id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qgdgxljevndjjgpgpfppgkxybi (:Unkn) Unknown The Six Piano Suites of Nathaniel Dett 2020.0 205 .pdf application/pdf 40155 4460 77 Unfortunately, Dett's piano music is rarely performed except for the second of the suites, In the FIGURE 57 – "Father Abraham" Dett's arrangement from Negro Spirituals ……………… 143 the connections between the suites and other musical styles and traditions, Dett's many extramusical interests, and his performing life. Nathaniel Dett, what he called "Negro folk music," is a gift to the world. The final movement is by far Dett's most played piece and has been recorded many times. The final movement contains two spirituals from Dett's 1927 volume, Religious FolkSongs of the Negro as Sung at Hampton Institute. Dett's last piano work, "Madrigal Divine," with the use of a perfect-fifth ground bass and parallel element in Dett's style is Negro folk music. Movement and rhythm are always present in Dett's music, as in Negro spirituals. Dett writes the following notes and musical setting of the Dett "Negro Music," 128. ./cache/work_qgdgxljevndjjgpgpfppgkxybi.pdf ./txt/work_qgdgxljevndjjgpgpfppgkxybi.txt