Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora - Volume 3
Early Advanced
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- Composers: John W. Work (1871-1925), Florence Price (1887-1953), Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943), Ludovic Lamothe (1882-), Oswald Russell (1933-), Wallace M. Cheatham (1945-), Akin Euba (1935-2020), Andrés Wheatly (1916-2009), Gamal Abdel-Rahim (1924-1988), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), Howard Swanson (1907-1978)
- Instrumentation: Piano
- ISBN:
- Size: 9.1 x 12.0 inches
- Pages: 64
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Description
The third volume for early advanced pianists explores even more genres than the first two volumes, such as elements of Tango and Haitian Merengue music. 'Cell Phone Blues' is derived from pop music and Jazz. This volume also includes spirituals and African folksongs. Performance notes and composer biographies are provided as well.
Works:
- Work: Take Me Back
- Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River
- Lamothe: La Dangereuse
- Dett: Juba Dance
- Russell: Jamaican Dance No. 2
- Cheatham: Prelude No. 3
- Swanson: The Cuckoo
- Euba: Scenes from Traditional Life, No. 1
- Wheatly: Scherzino
- Nimble Feet from Price: Dances in the Canebrakes (1953)
- Swanson: Cell Phone Blues
- Russell: Papillons
- Abdel-Rahim: Variations on an Egyptian Folksong