Name: Moon River (arr. Harry Likas & Peet du Toit) by Andy Williams String Quartet Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Peet du Toit
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Moon River (arr. Harry Likas & Peet du Toit)
by Andy Williams String Quartet - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Moon River (arr. Harry Likas & Peet du Toit)

Artist Andy Williams

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Henry Mancini Johnny Mercer

Arranger Harry Likas & Peet du Toit

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 6

Arrangement String Quartet

Publisher Peet du Toit

Level 2

Product ID 1712045

Genre Film/TV

Instruments Cello Viola Violin

Performance Group String Quartet

Product Description

"Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In 1999, Mancini's recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The song has been recorded by many other artists. It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1962 (and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremony that year). He sang the first eight bars of the song at the beginning of each episode of his eponymous television show and named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri, after it; his autobiography is called "Moon River" and Me. Williams' version was never released as a single, but it charted as an LP track that he recorded for Columbia on a hit album of 1962, Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes. In 2022, Williams' rendition of the song was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress.

The song's success was responsible for relaunching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll had replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. The song's popularity is such that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs. Comments about the lyrics have noted that they are particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the southern United States and his longing to expand his horizons. Robert Wright wrote in The Atlantic Monthly, "This is a love sung [sic] to wanderlust. Or a romantic song in which the romantic partner is the idea of romance." An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song.

Harry Likas' cunning arrangement thereof lends itself perfectly for a fresh approach for a string quartet. Please note that this orchestration has several double stops for all the players. It might influence your choice.

This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.