Details
- Instrument:
- Piano Duet
- Genres:
- 20th Century Patriotic Ragtime Holiday
- Publishers:
- James Siddons Music and Writings
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Format:
- Set of Parts Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 49
SKU: A0.972639
Composed by James Siddons. 20th Century,Folk,Holiday,Patriotic,Ragtime. Score and parts. 49 pages. James Siddons Music and Writings #3093043. Published by James Siddons Music and Writings (A0.972639).This composition, by composer, pianist, and musicologist James Siddons, is neither an arrangement nor a medley. Rather, it is a kind of historical re-construction; one that imagines how a typical piano rag of before 1905 would have sounded when performed by a skillful vernacular pianist as a virtuosic improvisation. A Million Buffalo Roam presents Tom Turpin's "Buffalo Rag," "Home On the Range," and the "Star-Spangled Banner" as an extended virtuosic display. It is a representation of a little-documented performance practice. After improvisatory passages on the three themes of "The Buffalo Rag" are heard individually, they are combined with the tunes of "Home On the Range" and the "Star-Spangled Banner," including one passage in which "Home On the Range" and the "Star-Spangled Banner" are played simultaneously, combined with the accompaniment patterns of "Buffalo Rag." This work may be performed as a piano duet, piano duo, or piano ensemble. It is also published as a Conductor's Score, with Primo and Secondo combined in one four-staff system.
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- ArrangeMe:
- James Siddons Music and Writings
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Instrument:
- Piano and Keyboard Piano Piano Duet
- Publisher:
- James Siddons Music and Writings