Piano music of the Black Renaissance

Abstract

This ground breaking anthology introduces a canon of piano works from the Black Renaissance school of the early twentieth century. The music of Harry T. Burleigh, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, R. Nathaniel Dett, Nora Holt, Florence B. Price, Zenobia Powell Perry, Margaret Bonds, and Betty Jackson King affirms a rich, Afrodiasporic concert tradition, in which African, Caribbean, and African American folk songs and dances are absorbed into a distinct classical voice. This volume offers clearly presented performing editions, with fingering and pedalling, of a representative selection of piano music from this period, ranging from intermediate to advanced levels. Notes by Dr Samantha Ege provide historical background and interpretative insights for this previously overlooked area of piano literature