Orchestra - Grade 3
SKU: AP.49898
From African
Suite. Composed by
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Arranged by Kirk Moss.
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Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles;
String Orchestra. Belwin
Concert String Orchestra.
Form: Dance. Masterwork
Arrangement. Score and
Part(s). Duration 3:00.
Belwin Music #00-49898.
Published by Belwin Music
(AP.49898).
ISBN
9781470657314. UPC:
038081575469.
English.
Originally
composed for piano as the
final movement of African
Suite, Danse begins with
two introductory chords
followed by energetic
swinging rhythms and
repeated angular
melodies. Students will
love the moods in this
festive overture,
evocative of later
Broadway musicals. The
artistic turning point of
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's
career happened in his
twenties when he met the
African-American poet
Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Dunbar influenced the
young composer to
concentrate on his
African heritage. Born in
suburban London to Alice
Martin, an Englishwoman
and the daughter of a
blacksmith, his father,
Dr. Daniel Peter Hughes
Taylor, was a Creole of
Sierra Leone who
qualified as a Member of
the Royal College of
Surgeons (MRCS) and
returned to Africa before
his son's birth. Called
Coleridge by his family,
he was raised in Croydon,
Surrey, by his mother and
her father, Benjamin
Holmans, who taught him
the violin. (3:00).
