Michael Blake
THREE VENDA CHILDREN'S SONGS for guitar
Bardic Edition BDE784
for solo guitar.
When Charles Ramirez was overhauling the guitar syllabi for the Trinity College grade exams he asked me if I would contribute pieces for the first three grades, and expressed the wish that these would have something of an African aesthetic. I turned again to John Blacking’s transcriptions, this time those of Venda Children’s Songs, and chose three pieces that I felt would translate well into guitar music which was technically elementary but musically challenging. They were commissioned by Trinity College London who first published them in 1997. Michael Blake
Duration 3 minutes
When Charles Ramirez was overhauling the guitar syllabi for the Trinity College grade exams he asked me if I would contribute pieces for the first three grades, and expressed the wish that these would have something of an African aesthetic. I turned again to John Blacking’s transcriptions, this time those of Venda Children’s Songs, and chose three pieces that I felt would translate well into guitar music which was technically elementary but musically challenging. They were commissioned by Trinity College London who first published them in 1997. Michael Blake
Duration 3 minutes
