SKU: CF.CAS160F

ISBN 9781491165454. UPC: 680160924363. Key: C major.

The story of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is of a rising star composer, one with a significant gift for melody and a simple lyricism, who embraced the previously unexplored song and dance forms from his father’s native west Africa and incorporated them into his own very European art music. Coleridge-Taylor began playing the violin at age five and by age fifteen wasadmitted to London’s Royal College of Music, where he studied both violin and composition and composed his first works. The simply-titled Melody is taken from Three Short Pieces for Organ - a set of pieces originally published in Novello’s Album for the Organ, No. 3 (1898). While certainly typical of the late 19th century, many of Coleridge-Taylor's creations display inspiration by African musical elements much like spirituals inspired Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony.

SKU: HL.14017034

ISBN 9788759854556. German.

This volume attempts to encapsulate the History of Italian Organ music from the start of the 1500s. This is the 1960 2nd edition which has been revised and substantially extended. Author, Knudd Jeppesen, uses two Italian works to analyse the styles and features of this Italian music, and presents a valuable resource and reference. The contents of Book 1 include a history of the instrument- the origins and how it was constructed by the renaissance instrument builders. With a section of examples of fine works from this period and a guide to reading older forms of notation. German language.