Children's Songs

Children's Songs
Children's Songs
Studio album by Chick Corea
Released 1984
Recorded July 1983
Genre Jazz, Classical
Length 36:14
Label ECM
Producer Manfred Eicher
Chick Corea chronology
Touchstone
(1982)
Children's Songs
(1984)
Septet
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[1]

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

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

References

  1. ^ Nastos, Michael G. (2011 [last update]). "Chick Corea: Children's Songs - Chick Corea | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/chick-corea-childrens-songs-r137044. Retrieved 14 July 2011. 

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