SKU: 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.

SKU: GI.G-7884

UPC: 785147788430. English.

Recorded Live in Baltimore! Like the previous ?ve recordings and collections, I Heard the Voice highlights some of the ?nest selections from GIA’s African American Church Music series except this time these powerful anthems, spirituals, and gospel selections were recorded before a live audience. Featuring the incomparable Joseph Joubert on Piano and charismatic conductor James Abbington directing a powerful group of Morgan State and Oakwood University grads, this live performance engaged, thrilled, and inspired an enthusiastic crowd. Feel the excitement for yourself—add I Heard the Voice to your growing collection today! Contains a CD recording and one of each of the following octavos: Sing a New World into Being (From New Wine in Old Wineskins, Volume 2, G-7857)* - Jesus, Lay Yo' Head in de Winda' JOUBERT - Praise the Lord, All Ye Nations RANDEGGER - Sanctus SIMON - Study War No More—down by the Riverside JOUBERT - Jesus Is the King BURLEIGH - Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty* JOUBERT - The Glorious Medley DICKENSON - I Sing the Mighty Power of God BURTON - If My People WADDLES - Just for Me HOLLAND - Even Me REID - Higest Praise JOUBERT - I Heard the Voice WOOTEN *on CD, but not included in music collection  .

SKU: 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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SKU: FG.55011-681-8

ISBN 9790550116818.

New bilingual edition (2021) with texts in English and Finnish. Getting' into Groove is a tutor and repertoire collection for piano, exploring the African-American popular music genre, its origins and building blocks. Melodies, rhythms and harmonies are introduced all the way from 19th century ragtime to 1980's hip hop. Each genre offers three distinct compositions, concise fact bulletins and references for listening the most important examples and forerunners of blues, stride, swing, bebop, funk... The recordings of all the pieces of this collection are available in YouTube, and the arrangements available for different ensembles broaden the spectacular view on the continuously changing music. Click sample / table of contents to see more.