SKU: 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.
SKU: BT.MUSAM39645
ISBN 9780711906723. English.
All five books of The Complete Piano Player series are published in this single volume at a substantial savings over the price of the five individual books. Complete with keyboard chart.
SKU: PR.140401340
ISBN 9781491134450. UPC: 680160684953.
Best known for his settings of spirituals and influence on Dvorák, Henry T. Burleigh was a celebrated baritone, and a prolific composer of original works. FROM THE SOUTHLAND is a suite of six atmospheric scenes of the American south, inspired by Black musical and cultural traditions. FROM THE SOUTHLAND is within reach of intermediate pianists and artistically suited for professional recitals.In 1835, Henry T. Burleigh’s maternal grandfather purchased his own release from slavery for the sum of $50, and traveled north out of Maryland to begin a new life as a free man. He established his family in Ithaca, NY, and then moved to the bustling lakefront city of Erie, PA, where three decades later his grandson Henry would be born and raised.For Burleigh, the “Southland†that inspired this collection of piano sketches was a distant place that could not have been more different from the physical world he knew, up there in the northern snowbelt. And yet these southern landscapes and vignettes must have been intensely present in his consciousness, absorbed through the stories and songs he first learned at his grandfather’s knee.The music of the South – the spirituals and work songs he heard as a child –would travel with Burleigh throughout his long and illustrious musical life. Even as he progressed through his early classical training, his career as a baritone soloist in Erie’s churches and synagogue, his move to New York to study at the National Conservatory of Music, and his rise to national prominence as a concert soloist, these ancestral melodies stayed firmly centered in his musical identity.When he wrote From the Southland, his only composition for solo piano, Burleigh was just beginning his career as a composer. The art songs that would establish him as one of America’s best known composers in the genre were still to come. And so were his iconic arrangements of spirituals that would bring the songs of slavery onto concert stages around the world, transformed into timeless and uniquely American music.These little piano sketches bring together all the things that made Burleigh the musician he was – the lush, late-romantic style of his time; a broad vision for American music; and a profound respect for his heritage, a memory of the world his grandfather left behind, and a love of the music he brought with him.
SKU: FJ.FJH2294
ISBN 9781619282537. UPC: 241444398784. English.
Book 5 contains 15 student and teacher favorites by composers Kevin Costley, Christopher Goldston, Valerie Roth Roubos, Edwin McLean, Mary Leaf, Kevin Olson, Melody Bober and Timothy Brown. These crème de la crème pieces are perfect for recitals, auditions and competitions. Some titles are: Another Homecoming, Ballade for Belfast, En Calle Ocho, Samba cromática, Stardust Prelude, The Big Easy Blues and nine more!
SKU: LM.27280
ISBN 9790230972802.
TRADITIONNEL : Down by the Riverside - BACH : Prelude en fa majeur BWV 927 - BAROUH / LAI : Un Homme et une femme - BEETHOVEN : Pathetique (theme de la Sonate n. 8, Op.13) - BORODINE : Danse Polovtsienne - BREL : Ne me quitte pas - CABREL : Je l'aime a mourir - CARMEN : All by Myself - EBB / KANDER : New York, New York - FRANCK : Les Plaintes d'une poupee - FREED / BROWN : Singin' in the Rain - GAINSBOURG : Elisa - GRIEG : La Chanson de Solveig - HAENDEL : L'Harmonieux forgeron - HANDY : St. Louis Blues - HEUMANN : Piano Dreams - Walking Blues Shoes - JARRE : Chanson de Lara (Docteur Jivago) - JENNINGS / HORNER : My heart will go on (Titanic) - LENNON : Imagine - MANCINI : The Pink Panther Theme (La Panthere Rose) - MASSENET : Aragonaise - MOZART : Cavatine de Figaro - PACHELBEL : Canon - PLANTE / AZNAVOUR : La Boheme - VIVALDI : Le Printemps.
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