By Abdullah Ibrahim. For Piano (Piano). Piano. Softcover. 64 pages. Hal Leonard #ED20876. Published by Hal Leonard

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.

Piano

SKU: SU.12800066

For Piano. Composed by Edward Elzear Zez Confrey. Keyboard, Piano/Harpsichord. Score. Subito Music Corporation #12800066. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.12800066).

BachScholar Editions Vol. 66: ZEZ CONFREY: 12 Novelty Piano Solos (1921-1924) (editor's preface, 49 pages of music) presents Zez Confrey's twelve most popular novelty piano solos from the exciting era of the 1920s. (The novelty style evolved from classic ragtime, of which Confrey was its first pioneer.) These beautiful and meticulous engravings are reproduced from the original editions, making this an historically accurate Urtext of the highest quality (no fingerings provided). Pianists, students, teachers, and ragtime aficionados will marvel at the clarity and legibility of this fine authoritative edition of exciting and entertaining solos from the pioneer of the novelty ragtime style. Contents include: 1. My Pet (1921) 2. Kitten on the Keys (1921) 3. You Tell 'Em, Ivories (1921) 4. Greenwich Witch (1921) 5. Poor Buttermilk (1921) 6. Stumbling (Paraphrase) (1922) 7. Coaxing the Piano (1922) 8. Dizzy Fingers (1923) 9. Nickel in the Slot (1923) 10. High Hattin' (1924) (from African Suite) 11. Kinda Careless (1924) (from African Suite) 12. Mississippi Shivers (1924) (from African Suite) Composed: 1921-1924 Published by: BachScholar.

Chamber Music Bass, Djembe, Piano

SKU: PR.141400980

Composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Stanley Moss, Ubuntu. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 12+4 pages. Duration 6 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #141-40098. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.141400980).

ISBN 9781491112953. UPC: 680160671229. 9 x 12 inches. Text: Stanley Moss. Stanley Moss, Ubuntu.

The opening of Stanley Moss’s poem unfurls the spirit captured in Zwilich’s musical setting for Bass Voice, Djembe (African drum), and Piano: “I salute a word, I stand up and give it my chair, because this one Zulu word, ubuntu, holds what English takes seven to say: ‘the essential dignity of every human being.’ I give my hand to ubuntu —” Zwilich’s six-minute work proudly declaims Moss’s message, using a djembe to add African-inspired color and punctuation to the musical whole.

By Jon Batiste. Piano Solo Personality. Contemporary, Jazz, Pop. Softcover. 56 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Composed by Ludovico Einaudi. Book Only. Volonte e Co #VOLMB208. Published by Volonte e Co

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.

24 Traditional Folk Songs for Intermediate Piano Solo. Arranged by James Wilding and Nkululeko Zungu. Educational Piano Solo. Folk, Solos. Softcover. Published by Hal Leonard

Piano Solo

SKU: AP.36-M321691

Composed by Robert Nathaniel Dett. Performance Music Ensemble; Solo Piano. Ludwig Masters. Score and Part(s). LudwigMasters Publications #36-M321691. Published by LudwigMasters Publications (AP.36-M321691).

UPC: 660355010828. English.

"In the Bottoms" is a Suite of five numbers giving pictures of moods or scenes peculiar to African-American life in the river bottoms of the South.  It is similar in its expression, and in a way continuation, of the sentiments already set forth in the "Magnolia Suite," but suggests ideas incidental to life in a more particular geographic territory.  Movements: 1. Prelude (Night)  2. His Song  3. Honey (Humoresque)  4. Barcarolle (Morning)  5. Dance (Juba).

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(Level 1). Composed by Lang Lang. For Piano. Book; Method/Instruction; Piano Method. Faber Edition. Early Elementary. Published by Faber Music