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	Bremen Christmas Market - German Christmas Market Tourist Information
		The "Town Musicians of Bremen" ("Bremer Stadtmusikanten") are the famous fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers where four lost and unhappy animals, a donkey, a rooster, a cat and a dog, leave their homes and head for Bremen to become wealthy.
		Bremen, 37 miles from the mouth of the River Weser and Germany’s oldest maritime city, has held markets since 965, joined the Hanseatic League in 1358 and began to trade with America in 1783.
		Right next to the town hall is one of Bremen’s most famous landmarks, statue of the Street Musicians of Bremen (an ass, a dog, a cat and a cock) from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
	www.germany-christmas-market.org.uk /bremen_christmas_market.htm (568 words)

	Town Musicians of Bremen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Town Musicians of Bremen (German Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten, also translated as the Bremen Town Musicians) is a fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm.
		This fable has a straightforward meaning: The four animals (in pictures depicted as standing atop each other) represent the classes of the citizenry, their masters the feudal regents of the time.
		Bremen remembers the tale with a two metre high bronze statue near the city hall.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Town_Musicians_of_Bremen (508 words)

	Encyclopedia: Town Musicians of Bremen
		It was in Bremen that Germany's first coffee shop was opened in 1673 and it is Bremen's coffee roasters that process the beans for one in every two cups of coffee drunk each day in the whole of Germany.
		At the west end of the town hall, immortalized in bronze, is the sculpture of the Bremen Town Musicians.
		Legend has it that those four farm animals were ready for slaughter by the their masters but escaped to go to Bremen to become the town musicians.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Town-Musicians-of-Bremen (998 words)

	Craig Family European Travels - Germany - Bremen
		It is the town where the donkey, dog, cat, and rooster came to seek their fortune in the Grimm's Brothers Fairy Tale about the Bremen Town Musicians.
		Bremen is noted in tour books as a manageable city with an atmosphere reminiscent of a small country town, lacking the commercial buzz of Hamburg and the ugly redevelopment of Hannover.
		We found the bronze sculpture of the Bremen Town Musicians near the Rathaus at the Marktplatz.
	www2.wizards.net /ccraig/northGermany.htm (414 words)

	Bremen - Wikitravel
		Bremen [1] [2] [3] is a city in northern Germany, population 500,000+.
		Bremen was once a member of the medieval Hanseatic League and is still one of the most important cities in northern Germany.
		Bremen is a quite bike-friendly city mostly due to its former mayor who is an avid cyclist (who despite the wishes of his bodyguards rode his bike every day to his office or he simply walked to the office.)
	wikitravel.org /en/Bremen (1682 words)

	Alibris: Bremen
		Adam of Bremen's history of the see of Hamburg and of Christian missions in northern Europe from the late eighth to the late eleventh century is the primary source of our knowledge of the history, geography, and ethnography of the Scandinavian and Baltic regions and their peoples before the thirteenth century.
		Four animals who are no longer wanted by their masters set out to become musicians in the town of Bremen, but along the way they encounter a den of thieves.
		Bremen's study examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on Williams's ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose, and his life-long friendship with Kenneth Burke.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Bremen (991 words)

	Bremen Altstadt
		Bremen's Altstadt and Schnoor Quarter (and the Town Musicians!)
		The tale of Bremen's Town Musicians was probably one of the goofier tales that came to the offices of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm.
		Bremen, once a very proud Hanseatic port city with centuries of naval merchant history behind it, was bombed to its foundations during World War II and was recovering.
	www.tompgalvin.com /places/de/bremen/bremen_as.htm (1060 words)

	Bremen - National Park International with reviews and price comparison at dooyoo.co.uk
		Bremen is one of two towns belonging to the state of Bremen (official name: Freie Hansestadt Bremen (Free Hanseatic City of Bremen), referring to its membership in the medieval Hanseatic League), the other being Bremerhaven.
		My husband joined me for a weekend while I was in Bremen and we had a wonderful time just walking around the town and we also travelled to Bremerhaven by train where there is a large maritime museum.
		A lot of Bremen was destroyed in the war and some of the old town has been reconstructed since.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /national-parks-international/bremen (427 words)

	Town Musicians of Bremen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There once was a man who had a donkey which had carried his sacks to the mill unflaggingly for many long years but was now getting old and weak so that he was becoming more and more unfit for work.
		The three fugitives went past a farmyard where a farm cock was sitting on the gate and crowing with all its might.
		The donkey lay down on the midden, the dog behind the door, the cat on the stove near the warm ashes and the cock sat on a perch; and, because they were tired after their long journey, they were all very soon asleep.
	www.portaljuice.com /town_musicians_of_bremen.html (1109 words)

	The 3rd Time Still Charms
		Just 10 minutes long, part of the charm of the original "Musicians" might have been in that its script was co-written by none other than poet Yury Entin and actor Yury Livanov, famous in the Soviet Union for playing Sherlock Holmes in a series of films popular in the 1970s.
		Today's 56-minute animated "New Musicians," produced by the KinoMOST studio (a part of the MOST holding group), is an attempt to duplicate the success of the first two 10-minute-long animated films.
		While many of the old characters return in the "New Musicians," the film also features one new character, Troubador Junior, a contemporary kind of hero who is resistant to much of the cherished tradition of the first two films.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/05/26/110-print.html (625 words)

	Town Musicians of Bremen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But they couldn't reach the city of Bremen in one day and they came to a wood where they decided to spend the night.
		When the four musicians had finished they put out the light and looked for a place to sleep, each according to his nature and desired comfort.
		Bremen remembers the tale with a bronze statue near the city hall.
	www.termsdefined.net /to/town-musicians-of-bremen.html (1348 words)

	Destination Germany - Cities - Bremen - Home of the Bremen Town Musicians
		Bremen is a city of contrasts: UNESCO world heritage town hall with Roland statue, Weser embankment, Schnoor quarter - and a centre of science for more than ninety years.
		Bremen's attractions include the Weser-Renaissance-style town hall, the Schnoor – Bremen's oldest quarter, the unusual architecture of quaint little Böttcherstrasse, the cathedral and the venerable figure of Roland on the historical market square.
		Bremen's museums and exhibitions lead visitors into unknown worlds and explore familiar ideas from unusual perspectives.
	www.germany-tourism.de /ENG/destination_germany/master_tlstadt-id1055.htm (228 words)

	Hotel Bremen Hotels - Etap Hotel Bremen
		Many of the sights in Bremen are found in the Altstadt (Old Town), an oval area surrounded by the Weser River.
		At the Western wall of the Town Hall is the bronze sculpture Die Stadtmusikanten (Town Musicians) which portrays the donkey, dog, cat, and rooster of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale.
		Bremen has a diverse scene of theatres, the largest of which is the Theatre am Goetheplatz.
	www.grandcityhotels.com /hotels-bremen/en/hotel-attractions.htm (123 words)

	Bremen - Musicians and Wine - German Culture
		The town of Bremen is perhaps best known for the fable of the Bremen Town Musicians.
		One key feature of Bremen is its Marktplatz, a market square with an old Rathaus and a cathedral that is over 900 years old.
		The Ratskeller is of course located in the Rathaus and is Germany's oldest town hall restaurant.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art12855.asp (200 words)

	The Muppet Musicians of Bremen - Muppet Wiki
		The Muppet Musicians of Bremen - Muppet Wiki
		The Muppet Musicians of Bremen, part of the Tales from Muppetland series, was syndicated in 1972.
		It is a modern telling of the Town Musicians of Bremen fairy tale popularly recorded by the Brothers Grimm.
	muppet.wikia.com /wiki/The_Muppet_Musicians_of_Bremen (285 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Travel \| Countries \| Freewheeling
		While the town has a number of back streets full of beautiful half-timbered houses and a main thoroughfare of old, splendidly decorated merchant houses, it's no surprise to learn that Hameln trades heavily on its association with rats.
		Like Hameln, this town is famous for a fairytale, this time Brothers Grimm fable of the Town Musicians of Bremen, in which four farm animals, mistreated by their masters, cheerily band together and head for the city so that they can live in freedom.
		The town has also been put on the map by Unesco's decision last year to add the late renaissance town hall and the Roland statue in front to its world heritage list.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Travel/countries/story/0,7451,1506231,00.html (1160 words)

	The Bremen Town Musicians
		So I got back south to Bremen, checked in at the local youth hostel - a smaller and less comfortable place than the one in Frankfurt, but a heck of a lot nicer than the one in Bremerhaven - and the next day I checked in at the American Consulate.
		Bremen was one of the better places I could have been asked to wait, I guess, for it was a city that mixed the ultra old, medieval with the ultra new post-war.
		First of all, Bremen was a fantastic environment for wandering, and it was definitely a walker's city.
	home.att.net /~p_lord/bremen.html (3496 words)

	The Bremen Town-Musicians. Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. 1909-14. Household Tales. The Harvard Classics
		They could not, however, reach the city of Bremen in one day, and in the evening they came to a forest where they meant to pass the night.
		The donkey and the hound laid themselves down under a large tree, the cat and the cock settled themselves in the branches; but the cock flew right to the top, where he was most safe.
		After this the robbers did not trust themselves in the house again; but it suited the four musicians of Bremen so well that they did not care to leave it any more.
	www.bartleby.com /17/2/16.html (1120 words)

	Welcome to Destimation Germany
		Bremen and neighbouring Bremerhaven are banded together in a two-city state, which is Germany’s smallest Federal State from sixteen.
		Bremen, which may have been an older settlement, became a bishopric; afterwards the town was founded.
		Many sights of Bremen can be found in the historic city centre (Old Town), an oval area surrounded by the river Weser and the former moats of the medieval city walls.
	www.destimation.de /03_bremen.html (437 words)

	"Jack and the Robbers" or "Jack and the Animals"
		Links between this tale and famous illustrations of “The Bremen Town Musicians” are dramatically suggested in Owen Smith's tall, full-page color illustration of Jack and two animals riding on the donkey.
		The Bremen Town Musicians," there is no Jack or any man, just a group of old animals who run away from threats of death and scare away robbers by climbing on top of each other and making noise.
		"The Bremen Town Musicians." Heidi Anne Heiner's annotated version of the Grimms' 1884 tale, with illustrations, parallel tales across cultures, modern interpretations, and reprints of Joseph Jacobs' "How Jack Sought his Fortune" and the Irish "Jack and His Comrades." Sur La Lune Fairy Tale Pages.
	www.ferrum.edu /applit/bibs/tales/JackRobbers.htm (2347 words)

	The Bremen Town Musicians « Kile Smith
		At all these horrible noises, the robbers sprang up, thinking that the souls of the dead were shrieking for them, and ﬂed into the forest as fast as their legs could carry them.
		The four musicians now sat down at the table, very happy with the food and drink that was left, and feasted to their hearts’ content.
		But the four musicians found it so agreeable that they did not wish to leave their new home any more.
	kilesmith.wordpress.com /chamber-and-other-music/bremen (1168 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Arts: O Rooster, Where Art Thou?
		While a lot of theatres in town produce pieces aimed primarily at children, no organization does it as exclusively and as well as this one.
		The Bremen Town Musicians, its final production of the 2002-2003 season, brings the familiar tale to 1930s America, with country, bluegrass, and gospel forming the soundtrack to the road trip of the Donkey, Cat, Dog, and Rooster intent on musical careers.
		Rod, Rick Smith [Second Youth's producing artistic director and director of the current revival of Bremen Town], and Christopher Boyd, the founders of Second Youth, were all interested in developing new musicals and creating theatre that would appeal to all ages.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-06-06/arts_feature3.html (567 words)

	eBay - Book: Bremen Town Musicians (ISBN: 0893751111) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bremen Town Musicians by Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1979)
		Four animal friends who are no longer wanted by their masters set out to become musicians in the town of Bremen, but along the way encounter a den of thieves.
		Bremen Town Musicians by Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm Gri...
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	MGPL Webrary® - Fairy Tale Variations
		Four animals who are no longer wanted by their masters set out to become musicians in the town of Bremen, but along the way they encounter a den of thieves.
		The Bremen Town Musicians retold from the Brothers Grimm and illustrated by Janet Stevens.
		The Musicians of Bremen: A Tale from Germany retold by Jane Yolen and illustrated by John Segal.
	www.webrary.org /kids/jbibfairytalevariations.html (4316 words)

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		From the same source, here are patterns for the musician's faces that you can use to make masks or finger puppets.
		Some writers say that "The Bremen Town Musicians" is a story about workers banding together to help one another and overcoming their troubles by doing so.
		The musician's famous pyramid only works because each animal is smaller than the one beneath it.
	www.xanga.com /DEXTR/614303441/the-bremen-town-musicians-lesson-plans.html (1165 words)

	Read about Town Musicians of Bremen at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Town Musicians of Bremen and learn about ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Read about Town Musicians of Bremen at WorldVillage Encyclopedia.
		The Town Musicians of Bremen (German Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten, also translated as the Bremen Town Musicians) is a
		This fable has a straight-forward meaning: The four animals (in pictures depicted as standing atop each other) represent the classes of the citizenry, their masters the
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Town_Musicians_of_Bremen (216 words)

	The Bremen Town Musicians
		I tell you what, said the donkey, I am going to bremen, and shall be town-musician there.
		The donkey and the hound laid themselves down under a large tree, the cat and the cock settled themselves in the branches.
		But it suited the four musicians of bremen so well that they did not care to leave it any more.
	www.les-traumwelt.de /maerchen.englisch/the_bremen_town_musicians.htm (1221 words)

	Bremen Town Musicians by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
		Bremen Town Musicians by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
		Then his master began to think of turning him out, but the ass, guessing that something was in the wind that boded him no good, ran away, taking the road to Bremen; for there he thought he might get an engagement as town musician.
		But Bremen was too far off to be reached in one day, and towards evening they came to a wood, where they determined to pass the night.
	www.4literature.net /Jacob_and_Wilhelm_Grimm/Bremen_Town_Musicians (1019 words)

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