Description

• Composers: Florence Price (1887-1953), Isak Roux (1959-), Ulysses Kay (1917-1995), Nkeiru Okoye (1972-), Robert Mawuena Kwami (1954-2004), Halim El-Dabh (1921-2017), André Bangambula Vindu (1953-), Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia (1921-2019), Christian Onyeji, Hale Smith (1925-2009), Valerie Capers (1935-)
• Editor: William Chapman Nyaho
• Instrumentation: Piano
• Binding:
• ISBN: 9780193868229
• Size: 9.1 x 12.0 inches
• Pages: 48

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Description

This first volume for advanced beginners offers a wonderful introduction to Ragtime and Jazz as well as syncopation and different articulations. The pieces range from light-hearted pieces like ‘Kwela,’ the Zulu term for dance, to soulful and spiritual pieces like ‘Dusk.’ This volume includes performance notes for each piece.

• Isak Roux: Kwela No. 1
• Ulysses Kay: Tender Thought
• Hale Smith: My Scarf is Yellow
• Nkeiru Okoye: Dusk
• Robert Mawuena Kwami: Piano Piece No. 2, Call and Response
• Halik El-Dabh: Soufiane
• Hale Smith: Off-Beat Shorty
• Florence B. Price: Ticklin’ Toes
• Valerie Capers: Sweet Mister Jelly Roll
• Nkeiru Okoye: Dancing Barefoot in the Rain
• Isak Roux: Lullaby
• Valerie Capers: The Monk
• Bangambula Vindu: Lullaby
• J. H. Kwabena Nketia: Builsa Work Song
• Christian Onyeji: Ufie III

Works:

• Roux: Kwela No. 1
• Kay: Tender Thought
• H. Smith: My Scarf is Yellow
• Okoye: Dusk
• Kwami: Piano Piece No. 2 (Call and Response)
• El-Dabh: Soufiane
• H. Smith: Off-Beat Shorty
• Price: Ticklin’ Toes
• Capers: Sweet Mister Jelly Roll
• Okoye: Dancing Barefoot in the Rain
• Roux: Lullaby
• Capers: The Monk
• Vindu: Lullaby
• Nketia: Builsa Work Song
• Onyeji: Ufie III