October 1, 2018...on arrangements of ‘Nkosi Sikelel’iAfrika’, ‘Ntiyilo-Ntyilo’, ‘Mannenberg’, and ‘Mayibuye’. Surendran’s main theme as a composer during the 1990s was freedom, and combining a diversity of musics was his compositional strength....
September 4, 2022...played by both arms. The James Bond title ‘live and let die’ provides a darkly humorous alternative title. It’s mad! which must be why Reddy put the name ‘looney’ at...- July 22, 2018...more children were born: two daughters (Hadieo and Sophie) and a son (Thabo). who was born in 1947. In 1931, as well, Moerane registered for a B. Mus degree, part-time,...
August 18, 2018...and 5 — Molelekeng (a girl’s name), Liphala (Horns), and Tšaba-tšaba (Watch out!) — are quite jazzy, while No. 2, Senqu – The Orange River is like an operatic chorus, and No. 4, E-eang ka khotso (Go in peace) is...- March 14, 2020...it was for me because I loved ‘african’…(Africa? I can’t remember how he expressed it) – for me it expresses die ganze Sehnsucht nach der friedlichen, einfachen und [the whole...
February 11, 2024Ephraim Amu (1899-1995) was an internationally renowned musician, musicologist, instrument maker, teacher, philosopher, theologian, committed Christian and preacher. 1. yɛn ara asaase ni, no. 2b, eaf40 Affectionately called Tata Amu,...
September 7, 2022...bass guitar, piano, and five-part strings. The most complete sections are worth listening to first: aside from the ‘paternosters’ these are the ‘introitus’, the ‘kyrie’, and the ‘gloria’. ACE has...- November 27, 2022When he died on 22 January 2010, Surendran Reddy left many fragments, sketches, ideas, notes and graphs, incomplete pieces, student pieces and files of teaching exercises. Much but not all...
- November 17, 2022...in d, etude in e, etude in e flat, flute & piano piece, hike’s piece, idea 4 symph, idea for new piece andreas, invention s-c-h-o-r-gg, little symphony 2, minor progression,...
February 11, 2024...the present generation call our land of birth. A.R. Turkson notes that, though the dedication was omitted, Akwaabadwom was “… dedicated to the Aborigines Rights Protection Society of Ghana.” (https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/uram.10.1.39)...- September 2, 2018The text of ‘Khorolakoqo’ is derived from a Sotho folk tale that explains why the rock-rabbit (‘dassie’ in southern Africa – an animal rather like a large guinea-pig) has no...
- January 21, 2021...Ensemble Jahrhudeert XX (Vienna) to write Ekinnonoggo (2010), by Ensemble Reconsil (Vienna), for Ekikujjuko (2007), and has also received commissions from the Munich Chamber Orchestra (2006) International Horn Symposium. For...
- September 2, 2018...Afrika. It is a game song, typical of children’s songs everywhere. The words are nonsensical, their literal meaning being ‘tortoise, pick up stick’, but it is really a song about...
- September 1, 2022...war’) fades out on the MIDI file whereas it has a ‘proper’ ending on the 2006 Sib file, and No 14 (‘finale: the village rejoices’) is a reprise of no....
- September 6, 2022...composed in 1996 as part of a ‘Human Rights Oratorio’ that was supposed to be have been performed at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. (Financial problems prevented this from happening.)...
- October 24, 2020...May 2014 that his father ‘had a lot of trouble with it’; and Mofelehetsi knew the way his father composed. It is one of Moerane’s most mature and best-loved works,...
March 14, 2020...anthem, Enoch Sontonga’s ‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika’ (God Bless Africa) as a fugue-subject in the final section. By using the name ‘Madiba’ (Mandela’s Thembu clan name) in the title and by...- November 16, 2022...student work; 3: incomplete long pieces; 4: incomplete short pieces, sketches and fragments. The incomplete long pieces, category 3, are available on this page as a freely downloadable pdf. There...
- March 14, 2020...Harald’s name on the score there are several references to Bach. The 1st movement is ‘invention/sinfonia’, the 2nd ‘interlude I (in the form of a christmas bagatelle)’, the 3rd ‘minuet’,...
September 2, 2022...composer. His daughter, Lîla, for example, wrote a little song for Winnie-the-Pooh that Reddy features on the last track of his album, rough ‘n reddy (1996; ACE-362). Elevenses is also...- April 28, 2020Ea Hlolang is a rousing anthem of four verses, beginning in call-and-response style. It originated as hymn no. 122 in Lifela tsa Sione (Songs of Zion), the Sesotho hymnal that...
- September 2, 2018...back, die there”. Mohapeloa had heard about such mines in Johannesburg from the workers who mined there. His song subsequently became famous on ‘the Reef’, in the popular Saturday evening...
- August 30, 2022...on keyboard(s), Denny Lalouette on bass, Rob Watson on drums, and Bruce Cassidy on EVI . The four-page lead sheet is handwritten and not easy to read. The clearest part...
- September 2, 2018...84, 89, 91, 93, 100a, 100[b] (in two versions), 104, 105, 107, 115, 116, 123, 130, 134, 136, 137a, 137b (two versions), 138, 146, 147, 149, and 150, the Gospel...
- September 3, 2022...– on both drums, the dayna (RH) and baya (LH) – and the fourth staff has the bol parant, which literally means ‘speak bols’ or ‘speak tabla syllables’. Each note...
