Yevgeniy Rushansky is the Petersburgian composer, the author of numerous musical creations of various genres. Among them there are the opera “In the Fortune's Hands” (to M. Lermontov, two concertos for piano and orchestra, the string quartet, several cantatas and cycles for mixed choir, orchestral and piano pieces. These songs for children choir from the book “Black and White Tale” are considered to be performed by the children of junior and average age. Choral parts are written as the kind of draft, thus giving the chance to be transformed, depending on the participants' level. If the choral part seems to be rather complicated, some separate voices may not be used according to conductor's opinion. If the choir is trained enough, the choral parts may be complicated. Some songs are supposed to involve the solists, hence they may teansposed to other keys for to achieve more expression.