Colors of the Wind - Sheet Music for Native American Flute
The song Colors of the Wind
was the 1995 Oscar-winner for Best Original Song from the Disney animated feature film, Pocahontas. The song poetically presents the Native American viewpoint that the Earth is a living entity where humankind is connected to everything in nature.
Notes on the Sheet Music
Several people, including Sharon Burnett, asked me for an arrangement of this melody on Flutopedia. However, I felt that the original melody spanned too wide a range to be playable on the Native American flute.
Then, on October 27, 2011, Bob Child of Ugly Boy Flutes sent me his transcription, which fits nicely into an extended-range flute using two notes in the second register. He did this by modifying the melody in an intriguing way. He has taken some of the larger interval leaps and reduced them, compressing the overall range of the melody.
For example, the first notes of the melody, as written by composer Alan Menken, would translate to the Native Amercian flute as
.
In Bob Child's arrangement, he has altered the melody to be played as
… making it easier to play, reducing the overall range, and still preserving the flavor of the melody.
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