Includes composer biographies and performance notes in English.
Contents:
v. 1. Early intermediate. Kwela no. 1 / Isak Roux ; Tender thought / Ulysses Kay ; My scarf is yellow / Hale Smith ; Dusk / Nkeiru Okoye ; Piano piece no. 2 : Call and response / Robert Mawuena Kwami ; Soufiane / Halim El-Dabh ; Off-beat Shorty / Hale Smith ; Ticklin' toes / Florence B. Price ; Sweet Mister Jelly Roll / Valerie Capers ; Dancing barefoot in the rain / Nkeiru Okoye ; Lullaby / Isak Roux ; The monk / Valerie Capers ; Lullaby / Bangambula Vindu ; Builsa work song / J. H. Kwabena Nketia ; Ufie III / Christian Onyeji. v. 2. Intermediate. Lament in tremelo form / Laurindo Almeida ; Invention no. 2 / Ulysses Kay ; Honey / R. Nathaniel Dett ; Nigerian dance no. 1 / Joshua Uzoigwe ; Prelude no. 1 : Joshua fit the battle of Jericho ; Prelude no. 2 : Poor mourner's got a home / Wallace M. Cheatham ; Oga / Christian Onyeji ; Preludio Cubano / Amadeo Roldán y Gardes ; Silk hat and walking cane / Florence B. Price ; At a certain church / John W. Work III ; Volta fantasy / J. H. Kwabena Nketia ; Igbá Kerin : Àwon Abàmi Eye ; Igbá Kìnní : Akèrègbè Baba Emu / Akin Euba ; Pomme cannelle / Alain Pierre Pradel ; Basseet ; Nim Nawakht / Halim El-Dabh ; If the silver bird could speak / Eleanor Alberga. v. 3. Early advanced. Take me back / John W. Work III ; Deep river / Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ; La dangereuse / Ludovic Lamothe ; Juba dance / R. Nathaniel Dett ; Jamaican dance no. 2 / Oswald Russell ; Prelude no. 3 / Wallace M. Cheatham ; The cuckoo / Howard Swanson ; Scenes from traditional life no. 1 / Akin Euba ; Scherzino / Andrés Wheatley ; Nimble feet / Florence B. Price ; Cell phone blues / Ed Bland ; Papillons / Oswald Russell ; Variations on an Egyptian folksong / Gamal Abdel-Rahim. v. 4. Prelude and caprice / George Walker -- Ukom / Joshua Uzoigwe -- Flowers in the sand / Bongani Ndodana-Breen -- Coma dance / Halim El-Dabh -- Troubled water / Margaret Bonds -- Toccata / Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson -- The lotus / Gyimah Labi. The Bamboula / Samuel Coleridge-Taylor -- Humoresque No. 1 / Oswald Russell -- Etude in C♯ minor / H. Leslie Adams -- Afro Arab blues / Ali Osman -- Township guitar / Isak Roux -- Egwu Amala / Joshua Uzoigwe -- Rhapsody No. 4 / Lettie Beckon Alston -- Tumbling dance / Martin Scherzinger.
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