24 Traditional Folk Songs for Intermediate Piano Solo. Par . Faites découvrir aux élèves pianistes la musique traditionnelle d\'Afrique du Sud avec ces 24 chansons folk arrangées pour piano solo. Pendant l\'apartheid, la musique des différentes cultures et ethnies du pays (Afrikaans, amaNdebele, amaXhosa, amaZulu, Bapedi, Basotho, Batswana, Cape Malay, emaSwati, Vatsonga) s\'est développée séparément, et les auteurs ont estimé qu\'il était grand temps de rassembler ces traditions musicales contrastées. / Date parution : 2022-07-23/ Recueil / Piano

Volume 2 Intermediate-For solo Piano.From the influences of the Southern US and the Caribbean to the Igbo people of Africa this second volume truly represents the music of Africa and its Diaspora. This intermediate-level volume features more jazz and syncopated pieces that are both reflective and dance-like. Performance notes and composer biographies are also provided.

Kevin Volans' L'Africaine for Piano solo. Duration: 22 minutes. Composers Note: Most of the piano music I have written has focussed on a number of 20th century musical concerns: withcomplex rhythmic patterning a- and poly-tonality multiple layering of parts on occasion introducing different tone colours (like playing inside the instrument or electronic modulation) ' but above all resonance. The development of the piano in 19th century with its increased size pitch and dynamic range led above all to an instrument capable of rich and full resonance that could rival even an orchestra. All centred around thepedal ' in Anton Rubinstein's words: The soul of the piano. This time I thought it would be interesting to write a piece which pays no attention to this tradition; to write a piece from the point of view ofsome African compositional methods and ways of patterning ' mainly interlocking parts which result in shifting downbeats. For a large part of the piece I treat the left and right hands as two complementaryperformers. So hardly any pedal no concerns with contemporary harmony style structure or technology. I did slip in a slightly concealed reference to Debussy's L'Isle Joyeuse however. The pieceis roughly 22 minutes long in three sections and the title is a slightly tongue-in-cheek reference to Couperin. 

Volume 5-This is the last and most advanced volume of the graduated series which includes works by composers of African descent that are hard to find or have never been published. This volume is for advanced performers and is a wonderful source of new and unusual repertoire.

Favourite songs of Africa for children to sing and play, in easy piano arrangements by Caroline Hooper. Illustrations by David Meldrum. / Partition /