Beauty and the Beast Medley
Alan Menken (arr. Toshio Mashima)
General Info
Year: 1991 / 1996
Duration: c. 7:35
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra and voice
Publisher: De Haske, through Music Shop Europe
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $158.87 | Score Only (print) - $32.70
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet/Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Sleigh Bells
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-tam (optional)
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Wind Chimes
- Xylophone
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
The medley from the movie includes Prologue, Belle, Something There, and Beauty and the Beast.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- San Diego (Calif.) Wind Ensemble (Vince Hernandez, conductor) - 21 October 2023
- North County Winds (San Diego, Calif.) (Vince Hernandez, conductor) - 11 June 2023
- Bürgerkorpskapelle Regau (Austria) (Michael Lettner, conductor0 – 2022
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
- Alan Menken website Accessed 11 June 2023
- Beauty and the Beast (Disney song), Wikipedia Accessed 28 May 2017
- Menken, A.; Ashman, H.; Mashima, T. (1991). Beauty and the Beast Medley [score]. De Haske: Heerenveen, Neth.
- Perusal score (in Attachments)