Obe
September 2, 2018Obviously modelled on a folktale, and composed in a wonderfully mock-serious style, ‘Obe’ is almost the longest song in Mohapeloa’s 2nd songbook, Meloli II, and the penultimate. (The last one,...
introduction, fugue and conclusion for bassoon and piano
March 14, 2020Reddy’s introduction, fugue and conclusion for bassoon and piano (the title on the manuscript) is a short, atonal, multi-metered piece in three sections, composed when Reddy was 16. It is...
suite no. 1 in c major (from six baroque suites)
March 14, 2020...the composer calls an ‘almost childlike naiveté’. It has seven very short dances or movements: Prelude-Allemande-Courante-Minuet-Sarabande-Gigue-Chorale. The manuscript of suite no. 1 in c major, which is dedicated to his...
suite no. 3 in e minor (from six baroque suites)
March 14, 2020...(or movements) are Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue, Ground. Reddy went on to write three more baroque suites, and then many years later, in 2006. he typeset the original handwritten...
Michael Mosoeu Moerane Scholarly Edition in Four Volumes
February 21, 2021...Thuso Majalla Moerane (1935-2020), in profound gratitude for his loving curatorship of his father’s music. By keeping previously unknown manuscripts of this music safe for many years, Thuso made possible...
happy birthday hike
December 22, 2022...the end, and the very last whistled melody is the one whistled by Bobby McFerrin at the beginning of “Don’t worry, be happy”. That little melody became special to us,...Lesotho Lefa la Rōna
September 2, 2018...‘Lesotho Lefa la Rōna’ is a rewrite of the composer’s much earlier ‘Coronation March’ (1939) which celebrated the crowing of King George VI, and has a new Sesotho text in...Likhomo Mokoena!
September 2, 2018‘Likhomo Mokoena!’ is one of several patriotic songs Mohapeloa composed to commemorate the proclaiming of King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho on 12 March 1960, two others being ‘Leheshe-heshe’ (JPM134) and...Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition, Volume VIa revised 2016
August 27, 2023...notation. Volume VIa contains 16 works for unaccompanied choir in dual staff-tonic solfa notation, published at various times in the composer’s life or previously unpublished, and one work for piano....Linoto
September 2, 2018...the words, modelling the song “after an English school song, ‘The Anvil’ [with its] idiophonic machine sounds and rhythm”. This might have been Brahms’ ‘Der Schmidt’ (The Blacksmith) or the...Maseru
September 2, 2018...Hence Mohapeloa’s reference to ‘green pastures’. Today, in addition to large government buildings, the city has an airport, a university (The University of Lesotho at Roma, just outside Maseru), a...Palesa Ea Bocha
September 2, 2018...next generation; the way youth keeps ‘flowering anew’. At the end of the translation, which the composer made in 1965, he wrote in parenthesis, “It is all about a new...Potang
September 2, 2018...old Roman board game, ‘Nine Men’s Morris’. (In South Africa it is a league game with national competitions.) There is therefore a nice play on ‘cows’ in this song. Such...a little exercise book for felix sebastian otterbeck
November 27, 2022...worth studying as it offers extraordinary insight into the composer’s pianistic history, his approach to teaching, his thoughts about music generally, his vast knowledge, and his vision. After the ‘preface’...Tsolo La E-sa
September 2, 2018‘Tsolo La E-sa’, first published in 1939, is not just about the weather clearing up after rain, in a European sense, but about the aftermath of the terrific thunderstorms that...
spring (buck) sonata (in simple ‘rug beat’ time)
August 30, 2022...piece imagining how Human may have composed it. Either way, it is unlike anything in Reddy’s usual style. And it is in ‘simple’ time, 2/4, at least at the beginning...clazz etude no. 3 for philipp
September 3, 2022With ballade for florian (2005) and especially clazzical sonata in c – the ‘hammerclazz’ (2006) Reddy was well into his ‘clazz’ style, ‘compounding the words classical and jazz, which formerly...Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition, Volume VI revised 2016
February 17, 2022...staff-tonic solfa notation. Volume VI contains 16 works for unaccompanied choir in staff notation, published at various times in the composer’s life or previously unpublished, and one work for piano....homage to bach
August 30, 2022...Reddy was working as a guest lecturer at the time. The piece is in two parts: Reddy plays ‘Prelude No. 1’ from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, then comes a...afrojol
March 14, 2020...Lalouette (bass), and Bruce Cassidy (electronic valve instrument). In Germany, Reddy performed it with Daniel Schlaeger (drums), Stefan Schoenegg (bass), and Martin Heizmann (saxophone). The piece works well as a...game i for lîla
March 14, 2020...that Reddy made on Sibelius for cello (2007) and tenor sax (2008). (These can be made available on request.) The score is prefaced by Reddy’s ‘Composer’s notes for the performer’,...
lines outward (words: elaine feinstein)
March 14, 2020...It is used here by kind permission of Ms Feinstein and her publisher, Carcanet. In addition to more than 100 compositions, Reddy wrote poems, essays, memoirs, and multi-art compilations, a...ballad for thomas
March 14, 2020...documents by Reddy that he wrote around the time ballad for thomas was completed, in July 2005. These include ‘gardenpartychezthomas (25/05/2005)’, referring to an event held on Krüger’s farm, which...‘Mankholikholi
October 25, 2020...heea!’ (imitating the bird’s call), ‘A k’u nkhaketse talane heea!’ (Give me unripe sorghum seeds to plant, heea!’ ). In order to help choirs learn this song, a free mp3...By An’ By
October 25, 2020...or his source was the songbook called Negro Spirituals ‘Arranged for Solo Voice by H.T. Burleigh’ (1917), which was also his source for Nobody Knows. Moerane’s arrangement of By An’...
