Name: Guitar Sonata on Themes by Thomas Commuck (Guitar Sonata No. 11 in B major) by Jeremiah Lawson Solo Guitar Digital Sheet Music
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Guitar Sonata on Themes by Thomas Commuck (Guitar Sonata No. 11 in B major)
by Jeremiah Lawson Solo Guitar - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Guitar Sonata on Themes by Thomas Commuck (Guitar Sonata No. 11 in B major)

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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