Blue/s Forms

• This is a work for unaccompanied violin¹ which Perkinson wrote in 1972.²
• Perkinson dedicated this piece to Sanford Allen, who played its premiere at Carnegie Hall in 1972.³
• This work combines a Blues-inflected harmonic language with classical sonata form.⁴

Movements 

1. Plain Blue/s 
2. Just Blue/s 
3. Jettin’ Blue/s⁵

1. “Blue/s Forms,” Keiser Southern Music, accessed March 31, 2022, https://www.keisersouthernmusic.com/compositions/blues-forms-solo.
2. Carman Moore and Anya Laurence, “Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor,” Grove Music Online (February 6, 2012), accessed March 31, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002219404.
3. David Baker et al, eds., The Black Composer Speaks (UK: Scarecrow Press, 1978), 270. 
4. “Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: A Celebration,” Cedille Records, accessed March 31, 2022, https://www.cedillerecords.org/albums/coleridge-taylor-perkinson-a-celebration/.  
5. Ibid.