Philip Taylor trained at the Royal College of Music and started playing for dance while still at college. He has accompanied classes at the Royal Ballet School as well as the London School of Contemporary Dance and composed a series of CDs in conjunction with the Leicestershire Arts Advisory Dance Team. He now lives in Shetland and where he composes and plays for local theatre.
Music for Contemporary Class
CD 1: Floor/Centre by Philip Taylor
Thirty short tracks suitable for warm up exercises for dance and drama with young
children up to KS3. Featuring clean rhythms with a mix of percussion and simple
melodies, based on years of accompanying children's classes. Good choice of
tempo and time signatures, a handful of the tracks are repeated at faster tempos.
All tracks composed and performed by Philip Taylor.
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£8.00 incl. p&p
Music for Contemporary Class
CD 2: Travelling Steps by Philip Taylor
A choice of 11 rhythmic tracks, designed to accompany young children's warm
ups and travelling sequences. Simple time signatures with easy to follow
rhythms and four of the tracks are repeated at faster tempos. Twenty tracks in all.
Suitable for young children up to KS3. All tracks composed and performed by
Philip Taylor.
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£8.00 incl. p&p
Motor Skills by Philip Taylor
Short electronic tracks for basic motor activities. Contrasting tracks for each activity:
eg. three marching tunes:
Bright, Easy and Slow March. Includes: Walking, Marching, Running,
Skipping, Hopping, Bouncing, Skating (ie.sliding or gliding), Spinning, Turning, Staggering, Scampering,
Creeping and Crawling. Each track is announced.
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£7.50 incl. p&p
Advancing Dance Key Stage 1 by Philip Taylor
Electronic tracks for creative dance composed in conjunction with the Leicestershire Arts advisory
dance team. Themes include:
Toys, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cooking, Maths, Our World, Ten Surprise.
Tracks announced on the CD. Originally published on cassette.
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£12.95 incl. p&p
Advancing Dance Key Stage 2 by Philip Taylor
Electronic tracks for creative deance composed in conjunction with the Leicestershire Arts
advisory dance team. Themes include:
Living in the 18th Century, Ancient Civilisations, Maths,
Time, Recycling Waste, The Water Cycle. Tracks announced on the CD. Originally published on
cassette.
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£12.95 incl. p&p
The Jungle Book by Philip Taylor
Covering the main events and characters in
The Jungle Book, the music has an Eastern feel
with Indian percussion alongside more Western sections. Some longer passages have been divided into
several short tracks for practical use but can be run together to form extended sections.
Some longer and more difficult tracks included as extras.
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£10.95 incl. p&p
Feet, Fins and Wings by Philip Taylor
For nursery, infant and lower primary children, based around familiar stories and themes:
Noah's Ark, The Pied Piper, The Twelve Days of Christmas and
Peter Pan.
Also an ideal stimulus for school productions or assemblies for younger children.
Made in conjunction with the Leicestershire Arts advisory dance team.
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£10.95 incl. p&p
