This is the third installment of the musical collections celebrating African American historical figures. Chronicling the lives and achievements of four famous African American musicians this collection contains songs that may beused individually or performed together with the rhyming script creating a mini-musical. Along with reproducible parts there are learning activities and games for each musician and with the rhyming narratives that precede eachsong memorizing facts becomes a snap! The songs are short and reflect the style of each musician: Scott Joplin • W.C. Handy • Duke Ellington • Ella Fitzgerald. Choreography by Greg Gilpin is also included.

A collection of 20 inspiring African-American spirituals, arranged for easy piano by Phillip Keveren. Suitable for pianists grades 2-4. Includes lyrics and guitar chord symbols.

Par COLERIDGE-TAYLOR SAMUEL. Danse Nègre, from the African Suite by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, arranged for flute choir by Paige Dashner Long. Coleridge spent his childhood in Croydon, Surrey, England, where he studied violin with his grandfather and also sang in the church choir. At 15, he was accepted to the Royal College of Music, where during his second year, he changed his major from violin to composition. At the age of 20, he met the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, who encouraged him to focus on his African heritage. As a result, Coleridge composed his African Suite for piano in 1898, each of the four movements depicting different African experiences. / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Flûtes

for Fingerstyle Guitar-This is a colleciton of 47 favorite 19th century American songs arranged for fingerstyle guitar from Glenn Weiser's recent CD My Old Kentucky Home. Here you'll find Stephen Foster's famous compositions and other parlor songs African-American spirituals Civil War anthems familiar hymns and 1890s hits. These priceless legacies of our national heritage form much of the soundtrack of American history: ?Oh! Susanna? was on the lips of every Forty-Niner during the California Gold Rush Harriet Tubman sang ?Swing Low Sweet Chariot ? on her deathbed and Abraham Lincoln wept the first time he heard ?The Battle Hymn of the Replublic.? Nowguitarists can play these and many more in new beautiful solo arrangements.

African-American And Jamaican Melodies. Par KIMBERLING CLARK. Pour enregistreur soprano avancée ou les flûte intermédiaire : 41 arrangements basé sur spirituals, chansons folkloriques, airs de danse et de mélodies de compositeurs afro-américaine, plus cinq solos composé pour cette collection. Compositeurs incluent Basile Barès, a. j. r. Conner, Henry Hart, Francis Johnson et j. w. Postlewaite. Vieux favoris incluent Banyan Tree, exécuter Me Back à Old Virginny, médecin Bird, vers le bas par la Riverside et Ev'ry temps je me sens à l'esprit. Comprend le doigté graphique pour les notes hautes, notes de performance et des suggestions pour une utilisation avec le système sonore et/ou de percussions. Soutenu par Internet-accessible mélodie propres Notes historiques pour tous les solos. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / World Music - Solos / Recueil / Flûte à Bec Soprano

BandQuest Series-A contemporary adaptation of the traditional African American spiritual Wade in the Water.

Mixed Bag No. 5-’Joplin did for the rag what Chopin did for the mazurka’ it almost seems unnecessary to introduce the 'King of Ragtime Writers' Scott Joplin. During his brief career the African-American composer andpianist wrote 44 original ragtime pieces one ragtime ballet and two operas. One of his first pieces the 'Maple Leaf Rag' became ragtime's first and most influential hit and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.Asa composer Joplin refined ragtime elevating it above the low and unrefined form that lived in popular imagination. Joplin's ragtime expressed the intensity and energy of a modern urban America and rejuvenatedAmerican popular music. His work paved the way for the recognition of future African-American musicians and music styles such as novelty piano and jazz.As part of the Mixed Bag series Roger Cawkwell has arranged twoJoplin rags for Woodwind ensemble.

Composer's Note: Quilting co-commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic is my first stand alone work fororchestra and is loosely inspired by the American tradition of quilt making. I composed Quilting while living most of last year in Paris. During my time there I thought a lot about what it means to compose symphonic music as ayoung American in the 21st century when so many of the many masterworks which are programmed year in and out by orchestras across the country are European. I considered which artistic traditions defined the American 19th-century.I began to think of the American crafts-tradition of quilting as a foil to the high-art tradition of European orchestral composition. As the score for my new work began to take shape I started thinking about themanuscript itself as an object its vertical and horizontal planes create a kind of patterned geometry of their own. Visually the way a musical score is woven together like patchwork brought to mind quilts and the great Americantradition of quilting. I imagined about how conducting an orchestra can feel like stitching a piece together or sewing together a large number of musical ideas and musicians into a coherent and transcendent whole. Quilting was an integral part of American vernacular in the 18th and 19th centuries the African-American quilting tradition is especially fascinating and the quilts tell the stories of the women and communities who made them.The names of the quilt patterns themselves can have their own sense of narrative: 'jacobs ladder' 'drunkards path' 'solomon's puzzle' and (my favorite for its relevance to this piece) 'the road to California.' -Bryce Dessner