Afrikosmos / Michael Blake.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Blake, Michael, 1951- composer.

Contributor:

Gray, Antony, instrumentalist.

Series:

Naxos Music Library.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Piano music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sound file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Divine Art, 2023.

System Details:

digital

audio file

Summary:

Piano music inspired by Bart̤k's Mikrokosmos and by the indigenous music from various parts of Africa.

Contents:

Spotted dikkop and black cuckoo (1:26)

Linong tsa lesiba (1:09)

African doves (1:50)

If I had wings I could (2:31)

Walking song (1:53)

Stroll to the spaza shop (1:43)

Chorale (2:17)

Lyric piece (3:45)

Call and response (1:19)

Ntsikana's bell (1:47)

John Knox Bokwe's plea for Africa (1:26)

Heaven's bow (4:36)

iKos'tina (1:04)

Variations on a flute tune (1:24)

Emerging melody (4:04)

Stickfighting song (:53)

Herding song (1:18)

Threshing song (1:24)

To comfort a child (1:25)

You are a real rascal (1:23)

Canon at the octave (1:14)

Wedding song (1:10)

Night music (9:43)

Self delectative song (1:27)

Latshon'ilanga (1:41)

Song for the evening (1:45)

Unevensong (3:28)

Dance in Seakhi rhythm (3:21)

Chaconne in Mbaquanga style (1:40)

In Goema style (1:07)

Tickey-draai (1:07)

Daar kom die Alibama (1:11)

Diary of a dung beetle (3:38)

Scents of childhood 1 (1:33)

Scents of childhood 2 (1:52)

Scents of childhood 3 (7:37)

Interlocking hands (1:15)

Changing time with repeating patterns (2:37)

Five finger patterns (1:29)

Weave (2:18)

Distant cowbells (2:38)

Lusikisiki (1:34)

Giyani (4:39)

There cried a hippo (3:17)

Reedpipe dance (2:40)

Four-note patterns (3:29)

Slow dance (1:41)

Lebombo bone (2:00)

Broken line (6:05)

The music flows jolly as it won't stop forever (1:39)

March (1:30)

Messge from the Nduna (2:06)

Ituri Rain Forest (1:36)

Reflection (3:05)

Two modes interlocking (2:15)

In the hexatonic mode (:49)

Major-minor (1:28)

Patterns in a heptatonic field (4:17)

Keep left, pass right (1:22)

Geyser off! Hat on! (1:00)

Stay on path (1:24)

The seven steps (1:15)

Ostinato with cross-rhythms (1:04)

Smoke and mirrors (1:06)

Postcards from South Africa (1:28)

Un sonnerie pour G.D. (7:27)

High fives (3:18)

Supermoon (2:04)

Sefapanosaurus (1:41)

Thirds (1:28)

Variations on 4ths and 5ths (1:38)

Fifths (1:23)

Seventh must fall (3:41)

Haiku (1:57)

Freedom day variation (4:26).

Participant:

Antony Gray, piano.

Notes:

Hard copy version record.

Other Format:

Source record: Blake, Michael, 1951- Afrikosmos.

OCLC:

1391081385

Publisher Number:

GBBDZ2232668

GBBDZ2232669

GBBDZ2232670

GBBDZ2232671

GBBDZ2232672

GBBDZ2232673

GBBDZ2232674

GBBDZ2232675

GBBDZ2232676

GBBDZ2232677

DDA21374 Divine Art

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