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Cirque Du Soleil Collection- Songbook | 
 enlarge | Author: Cirque Du Soleil
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 821735
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 9.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0739047868
Dewey Decimal Number: 786
EAN: 9780739047866
ASIN: 0739047868
Publication Date: July 26, 2007
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Product Description
Arranged For Piano & Guitar With Chords & Chord Frames. 20 selections from various Cirque Du Soleil productions. Also includes 4 pages of full color photographs designed by Cirque Du Soleil. A must for all fans! Contents: O, Pageant, Mio Bello Bello Amore, Kunya Sobe, If I Could Reach Your Heart, Love Dance, Nostalgie, Liama, L'Innocent, Querer, Alegria , Pokinoi , Triangle Tango, Kumbalawe, Quidam, Ombra, Gamelan, Let Me Fall, Alone, Time Flies .
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 Missed Opportunities January 7, 2008
Being an enormous fan of Cirque Du Soleil and a musician, it was only a matter of time before I picked up a Cirque music book. Fans of Cirque have always been searching for sheet music, and this book has given exactly what they have been looking for. Collection contains 20 Cirque songs, arranged for piano and vocals, accompanied by optional guitar chords. The book contains a total of 120 pages that contain well written scores and, a joy to any singers, lyrics written in 'Cirquish' from the songs.
The most interesting thing about this music book is the arrangments that have been made for the piano. Cirque songs have a certain charm about them which is hard to re-create, so the concept of merging all parts into the piano was ingenious and risky at the same time. The results are mixed, ranging from the wonderfully done to the frightningly bad.
Stand-outs for this book include 'O', which remains true to the original track,'Love Dance', a beautiful arrangment using the full scale of the piano and the 'Triangle Tango', the seductive tango from Corteo (Violinists need not worry, as the violin part can be followed through the piano). Nice arrangments have also been done of 'Kumbalawe', 'Pokinoi' and 'Liama', and singers will be delighted with the inclusion of 'If I Could Reach Your Heart', 'Mio Bello Bello Amore' and 'Let Me Fall'. The book also contains a piece called 'L'Innocent' which is from Cirque's latest touring show called Kooza.
Unfortunatley, this book has a lot of missed opportunities and it's quite annoying. Included in this book is a memorable tango styled song called 'Querer'. The song alone could drive you crazy, but Alfred Publishing adds to the annoyance, by adding in 'Alone', which is a cover of Querer included in Cirque Du Soleil's 2005 production of Delirium, thus making them sound near identical. Another problem is the atrocious arrangments of 'Ombra' and 'Time Flies', which are just a bore to listen to and even worse to perform. These pieces could have easily been tossed aside and replaced with more pleasent, piano and vocal themed songs. No songs were included from Cirque Du Soleil's motion picture soundtrack of Alegria (including Let Love Live, Child in His Eyes and Love Leaves Someone Behind), and no pieces were included from Varekai (Rain One would have been perfect for this book).
All in all, the book is definitely a worthy buy. It is very fair price to pay and a must have for any Cirque fans as well as music fans.
 I can sing along. October 3, 2007
I wanted the words to the songs so that I could sing along in the car. The description only indicated that it had the notes for guitar and piano. It did not inidicate if it had the printed words. I was very, very happy when it arrived and I found out that the words were there so that I could learn the songs. It contains many of the best songs from several different shows. I would like to see more of these.
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