Six Variations on a Pende Tune
Title
Six Variations on a Pende Tune
Description
Ghanaian composer Fred Onovwerosuoke's "Six Variations on a Pende Folk Tune" was written in the early twentieth-century for flute.
The work "begins with a plaintive melody, but immediately graduate into a show piece of imageries, dances and intrigues about the wildlife communities around the Zambezi river in south central Africa. Some of the variations, particularly II, III and VI attempt to recapture some of the dance traditions among the Pende and Mlongo peoples from that region of Africa."
The work "begins with a plaintive melody, but immediately graduate into a show piece of imageries, dances and intrigues about the wildlife communities around the Zambezi river in south central Africa. Some of the variations, particularly II, III and VI attempt to recapture some of the dance traditions among the Pende and Mlongo peoples from that region of Africa."
Duration: 10 minutes
Creator
Onovwerosuoke, Fred (b. 1960)
Source
Fred Onovwerosuoke (personal website), https://fredomusic.com/
Fred Onovwerosuoke (Wikipedia), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Onovwerosuoke
Katie Grischow, "Six Variations on a Pende Tune by Fred Onovwerosuoke" (YouTube), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6FKLpEah8c&ab_channel=KatieGrischow
Date
[unknown, early twenty-first century]
Format
10-20 minutes
Coverage
2000-
Instrumentation
flute / flûte
Ensemble Type
solo
Citation
Onovwerosuoke, Fred (b. 1960), “Six Variations on a Pende Tune,” Music EnLivened, accessed October 16, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/music-enlivened/items/show/231.
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