The key piece from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”, “Tale as Old as Time” is deceptively low and quite tricky to play, so makes a great practice piece for intermediates.
On the flute / piccolo / recorder, I found it most comfortable to play this shifted up +7 semitones, so the note range is D-^G 🙂
.G .Bb D D# .G#
Tale as old as time
.G .Bb D D# F
True as it can be
D#-F G -G# Bb
Barely even friends
Bb G#-G-F D#
Then somebody bends
G#-G-F-D#-.Bb
Unexpectedly…
.G .Bb D-D# G#
Just a little change
.G .Bb D D# F
Small, to say the least
G F G-Bb D#
Both a little scared
D#-D D# G – C
Neither one prepared
G-G# F G D#
Beauty and the Beast…
D#-F G G# Bb
Ever just the same
D#-F G ^C-Bb
Ever a surprise
D#-F G G#-Bb
Ever as before
Bb-G# G F D#
Ever just as sure
D# F G D# F
As the sun will rise…
.A C E F .Bb
Tale as old as time
.A C E F G
Tune as old as song
F – G – A Bb ^C
Bittersweet and strange
^C – Bb A G F
Finding you can change
Bb – A G F C
Learning you were wrong…
.A – C E F .Bb
Certain as the sun
.A – C E F G
Rising in the east
A G A ^C F
Tale as old as time
F E F A D
Song as old as rhyme
A – Bb G A F
Beauty and the beast…