{"id":146,"date":"2016-01-14T11:44:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:50","slug":"davis-simple-songs-of-birth-and-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/davis-simple-songs-of-birth-and-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis &#8211; Simple Songs of Birth and Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><strong>Composer: <\/strong>Nathan Davis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: <\/strong>Simple Songs of Birth and Return<\/p>\n<p><strong>Category: <\/strong>Mbira solo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instrumentation: <\/strong>mbira and electronics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Difficulty: <\/strong>Intermediate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Available directly from composer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathandavis.com\/shop.shtml\">http:\/\/www.nathandavis.com\/shop.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Commissioned by Douglas Perkins, Simple Songs is inspired by the essential function of (mbira) music in life rituals of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. In writing these pieces, I sought to find this quality in my own musical language &#8211; a language which is not African at all, but that nonetheless seeks to have cultural relevance in my time and place. Of the movements excerpted here, &#8220;A Tale Begun&#8221; is written in celebration of the birth of Douglas&#8217; first child, Jacob, and is inspired by the poem of that name by Wislawa Szymborska. &#8220;Two Shadows&#8221; is inspired by the Shona concept of the separation of one&#8217;s light and dark shadows after death.<\/p>\n<p>-Nathan Davis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by Dan Pessalano<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer: Nathan Davis Title: Simple Songs of Birth and Return Category: Mbira solo Instrumentation: mbira and electronics Difficulty: Intermediate Publisher: Available directly from composer http:\/\/www.nathandavis.com\/shop.shtml Description: Commissioned by Douglas Perkins, Simple Songs is inspired by the essential function of (mbira) music in life rituals of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. In writing these pieces, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}