This week we have to pick atleast 4 songs that goes along with our book. Here are the 4 songs I picked =]
1) "Castle on a Cloud" by Les Miserables Cast. This song is sung in the musical Les Miserables by the little girl Cossette. Cossette wishes to be in the perfect castle on a cloud. She doesnt like living with her Inn family and doing there chores. This song goes with Dorothy because she lives in a grey little place and her Aunt and Uncle never seem to have fun and laugh. Dorothy wishes she could be in a place that isnt so grey.
2) "Yesterday" By The Beatles. This song a man who loses his girlfriend. This song goes with the Tin WoodMan because he was in love with a munchkin girl whose's mother didnt want her to marry him so she told the Wicked Witch of the East to get rid of him. The Wicked Witch cut the Tin WoodMans arms, legs, and head off but each time the Tin WoodMan got Tinman to make him a body. Finally the Wicked Witch of the East cut his chest and got rid of his heart. Now all the wants is a heart so he can love again.
3)"Palladio" by Karl Jenkins. This is an instrumental song. This song can be used when Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin WoodMan, and the Cowardly Lion are on there way to the Emerald City to see Oz because the woods they go through are described as scarey and they meet wierd creatures on the way. Also because the story is sort of about fighting between good and evil, Dorothy as Good and the Wicked Witch of the East as evil, and this song sounds like a battle between good and evil.
4) "Vesuvius" by Frank Ticheli. This is also an instrumental song. It is aboout when Mt. Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the city of Pompeii. This song can be used when ever the twister comes and takes Dorothys house. You can hear how in the beginning of the song it starts of calm and then turns chaotic just like in the story it starts out calm then the family starts to freak out when the twister comes.
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The song form Les Miserables is kind of ironic because Dorothea's reading that book right now but you're the one with the song, you know what I mean?
ReplyDeletethose songs seem to go along with that book very well, and it seems like a great book! (:
ReplyDeleteYes Carli I know she's reading the book. I also know the musical and know the songs. Castle on a Cloud is one of my favorite songs and I was listening to it when I was writing this and I thought it fit
ReplyDeleteAw.. nice songs for your book. I know some of them (well, one actually, Yesturday,). Good choices! :)
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