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COLLECTION 11
AFRICAN MELODIES
Here youll find lots of sheet music. For all but four of the solos, you may make copies,
with only two restrictions: always include
the attribution to arranger/composer (top of page)
the copyright notice (bottom of page).
The four exceptions are Bawku, Chereponi, Garu, and Natomah, which are based on
melodies adapted from sources in Ghana, and published by Hope Publishing Company.
You may make copies of these four for your own use, but for any other use, you must
obtain separate permission from Hope.
Collection 11 has 60 solos, arranged especially to show the amazing capabilities of the
soprano recorder.
These solos are based not only on melodies from African countries, including Egypt, but
also English melodies by the African composer Ignatius Santos, and melodies composed
for Collection 11 by Clark Kimberling. The latter solos are found at the end of the
collection, with titles beginning with the letter Z.
The very high notes are best used in staccato playing, and then, sparingly, usually near
the end of a piece, as in Garu and Itmakhtary. A philosophical approach to the high
notes is that they should be cultivated for the simple reason that they are there with
their own kinds of musical possibilities, just as the notes on various ethnic flutes offer
their own special characteristics.
Many recorder players use a modern vibrato, based on diaphragm or throat motion, or
some combination of those two. They apply vibrato to music composed after 1800 in
much that same way that flautists, violinists, and vocalists do. Well-modulated vibrato is
highly recommended for the solos in this collection. Tones that are held for more than
one second, such as a high note at the end of a phrase and especially at the end of a piece,
may be played in the manner of many vocalists: start the tone straight, then develop
vibrato gradually over a short time interval, until full vibrato is on for most of the
duration, as in the final measures of Natomah and Zabunzo. Opportunities for special
attention to vibrato occur in many of the solos, especially Zayesha and Ziffchiff.
At least two other special effects should be cultivated by recorder players: chiff and
recorder-glissando. The word chiff (from the sound made by the chiff-chaff, a European
warbler) is often applied to sounds made on certain pipe organs, especially fine tracker
organs, as well as electronic organs that explicitly offer a chiff option. While chiff is
possible on almost all the notes of a soprano recorder, it is fairly easy to produce truly
remarkable chiffs in the lowest octave. In fact, one may speak of octave-chiff for these
lower notes, obtained by plosive overblowing just right. As the name suggests, the
attack on the note actually causes the note an octave above to sound briefly, like an
accented grace-note. Chiffing can add quite an intriguing percussive effect; as in
Ziffchiff and Zunta, as well as A Ba Boleke Nwana!, especially Let Anyone Who
Knows How to Trade Come Out and Do It and Vuka Mungoni.
NOTES
NOTES FOR FLUTE PLAYERS
Bottom C on a flute is middle C on a piano, but when a soprano recorder plays the same
written note (the lowest on the instrument), the sound is actually an octave higher. In
other words, loosely speaking, the recorder plays an octave higher than the flute.
Consequently, music written for soprano recorder, when played on flute, is pitched a bit
lower than most flute music. When played as written on flute, the solos in this collection
have a pleasing low effect and, in some cases, may be regarded as specialized flute
music, especially if amplified by a sound system.
INVITE A PERCUSSIONIST
Many of the solos lend themselves to the sort of accompaniment that skilled
percussionists can easily provide. Feel free to use your own recorded background sounds
with a sound system (perhaps managed by your percussionist).
Foot-tapping can be used during many of the solos in the collection. Keep in mind that
much of African music was and is inherently very rhythmic, and that drums, clapping,
tapping, and stomping are often part of the music.
ARRANGEMENTS
In order to adapt melodies as originally published, certain techniques of arrangement
have been applied. One objective has been for each finished arrangement to occupy a full
page, and another has been that each arrangement should take advantage of special
characteristics of the recorder or flute. Perhaps the most obvious technique for such
objectives is upward transposition, in connection with increases in tempo and
ornamentation, as in Chereponi and Ijo Ki Mba Jo.
A second technique is the contrasting segment; that is, one that separates renderings of
the original melody.
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Exceptions: Four of the solos are NOT included in this license. For details, see
Historical Notes 11 for these four solos: Bawku, Chereponi, Garu, Natomah.
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4
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Source: YorubaAjiboa, p103
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q . .
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3
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Tanzania
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2 j j 3
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q
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2 .
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q
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arr. Clark Kimberling
q
2 . b b . - j . j
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b > b b . b -
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11
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3
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20
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b . - j . b > b b . b
31
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b b b b > >
3
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40
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50
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j b b b
b . b
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59
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b b b
69
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b
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77
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3
J
b b . j . b > b
86
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3
b . b . j b
3
.
94 3
& J b J J
3
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Source: Rasheed80, #77
Clark Kimberling
ZABUNZO
q
# 2 3 . 2 3 2
& 4 4 4 4 . 4
# 2 > 3 . 2 7 >
42
8
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15
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22
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29
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36
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43
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50
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8
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21
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26
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31
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b
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37
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48
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