thomas’s piece
November 29, 2022This late piano work by Reddy, in his clazz style and just over 7 minutes long, is saved in a file that he called ‘thomas’s piece (unfinished)’. It does not...
namibia
August 30, 2022Reddy wrote namibia for his band, Channel 18, which was based in Johannesburg in the late 1980s and early 1990s and comprised Reddy on keyboard(s), Denny Lalouette on bass, Rob...etude for flore
September 3, 2022...Reddy Archive.) The final Sibelius file, which has a few more instructions about the improvisatory passages, is ‘74 rev 4 iscm 30.7.2007 11.48am’, and this is taken as the most...in the fast lane
August 30, 2022...keyboard(s), Denny Lalouette on bass, Rob Watson on drums, and Bruce Cassidy on electronic valve instrument (EVI). All that survives by way of a score is a photocopy of the...prelude for mareen
September 3, 2022...keyboard writing it has something reminiscent of Reddy’s early keyboard suites, although the time-signature is 5/4, and the piece has shifting key signatures. The metronome marking is very fast, but...
elegy for RH 827 – a lost viscount
March 14, 2020...his country of birth, Zimbabwe, by the Zimbabwean People’s Revolutionary Army, killing all 58 people on board. Reddy was in his 1st year of Bachelor of Music studies at the...
poem for flute and piano
March 14, 2020Reddy’s poem for flute and piano is a short, serial, one-movement piece in free meter. Reddy composed it when he was 16, for his friend and fellow-student at the Royal...Freedom In Unity – O.A.U. Anthem for Piano
September 2, 2018‘Freedom in Unity – O.A.U. Anthem for Piano’ is Mohapeloa’s solo piano version of his anthem of the same name for SATB. Mohapeloa wrote both in 1963, to celebrate the...
suite no. 2 in g major (from six baroque suites)
March 14, 2020suite no. 2 in g major was written in July 1984 as a sequel to suite no. 1 in c major and has the same structure: Prelude-Allemande-Courante-Minuets-Sarabande-Gigue-Chorale. It captures the...
suite no. 4 in a minor (from six baroque suites)
March 14, 2020...five dances, or movements, are Prelude/Allemande-Courante-Minuets(3)-Gavotte-Sarabande. Reddy typeset the original handwritten manuscript in 2006 making minor notational changes. suite no. 4 echoes the contrapuntal majesty of ‘Prelude and Fugue No....
tell me where is fancy bred (words: w. shakespeare)
March 14, 2020...autograph manuscript (written in black ink on photocopied music paper) ‘e.g. voice, harpsichord + consort of recorders’. Reddy recorded the song at home, playing and singing (sotto voce) both verses....
jeux, cavatina and scherzo for flute and piano
March 14, 2020...an original theme (b-a-c-h-influenced). They were both students at the Royal College of Music, London, and must have performed it together. The score is a facsimile of the original manuscript....
fugue on b-a-c-h for piano
March 14, 2020...in fugal and canonic writing, ‘Dedicated with humble reverence to J.S. Bach, whom I love’, as the composer writes at the top of the fair copy. It is undated, but...
fugue in c major
March 14, 2020...is dated, but from the kind of paper used, the handwriting, and the focus on contrapuntal writing in 18th-century style not to mention the atonal harmonies on p.2, it belongs...
twelve songs for viola and piano
March 14, 2020...of the score, although it only sheds light on songs 1-2 and 10-12 which are for piano, and not on nos. 3-9 which are for viola and piano. They were...three ‘paternosters’ for choir
November 3, 2022...1 in g major’, ‘pater noster 2 in D’, and ‘our father in f-bis major’ (F-sharp major). There is also a file called ‘idea – maybe pater noster’ that has...’Maborokoane
February 13, 2022‘’Maborokoane’ (Cape Bunting) parallels another song by Mohapeloa, ‘Molepe’ (Widow Bird), which immediately follows it in his 2nd songbook (1939), Meloli I. Both songs are about common birds found in...’Mōpi oa Lefatše
September 2, 2018...– now called the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Lesotho (LEC) – was his church, and it is still the centre of community life for many people in the country. ...Michael Mosoeu Moerane Scholarly Edition Volume IV
February 21, 2021Volume IV of the Michael Mosoeu Moerane Scholarly Edition online contains 2 unaccompanied choral works for two voices (Sop-Alto), 12 unaccompanied choral works for three voices (SAA), and 8 arrangements...Butha-Buthe
September 2, 2018Mohapeloa completed ‘Butha-Buthe’ in 1946, publishing it first in Binang ka Thabo (Songs of Joy, 1963) in Mazenod, Lesotho, and republishing it in Cape Town, South Africa in 1976 as...
four piano pieces
March 14, 2020...around 1981, while song is from 1982, both written in London. In South Africa he wrote nocturne (1983) and hymn (1984). The audio file below, of Reddy playing them in...
