Vignettes for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano

• Vignettes is a chamber suite for oboe, bassoon, and piano. It contains six movements.¹
• Still composed this suite in Los Angeles in 1962. He wrote it for the Camden Trio, a chamber ensemble led by English oboist, Dame Evelyn Barbirolli.²
• Each movement in this suite is an arrangement of a folksong from a location in the western hemisphere.³

Movements

1. Winnebago Moccasin Game. This tune comes from Wisconsin.
2. Carmela. This tune comes from California. 
3. Inca Melody. An alternate title for this work is “Peruvian Melody.” 
4. Clinch Mountain. Still labels this melody as coming from the Southern Mountain Region in the USA. 
5. Héla Grand-père. This tune comes from Haiti. 
6. Garde Piti Mulet La (or Msieu Banjo). This tune comes from Louisiana⁴

1. “Sheet Music Collections and Suites,” William Grant Still Music, accessed June 30, 2021, http://www.williamgrantstillmusic.com/SheetMusicCollections.htm. 
2. Judith Anne Still, Michael J. Dabrishus, and Carolyn L. Quin, William Grant Still: A Bio-Bibliography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), 205. 
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.