• Publisher Code: BHI 10489
  • Title: Simple Riffs
  • Subtitle: Shaker Melody
  • Compoer: Elliott, David J.
  • Instrumentation: 2-part treble voices (SS) and piano, optional jazz combo
  • Duration (mins): 2'
  • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, New York
  • Edition Type: set of parts
  • Eidtion Info: Jazz combo = drum set, double bass
  • Pages: 12
  • Binding: Folding
  • Language: English
  • ISMN-EAN: 9790051104895
  • UPC: 073999335316
  • Format: sheet music
  • Weight (kg): 0.05
  • Country of manufacture: US

    • This arrangement is a jazz treatment of the traditional Shaker folk melody “Simple Gifts.” After a traditional statement of the original tune, this setting presents the melody as a jazz sambe, a jazz waltz, and finally a fast jazz swing. Within this arrangement, the singers “trade” jazz variations on the traditional folk song melody.