Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

As part of the session “Our Ryhyrms Run Through it”, I will be discussing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s inter-genre borrowings between artsong genre and Sorrow Songs (slave songs) with a focus on rhythm as it connects to the Six Sorrow Songs, Op. 57 cycle.

One month after the publication of my thesis research, I was thrilled to be invited to the University of Ottawa, the school I studied at for seven years, to present my research work as a guest speaker and to experience an insightful exchange of ideas with the performers in the class.

I am delighted to see my thesis research on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor being published. My research focuses on the Six Sorrow Songs, Op. 57 song cycle, and the cross-genre borrowings from art songs and Sorrow Songs/slave songs that allow for new layers of meaning to take shape in these songs. This interdisciplinary research includes an in-depth multi-faceted textual and musical analysis to shed light on the ways in which a sense of double meaning emerges in this composition.

In this short video, which is part of Llewellyn’s most recent album release video series, I speak about some of the songs included in this album, which I have researched in my thesis work. These songs are part of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Six Sorrow Songs, Op. 57.