Various :: Music by Black Composers, Flute Vol. 1

Publisher: Subito Music

Editor: Kennard, Jennifer; Pine, Rachel Barton

Subito Music presents 'Music by Black Composers, Flute Volume 1: Beginner to Elementary Level' for two flutes. 

Welcome to the RBP Foundation's Music by Black Composers series for flute! After 24 years of research, and published volumes for violin and keyboard, MBC has begun a collaboration with the National Flute Association (NFA) to create this present volume. 

The flute series is intended for those studying privately as traditional or Suzuki students, for those studying in groups with their band director, and for children and adult learners. Each piece in 'MBC Flute Volume 1' has a flute accompaniment (the piano part is sold in a separate folio). In addition to making this repertoire available, these books educate through articles and interviews. Each volume includes biographies for every composer, features on Black classical music making through history, and profiles of Black role models in classical music, past and present. 

MBC and the NFA hope that, in part through exposure to this repertoire, current and future generations of performers, presents, teachers, and audience members will expect and demand that music on our concert stages and in our classrooms reflect all of the wonderful diversity of classical music in our own communities and around the world. 

Table of Contents

• 1. Preparatory Exercises in African Rhythm — J. H. Kwabena Nketia
• 2. Water in the Moonlight — Thomas Green “Blind Tom” Wiggins
• 3. Balada — Francisca “Chiquinha” Gonzaga
• 4. Les Cent Gardes Valse (The Hundred Guards Waltz) — Basile Bares
• 5. Minuet #8 — Ignatius Sancho
• 6. Son de la Ma’ Teodora — Teodora Gines
• 7. Sonata for Harp with Flute Accompaniment — Joseph Bologne
• 8. Sir Harry Flutter — Ignatius Sancho
• 9. Le Douze de Décembre — Ignatius Sancho
• 10. The Deserted Garden — Florence B. Price
• 11. Recognition March of the Independence of Hayti — Francis “Frank” Johnson
• 12. La Parisienne: Polka Brilliant (The Parisian Lady: Brilliant Polka) — Lucien Lambert
• 13. Intermezzo — Jeraldine Saunders Herbison
• 14. Jamaica Folk — Peter Ashbourne
• 15. Chocolate Drops: A Cake Walk — Will Marion Cook