An Anthology of African and African Diaspora Songs / Ed. Louise Toppin and Scott Piper.

Includes 36 Songs for high/medium-high voice, and 24 Songs for medium/medium-low voice. Composers include Leslie Adams, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Adolphus Hailstork, Lena McLin, Undine Smith Moore, Robert Owens, Florence Price, and more. With editor's notes, a foreword by Willis Patterson, composer biographies, and translations of non-English texts. Contents: Adams, H. Leslie: Amazing Grace / Christmas Lullaby / Sence You Went Away / The Heart of a Woman -- Baker, David: The Alarm Clock -- Bonds, Margaret: The Negro Speaks of Rivers -- Brown, Charles: Caring / Desire -- Burleigh, Henry T.: Your Eyes So Deep / Your Lips Are Wine -- Capers, Valerie: Autumn -- Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel: Elëanore / The Willow Song -- Cunningham, Arthur: Minakesh -- Davison Watkins, Harriette: Stars -- Dawson, William L.: Out in the Fields -- Fax, Mark: The Refused -- Forsythe, Bruce: With Rue My Heart Is Laden -- Gomes, Antônio Carlos: Suspiro d’alma -- Hailstork, Adolphus: If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking / Longing / Loveliest of Trees -- Hairston, Jacqueline: Dormi, Jesu -- Hare, Maud Cuney: Gardé Piti Mulet Là -- Herbison, Jeraldine: I’ll Not Forget -- Holland, Jonathan: Little Elegy -- Hollifield, Sylvia: In Time of Silver Rain -- Hughes, Langston: The Founding Fathers / This is My Land -- Johnson, J. Rosamond: L’il Gal -- Kerr, Thomas: Soliloquy -- McLin, Lena: Amazing Grace / The Year’s at the Spring -- Moore, Undine Smith: I Am in Doubt / I Want to Die While You Love Me -- Myers, Andre: For a Poet -- Nickerson, Camille: Chere, Mo Lemmé Toi / Gué, Gué, Solingaie -- Onovwerosuoke, Fred: Mshila -- Osterman, Eurydice: Entreaty (I Am the Rose of Sharon) -- Owens, Robert: Could I but Ride Indefinite / Die Nacht / From the Dark Tower / The Lynching / The Secret -- Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor: Madrigal -- Perry, Zenobia Powell: O Children of Men -- Powell, Rosephayne: I Want to Die While You Love Me -- Price, Florence: Spring / The Sum --Ragland, Dave: Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Shanti, Nadine: Mangez, Boulez (Eat, Drink, Be Merry) -- Simon, Carlos: Prayer -- Smith, Hale: Troubled Woman -- Smith, Irene Britton: Why Fades a Dream? -- Spencer, Brandon: Dream Variations -- Stewart, Hilbert: Spring Song -- Swanson, Howard: One Day -- Walker, George: I Went to Heaven -- Young, Aurelia Norris: Swamp.

1 score (307 p.); 28 cm.
Spiral

Language: English
Edition Number: CVR 5282
Distributor Number: CVR5282