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Table of Contents:

• Amazing grace / H. Leslie Adams
• Amazing grace / Lena J. McLin
• Song of the seasons. Autumn / Valerie Capers
• Four songs for Christine. Caring / Charles Brown
• Chere mo lemmé toi = Dear, I love you so / Camille Nickerson
• Christmas lullaby / H. Leslie Adams
• Four motivations for baritone, op. 21. Could I but ride indefinite / Robert Owens
• Four songs for Christine. Desire / Charles Brown
• Drei Lieder für Mezzo, op. 19. Die Nacht / Robert Owens
• Dormi, Jesu / Jacqueline B. Hairston
• Dream variations / Brandon J. Spencer
• Elëanore, op. 37, no. 6 / Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
• Musings. Entreaty : (I am the Rose of Sharon) / Eurydice V. Osterman
• For a poet / Andre Myers
• Founding fathers / Langston Hughes ; Toy Harper ; LaVilla Tullos
• From the dark tower / Owens
• Gardé piti mulet là (Musieu Bainjo) / Creole folk song ; Maud Cuney Hare
• Gué, gué solingaie / Camille Nickerson
• I am in doubt ; I want to die while you love me / Undine Smith Moore
• I want to die while you love me / Rosephanye Powell

• I went to heaven / George Walker
• Five art songs for voice and piano. I'll not forget / Jeraldine Herbison
• Summer.Life.Song. If I can stop one heart from breaking / Adolphus Hailstork
• Shades of hues: green. In time of silver rain / Sylvia T. Hollifield
• Li'l gal / J. Rosamond Johnson
• Little elegy / Jonathan Bailey Holland
• Four romantic love songs. Longing / Adolphus Hailstork
• Loveliest of trees / Adolphus Hailstork
• Three songs of Robert Hillyer. Madrigal / Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
• New Orleans suite. Mangez, boulez = Eat, drink, be merry / Nadine Shanti
• Martin Luther King, Jr. / Dave Ragland
• Minakesh = Magician (Sorcerer) / Arthur Cunningham
• Twelve African songs. Mshila / Fred Onovwerosuoke
• Hidden words. O children of men / Zenobia Perry
• One day / Howard Swanson
• Out in the fields / William L. Dawson
• Prayer / Carlos Simon
• Nightsongs. Sence you went away / H. Leslie Adams
• Soliloquy : (Haunted. You are there!) / Thomas H. Kerr
• Spring song / Hilbert Stewart
• Spring / Florence B. Price
• Fields of wonder. Stars / Harriette Davison
• Suspiro d'alma = Sigh of the soul / Carlos Gomes
• Swamp / Aurelia Norris Young
• The black experience. The alarm clock / David N. Baker
• Nightsongs. The heart of a woman / H. Leslie Adams
• Three songs for baritone, op. 41. The lynching / Robert Owens
• The Negro speaks of rivers / Margaret Bonds
• Five Black songs. The refused / Mark Fax
• Three songs for coloratura soprano, op. 31. The secret = Das Geheimnis / Robert Owens
• The sum / Florence Price
• Othello, op. 79. The willow song / Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
• The year's at the Spring / Lena J. McLin
• This is my land / Langston Hughes ; Toy Harper ; LaVillaTullos
• Beyond the rim of day. Troubled woman / Hale Smith
• Dream cycle. Why fades a dream? / Irene Britton Smith
• With rue my heart is laden / Bruce Forsythe
• Passionale. Your eyes so deep ; Your lips are wine / H. T. Burleigh.

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Contributors:

Toppin, Louise , editor

Piper, Scott , editor

Patterson, Willis C. , writer of foreword

Harper, Toy , composer

Tullos, LaVilla , composer

Cuney-Hare, Maud, 1874-1936 , arranger of music

Adams, Leslie, 1932-

Baker, David, 1931-2016

Bonds, Margaret

Brown, Charles S. (Charles Samuel), 1940-

Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949

Capers, Valerie

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 1875-1912

Cunningham, Arthur, 1928-1997

Davison Watkins, Harriette, 1923-1978

Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1899-1990

Fax, Mark, 1911-1974

Forsythe, Harold Bruce

Gomes, Carlos, 1836-1896

Hailstork, Adolphus C.

Hairston, Jacqueline B.

Herbison, Jeraldine Saunders

Holland, Jonathan Bailey, 1974-

Hollifield, Sylvia Turner

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954

Kerr, Thomas H., Jr., 1915-1988

McLin, Lena, 1928-2023

Moore, Undine S.

Myers, Andre, 1973-

Nickerson, Camille

Onovwerosuoke, Fred, 1960-

Osterman, Eurydice V. (Eurydice Valenis)

Owens, Robert, 1925-2017

Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor

Perry, Zenobia Powell, 1908-2004

Powell, Rosephanye

Price, Florence, 1887-1953

Ragland, Dave

Shanti, Nadine

Simon, Carlos, Jr., 1986-

Smith, Hale, 1925-2009

Smith, Irene Britton

Spencer, Brandon J., 1992-

Stewart, Hilbert Earl

Swanson, Howard, 1907-1978

Walker, George, 1922-2018

Young, Aurelia Norris, 1915-2010

Languages:

English
German
Portuguese
Latin
Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other)

Language Notes:

English, Portuguese (Suspiro que nasce d'alma), Latin (Dormi, Jesu), Louisiana Creole (Musieu Bainjo; Chère mo lemmé toi; Gué, gué solingaie; Mangez, boulez), German (Die Nacht; Das Geheimnis) words, partially printed separately as text with pronunciation guides and English translation.
Staff notation.

Included Works:

Amazing grace [by Adams, L.]

Christmas lullaby [by Adams, L.]

Nightsongs [by Adams, L.] > Sence you went away

Nightsongs [by Adams, L.] > Heart of a woman

Black experience [by Baker, D.] > Alarm clock

Negro speaks of rivers [by Bonds, M.]

Songs for Christine [by Brown, C.S.] > Caring

Songs for Christine [by Brown, C.S.] > Desire

Passionale [by Burleigh, H.T.] > Your eyes so deep

Passionale [by Burleigh, H.T.] > Your lips are wine

Song of the seasons [by Capers, V.] > Autumn

Songs [by Coleridge-Taylor, S.] > Op. 37 > Elëanor

Othello [by Coleridge-Taylor, S.] > Willow song (Vocal score)

Gardé piti mulet là [by Cuney-Hare, M.]

Minakesh [by Cunningham, A.]

Fields of wonder [by Davison Watkins, H.] > Stars

Out in the fields [by Dawson, W.L.]

Black songs [by Fax, M.] > Refused

With rue my heart is laden [by Forsythe, H.B.]

Suspiro d'alma [by Gomes, C.]

Summer. Life. Song [by Hailstork, A.C.] > If I can stop one heart from breaking

Romantic love songs [by Hailstork, A.C.] > Longing

Loveliest of trees [by Hailstork, A.C.]

Dormi, Jesu [by Hairston, J.B.]

Art songs [by Herbison, J.S.] > I'll not forget

Little elegy [by Holland, J.B.]

Shades of hues: green [by Hollifield, S.T.] > In the time of silver rain

Founding fathers [by Hughes, L.]

This is my land [by Hughes, L.]

Li'l gal [by Johnson, J.R.]

Soliloquy [by Kerr, T.H.]

Year's at the spring [by McLin, L.]

Amazing grace [by McLin, L.]

I am in doubt [by Moore, U.S.]

I want to die while you love me [by Moore, U.S.]

For a poet [by Myers, A.]

Chere, mo lemmé toi [by Nickerson, C.]

Gué, gué, solingaie [by Nickerson, C.]

African songs [by Onovwerosuoke, F.] > Mshila

Musings [by Osterman, E.V.] > Entreaty

Motivations [by Owens, R.] > Could I but ride indefinite

Lieder [by Owens, R.] > Op. 19 > Nacht

Countee Cullen songs [by Owens, R.] > From the dark tower

Songs [by Owens, R.] > Op. 41 > Lynching

Songs [by Owens, R.] > Op. 31 > Secret

Songs [by Owens, R.] > Op. 31 > Secret (German)

Songs of Robert Hillyer [by Perkinson, C.T.] > Madrigal

Hidden words of Baháʼuʼlláh [by Perry, Z.P.] > O children of men.

I want to die while you love me [by Powell, R.]

Spring [by Price, F.]

Sum [by Price, F.]

Martin Luther King, Jr. [by Ragland, D.]

New Orleans suite [by Shanti, N.] > Mangez, boulez

Prayer [by Simon, C.]

Beyond the rim of day [by Smith, H.] > Troubled woman

Dream cycle [by Smith, I.B.] > Why fades a dream?

Dream variations [by Spencer, B.J.]

Spring song [by Stewart, H.E.]

Songs for Patricia [by Swanson, H.] > One day

I went to heaven [by Walker, G.]

Swamp [by Young, A.N.]

Related Series:

Videmus African American art song series

Subjects:

Song cycles — Excerpts

African Americans — Songs and music

Black people — Europe — Music

Music — Africa

Songs, English — United States

Music by African American composers

Songs with piano

Song cycles

African Americans

Black people

Music

Songs, English

United States

Africa

Europe

Genres:

Art music

Songs

Song cycles

Excerpts

Scores

Music

Songs and music

Performance Medium:

2 performers: singer; piano
2 performers: voice; piano

General Notes:

Foreword, composer biographies, and editor's note in English.
Foreword by WIllis Patterson.

Physical Description:

1 score (307 pages) ; 28 cm.

Call Numbers:

M1619 .A6412 2021

Other Standard Numbers:

Distributor Number, Classical Vocal Reprints: CVR5282

OCLC Numbers:

1258124599