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Cajun Folk Songs Essay Research Paper Karl

Cajun Folk Songs Essay, Research Paper


Karl L. King


Karl L. King’s distinguished career as a bandmaster, prolific composer and


musician made him a legend in his own lifetime. All who knew him remember his quick


wit and sense of humor.


Karl joined Robinson’s Famous Circus at the age of 19 as a baritone player. He


joined the circus world at a time when the acts were in great need of a special music


since the standard music did not fit. Karl King was a master at writing music to match the


rhythm of the acts. He quickly rose to leadership positions in some of the most famous


circus bands in the country, including the Buffalo Bill and the Barnum and Bailey. He


contributed more circus marches than any other composer. Aerial waltzes and circus


gallops were his specialty.


Cajun Folk Songs


Title: Cajun Folk Songs Level: Grade 3 1/2


Composer/Arranger: Frank Ticheli


Publisher: Manhatten Beach Music


Classification: Folk Song


Instrumentation: Full


Source: Poppler’s Music Inc.


General Comments: This is a wonderful arrangement of Cajun Folk Songs, by Frank


Ticheli. “La Belle et la Capitaine”, the title of the first song, is a very lyrical and


expressive song, and contains a solo alto saxophone line that is repeated and built upon


by the ensemble. “Belle”, the second song, is upbeat, and contains syncopation. This


movement is more difficult as far as technical passages, and could be considered a grade


4. This piece is also quite expensive, but it is well worth it.


The “Belle” part of the piece is about a man who goes to Texas and hears of his


girlfriend’s illness which makes him return to Louisiana. When he returns he finds her


unconscious, He sells his horse to save her, and it doesn’t help. Some melodies are added


and are not part of the ’story’ of the music and are just added to add more of a variety to


the music.


Frank Ticheli


Frank Ticheli (born 1958 in Monroe, Louisiana) currently lives in Los Angeles


where he is an Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Southern


California. From 1991 to 1998 he was Composer in Residence of

the Pacific Symphony


Orchestra in Orange County, California. His works for orchestra, concert band, solo


voice, and chamber ensembles have been performed throughout North America, Europe,


Asia, South America, and Australia.


Ticheli’s awards include the Charles Ives Scholarship and Goddard Lieberson


Fellowship, both from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, First


Prize in the Texas Sesquicentennial Orchestral Composition Competition, the Frances


and William Schuman Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, and the Ross Lee Finney


Award. The Pacific Symphony Orchestra’s KOCH label recording featuring Ticheli’s


RADIANT VOICES and POSTCARD received an honorable mention at the 1994


national Association of Independent Record Distributors (NAIRD).


His eleven compositions for wind ensemble and concert band have been


performed widely throughout the world, and have been awarded several prizes including


the 1989 Walter Beeler Price, and First Prize in the eleventh annual “Symposium for New


Music” held in Virginia. He has received commissions and grants from Chamber Music


America, The American Music Center, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Chorale,


Prince George’s Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Symphony, City of San Antonio,


Stephen F. Austin State University, University of Michigan, Trinity University, Indiana


Bandmasters Association, Worldwide Concurrent Premieres, Inc., and others.


Frank Ticheli received his doctoral and masters degrees in composition from The


University of Michigan where he studied with William Albright, George Wilson, and


Pulitzer Prize winners Leslie Bassett and William Bolcom. His works are published by


Manhattan Beach Music, Encore Music, and PP Music Publishers, and are recorded on


the labels of Koch International Classics, Klavier, and Mark Records.


How to play this piece of music


Clarity, transparency, and momentum are the important factors in order to


preserve its dance-life effect. In the second piece the range of 160-168 works the best for


the tempo of this piece. In the second piece the melody should be played as if you were


‘dancing.’


-DrSamuels

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