SKU: A0.912835

In the early days of the twentieth century, the popularity of minstrel shows inspired white performers to don blackface and perform coon songs. The most popular of such acts was Al Jolson, famous for singing Mammy. Al Jolson was the most celebrated white popular singer before Frank Sinatra, and he starred in the first talkie (motion picture with sound).

That's perfectly awful, but I came across a coon song that I thought had a great tune, and my arrangement worked out fine. Unfortunately, its title is Coon! Coon! Coon!  If you are offended by that, be advised that the original song was written by an African American, and the words are a lament against bigotry.

To see the sheet music scroll by as the music plays, watch the video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/JmSo4kAnZg8

SKU: M0.93274EB

ISBN 9781609747503. 8.75x11.75 inches.

A popular collection of 47 folk songs arranged in big-note, easy style for the beginning student. Written to provide engaging playing material at an early level of development. An excellent method supplement containing many fun and familiar melodies including: Alouette; Aura Lee; Battle Hymn of the Republic; Bill Bailey; Won't You Please Come Home; Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair; Blow the Man Down; Down By the Riverside; Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes; Frankie and Johnny; Greensleeves; and more. The audio download available online contains all the songs from the book. Each song is played twice on the recording. Once with flute and piano accompaniment and a second time with only piano accompaniment so that the student can play along. Includes access to online audio.

SKU: A0.982542

Originally inspired by the film The Black Orpheus, this piece has a Latin flair, with which the rhythmic movement of the 16th note triplets creates a hypnotic effect and a timelessness that plays well upon the imagination.

SKU: A0.811883

As heard on their album The Raven.

SKU: A0.1444646

This partly derivative work was written in 2024 and centers around Fumeux Fume par fumée, a secular song praising smoking, is a product of the Ars Subtillior school in France, the so-called 'avant-garde' of the 14th century. The composers of this time and place using neume notation witnessed and survived the Black Plague. In Fumeux, Jean Solage (c.1350-c.1403) experimented with different combinations of hexachords approved by the Church since the days of Guido van Arezzo (11th century). Using Fumeux as the basis of my composition, my idea was to alternate the tune with a complimentary contrapuntal responsive of my own making.

SKU: A0.811882

A simplified arrangement of their song from the album The Raven.