Synopses & Reviews
Features 26 pieces (including covers) by early-19th-century American genius: "Bamboula," "The Banjo," other Creole, Negro-based material, through elegant salon music.
Synopsis
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) is still remembered as one of the most interesting early American composers, a composer whose work is still performed and enjoyed. This collection of Gottschalk's major piano music shows the wide range of his talent from the "wild, languishing" derivations on Negro and Creole folk melodies to his elegant and moving concert and salon compositions.
Included are such pieces as "Bamboula, Danse de N gres," "The Banjo, Grotesque Fantasie, Mexican Sketch," "La Savane, Ballade Cr ole," "Manchega, Etude de Concert," "La Gallina, Danse Cubaine," "Souvenir de Porto Rico, Marche des Gibaros," "Sixi me Ballade," "The Dying Poet, Meditation," "The Last Hope, Religious Meditation," "Ses Yeux, Polka de Concert," and 16 other pieces.
This book has been especially designed as a playing edition -- the noteheads are large and easily readable at the piano, and the margins and spaces between staves are adequate for written notes, fingerings, and turnovers. It is also most useful for analysis.
Table of Contents
I. United States Ethnic and Patriotic Music
"BAMBOULA, DANSE DE NÈGRES"
"LA BANANIER, CHANSON NÈGRE"
"THE BANJO, GROTESQUE FANTASIE, AMERICAN SKETCH"
"LA SAVANE, BALLADE CRÉOLE"
"UNION, PARAPHRASE DE CONCERT ON THE NATIONAL AIRS, STAR SPANGLED BANNER, YANKEE DOOGLE and HAIL COLUMBIA"
II. Music from Spain
"LA JOTA ARAGONESA, CAPRICE ESPAGNOL"
"MANCHEGA, ETUDE DE CONCERT"
"MINUIT À SÉVILLE, CAPRICE"
"SOUVENIRS D'ANDALOUSIE, CAPRICE DE CONCERT SUR LA CANA, LE FANDANGO, ET LE JALEO DE JEREZ"
III. West Indian Souvenirs
DANZA
"LA GALLINA (THE HEN), DANSE CUBAINE"
"LE MANCENILLIER, SÉRÉNADE"
"O, MA CHARMANTE, ÉPARGNEZ MOI! (O MY CHARMER, SPARE ME), CAPRICE"
"OJOS CRIOLLOS (LES YEUX CRÉOLES), DANSE CUBAINE, CAPRICE BRILLANT"
"SOUVENIR DE LA HAVANE, GRANDE CAPRICE DE CONCERT"
"SOUVENIR DE PORTO RICO, MARCHE DES GIBAROS"
SUIS MOI! CAPRICE
IV. Concert and Salon Music (Non-nationalistic)
SIXIÈME BALLADE
"BERCEUSE, CRADLE SONG"
"THE DYING POET, MEDITATION"
GRAND SCHERZO
"THE LAST HOPE, RELIGIOUS MEDITATION"
"MORTE!! (SHE IS DEAD), LAMENTATION"
"PASQUINADE, CAPRICE"
"SES YEUX, POLKA DE CONCERT"
TOURNAMENT GALOP