Sir Galahad is led by a grail-shaped beacon to Castle Anthrax, which is occupied exclusively by young women, who wish to be punished for misleading him, but he is unwillingly "rescued" by Lancelot. Arthur decides the knights should go their separate ways to search for the Grail.Ī modern-day historian filming a documentary on the Arthurian legends is killed by an unknown knight on horseback, triggering a police investigation.Īrthur and Bedevere are given directions by an old man and attempt to satisfy the strange requests of the dreaded Knights Who Say "Ni!" Sir Robin avoids a fight with a Three-Headed Knight by running away while the heads are arguing amongst themselves. Bedevere concocts a plan to sneak in using a Trojan Rabbit, but no one hides inside it, and the Britons are forced to flee when it is flung back at them. As they turn away, God appears and orders Arthur to find the Holy Grail.Īrthur and his knights arrive at a castle occupied by French soldiers, who claim to have the Grail and taunt the Britons, driving them back with a barrage of barnyard animals. Arthur leads the knights to Camelot, but, after a musical number, changes his mind, deeming it "a silly place". He recruits Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Galahad the Pure, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir-Lancelot, along with their squires and Robin's minstrels. Along the way, Arthur debates whether swallows could carry coconuts, passes through a town infected with the Black Death, recounts receiving Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake to two anarcho-syndicalist peasants, defeats the Black Knight and observes an impromptu witch trial. In AD 932, King Arthur and his squire, Patsy, travel Britain searching for men to join the Knights of the Round Table. In the US, it was selected in 2011 as the second-best comedy of all time in the ABC special Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time behind Airplane! In the UK, readers of Total Film magazine in 2000 ranked it the fifth-greatest comedy film of all time a similar poll of Channel 4 viewers in 2006 placed it sixth. Monty Python and the Holy Grail grossed more than any British film exhibited in the US in 1975. Thirty years later, Idle used the film as the basis for the 2005 Tony Award-winning musical Spamalot. While the group's first film, And Now for Something Completely Different, was a compilation of sketches from the first two television series, Holy Grail is an original story that parodies the legend of King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail.
#Three note recorder songs series#
It was conceived during the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their BBC Television series Monty Python's Flying Circus. If you are looking for music for more advanced recorder players, you can read about recorder ensemble music and music for recorder.Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film satirizing the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group ( Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) and directed by Gilliam and Jones in their feature directorial debuts.
Tunes for older students and more advanced players You can buy the sheet music online: First Suite, Second Suite, Third suite and Fourth Suiteĭiscover all our recorder sheet music. The Fourth Suite, in four movements – Butterflies, Dotty March, Gymnopédie and Hornpipe – is a fabulous piece for any resourceful young group.
The Second Suite adds a piano accompaniment, while the Third Suite introduces parts for tenor and bass recorders. The First Suite is written for descant (soprano) and treble (alto) recorders. Brimful of imagination, and written specially for school children, these are great fun to learn and perform! Once children are ready to play with others, Andrew Challinger's Suites are the perfect way to introduce young players to the joy of playing ensemble music. If your children are just starting, then Three Little Pieces on Five Notes: March, Song, Dance are fun, easy tunes for descant/soprano recorder that only use the most common left hand notes. World of ensemble music with their class mates. Once the first few notes haveīeen mastered, children can quickly learn tunes, then discover a whole new Inexpensive and manageable for little fingers. A descant/soprano recorder is a great beginners' instrument: robust, For many children, the recorder is their introduction to the world of music
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