![]() Technical Level “A” : Nearly all settings of Negro spirituals (unless otherwise indicated). (partial, graded in terms of technical difficulty/requisite musical maturity): Music of Black Composers (MBC), Violoncello Repertoire List Other specific titles can be acquired directly from the composers or from myself, Dr. Most titles are commercially available online. ![]() This graded repertoire should also serve as technical and aesthetic “preparation” for study and performance of the more advanced “standard-level” repertoire of African American composers. Just as a creative and performance “space” was made for the Negro spirituals through the work of Harry Thacker Burleigh, Roland Hayes, Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson, so should a parallel instrumental tradition be easily “adopted, adapted”-and inculcated into the “pedagogical cello repertoire,” which informs and buttresses the standard repertoire. It is my sincere hope that these pieces speak to each musician on larger cultural levels and in directly endearing musical ways. This music stands apart from the larger European pedagogical tradition and technical orientation, but should find a place of similarity and alliance with the Suzuki-influenced folk song repertoire that so many of us have heard in our early lessons and gradual indoctrination into the European-American art-music tradition. A minimum technical level of Suzuki Book 4 proficiency should be sufficient for most players to execute the majority of these pieces. Such adaptation should not pose unusual difficulties for the developing cellist however, the larger editorial challenge lies in matters of fingering and bowing. Some of these pieces are “adopted and adapted” from the Negro spiritual tradition. I’m pleased to introduce and provide this list of graded music for cello of African-American composers for student exposure, education and use in performance.
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