Time Pieces - Dalmaine, Cyril

An unusual and imaginative album by Cyril Dalmaine containing fourteen musical impressions of clocks, watches and other devices for telling the time. Teachers will find this book particularly useful for developing a pupils sense of rhythm and an even pulse. Suggested grade 0-1.

Contents

• Cuckoo Clock Says Its Four O'Clock
• Grandmother Clock Chimes Noon
• Mantle Clock Strikes Three
• Tick-tock Tune of the Bedside Watch
• Musical Clock Plays a Minuet
• A Fine Old Thomas Tompion
• Chimes from the Village Church
• Five Booms From The Grandfather Clock
• Flower Clock In The Sunken Garden
• Drip, Drip, Drip of the Water-Clock
• Tea-Time By The Sundial
• The Clock That Ticked In The Empty House
• Song of the Hour-Glass
• Wake Up! Shrills The Alarm Clock

Composer and critic Cyril Carr Dalmaine graduated from the Royal College of Music and was Music master at Uppington School before going on to become chorus master to the BBC. He is most famous for coining the term 'Lord Haw-Haw' in his work as radio critic of the Daily Express under the pseudonym Jonah Barrington, in reference to the Nazi propaganda broadcasts of William Joyce during the Second World War.

Dalmaine was also a record presenter in the pre-1955 days and responsible for the 'discovery' of the then deceased Italian tenor, Alessandro Valente, giving Valente enjoyed a considerable posthumous vogue. As a composer Dalmaine wrote chamber music, and transcribed the cantatas of J.S. Bach to piano as well as a wide range of piano and string works published by Forsyth.

His works such as Variations from Versailles and Pathway to the Proms remain in print and are well worth re-discovering, while his arrangements of popular classics in our Silhouette Series remain best sellers.

ISMN	9790570500536 (M570500536)