SKU: PR.41641646L
Composed by Daniel Dorff. With Standard notation. 52 pages. Duration 7:30. Theodore Presser Company #416-41646L. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.41641646L). UPC: 680160675944. 11 x 14 inches. Based on a traditional African folk tale.
Dorff’s seventh commission from the Philadelphia Orchestra’s education department, A TREEFUL OF MONKEYS is a setting of the folktale also known as “Caps For Sale.” Typical of Dorff’s narrated works, there is humor on the surface, and a musical curriculum in the background. The monkeys and hats go up the tree accompanied by ascending scales and melodies, and finally when all the hats cascade down the orchestra plays a beautiful cascade downward.
