Shifting Journeys
An Early Intermediate Violin "Travel" Book
featuring songs old & new from around the globe
The Legend
of Lady Meng Jiang
a folktale about how love brought down the Great Wall of China
Clarence Cameron White (1880-1960)
Two excerpts from his work for violin & piano "From the Cotton Fields"
Thurlow Lieurance (1878-1963)
joined "Chatauqua Society", taught music to Native Americans and learned/transcribed their songs
Traditional Music of Sephardic Jews
Spain, 1400's
This is a song about a bird whose name ("Fogo") means "fire because its call sounds like it's yelling "fire"!
Francisca "Chiquinha" Gonzaga (1847-1935)
"Fogo, Foguinho"
O Virga Ac Diadema
Chant & text by Hildegard von Bingen
O branch and diadem in royal purple clad
Hail, from whose womb came another life
That has been stripped by Adam
from his sons
Hildegard von Bingen
1098-1179
Caritas habundat
Chant & text by Hildegard von Bingen
Charity flourishes everywhere
She has given the highest King the kiss
of peace
Drake's Drum
by Samuel Coleridge Taylor 1875-1912
The legend of Sir Francis Dtrake, sea captain and English hero, whose drum had superstitious and magical powers
"Ch'amor si nudo",
original text & music
"Love enters through the eyes and settles in the heart"
Francesca Caccini
(1587-1641)
Harry T. Burleigh, 1866-1949
"Through Moanin' Pines"
original work for piano
