SKU: LO.70-2184S
ISBN 9780787765019.
Following his Simply Lent collection, J. William Greene has written a collection of sophisticated yet practical hymn settings for the weeks before Christmas. Greene's rich compositional craft and love for traditional forms and techniques are evident in music that expresses the anticipation of the Advent season.
SKU: LO.70-2080S
ISBN 9780787758646.
J. William Greene prepared this volume of Lenten music with a level of sophistication and reverence appropriate for the season. Containing eight hymn treatments conceived as preludes, offertories, and postludes for Lenten worship, this collection is rich with compositional craft and nuance.
SKU: CF.CAS160F
ISBN 9781491165454. UPC: 680160924363. Key: C major.
The story of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is of a rising star composer, one with a significant gift for melody and a simple lyricism, who embraced the previously unexplored song and dance forms from his father’s native west Africa and incorporated them into his own very European art music. Coleridge-Taylor began playing the violin at age five and by age fifteen wasadmitted to London’s Royal College of Music, where he studied both violin and composition and composed his first works. The simply-titled Melody is taken from Three Short Pieces for Organ - a set of pieces originally published in Novello’s Album for the Organ, No. 3 (1898). While certainly typical of the late 19th century, many of Coleridge-Taylor's creations display inspiration by African musical elements much like spirituals inspired Dvořák’s “New World†Symphony.
