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Turning Carbon
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A Happy Holiday Season
and New Years 2011 from Magic Bubble Music
Welcome
to the homepage of Magic Bubble Music, a website
specializing in
school musicals,
teaching Podcasts
and
songs for kids
by composer and music educator Dr.
Daniel Laubacher.
Currently the
downloadable versions of Magic
Bubble Music's school musicals, songs for kids and
Podcasts for teachers are on offer at no cost.
School Musicals
The stories of Magic Bubble Music's
musicals are intended to be both educational and fun,
often incorporating topics which affect our world today
such global warming, effects of plastics on the Earth,
saving whales, renewable energy, etc. And, for a
limited time, all musicals, songs (sheet
music vocal-guitar chords) and
Podcasts are
free
to download for
the teaching classroom and personal use (as per
terms of use).
Each musical comes with a script and sheet music.
In addition, you may also download the mp3 files to
listen to (and learn) the songs. See below for a
partial list of the
school musicals you may use in your
classroom or for a school project (a full list following
the
School Musicals
link):
 Turning
Carbon into Gold (Global Warming)
The topics of the musical cover: global warming,
climate change, renewable energy, energy
efficiency and conservation. It is
informative and, at the same time, lots of
fun...It features (as "hero") the environmental scientist Dr.
William Wannaknow who, with the help of his colleague
and friend Professor Burt Curiosity, finds a way to
upset the dastardly plot of none other than the
notorious Desmond D. Dippledoodle. The story takes
place on the fictitious Sandwalk Island in the Pacific
Ocean. Lots of characters and creative opportunities
for different parts of a school to join forces.
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 Racing to Chase Alice the
Albatross (Effects of Plastics on the Earth)
The diabolical Desmond D. Dippledoodle is
planning ways to get the gold which he believes
lies somewhere in the Underground Secret
Passages of Sandwalk Island. So he devises
a scheme to collect plastics from passing ships
for big money and sinking them in wooden crates
out in the Pacific Ocean. Why do we need
more rubbish floating around in the ...
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 The
North Pole Pact
(Christmas Musical)
Santa Claus appears on Bobby Weasel's prime-time
show "The whole Truth and nothing but the Truth
or Else!" which is currently television's most
popular program. Santa has asked Bobby if he
could come on to the show to "tell the truth"
about his concerns on "global warming". Many
world leaders have been invited to listen to
Santa's proposal called THE NORTH POLE PACT
which has information about the devastation
global warming is causing on the earth. He hopes
leaders will sign THE PACT to help with the
reduction and reversal of global warming.
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Ray and the Pirates of the
Lost Cove (topic: saving the whale)
The Longworth family - Linda, William, Sandy and
Bixby - are whale watching in the North Sea.
They have been out
for several hours and have not seen a single
whale. Quite unexpectedly they see a young
whale swimming towards their boat. It
looks as though this whale, which they named
"Ray", wants them to follow him. As an
adventure they decide to do just that...
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Circus
Mystique
Radio announcers Amanda and Horace introduce the
mystery radio presentation of “Circus Mystique”. The circus in now
in New York City and has already performed in London, Paris, Hong Kong
and Las Vegas. Strangely, whenever Circus Mystique is in town there is insider
trading information passed on for winnings at horse races, stock market and
lotteries. The police have been on this case and are just about to make an
arrest.
More Details
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 Hickory's
Trickery
(Halloween Musical)
Mr. Hickory starts to read his elementary class
a pleasant Halloween story called "Wendy, the
friendly Witch." Bored with the same old story
every year since they can remember, Emily
interrupts Mr. Hickory's lesson with a request
for the class to hear a "true story" her
grandmother told her. It's about a dragon living
in Dark Hole Cave at the foot of Old Fool's
Hill. Apparently, the dragon had often been seen
around Halloween...
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Go to the Complete List of School
Musicals >>
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Songs for Kids
An ever-expanding list of songs with a large variety of
topics (some from the musicals, some as "singles") are available for
free download
of the sheet music
(in
PDF
format)
and free use for classroom educational purposes.
Below are but a few samples:
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Turning Carbon into Gold comes from
Daniel Laubacher's
school musical of the same name. It is a song about
using CO2 for the benefit of the Earth ("to feed the
plants"). From the
Musical of
the same name. |
Sheet
Music |
Listen |
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If we don't play by her (Mother Nature's) Rules is one
of the songs from
Daniel Laubacher's school musical
Turning Carbon into
Gold. It is clearly a message to all of humankind that
we are taking advantage of Mother Nature (who is in a
position to "make our lives a blur..."). |
Sheet
Music |
Listen |
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Christmas in Santa's Village is the final song of
Daniel Laubacher's musical
The North Pole Pact.
It is a jolly song with lots of room for interpretation.
Have a listen, print out the sheet music and give it a try! |
Sheet
Music |
Listen |
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Our Circus World is a fun circus song which can be
sung in a variety of situations. I wrote this for the "grand
finale" of a project week about the circus. We organised the
children in mixed age groups and the song came over very
well. This version is for three-part choir, piano and guitar
chords. |
Sheet
Music |
Listen |
 One Ocean United "One Ocean United is a short,
memorable and easy-to-learn "pirate" song from
Daniel Laubacher's
school musical
Racing to Chase
Alice the Albatross. The song is performed when Dr.
Wannaknow calls the attention of the Plastic Pirates who are
currently attacking his students from the Sand Walk Island
Earth Academy. |
Sheet
Music |
Listen |
Go to the Complete Song List >> |
Podcast-
"Songs for the Classroom"
Have a listen to and use the music lessons designed by
performing arts educator Daniel
Laubacher at
Magic Bubble Music.
Free downloads and printouts of
texts and sheet music are available to supplement your
lessons. You can also subscribe
to this Podcast at iTunes.
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MBM-LE eShop
If
you are interested in having the
full version
of any of the musicals they are available to purchase
from the Magic Bubble Music - Laubacher Edition eShop.
The full versions are produced on
dual-formatted CDs.
The musical selections can be played on standard cd
players and the other materials may be printed out from
any computer capable of reading PDF format. On the
dual-formatted CD the full versions include the
following materials:
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the full script (most recent)
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piano-vocal sheet music (with guitar chords)
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rehearsal / performance instrumental
tracks of the songs
-
instrumental
music selections (i.e., incidental music, music for
scene changes)
-
vocal demo
versions
Please Note:
To order any of the full versions on dual-formatted CDs,
you will need a PayPal
account.
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and the podcasts.
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