Database of manuscripts

Work

  • Composer: Tormis, Veljo
  • Years: 07.08.1930 - 21.01.2017
  • Title: Granparents' Chest of Tunes
  • Genre: Works for children’s choir and instrument(s)
  • Instrumentation: children's choir, 2 recorders (ad lib)
  • Number of movements: 29
  • Titles of movements:

    1. Pussycat on a Tree Stump, I (Valter Anderson, Karl-Eduard Sööt)
    2. Children, Come Indoors! (Eduard Ludvig Wõhrmann)
    3. Let’s File Off, Boys! (Ernst Enno)
    4. Left, Right
    5. Shrovetide (Peeter Jakobson)
    6. On a Hobby Horse (Voldemar Tamman)
    7. Spring Festival
    8. Sheperd’s Morning Song (Friedrich Kuhlbars)
    9. The Sound of the Horn (Johann Voldemar Jannsen)
    10. Herdboy (Jakob Hurt)
    11. Pit-a-pat, Little One! (Ernst Enno)
    12. A Spinning Song (Jakob Tamm)
    13. Fair Tiiu, Maiden of the Farm
    14. Oh I Am a Little Lad
    15. Kalevipoeg’s Song ("Kalevipoeg", III) ; Pussycat on a Tree Stump, II (Valter Anderson, Karl-Eduard Sööt)
    16. Up We Go, Dear Brothers
    17. Sail On, Roll On, Little Boat (Martin Körber)
    18. The Lake is Set Aflame by Dusk (Anna Haava)
    19. An Evening Song (Friedrich Kuhlbars, Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck´s melody)
    20. Does the Little Bird Worry? (W. K. H. Nylander)
    21. In Spring (Karl August Hermann, Paul Tekkel)
    22. Tew, Tew, Tiny Tit
    23. The Swallow and the Lark
    24. Cuckoo, Cuckoo!
    25. The Cuckoo is Singing
    26. The Crow is Pankster
    27. Tsa-tsa, Ra-ra
    28. Uppity-Uppity-Up (Ado Piirikivi)
    29. My Little Buckie ; Pussycat on a Tree Stump, III (vocalise)
    Coda. Ellerhein Choir’s Themesong (Heino Kaljuste, Friedrich Saebelmann´s melody motif)

  • Text: folklore, Estonian national epic "Kalevipoeg" III, various authors
  • Dedication: to Heino Kaljuste, Tiia-Ester Loitme and the Ellerhein children's choir
  • Incipit (lyrics): Meie kiisul kriimud silmad, istus metsas kännu otsas, istus metsas kännu otsas
  • Year: 1986.

Manuscripts


  • Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
  • Sort: Score
  • Composer: Tormis, Veljo
  • Work: Granparents' Chest of Tunes
  • Number of pages: 52
  • Date: 1986
  • Status: Finished
  • Location: Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
  • Number: ETMM_10510 M 318:2/210

  • Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
  • Sort: Score
  • Composer: Tormis, Veljo
  • Work: Granparents' Chest of Tunes
  • Number of pages: 4
  • Date:
  • Status: Finished
  • Location: Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
  • Number: ETMM_10510 M 318:2/210
  • Additional notes: 25. Cuckoo, Cuckoo!

  • Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
  • Sort: Score
  • Composer: Tormis, Veljo
  • Work: Granparents' Chest of Tunes
  • Number of pages: 96
  • Date: 1986
  • Status: Finished
  • Location: Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
  • Number: ETMM_10510 M 318:2/210

  • Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
  • Sort: Score
  • Composer: Tormis, Veljo
  • Work: Granparents' Chest of Tunes
  • Number of pages: 54
  • Date:
  • Status: Unfinished
  • Draft: Yes
  • Location: Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
  • Number: ETMM_10510 M 318:2/210
  • Additional notes: partly without text

  • Type of manuscript: Photo copy
  • Sort: Score
  • Composer: Tormis, Veljo
  • Work: Granparents' Chest of Tunes
  • Number of pages: 52
  • Date: 1986
  • Status: Finished
  • Location: Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
  • Number: ETMM_11538 M 318:2/211

  • Type of manuscript: Photo copy
  • Sort: Score
  • Composer: Tormis, Veljo
  • Work: Granparents' Chest of Tunes
  • Number of pages: 52
  • Date: 1986
  • Status: Finished
  • Location: Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
  • Number: ETMM_11538 M 318:2/211

  • Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
  • Sort: Score
  • Composer: Tormis, Veljo
  • Work: Granparents' Chest of Tunes
  • Number of pages: 2
  • Date:
  • Status: Finished
  • Location: Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
  • Number: ETMM_12714 M 318:2/219
  • Additional notes: 20. Does the Little Bird Worry?

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