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    Epitaph
    Epitaph / Charles Mingus.

    • Title:[Epitaph]
      Epitaph / Charles Mingus.
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    • Author/Creator:Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979, composer.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Mingus, Sue, author.
      Schuller, Gunther, author.
      Homzy, Andrew, author.
    • Published/Created:[New York, N.Y.] : Let My Children Hear Music, Inc., [2008]
      Milwaukee, WI : Exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard Corporation
      ©1979
    • Holdings

       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Big band music--Scores.
      Jazz--1971-1980.
    • Genre/Form:Jazz.
      Scores.
    • Description:Full score.
      1 score (xiv, 341 pages) : facsimiles ; 44 cm
    • Notes:For jazz band of 31 players.
      Includes preface by Sue Mingus, historical notes by Andrew Homzy, "Notes from an engraver" by Pei-Chin Ho, and "A guide to Charles Mingus's 'Epitaph'" by Gunther Schuller.
      staff notation.
    • Contents:Main score: Part 1
      Percussion discussion
      Main score: Part 2
      Started melody
      Better get hit in your soul
      The soul
      Inquisition
      Self portrait / Chill of death
      O.P. (Oscar Pettiford)
      Pink / Please don't come back from the moon
      Monk, bunk and vice versa (Osmotin')
      Peggy's blue skylight
      Wolverine blues
      Children's hour of dream
      This subdues my passion
      Untitled ballad: In other words, I am three
      Freedom
      Untitled interlude: The underdog rising
      Noon night
      Main score reprise
      Moods in mambo (performed at Epitaph premiere concert in 1989).
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