To Comfort a Child (Lullaby) (2015)
Trad. arr. M Blake
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 1: No 1
Dedicated to Aluna Maqoko
Composed 24 June 2015, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1281 (Volume 1 Complete)
Duration: 1'20"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance: 21 August 2021; Le Genesteix Concerts, Azat-le-Riz, France;
Antony Gray piano
Programme note
To Comfort a Child is a unison melody with variation, based on a traditional Xhosa song, using an anhemitonic pentatonic scale - a five-note scale consisting only of whole tones and minor thirds.
Trad. arr. M Blake
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 1: No 1
Dedicated to Aluna Maqoko
Composed 24 June 2015, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1281 (Volume 1 Complete)
Duration: 1'20"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance: 21 August 2021; Le Genesteix Concerts, Azat-le-Riz, France;
Antony Gray piano
Programme note
To Comfort a Child is a unison melody with variation, based on a traditional Xhosa song, using an anhemitonic pentatonic scale - a five-note scale consisting only of whole tones and minor thirds.
