A Selkie Tale is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by seven- to eleven-year-olds year olds. Four solo roles and several separate chorus groups give scope for the participation of a large number of children of all ability levels.
The story is a humorous version of the Orkney folk-tale of an islander kidnapping a Selkie wife - a creature who is a seal in the sea and a woman on the land. Things go hilariously wrong, with the Selkie wife escaping to rejoin her companions in the sea, and Mansie, the islander, facing a most uncongenial alliance with his cousin and housekeeper, Miss Trowie-Tattibogle.
Bass part.
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The story is a humorous version of the Orkney folk-tale of an islander kidnapping a Selkie wife - a creature who is a seal in the sea and a woman on the land. Things go hilariously wrong, with the Selkie wife escaping to rejoin her companions in the sea, and Mansie, the islander, facing a most uncongenial alliance with his cousin and housekeeper, Miss Trowie-Tattibogle.
Bass part.
This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.
A Selkie Tale [Davies, Peter Maxwell]
| Arrangement | Double Bass |
| Genres | Post-1900 |
| Format | Instrumental Work |
| NumberOfPages | 12 |
| Media | Sheet Music |
| Publisher | Chester Music |
| Contributors | Maxwell Davies, Peter (Artist) |
| Language | English |