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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (2): 215–231.
Published: 01 September 1992
... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 A Composer's Viewpoint I would like to preface my remarks by stating what will soon be an obvious fact to all of you, namely that I am a composer, and not an orator. You may well decide that composers such as I ought to devote themselves...
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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (2): 232.
Published: 01 September 1992
... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 An Afro-American Composer's Viewpoint Melody, in my opinion, is the most important musical element. After melody comes harmony; then form, rhythm, and dynamics. I prefer music that suggests a program to either pure or program music in the strict...
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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (2): 265–267.
Published: 01 September 1992
... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Bibliography of Still's Published Articles "An Afro-American Composer's Viewpoint." In William Grant Still and the Fusion of Cultures in American Music, edited by Robert Bartlett Haas (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975), 112. "Are Negro Composers...
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Black Sacred Music (1990) 4 (1): 133.
Published: 01 March 1990
... on the ground! 3 But Nature's compensation Comes in the happy hour Of springtide's consummationHe, smiling, holds a flower! 4 And in our crude impatience Do we not often tend To seize the incompleteness, Not waiting for the end- 5 The blessed consummation Of God's perfected planWhich, from our human viewpoint...
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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (1): 274–281.
Published: 01 March 1992
... practices must be placed in a wider cultural context that permits parallel £ea- 2 Lin Crew and Rap's Moral 'lisian 211 tures of that culture, like moral criticism, sage advice, or commonsense admonitions against out-of-bounds behavior, to enter the field of discussion. Failure to adopt such a viewpoint...
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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (2): ix–xv.
Published: 01 September 1992
.... L. Prattis to WGS, 13,March 1950, Still-Arvey Papers. 14. William Grant Still, "Fifty Years of Progress in Music," The Pittsburgh Courier, ii November 1950, 15; "A Symphony of Dark Voices," Opera, Concert and Sym phony, May 1947, 36. 15. William Grant Still, "A Composer's Viewpoint," in William...
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 230–242.
Published: 01 September 1995
..., "Since You Went Away" is a combination of blues and the spiritual from the viewpoint of the music, and it ranks with true folk poetry from the viewpoint of the text. The Johnsons created the true medium of Negro folk art song expression. James Weldon has written a very able treatise on Negro music in his...
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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (2): 95–96.
Published: 01 September 1992
... were to attend the concerts where the work of worthwhile Negro artists is being presented? I believe that their viewpoints and their policies would speedily be altered in our favor. Broadcasting stations, art galleries, book and magazine publishers, and newspapers can be approached in a similar way. We...
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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (1): 250–252.
Published: 01 March 1992
... is rejected in Prince's lyrics, the idea of divine intervention in the form of eschatological catastrophic presence is preserved. In the interim, life is a party, a sustained effort to stay alive by feeling "alive," keeping the adrenalin flowing for the purpose of frequent climax. This viewpoint, reflected...
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Black Sacred Music (1989) 3 (2): 125–132.
Published: 01 September 1989
... by feeling "alive," keeping the adrenalin flowing for the purpose of frequent climax. This viewpoint, reflected and condensed by Prince in his music and his performance style, promotes and encourages an orgiastic way of life in which sex is an opiate of the people. The major alternatives are drugs...
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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (2): 124–132.
Published: 01 September 1992
... has to follow that same old pattern. Sometimes Hollywood isn't vicious; it's just stupid. Too many viewpoints creep in. If someone who earns five thousand dollars a week says something is good, it's good because naturally a person who earns that much, Hollywood reasons, must be right all the time...
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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (2): 1–77.
Published: 01 September 1992
... Tipton to Jerome H. Holland, 8 December 1969, Still-Arvey Papers. 15. William Grant Still, "A Composer's Viewpoint," in William Grant Still and the Fusion of Cultures in American Music, ed. Robert Bartlett Haas (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1975), 129. 16. Still, "A Composer's Viewpoint," 130. 17. William...
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Black Sacred Music (1991) 5 (2): 91–101.
Published: 01 September 1991
..., to those who do not understand their origin, but they are always sincere expressions. Being born of emotions many of which are different from those now characteristic of present day American life, their interpretation from present day viewpoints is not easy. The best seem those in which the harmonies...
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 182–194.
Published: 01 September 1995
... is remarkable, if judged from an unarbitrary viewpoint. This fact seems to vindicate Harry T. Burleigh's age-old contention that anyone who is sympathetic in his effort to understand and does not try to impersonate is capable of singing a spiritual effectively, if not in the same manner as a Negro would...
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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (2): 233–244.
Published: 01 September 1992
.... When such individuals or small groups start to try to persuade creators to come around to their viewpoints, they invariably try to induce a fear of being called "unsophisticated," "old-fashioned," or "ignorant." It's sometimes very difficult to be immune to such pressure, because no one likes to feel...
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Black Sacred Music (1991) 5 (2): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 1991
... life, their interpretation from present day viewpoints is not easy. The best seem those in which the harmonies are naturally suggested by the melody. While acknowledging that his colleague H. T. Burleigh successfully used novel harmonies that disregarded the natural harmonic tendencies...
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 16–34.
Published: 01 September 1995
... an analytical viewpoint, a concentrated list is given for clarity and reemphasis: (1) calls, (2) selling (street cries), (3) religious, (4) field, (5) night, (6) dance, and (7) water. These divisions are all subject to further divisions in terms of music and speech and their various modifications . It should...