Eight People Who Made a Difference in Music Inventions Sports and Science-African-American history comes alive through music and singing as Patsy Ford Simms presents us with the contributions of Ella Fitzgerald Scott Joplin Garrett Morgan Benjamin Banneker Jessie Owens Ora Mae Washington GeorgeWashington Carver and Daniel Hale Williams. The collection contains songs that can be used individually or performed together with the rhyming script creating a mini-musical or revue. Along with reproducible parts there arelearning activities games staging suggestions and choreography ideas. This outstanding collection also contains an Enhanced StudioTrax CD with accompaniment and performance tracks.

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.

An Early American Christmas. A wealth of beautiful and joyous music has been written for the Christmas season. Some of the most enchanting melodies can be found in this solo mandolin edition of the Early American holiday repertoire. For this collection, Tommy Norris has selected eighteen lesser and better-known carols and songs from the folk, shape-note, sacred, Native American, African American spiritual, and European hymnody traditions, and arranged them for solo mandolin. Each intermediate to moderately advanced arrangement is shown in standard notation and mandolin tablature. As a learning aid, a downloadable recording of the author's performance of each piece is available online. We hope these arrangements bring the joy of the Christmas spirit to your holiday season.

African-American And Jamaican Songs. Par KIMBERLING CLARK. Une collection unique pour la flûte : 46 solos pleine page, y compris les arrangements de spirituals, chansons folkloriques, airs de danse et de mélodies de compositeurs afro-américaine, plus cinq solos composé pour cette collection. Inclut des mélodies par Basile Barès, a. j. r. Conner, Henry Hart, j. w. Postlewaite. Fonctionnalités inédites précédemment solo de renom Philadpelphia musicien Francis Johnson, la composition la plus ancienne connue par un afro-américain, datant de 1815. Favoris incluent Amen, Banyan Tree, médecin Bird et Ev'ry temps, je me sens à l'esprit. Soutenu par des Notes historiques spécifiques mélodie accessible par Internet. --Quarante-six pleine page solos pour les flûte--Arrangements de mélodies de compositeurs plus connus de l'Amérique d'origine africaine, ainsi que des mélodies traditionnelles--Notes historiques spécifiques mélodie sur Internet / Niveau : Intermédiaire / World Music - Solos / Recueil / Flûte Traversière

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

The golden age of African fingerpicking guitar was in the 1950s and 1960s. The great players and recording artists of that time included Jean Bosco Mwenda and Losta Abelo from Zaire and George Mukabi from Kenya. Guitaristsfrom other parts of the world have rarely if ever had a chance to learn their songs and playing techniques. On this DVD their arrangements are taught by John Low who has lived worked and studied with African musicians includingthose mentioned above. There are some interesting links with American guitar styles but there are just as many differences including rhythms borrowed from traditional African music and catchy up-beat patterns. Africanfingerstyle guitar is usually accompanied by rhythms played on a bottle. John Low is accompanied on this DVD by Frans Maathuis and Keith Jackman on bottles.

Thirty musical arrangements by noted African-American tenor recall biblical events in such well-known tunes as Deep River Dry Bones Steal Away and Were You There' Perceptively written introduction to each song includes background history. Rich collection will appeal to lovers of great spirituals and the rich legacy of African-American song.Reprint of My Songs: Aframerican Religious Folk Songs Arranged and Interpreted by Roland Hayes Little Brown and Company Boston 1948.

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

Par JOHNSON TIMOTHY. Based on the African-American spiritual “Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit”, Feel the Spirit captures the essence of the traditional spiritual. These songs were created by African-Americans oppressed by slavery. A deeply religious people, the slaves would use singing as an expression of both their enthusiastic joy and profound sadness. Feel the Spirit enables you to play a great gospel song with your band / Niveau : 2 / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie