| Song Title | Variations on a Theme by M.B. Tolson (Cantata for soprano, violin, cello, alto sax, trumpet, trombone, and piano) - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
|
| Composer(s): | T. J. (Thomas Jefferson) Anderson Jr. |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Author(s): | Melvin B. Tolson |
| Author Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Africa; African; Age; Alarms; Allusion: Bible; Altering; Animals; Art; Asia; Assassins; Asses; Awaking; Baby; Balaam; Barricades; Beaks; Bedeviling; Bible; Big; Birds; Biting; Black; Blood; Boas; Bola; Buridan's Ass Paradox; Buridan, Jean; Cantata; Canvases; Clear; Clubs; Cocks; Contrast: Small vs. Large; Corsairs; Cream; Crosses; Crossing; Curvets; Daggers; Dawn; Dogs; Donkeys; Doomsday; Doors; Dusk; Ebbing; Elephants; European; Eyeless; Eyes; Fabulous; Feathers; Fighting; Flies; Floods; Flowing; Frogs; Galleries; Gorged; Goya, Francisco de; Grass; Gravy; Great; Ground; Harlem; Hay; Hazarding; Hinges; History; Horses; Houses; Images; Insects; Interludes; Jaundice; Jaws; Latin; Legs; Lice; Limbs; Little; Logs; Lords; Madrid; Masks; May; Men; Mettled; Mind; Moments; Mosaic; Multiple Languages; Murat, Joachim; Nature; Needing; Nkomo, Dr. William Frederick; Oats; Paintings; Paradoxes; Pawns; Paws; Peace; Peddling; People; Pepper; Perfumes; Philosophy; Pouches; Power; Problems; Purled; Pythons; Race; Racism; Red; Rich; Rivers; Rocks; Sagging; Saws; Scimitars; Sensing; Severing; Sheets; Shirts; Size; Skid Rows; Skim Milk; Skulls; Snakes; Solid; Solving; Springing; Stinkbugs; Striped; Suffering; Swallowing; Swimming; Synapses; Talk; Talons; Tan; Tawny; The Second of May 1808 (Goya); Thoughts; Tides; Torpor; Towns; Truth; Tumultuous; Typhoons; Wars; Wavy; Weak; White; World; Wrying; Zulus |
| First Line | The Harlem Gallery, an Afric pepper bird, (Search) |
| Average Duration | 15:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition |
1969 (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source |
https://tinyurl.com/andersonthemebytolson
|
| Audio Source |
http://www.tjandersonmusic.com/audio/mp3/VARIATIONS_ON_A_THEME.mp3
|
| Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
| Range: | C4 - Bb5 (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Lois Anderson (Search) |
| Premiered By | Bernadine Oliphint (Search) |
| Notes | Premiered by Bernadine Oliphint, soprano, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Players, conducted by the composer, 1970. (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | N.Y.: American Composers' Fascimile Edition, Inc. (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | Soprano, violin, cello, alto sax, trumpet, trombone, and piano (Search) |
| Sources Cited | African Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search) |
| Contributor | Dr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
|
|
|