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Town Musicians of Bremen
A bronze statue by Gerhard Marcks depicting the Bremen Town Musicians located in Bremen, Deutschland. The statue was erected in 1953.
Folk tale
Name	Town Musicians of Bremen
Data
Aarne–Thompson grouping	ATU 130 (The Animals in Night Quarters)
Country	Germany

The "Boondocks Musicians of Bremen" (German language: Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten) is a German fairy tale collected past the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1819 (KHM 27).^[i]

Information technology tells the story of four aging domestic animals, who afterward a lifetime of difficult work are neglected and mistreated by their former masters. Eventually, they determine to run away and become boondocks musicians in the city of Bremen. Opposite to the story'southward title the characters never go far in Bremen, equally they succeed in tricking and scaring off a ring of robbers, capturing their spoils, and moving into their house. It is a story of Aarne–Thompson Type 130 ("Outcast animals notice a new home").^[1]

Origin [edit]

The Brothers Grimm first published this tale in the second edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1819, based on the account of the German storyteller Dorothea Viehmann (1755–1815).^[1]

Synopsis [edit]

In the story, a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, all by their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, were soon to be discarded or mistreated past their masters. I by one, they leave their homes and set out together. They decide to go to Bremen, known for its freedom, to live without owners and get musicians there ("Something better than death we can find anywhere").

On the fashion to Bremen, they see a lighted cottage; they look within and see 3 robbers enjoying their sick-gotten gains. Standing on each other's backs, they decide to scare the robbers away by making a din; the men run for their lives, non knowing what the strange sound is. The animals accept possession of the house, eat a good meal, and settle in for the evening.

Later that night, the robbers return and send 1 of their members in to investigate. He sees the cat's eyes shining in the darkness and thinks he is seeing the coals of the fire. The robber reaches over to light his candle. Things happen in quick succession; the cat scratches his face with her claws, the dog bites him on the leg, the donkey kicks him with his hooves, and the rooster crows and chases him out the door. The terrified robber tells his companions that he was beset by a horrible witch who had scratched him with her long fingernails (the cat), a dwarf who has a knife (the domestic dog), a blackness monster who had hit him with a club (the donkey), and worst of all, a bat who had screamed from the rooftop (the rooster). The robbers abandon the cottage to the strange creatures who have taken it, where the animals live happily for the rest of their days.

In the original version of this story, which dates from the twelfth century, the robbers are a bear, a lion, and a wolf, all animals featured in heraldic devices. When the ass and his friends arrive in Bremen, the townsfolk applaud them for having rid the commune of the terrible beasts. An alternate version involves the animals' principal(south) being deprived of his livelihood (because the thieves stole his coin and/or destroyed his subcontract or manufactory) and having to transport his or their animals abroad, unable to have intendance of them any further. After the animals dispatch the thieves, they accept the ill-gotten gains back to their primary so he can rebuild. Other versions involve at least i wild, not-livestock beast, such as a lizard, helping the domestic animals out in dispatching the thieves.^[ii]

Variants [edit]

The story is similar to other AT-130 tales similar the German/Swiss "The Robber and the Subcontract Animals", the Norwegian "The Sheep and the Pig Who Set up Upwards House", the Finnish "The Animals and the Devil", the Flemish "The Choristers of St. Gudule", the Scottish "The Story of the White Pet", the English "The Bull, the Tup, the Erect, and the Steg", the Irish "Jack and His Comrades", the Spanish "Benibaire", the American "How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune" and "The Canis familiaris, the True cat, the Donkey, and the Cock", and the Southward African "The Globe's Reward".^[1]

Joseph Jacobs as well cited this as a parallel version of the Irish gaelic "Jack and His Comrades",^[3] and the English "How Jack went to seek his fortune".^[iv] The tale as well appears in American folktale collections.^[five]

Variants too appear in tale compilations from Indian, Malay and Japanese sources. Folklorist Antti Aarne proposed an Asian origin for the tale type ATU 130, "Die Tiere auf der Wanderschaft" ("Wandering Animals and Objects").^[vi] ^[7]

French folklorist Paul Delarue identified two forms of the tale type, a Western one, wherein the animals in exile are ever domestic animals (represented by Grimm'southward tale ), and an Eastern one, wherein the characters are "inferior animals".^[8] This 2d form is popular in Nihon, Communist china, Korea, Melanesia and Indonesia.^[9]

Cultural legacy [edit]

The tale has been retold through animated pictures, motion pictures (often musicals), theatre plays and operas.

Screen and stage adaptations [edit]

In 1935, Ub Iwerks created The Brementown Musicians which was an adaptation made for Iwerk's serial of ComiColor Cartoons.
German-U.S. composer Richard Mohaupt created the opera Dice Bremer Stadtmusikanten, which premiered in Bremen 1949.
The tale was adjusted in humorous manner for the British children's series Wolves, Witches and Giants narrated by Spike Milligan, but with the activity taking identify in 'Brum' (short for Birmingham) rather than Bremen.
In the Soviet Marriage, the story was loosely adapted into an animated musical in 1969 by Yuri Entin and Vasily Livanov at the studio Soyuzmultfilm, The Bremen Town Musicians. It was followed by a sequel called On the Trail of the Bremen Boondocks Musicians. In 2000, a 2nd sequel was made, called The New Bremen Boondocks Musicians.^[ten]
In 1972, Jim Henson produced a version with his Muppets called The Muppet Musicians of Bremen, set in Louisiana instead of Bremen.
In 1976, in Italy, Sergio Bardotti and Luis Enríquez Bacalov adapted the story into a musical play called I Musicanti, which two years subsequently was translated into Portuguese past the Brazilian composer Chico Buarque. The musical play was called Os Saltimbancos, was later released as an album, and became ane of the greatest classics for children in Brazil. This version was also made into a movie.^[11]
In Kingdom of spain, the story inspired the blithe feature pic titled, Los 4 músicos de Bremen in 1989, directed past Cruz Delgado,^[12] a cartoonist and animation filmmaker, this being his last moving picture. Later gaining fame and recognition by winning the Goya Honor for Best Blithe Picture, the animated television series "Los Trotamúsicos", was aired with a total of 26 episodes.^[13] The synopsis follows the story of four animal friends: Koki the rooster, Lupo the domestic dog, Burlón the cat and Tonto the donkey; who class a band in the playing respectively guitar, drums, trumpet and saxophone with the aim of winning a contest in the city of Bremen.
In Japan, Tezuka Productions made a loose scientific discipline fiction themed animated idiot box picture accommodation titled Bremen 4: Angels in Hell ( ブレーメン4 地獄の中の天使たち , Burēmen Fō: Jigoku no Naka no Tenshitachi ), which premiered in 1981. It revolves around an alien visiting Earth during a military invasion of a fictional Bremen and giving 4 animals based on the ones from the original tale a device that tin can transform them into humans. Despite being aimed at children, the film has a substantial amount of gun violence and depictions of war crimes, but its cadre theme is anti-war.
In Germany and the Us, the story was adapted into an animated feature in 1997 under the title The Fearless Four (Dice furchtlosen Vier), though information technology varied considerably from the source cloth; while the general plot is the aforementioned, the four make it in Bremen and assistance to gratis it from the grasp of the corrupt corporation Mix Max, forth with rescuing animals that the company plans to turn into sausage. It starred R&B singer James Ingram as Buster the dog, guitarist B.B. Male monarch every bit Fred the donkey, singer and pianist Oleta Adams as Gwendolyn the true cat and Italian musician Zucchero Fornaciari every bit Tortellini the Rooster in the English dub.
The obscure 1997 Dingo Pictures film, Dice Bremer Stadtmusikanten, is a mockbuster of the aforementioned The Fearless 4.
On Cartoon Network in between cartoon breaks during the Out of Tune Toons marathon and on Cartoonetwork Video, there are drawing shorts (chosen "Wedgies") of an animal garage ring based on the tale called The Bremen Avenue Experience featuring a cat (Jessica), canis familiaris (Simon), donkey (Barret) and rooster (Tanner). They are either a modern adaptation of Boondocks Musicians of Bremen or descendants of the sometime musicians of Bremen.
The HBO Family animated series, Happily Always Afterward: Fairy Tales for Every Kid, adapted this story in Flavour 3 and did a country/African-American twist on information technology featuring Jenifer Lewis every bit Hazel (the canis familiaris), Gladys Knight as Chocolate (the donkey), Dionne Warwick as Miss Kitty (the true cat), and George Clinton every bit Scratchmo (the rooster).
The 2020 Japanese tokusatsu serial Kamen Rider Saber adopts the story as a "Wonder Ride Book" called Bremen no Stone Band ( ブレーメンのロックバンド , Burēmen no Rokku Bando , Rock Ring of Bremen), which is utilized by one of the protagonists, Kamen Rider Slash.

Literature [edit]

Richard Scarry wrote an adaptation of the story in his book Richard Scarry'south Creature Nursery Tales in 1975. In it, the donkey, dog, cat and rooster set out since they are bored with farming.
In the Japanese adventure game Morenatsu, the canis familiaris character Kōya is part of a rock band with three other performers, who are a cat, a bird, and a horse. The protagonist makes note of the resemblance to the Boondocks Musicians of Bremen, with a brief monologue explaining the fairy tale.
In the comic Blacksad's fourth album, "A Silent Hell", a mystery unfolds in New Orleans around the remaining members of a defunct musical group formerly equanimous of a domestic dog, a cat, a rooster, and a donkey, all of whom had migrated to the city from their abode on a Southern island.
In Black Clover, Nacht Faust is a host to four devils; Gimodelo, Plumede, Slotos and Walgner, a domestic dog, a cat, a horse and rooster respectively.

Music [edit]

In the early on 20th century, the American folk/swing/children'southward musician Frank Luther popularized the musical tale equally the Raggletaggletown Singers,^[14] presented in children's school music books and performed in children'south plays.
The Musicians of Bremen (1972), based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, the "Town Musicians of Bremen", for male voices: ii countertenors, tenor, two baritones and bass; equanimous past Malcolm Williamson, and premiered by The Male monarch's Singers in Sydney on fifteen May 1972. A recording may be heard here: https://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?five=C57Y7HtiUIE
In 2012, American artists PigPen Theatre Co. released their debut album titled Bremen, with the fifth track "Bremen"'s lyrics telling the story of the Town Musicians of Bremen.
In 2015, Japanese rock musician Kenshi Yonezu released his 3rd anthology titled Bremen, with the sixth track "Volition-O-Wisp"'s lyrics being centred on the Town Musicians of Bremen.

Art and sculpture [edit]

Statue of the Town Musicians of Bremen, Fujikawaguchiko, Nihon

Statues modeled after the Town Musicians of Bremen statue now reside in front of each of the five German veterinary schools.
Another replica of the statue tin can exist institute in the Lynden Sculpture Garden, located in Milwaukee.
A persiflage of this tale tin be found on the wall in the Fort Napoleon, Ostend, Belgium. Heinrich-Otto Pieper, a High german soldier during World War I, painted the German and the Austro-Hungarian eagles throned on a rock, under the light of a Turkish crescent. They expect with antipathy on the futile efforts of the Town Musicians of Bremen to chase them away. These animals are symbols for the Allied Forces: on top the French cock, standing on the Japanese jackal, standing on the English bulldog, standing on the Russian bear. Italia is depicted as a twisting snake and Belgium a tricolored beetle.
A sculpture in Riga shows the animals breaking through a wall (symbolising the Iron Drape).^[15]
A junction in Pune City of India has been named after Bremen equally 'Bremen Chowk' and has sculpture of instrument that iv musicians had used.^[16]
The city of Fujikawaguchiko in Nippon has its own statue of the Town Musicians of Bremen.
The City of Kawasaki in Japan has a Bremen Street that features a replica statue.

Video games [edit]

In Super Tempo, the second stage is gear up in Bremen, and the player's goal is to find and reunite the ghosts of the four deceased Town Musicians—referred to equally "The Bremens," akin to a ring name—to perform a song.
In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, there is a musician playing a hurdy-gurdy who tells his story well-nigh how he was in a musical troupe run by animals. For listening to his tale, the player receives an item chosen the Bremen Mask (which allows the histrion to play a musical march on their ocarina, thus allowing the role player to lead animals), which is a reference to the Town Musicians of Bremen.
In Agatha Pocketknife, there is an in-game quiz where yous are asked about the animals that make upwards the Town Musicians of Bremen, allowing you to get to the zoo for gratis.
In Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Countless Frontier, the four members of the Orchestral Army are named Ezel, Katze, Henne, and Kyon—the German words for donkey, cat, and hen and the Greek give-and-take for dog, respectively. Their organization beingness called the Orchestral Army is a farther reference to the story.
In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the Town Musicians of Bremen appear as NPCs in the "Blood and Wine" DLC.
In Library of Ruina, at that place is a syndicate based on the Musicians of Bremen, with each of its original members representing a unlike animal from the story'southward cast.
Shari Lewis adapted the story in the computer game "Lamb Chop Loves Music," replacing the donkey with a horse and Lamb Chop taking the identify of the rooster. After fleeing the robbers' den, other animals join the group every bit they endeavor to go musicians in Bremen.

Come across too [edit]

Jack and His Comrades (Irish fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs)
Ub Iwerks' ComiColor Cartoon The Bremen Town Musicians (1935 film)
The Bremen Town Musicians 1969 (Soviet musical drawing)
The Four harmonious animals is a figure in Jātaka tales and other Buddhist mythology

Citations [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ashliman, D. L. (2017). "The Bremen Town Musicians". Academy of Pittsburgh.
^ "Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten / Bremen Town Musicians". German stories. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
^ Jacobs, Joseph. Celtic Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt. 1892. p. 254.
^ Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt. 1890. p. 231.
^ Baughman, Ernest Warren. Blazon and Motif-alphabetize of the Folktales of England and N America. Indiana University Folklore Series No. 20. The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton & Co 1966. p. 4.
^ Serruys, Paul, and 司禮義. "Fifteen Popular Tales: From the Southward of Tatung (Shansi) / 民間故事十五則". In: Folklore Studies 5 (1946): 210. Accessed June sixteen, 2021. doi:10.2307/3182936.
^ Hoebel, East. Adamson. "The Asiatic Origin of a Myth of the Northwest Declension". In: The Journal of American Folklore 54, no. 211/212 (1941): ane-9. Accessed June sixteen, 2021. doi:ten.2307/535797.
^ Delarue, Paul Delarue. The Borzoi Book of French Folk-Tales. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1956. pp. 391-392.
^ Delarue, Paul Delarue. The Borzoi Book of French Folk-Tales. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1956. p. 392.
^ The New Bremen Musicians, Animator.ru
^ "Os Saltimbancos Trapalhões (1981) - IMDb".
^ "Los four músicos de Bremen (1989)". IMDb. Retrieved 2013-09-12 .
^ "'Los cuatro músicos de Bremen', de Cruz Delgado, en 'Historia de nuestro cine'". Diez Minutos (in European Spanish). 2020-01-03. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
^ Sing Alone and similar Information technology Music, Charles L. Gary, Educators Journal Apr/May 1952 38: 48-49
^ "Bremen Boondocks Musicians".
^ "35-yr-quondam transnational solidarity forum downs shutters, but bonds remain | Pune News - Times of Bharat".

General bibliography [edit]

Boggs, Ralph Steele. Alphabetize of Castilian folktales, classified according to Antti Aarne'southward "Types of the folktale". Chicago: University of Chicago. 1930. p. 33.
Bolte, Johannes; Polívka, Jiri. Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- u. hausmärchen der brüder Grimm. Erster Band (NR. 1-60). Deutschland, Leipzig: Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. 1913. pp. 237–259.
"Children'south Stories in Sculpture: Bremen Boondocks Musicians in Bremen." The Elementary School Journal 64, no. five (1964): pp. 246-47. www.jstor.org/stable/999783.

External links [edit]

The complete set of Grimms' Fairy Tales, including Town Musicians of Bremen at Standard Ebooks
Aureate Books 1954 version
Folktales of ATU blazon 130 by D. 50. Ashliman

Some of the best known adaptations are:

Town Musicians of Bremen at IMDb Disney 1922 animated version
Town Musicians of Bremen at IMDb Russian animated version
Boondocks Musicians of Bremen at IMDb Brazilian musical free adaptation of the tale
Town Musicians of Bremen at IMDb 1989 Spanish animated film version
Town Musicians of Bremen at IMDb 1997 German edition, also released in English under the title "The Fearless Four"
Boondocks Musicians of Bremen at IMDb The Muppet Musicians of Bremen
The Disney version of The Four Musicians of Bremen at The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts
Skulptures of the Musicians of Bremen, limited edition (High german)

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