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Homer Grunn: Indian Lament

1,285 views · Published 16 September 2015 · 4:06 · Indexed 31 October 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a haunting 1922 evocation of Indian (=Native American) culture by the American composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist Homer Grunn (1880–1944).
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Homer Grunn studied in Chicago and Berlin.  After teaching at music schools in Chicago and Phoenix, Arizona in the early 1900s, he moved to Los Angeles, and visited indigenous communities in New Mexico from there.  Grunn collected their melodies and used them in his own compositions (with late-romantic and impressionist harmonies applied to them).  In this piece, one has a feeling that maybe Grunn did for Native American melodies approximately what Bloch did for Jewish material.  This piece is dedicated to Grunn's friend, and fellow 'Indianist', Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881-1946).  For more information on Grunn, see http://tinyurl.com/p7kdfej .  It is also fascinating to see here - http://tinyurl.com/qcu8xkh - a report of this piece being played in an annual concert of 'Indian music' at a school music club in Anadarko, Oklahoma.

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