Funeral March of a Marionette on Boomwhackers
Funeral March of a Marionette is a color-coded Boomwhacker play-along on bimbadi: the notes fly toward your class in their tube colors on the smartboard or projector, with note names instead of lyrics. You need the 8-note diatonic set plus the G♯ tube from the chromatic set. Many people know Gounod’s march as the theme of the old TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. This play-along is a bonus that comes with the colored sheet music on eduki; the code inside unlocks it.
The player’s menus are in German for now. Press ▶ and play: “Tempo” is the speed slider, “Tonart” means key.
Tubes you need
- C
- D
- E
- F
- A
- B
- Key
- A minor
- Time
- 6/8
- Melody
- C D E F A B
- Chords
- C D E F G G♯ A B
- Music
- Charles Gounod
- German title
- Trauermarsch einer Marionette
No tubes? With the QR wall every student scans a code and gets one color as an instrument on a phone or tablet. Boomwhacker colors: C red, D orange, E yellow, F light green, G dark green, A purple, B pink, high C red again.
Classroom idea
Have students walk like marionettes on strings, stiff and jerky in 6/8. Then play it with exactly that feeling.
Colored sheet music and bonus code
The colored sheet music for “Funeral March of a Marionette” is available on eduki, a teaching-materials marketplace (German edition). Inside you will find a bonus code that unlocks this play-along. Enter it on the song list or right in the player; your browser remembers it.
💡 German sheet music uses the German note names: H is your B, and B means B♭. The colors are the same.
📄 Colored sheet music on eduki (German edition) 🎁 Enter a code
In other languages
- German Trauermarsch einer Marionette
- Spanish Marcha fúnebre de una marioneta
- French Marche funèbre d’une marionnette
- Italian Marcia funebre di una marionetta
- Dutch Treurmars van een marionet
- Polish Marsz żałobny marionetki
More songs like this
No lyrics printed here. Melodies are in the public domain or our own arrangements for Boomwhackers; sources are listed in the player under “Für Lehrkräfte” (for teachers).