Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko De Silo - Hardcover

Boynton, Sandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761105948 ISBN 13: 9780761105947

Publisher: Workman Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

A delightfully silly, good-natured parody of the recording phenomenon Chant and other works that put Gregorian music on the charts, "Grunt" is a book and CD set that combines Sandra Boynton's inimitable way with farm animals and a satirical sense that comes deliciously out of left barn. In a far-off valley live the obeisant Domoinkan Pigs of Snouto Domoinko de Silo. Here, twelve times a day, these simple swine grunt the unadorned, ethereal music of Pigorian Chant (translation included). For occasions from the first mealtime (Op-slay ime-tay. Et's lay eat-ay. Um yay, um-yay.) to Nox Animaliae, when they're joined by all the animals in a harmony that dates back before the time of Caesar Hogustus, the pigs chant. Listen, look at Sandra Boynton's delicious illustrations, and laugh. It's what to play whenever you're feeling disgruntled.

About this title

About the Author:

Sandra Boynton is a beloved American cartoonist, children's author, songwriter, and highly sporadic short film director. Boynton has written and illustrated sixty children's books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. More than 70 million of her books have been sold--"mostly to friends and family," she says. Boynton has also written and produced six albums of unconventional children's music; three of her albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold), and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has gone Platinum (over one million copies sold). Boynton has also written and directed eleven short musical films and two animated shorts, including "Tyrannosaurus Funk," sung by Samuel L. Jackson, which won the 2018 Grand Prize for Best Children's Animation Short from the Rhode Island International Film Festival. In 2008, Boynton received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Cartoonists Society. Boynton has four perfect children and an equally perfect granddaughter. Her Connecticut studio is in a converted barn that has perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.

From the Back Cover:

Here, for the first and probably only time anywhere, is the definitive text and recording of the sublime yet humble monophony of the Sincere Pigs from the ancient farmstead, Snouto Domoinko de Silo. Intoned in the original Pig Latin, with antiphonal responsoria and commentaria in Latin by the lesser barnyard animals, and featuring the ethereal polyphony of chickens, this music is not to be soon forgotten.

About this edition

• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0761105948
• ISBN 13: 9780761105947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 28