24 Traditional Folk Songs for Intermediate Piano Solo. Arranged by Artina McCain. Educational Piano Solo. African-American, Folk. Softcover. 48 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

(in a contemporary setting). Edited by Helen Marlais. For piano. The FJH Pianist's Curriculum. Sacred, Hymns. Elementary. Book and performance CD. 36 pages. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.140401330

Composed by R. Nathaniel Dett. Edited by Lara Downes. 32 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #140-40133. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.140401330).

ISBN 9781491134412. UPC: 680160684939.

Nathaniel Dett was among America’s leading composers in the early 20th century, and MAGNOLIA SUITE is a beautiful example of his rich, hybrid style. Deeply inspired by the music and mission of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Dett’s piano music springs from the late Romantic traditions of florid texture and embellishment, along with programmatic titles and raw emotion. It is notable for melody writing inspired by and paraphrasing African-American song. The 18-minute MAGNOLIA SUITE contains five movements, any of which may also be performed separately. This edition by Lara Downes provides a clean, new engraving that corrects the many errors and unclear indications appearing in the historical printing.
Robert Nathaniel Dett was born in a place that was built on freedom. The little village of Drummondville, Ontario was founded by enslaved Africans – Dett’s ancestors among them – who traveled the Underground Railroad out of the American South into Canada. Their journey brought them to a safe haven, a place where fortunes and futures could be transformed in the span of one generation, to lives full of new possibilities. You could call it “the place where the rainbow ends,” which is the title of the last movement of Dett’s Magnolia Suite.When Dett wrote these pieces, he was a young teacher at Lane College in Tennessee, a historically Black college that had been founded in 1882, the year of his birth. A place built on freedom, with the purpose of educating newly-emancipated slaves – a place designed to nurture the blossoming of ideas, the vibrant flowering of minds set free. This music is inspired by the gorgeous splendor of the magnolia blooms on that college campus, and also by the shared histories, experiences, and aspirations of the community that Dett found there.These five pieces pay affectionate tribute to lineage and legacy. They express gratitude for the bittersweet beauties of the present; nostalgia for the past (a bit romanticized, as the past always is); and an effervescent optimism for the future that awaits us in the place where the rainbow ends.

(in a contemporary setting). Edited by Helen Marlais. For piano. The FJH Pianist's Curriculum. Sacred, Hymns. Intermediate. Book and performance CD. 48 pages. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc

12 Intermediate Piano Arrangements in Progressive Order Jennifer Linn Series. Arranged by Jennifer Linn. Jennifer Linn Series. Christmas, Multicultural. Softcover. Published by Hal Leonard

By Claude Debussy. Arranged by Allan Small. For Piano. Piano Solo. Simply Classics Solos. Masterwork. Level: Late Intermediate (grade 6). Sheet. 4 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Edited by Maurice Hinson. For Piano. Piano Collection. Alfred Masterwork Edition. Masterwork; Ragtime. Level: Intermediate / Early Advanced (grade 4/5/6/6 ). Book. 172 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

(In a contemporary setting). By Various. Edited by Helen Marlais. For piano. The FJH Pianists Curriculum. Sacred, Hymns. Early Elementary. Book and performance CD. 36 pages. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc

Piano

SKU: FG.55011-681-8

Composed by Sami Juntunen. Score. Fennica Gehrman #55011-681-8. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-681-8).

ISBN 9790550116818.

New bilingual edition (2021) with texts in English and Finnish. Getting' into Groove is a tutor and repertoire collection for piano, exploring the African-American popular music genre, its origins and building blocks. Melodies, rhythms and harmonies are introduced all the way from 19th century ragtime to 1980's hip hop. Each genre offers three distinct compositions, concise fact bulletins and references for listening the most important examples and forerunners of blues, stride, swing, bebop, funk... The recordings of all the pieces of this collection are available in YouTube, and the arrangements available for different ensembles broaden the spectacular view on the continuously changing music. Click sample / table of contents to see more.

(Celebrating the Birth of Christ). Composed by Jeff Bennett. For piano. Christmas. Moderate. Published by Lillenas Publishing Company

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.140401320

Composed by Eubie Blake. Edited by Lara Downes. Arranged by Jeremy Siskind. Sws. Score. 8 pages. Duration 3:45. Theodore Presser Company #140-40132. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.140401320).

ISBN 9781491134177. UPC: 680160684274. 9 x 12 inches. Key: F major.

LOVE WILL FIND A WAY is one of the great hits of the 1920s – an era of remarkable cultural growth giving rise to “The Roaring '20s,” “The Harlem Renaissance,” and a fun-loving society known for the Charleston dance craze and the surge of jazz into the mainstream of American music. A song from Shuffle Along, the first all-Black Broadway musical, LOVE WILL FIND A WAY has been arranged by pianist Jeremy Siskind especially for Lara Downes’ recording that launches the Rising Sun series.
According to Langston Hughes, Eubie Blake’s 1921 Shuffle Along was the real start of the Harlem Renaissance. In Hughes’ words: “Everybody was in the audience, including me. It gave just the proper push, a pre-Charleston kick, to that Negro vogue of the '20s that spread to books, African sculpture, music, and dancing.”As Broadway’s first all-Black hit musical, with an all-star cast including Paul Robeson and a young Josephine Baker, Shuffle Along ran for an unprecedented 504 performances in New York, then toured nationally for three years as the first Black musical to play in white theaters across the United States. The show’s appeal to a multi-racial audience, and its integration of the jazz and Broadway communities, not only changed the history of the American musical theater, but made important strides forward in American race relations.Love Will Find a Way is one of the show’s most popular tunes. This intimate, pensive arrangement by Jeremy Siskind celebrates the song’s centenary by making it a love song for our own time as much as its own – a reminder that no matter how dark the path or how gray the skies, love will always find a way.