In the Bottoms

Title

In the Bottoms

Description

Black Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor Robert Nathaniel Dett's "In the Bottoms", is subtitled "Suite caractéristique". The suite for piano has five movements:

1. Prelude (Night)
2. His Song
3. Honey (Humoresque)
4. Barcarolle (Morning)
5. Dance (Juba)

The fifth movement of "In the Bottoms" is one of his most played works.
Duration: 15 minutes

Creator

Dett, Robert Nathaniel (1882-1943)

Source

Robert Nathaniel Dett (Wikipedia), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nathaniel_Dett
Robert Nathaniel Dett, "In the Bottoms" (score, IMSLP), https://imslp.org/wiki/In_the_Bottoms_(Dett,_Robert_Nathaniel)
SoupyMold, "Robert Nathaniel Dett, In the Bottoms (1913)" (YouTube), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Um4sAWVxUg

Date

1913

Format

10-20 minutes

Coverage

1900-1949

Instrumentation

piano

Ensemble Type

solo

Citation

Dett, Robert Nathaniel (1882-1943), “In the Bottoms,” Music EnLivened, accessed November 21, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/music-enlivened/items/show/134.

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