| Description |
1 score (xii, 199 pages) ; 28 cm + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
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score |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
1.4 m/s |
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stereo |
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digital recording |
| Note |
CDs contain accompaniments performed by Margaret R. Simmons. |
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Includes biographical notes on the composers and performers. |
| Contents |
Amazing grace ; Nightsongs. Creole girl ; The wider view. Love come and gone ; My man / H. Leslie Adams -- Child's world. Seven days ; Birthday song ; Seasons / Mable Bailey -- Black sheep, black sheep ; Leisure cruise ; Pied beauty / Charles S. Brown -- The Giovanni songs. Three/quarters time / Wallace McClain Cheatham -- Songs of love and justice (on texts of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.). Difficulties ; Five Dunbar lyrics. The awakening ; Good night ; Create in me / Adolphus Hailstork -- On consciousness streams. On consciousness streams ; Thou alone canst inspire ; The season of remembrance / Jacqueline B. Hairston -- Five songs for soprano and piano. Valentine's day ; How should I your true love know / William H. Henderson -- Five art songs for voice and piano. I'll not forget ; We met by chance / Jeraldine Saunders Herbison -- Theology ; Compensation / Betty Jackson King -- Four love songs. Gramercy Park ; Union Square / William Foster McDaniel -- Lyric for Truelove / Undine Smith Moore -- The moods of my people. Daedalus, fly away home ; Mae's rent party ; Club woman / Byron Motley and Barbara Sherrill -- Heart ; Girl ; Havana dreams / Robert Owens -- Clear water / Nadine Shanti -- Singing for the sake of my soul / Frederick Tillis -- Velvet shoes ; Nails ; That black reef / Dolores White -- A song / Julius P. Williams. |
| Subject |
Songs with piano.
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Songs with piano. |
| Genre/Form |
Songs with piano.
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| Subject |
Songs, English -- United States.
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Songs, English. |
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United States. |
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African Americans -- Music.
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African Americans -- Music. |
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Recorded accompaniments (Voice)
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Recorded accompaniments (Voice) |
| Genre/Form |
Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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Songs.
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Songs.
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Music.
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Music.
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Scores.
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Scores.
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| Added Author |
Simmons, Margaret R.
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Wagner, Jeanine (Jeanine F.)
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| Added Title |
Anthology of art songs by African American composers |
| Spine Title |
Art songs by African American composers |
| ISBN |
0809325233 |
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