Ten Kingdoms

Ten Kingdoms

Black composer Thomas Flippin composed "Ten Kingdoms" (2014) based on the writings of Bartolome de las Casas. The composition was premiered in part with Madeleine Davidson at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in October 2012, and later in part with Christopher Mallett at Sheldon Concert Hall and Placitas New Mexico.

I. Sail -- “Those that arriv'd ...from the remotest parts of Spain, and who pride themselves in the Name of Christians.”

II. Trudge -- “Inhabitants would soon have wrought away their lives by hard working in the Mines, so that [the Spanish Prefect] might accumulate Gold by their bodies and Souls."

III. Breathe -- “There can be nothing more cruel and detestable than the tyrannical usage of the Spainiards towards the Indians in their Pearl Fishing...If [they] rest themselves the Hangman is immediately upon them in a canoe... beating them [and] dragging them by the hair underwater, that they may drudge again.”

Duration: 8 minutes

Flippin, Thomas

Thomas Flippin, Ten Kingdoms (score), https://thomasflippin.com/products/ten-kingdoms-for-guitar-duo

CCM Guitar Studio, "Ten Kingdoms - Thoomas Flippin" (YouTube), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0r8H9gdpo

2012

0-10 minutes

2000-

guitar / guitare

duo