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.

Natha niel 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: SU.00220618

Keyboard, Piano/Harpsichord. USB (PDF Scores). CD Sheet Music #00220618. Published by CD Sheet Music (SU.00220618).

This CD Sheet Music collection brings together over 250 works for piano by Spanish and Latin American composers from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Works include: Albéniz (Cantos de España, Doce Piezas Características, España, Iberia, Mazurkas de Salón, Navarra, Recuerdos de Viaje); Cabezón; Falla (El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Pièces Españoles); Granados (Bocetos, Cuentos de la Juventud, Danzas Espñolas, Escenas Poéticas, Books 1&2, Goyescas, Seis Piezas sobre Cantos Populares Espñoles); Soler (Fandango); Turina (Coins de Séville, Contes d'Espagne, Danzas Fantasticas, Femmes d'Espagne, Suite Pittoresque); Villa-Lobos (Carnaval das Crianças, Danças Caracterí­sticas Africanas, Histórias da Carochinha, Prole do Bebê, Volume 1, Simples Coletânea, Suíte Floral); Yradier, and more Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2000+ pages.

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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