Nursery rhymes. A wise old owl

A wise old owl. Arrangement by Tom van Oostrom, from Tom' s Orff arrangements

Second year A

«A Wise Old Owl» is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7734 and in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 2nd Ed. of 1997, as number 394. The rhyme is an improvement of a traditional nursery rhyme «There was an owl lived in an oak, wisky, wasky, weedle». The rhyme refers to the traditional image of owls as the symbol of wisdom. It was recorded as early as 1875 and is apparently older than that. It was quoted by John D. Rockefeller in 1915 and is frequently misattributed to Edward Hersey Richards. During World War II, the United States army used the rhyme on a poster with the tweaked ending, «Soldier.... be like that old bird!» with the caption «Silence means security» (From Wikipedia).

Line-up

Glockenspiels: Claudia Álvarez de la Torre, Pelayo Álvarez Valín, Diego Álvarez García, Cristina Barril Fernández, Soprano metallophone: Inés Campo Menes. Alto metallophones: Yanina Sánchez Ortega, Oscar Cascudo Alba. Soprano xylophones: Nicolás Cattaneo Álvarez, Covadonga Balmori Álvarez-Cofiño, Carla Balseiros Palacios, Alexandra Díaz Shaparenko. Alto xylophones: Luis Eduardo Peña Torres, Andrés Barajas García, Elena Fernández Suárez. Bass xylophone: Carlota Rioseco Rodríguez