Music from "Beauty and the Beast" (arr Lavender)
Alan Menken (arr. Paul Lavender)
General Info
Year: 1991 / 2017
Duration: c. 2:35
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00; (digital) - $60.00 | Score Only (print) - $5.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Full Score
Part 1
- Flute
- Oboe
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- B-flat Trumpet
- Violin
Part 2
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Trumpet
- Violin
Part 3
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Clarinet
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- F Horn
- Violin
- Viola
Part 4
- Bassoon
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- F Horn
- Cello
Part 5
- Bassoon
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- Trombone
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- String Bass
- Electric Bass
- Cello
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bells
- Crash Cymbals
- Drum Set
- Shaker
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The familiar songs from the original animated classic Beauty and the Beast have been revived and reintroduced for the recent live-action blockbuster movie. This concise medley includes the title song along with Belle and Be Our Guest in a flexibly scored version that will sound great with groups of varied sizes and instrumentations.
- Program Note from publisher
Beauty and the Beast (Tale as Old as Time) is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for the Disney animated feature film Beauty and the Beast (1991). The film's theme song, the Broadway-inspired ballad was first recorded by British-American actress Angela Lansbury in her role as the voice of the character Mrs. Potts, and essentially describes the relationship between its two main characters Belle and the Beast, specifically how the couple has learned to accept their differences and in turn change each other for the better. Additionally, the song's lyrics imply that the feeling of love is as timeless and ageless as a "tale as old as time".
Lansbury's rendition is heard during the famous ballroom sequence between Belle and the Beast, while a shortened chorale version plays in the closing scenes of the film, and the song's motif features frequently in other pieces of Menken's film score.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Eastern Illinois University [Charleston] Symphonic Band [Jaida Brockman, conductor]- 9 November 2020
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Music from "Aladdin" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1992)
- Music from "Beauty and the Beast" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Lavender) (1991/2017)
All Wind Works
- Aladdin (arr. Jennings) (1992)
- Be Our Guest
- Beauty and the Beast (arr. Bocook) (1992/2017)
- Beauty and the Beast (arr. Custer) (1991/1992)
- Beauty and the Beast (arr. Moss) (1992)
- Beauty and the Beast (arr. Ninmer) (1992)
- Beauty and the Beast (arr. Parson) (1992)
- Beauty and the Beast Medley (arr. Mashima) (1991/1996)
- The Bells of Notre Dame
- Colors of the Wind (arr. Higgins) (1995)
- Colors of the Wind (arr. Lavender) (1995)
- A Disney Spectacular (arr. Moss) (1993)
- Friend Like Me
- Go the Distance (arr. Bocook) (1997)
- Go the Distance (arr. Brown) (1997)
- Go the Distance (arr. Kotovsky) (1997/2018)
- Hercules
- Highlights from Walt Disney Pictures' "Enchanted" (arr. Brown) (2008)
- How Does a Moment Last Forever (arr. Brown) (2017)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (arr. Custer) (1996)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (arr. Moss) (1996)
- The Little Mermaid (arr. Bocook) (1990)
- Little Mermaid Medley (arr. Hoshide) (1989/2006)
- Medley from "Beauty and the Beast" (arr. Brown) (1991)
- Music from "Aladdin" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1992)
- Music from "Beauty and the Beast" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Lavender) (1991/2017)
- Overture from "Beauty and the Beast" (arr. Lavender)
- Place Called Home, A
- Pocahontas
- Prince Ali
- Selections from "Aladdin" (arr. Moss)
- Tangled Melody
- Under the Sea (arr. Nowak) (1989/1990)
- A Whole New World (arr. Lavender) (1992)
Resources
- Alan Menken website Accessed 11 August 2020
- Beauty and the Beast (Disney song), Wikipedia Accessed 28 May 2017
- Perusal score