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Children's Songs (Chick Corea album)

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Released
  
1984

Length
  
36:14

Artist
  
Chick Corea

Label
  
ECM Records

Genres
  
Jazz, Classical music

Recorded
  
July 1983

Children's Songs(1984)
  
Septet(1984)

Release date
  
1984

Producer
  
Manfred Eicher

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Chick Corea albums, Jazz albums

Children's Songs is an album by Jazz pianist Chick Corea, released in 1984.

Contents

Children's Songs mainly consists of short songs with simple themes. There is little development in the pieces, which capture a variety of melodies and moods. Corea began writing the first song in 1971.

In the preface of the annotated version Corea stated that he aimed "to convey simplicity as beauty, as represented in the Spirit of a child".

There are stylistic and structural parallels to the cycle Mikrokosmos, by Béla Bartók, including:

  • use of the pentatonic scales
  • employment of unusual time signatures and cross-rhythms
  • expressing a complex variety of atmosphere in a relatively short time
  • increasing difficulty and complexity through the sequence
  • intention of creator.

    • Track listing

    1. "No.1"
    2. "No.2"
    3. "No.3"
    4. "No.4"
    5. "No.5"
    6. "No.6"
    7. "No.7"
    8. "No.8"
    9. "No.9"
    10. "No.10"
    11. "No.11"
    12. "No.12"
    13. "No.13"
    14. "No.14"
    15. "No.15"
    16. "No.16 & 17"
    17. "No.18"
    18. "No.19"
    19. "No.20"
    20. "Addendum" - (for violin, cello and piano)

    Personnel

  • Chick Corea - Piano
  • Fred Sherry - Cello
  • Ida Kavafian - Violin

    • Songs

    1No 11:50
    2No 20:55
    3No 31:27

    References

    Children's Songs (Chick Corea album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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