Miniatures for Flute, Oboe, and Piano

• Still composed this suite in 1948.¹
• Still dedicated this work to Sir John Baribolli and Lady Evelyn Baribolli.²

“This little suite of five miniatures is based on folk songs of the Americas, and is a souvenir of the visit to America of the eminent conductor, Sir John Barbirolli, and his wife, Lady Evelyn Barbirolli.”

From the original published edition of Still’s Miniatures 

• Still’s score includes a historical and interpretive note at the opening of each movement. You can find those notes in this pdf. 

Movements 

1. I Ride an Old Paint (U.S.A.) 
2. Adolorido (Mexican) 
3. Jesus Is a Rock in the Weary Land (U.S.A.) 
4. Yaravi (Peru) 
5. A Frog Went A-Courtin’ (U.S.A.)³

1. Beverly Soll, I Dream a World: The Operas of William Grant Still (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005), 6.
2. William Grant Still, Miniatures (London: Oxford University Press, 1963), 7.
3. Still, Miniatures.