Self Delectative Song (2029)
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 4: No 6
Dedicated to Andrew and Heather Tracey
Composed 17-31 March 2020, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1284 (Volume 4 Complete)
Duration: 1'20"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance: 21 August 2021; Le Genesteix Concerts, Azat-le-Riz, France;
Antony Gray piano
Programme note
Self Delectative Song is a laid-back, easy-going piece characterised by melodic variation, changes of time-signature and interlocking. It is based on the Tswana bow song 'Ngana Wu Lela'. Andrew Tracey once told me that his father, Hugh Tracey, had created the classification 'self delectative song' for a number of less obviously classifiable songs he had recorded in the field.
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 4: No 6
Dedicated to Andrew and Heather Tracey
Composed 17-31 March 2020, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1284 (Volume 4 Complete)
Duration: 1'20"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance: 21 August 2021; Le Genesteix Concerts, Azat-le-Riz, France;
Antony Gray piano
Programme note
Self Delectative Song is a laid-back, easy-going piece characterised by melodic variation, changes of time-signature and interlocking. It is based on the Tswana bow song 'Ngana Wu Lela'. Andrew Tracey once told me that his father, Hugh Tracey, had created the classification 'self delectative song' for a number of less obviously classifiable songs he had recorded in the field.
