Wedding Song (2017)
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 1: No 12
Dedicated to Athol Fugard and Paula Fourie
Composed 26 August 2017, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1281 (Volume 1 Complete)
Duration: 1 minute
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
Wedding Song is an adaptation of a traditional wedding song, with a hexatonic melody and a bow harmony accompaniment. With the melody sometimes divided between the hands, they remain in one position throughout.
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 1: No 12
Dedicated to Athol Fugard and Paula Fourie
Composed 26 August 2017, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1281 (Volume 1 Complete)
Duration: 1 minute
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
Wedding Song is an adaptation of a traditional wedding song, with a hexatonic melody and a bow harmony accompaniment. With the melody sometimes divided between the hands, they remain in one position throughout.
