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Margaret Bonds arranged over fifty African-American spirituals for various instruments, one of which is the five-minute piano work Troubled Water, based on the spiritual Wade in the Water.The context of the spiritual is associated
Rumpelstiltsken (1955) was inspired from a character in Grimm's Fairy Tales. In the story, a miller brags to the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king thus locks her in a room, orders her to spin
“Great Day” Ode, composed in 1991, is a joyful and effective piece that weaves three African-American Spirituals together: “Great Day,” “Jesus Walked this Lonesome Valley,” and “Every Time I Feel the Spirit.” Starting
Herbison’s Piano Sonata Op. 19 is a technically demanding work featuring idiomatic writing inspired by the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras. The sonata contains four movements, Prelude, Rondo, Scherzo, and Air. The Prelude
Homage is a movement in the set Piano Potpourri. Composed in 1990, it employs a wide variety of different textures and techniques, including octaves, dense chords, and chromaticism. Homage is dedicated to black composer William Dawson, and is
These two piano etudes are both intellectually challenging and technically demanding. Both compositions are atonal. With a five-notes cluster in the left hand that reaches the lowest key and another five note-cluster in the right
Times Seven is a 6-minute, 7-page piece composed by Zenobia Powell Perry in 1985. The title "Times Seven" may be based on a passage from Matthew 18:21-22 from the Christian New Testament, but there is no source to conclusevely prove that. This
“Farewell Alma Mater”, published in 1907 by A. Ross and R. G. Jackson, is a piano piece that won first prize at the Inter-State Literary Society of Kansas and the West, held at St. Joseph, Missouri, in December, 1906. The piece is
Dream and Variations is a substantial work for solo piano written by D. Moore in September 1974. Twenty-one pages long, the piece is graded as advanced level. It consists of an introduction, a theme, and six variations.
Many Thousand Gone is a four-page piano piece written in 1986 by Undine Moore. The piece is appropriate for an advanced student. As the title page of the piece says, it’s based on the slave song: “No more auction block