Guitar Sonata on Themes by Thomas Commuck (Guitar Sonata No. 11 in B major) by Jeremiah Lawson Sheet Music for Solo Guitar at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Jeremiah Lawson

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Jeremiah Lawson

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 18

Arrangement Solo Guitar

Publisher Jeremiah Lawson

Level 5

Product ID 1553627

Genre Classical 21st Century

Instruments Guitar

Product Description

Thomas Commuck (1804 to 1855) was a member of the Narragansett tribe and is considered the first Native
American to publish a musical work using Western European notation. The work, Indian Melodies, is a shapenote
hymnal published as a contribution to the hymnody of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was published in 1845.

Guitar Sonata on themes by Thomas Commuck is a traditional fourmovement work with an opening sonata
movement ("Mooanam"); a double variation form ("Menominie" and "Susquehannah"); a canonic minuet with trio ("Pequot" and "Missouri"; and a closing prelude with fugue ("Flathead"). The melodies are labeled as they appear throughout the score, though not always with reference to their original forms. I made a few gentle modifications to Commucks melodies to better facilitate their use in polyphonic textures.

You can hear the second movement here
https://youtu.be/OR8NMAyXlRk
and the third movement here
https://youtu.be/OjF7SxlQok0

I'm publishing this work in June 2024 to commemorate the centennial of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

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