Six Variations on a Pende Tune

Titre

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."
Duration: 10 minutes

Créateur

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

Couverture

2000-

Instrumentation

flute / flûte

Ensemble Type

solo

Citer ce document

Onovwerosuoke, Fred (b. 1960), “Six Variations on a Pende Tune,” Music EnLivened, consulté le 21 novembre 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/music-enlivened/items/show/231.

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