-ing - ting clos - er, on Bull Frog * ti toe in the ground No it's still. What I can see. gi have I found - ant bull frog! f It's a 0 * knock or ta lightly on the iano Teacher Duet (Play an octave loer. Student lays as ritten) 8 Haily R.H. L.H. # # #.. j.. # # # j.... # # j.... # # # # j.. #. j... j Coyright 0-06
8 Mysteriously Cafire Stories Late at night, 'round the fire, I can feel my heart Watch the flames, they all dance, ev - en af - ter mid - - beat. night.. In Em bers Slee no if you the oods, glo, there's a fade to hol. black. I can hear it no!. can! ff Boo! Teacher Duet (Student lays an octave higher) Mysteriously 6. # #. f Coyright 0-06
9 Middle Part for Cafire Stories Coose a melody using these keys and the rhythm belo to create a middle art for Cafire Stories. Add your on dynamics. A C D E F G LH RH Ca They ill h h - fire stor make you h - ies, lis shud - der. - ten if They'll give you you a dare! scare! Coyright 0-06
0 9 Dreamy Starry Night Play an octave higher than ritten, octaves higher on reeat otional: hold the right edal don throughout Coyright 000-06
Smoothly Banana Slugs Yel - lo slugs are not de - li - cious. Don't be - lieve their name. They may look much like the fruit but they don't taste the same! f Teacher Duet (Play an octave higher. Student lays as ritten.) b L.H. Coyright 0-06
Haily.. Hoing Rocks........ 9.... Teacher Duet (Student lays an octave higher) R.H. 7 legato.... L.H....... Coyright 0-06
Brightly You're Sord Ferns a hear - ty - ev - er - green. f Gran - dest fern I've ev er - seen. You're Teacher Duet (Student lays an octave higher) Brightly b b b b b ed. simile Coyright 0-06
6 Gloing Dancing Moon When See the moon, shin - ing bright, dan -cing ith the clouds to - night. the sun - light fills the sky, he'll take a bo and say good - bye. Teacher Duet (Play an octave higher. Student lays as ritten.) legato Coyright 0-06
7 9 Songbird Both hands lay octaves higher than ritten Seetly otional: hold the right edal don throughout Sloer U U Coyright 0-06
8 Grandly Look ay u Enormous Tree Sloer Ma to the sky. We could climb u ve - ry high. - ny bran - ches as you see: an e - nor - mous tree! f Teacher Duet (Student lays an octave higher.) Grandly j J Sloer Coyright 0-06 ed. simile j J
9 Tall as a Tree RH C D E Coose your on iece using these keys and the rhythm belo. Add a second verse if you like. LH I ish that I ere as tall as a tree. Im a gine ho far I d be ab le to see! Coyright 0-06
0 Mysteriously Rick - et - y bridge Rickety Bridge is sca - ry to cross. Most of it's rot- ten and 7 cov - ered in moss. One day soon it's go - ing to fall. 7 Creak, croak, bash, bam! ff I don't think I ant to cross it at all! U Coyright 0-06
9 Seetly Lit Little Robin - tle rob - in red - breast lives in a nest. She Lit has lit - tle chicks to feed. They like bugs the best! - tle rob - in red - breast fly - ing lo and high. Seek ritardando - ing food for lit - tle chicks she soars through the sky. f Coyright 0-06
Gracefully -. At the Pond LH over. U U LH over U U LH over Coyright 0-06
Off to Ca! Notes for Teachers Features of the Pieces Sider Webs middle C osition ith hands together at the end, uadrule meter, marked Lively, fermata, change of teo (Sloer), dynamic range f, teacher duet. Don t Pick the Mushrooms! middle C osition ith hands together at the end, uadrule meter, marked Moderately, cluster, staccato, 8vb, dynamic range f. Bull Frog middle C osition, uadrule meter, marked Haily, staccato, slurs, dynamic range f, hand ercussion, teacher duet. Cafire Stories middle C osition ith extension to treble A, uadrule meter, marked Mysteriously, reeat signs, first and second endings, dynamic range ff, teacher duet. Middle Part for Cafire Stories oortunity to coose a melody to lyrics ith a sile rhythm over a single-note LH accoaniment (middle C hand osition). Starry Night middle C osition ith hands together at the end, trile meter, marked Dreamy, cluster, octave dislacements, otional daer edal, dynamic range. Banana Slugs middle C osition ith extension to treble B, uadrule meter, marked Smoothly, crescendo, dynamic range f, teacher duet. Hoing Rocks - middle C osition ith extension to treble C (LH crossover), uadrule meter, marked Haily, staccato, reeat sign, first and second endings, dynamic range, teacher duet. Sord Ferns middle C osition ith hands together near the end, trile meter, marked Brightly, dynamic range f, teacher duet. Dancing Moon C osition, uadrule meter, marked Gloing, dynamic range, diminuendo, teacher duet. Songbird middle C and C osition, uadrule meter, marked Seetly, fermata, dynamic range to, otional edal held throughout, octave dislacements, teo change (Sloer). Enormous Tree middle C and C osition, uadrule meter, marked Grandly, crescendo, teo change (Sloer), dynamic range to f, teacher duet. Tall as a Tree oortunity to coose a melody to lyrics ith a sile rhythm using the hole tone scale, trile meter. Rickety Bridge middle C ith RH extension to treble B and C osition, trile meter, marked Mysteriously, fermata, daer edal held, crescendo, dynamic range - ff. Little Robin C osition ith extension to treble C, uadrule meter, marked Seetly, ritardando, dynamic range f, crescendo and diminuendo. At the Pond - C osition ith extension to treble C, uadrule meter, marked Gracefully, crossovers, cluster, fermata, ritardando, dynamic range to, crescendo and diminuendo, reeat signs ith first and second endings, 8va, daer edal.