Beauty and the Beast (arr Parson)
Alan Menken (arr. Ted Parson)
General Info
Year: 1991
Duration: c. 7:05
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra and voice
Publisher: Marc Reift
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - CHF165.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute
Oboe (optional)
Bassoon (optional)
E-flat Soprano Clarinet (optional)
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet (optional)
B-flat Soprano Saxophone (optional)
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone (optional)
E-flat Cornet/Trumpet (optional)
B-flat Cornet/Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Triangle
Solo Voice (optional)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
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
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Philharmonic Wind Orchestra (Marc Reift, conductor)
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Rancho Cordova (Calif.) River City Concert Band (Tom Seaton, conductor) - 10 June 2023
- Rancho Cordova (Calif.) River City Concert Band (Tom Seaton, conductor; Crystal Neher Evans, vocal) - 19 March 2023
- Mehrzwecksaal der Landweitschaftsschule Ritzlhof – 14 November 2015
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. 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
- Beauty and the Beast (Disney song), Wikipedia Accessed 28 May 2017
- Perusal score