Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.18495 Composed by Henry Clay Work. Cooking, African Americans, Couples, Soldiers, Distress, Battlefields, Dwellings--logs, Courtship & love, Fathers & children, Homecomings, Families. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.18495). Work's Popular Songs & Ballads. Watching For Pa. Song and Chorus. Words and Music by Henry C. Work. Published 1863 by Root & Cady in Chicago. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Cooking, African Americans, Couples, Soldiers, Distress, Battlefields, Dwellings--logs, Courtship & love, Fathers & children, Homecomings, Families. First line reads Three little forms in the twilight gray, Scanning the shadows across the way.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.965296 Composed by Boyd E. Gibson. Contemporary,Spiritual. Score and parts. 25 pages. Boyd Eugene Gibson #4758761. Published by Boyd Eugene Gibson (A0.965296). This work takes two African American Spirituals, I've Been Buked, and Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child and weaves them together into a theme and variation which evokes the great cry of the soul whose burden is of the age-old promise of eternal freedom. This work was originally composed for solo piano but has been re-worked for two pianos with very satisfying results. Themes that were lost in the solo piano version can be heard clearly in this version.

2-part treble voices and piano, string quartet, or brass quintet (Brass Quintet: Trumpet I and II in B-flat or C, Horn in F, Trombone, Tuba) - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.1.3650-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 32 pages. Galaxy Music Corporation - Digital #1.3650-E. Published by Galaxy Music Corporation - Digital (MQ.1.3650-E). English.A creative and jazzy multi-movement work based on the poems of noted African American poet Nikki Giovanni. The pieces combine humor with deep thought that will move both the singers and the audience.

SSAA choir and piano - Digital Download SKU: MQ.6814-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 16 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #6814-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.6814-E). English.Harlem Night Song is infused with the language of blues: mixed major and minor tonalities, a gentle tempo, humming. The music is also nocturnal and atmospheric. The chorus sings I love you, as if calling back and forth across the Harlem rooftops. A change of pace follows in the middle of the piece: Down in the street, a band is playing... Scat singing, percussive vocal effects and random patterns of I love you bring this work to a close.

SATB choir and Piano - Digital Download SKU: MQ.5770-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 20 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #5770-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.5770-E). English.Harlem Night Song is infused with the language of blues: mixed major and minor tonalities, a gentle tempo, humming. The music is also nocturnal and atmospheric. The chorus sings I love you, as if calling back and forth across the Harlem rooftops. A change of pace follows in the middle of the piece: Down in the street, a band is playing... Scat singing, percussive vocal effects and random patterns of I love you bring this work to a close.

TTBB choir and piano - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7295-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 16 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7295-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7295-E). English.Harlem Night Song is infused with the language of blues: mixed major and minor tonalities, a gentle tempo, humming. The music is also nocturnal and atmospheric. The chorus sings I love you, as if calling back and forth across the Harlem rooftops. A change of pace follows in the middle of the piece: Down in the street, a band is playing... Scat singing, percussive vocal effects and random patterns of I love you bring this work to a close.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Digital Download SKU: A0.982627 Arranged by Michael Dryver, Arranger. Contemporary. Octavo. 8 pages. Contemporary Choral Series #4800882. Published by Contemporary Choral Series (A0.982627). This is traditional spiritual in harmonic structure.  Sing without accompaniment the spiritual reminds one the southern born work songs and spirituals. However, the contemporary sound of the accompaniment brings new life to a new generation of vocal music.

Choral Choir,Choral (SAB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.955813 Composed by Scott S. Stewart. Contemporary,Instructional. 6 pages. Scott S. Stewart #6096057. Published by Scott S. Stewart (A0.955813). A Song is based on a poem of the same name by the African American author Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906) from his collection of poetry Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow.  It is a poem that speaks to the longing and loss of love.  Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow in its entirety traces the tempestuous romance of Dunbar and his estranged wife Alice Ruth Moore.  A Song was composed for a 3-part SAB ensemble and piano accompaniment.  Performance time: 2:54.  It is an fine introduction to the work of a man who influenced the many writers of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s.

Concert Band - Digital Download SKU: A0.733220 Composed by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Arranged by Michael Shaw. Romantic Period. Score and parts. 161 pages. Ayotte Custom Musical Engravings #6341569. Published by Ayotte Custom Musical Engravings (A0.733220). Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in Holborn, London on August 15, 1875 and died from pneumonia at the age of 37 in Croy- don, England on September 1, 1912.  At an early age his grandfather began teaching him how to play the violin. His musical ability was obvious and at the age of 15, his extended family arranged for Taylor to study at the Royal College of Music. While at RCM he changed from violin to composition, working under professor Charles Villiers Stanford. His classmates included Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst. He was later helped by Edward Elgar in 1898, who described Coleridge-Taylor as far and away the cleverest fellow going amongst the young men.  By 1896, Coleridge-Taylor was earning a reputation as a composer and was also accepted as an excellent conductor. In 1898 at the age of 23 he composed the African Suite. Danse Nègre is the last of the four movements that make up the African Suite, Op. 35 (proceeded by Introduction, A Negro Love Song, and Valse). Coleridge-Taylor saw it as his mission in life to help establish the dignity of the black man. He was greatly influenced by black American poet P. L. Dunbar. He made three successful visits to the United States to great acclaim. In 1904, on his first USA tour he was received by President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House. Above all, though, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was known as a man of great dignity and patience.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1367842 Composed by Traditional, originally arranged by Hall Johnson. Arranged by Ross Fiddes. 19th Century,20th Century,A Cappella,Soul,Traditional. 10 pages. Ross Fiddes #952218. Published by Ross Fiddes (A0.1367842). An arrangement expanding the traditional African-American work song for SSATB chorus a cappella.

Easy Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1026807 Composed by Traditional African American folksong. Arranged by Lindsey James. Blues,Contemporary,Folk,Instructional. Score. 3 pages. Lindsey James #6419199. Published by Lindsey James (A0.1026807). Ideal for the KS3 classroom, this keyboard/piano arrangement of an African American folk song, complete with letter names, lyrics and optional added bass line figurations can be played by one student using both hands, or by two students working in a pair and learning one hand each. The syncopated rhythms of the right hand create excitement, and the bare fifth chords in the left hand lend a sense of strength and empowerment to the piece. This song would suit topics on folksong, work songs, or more general themes such as teamwork and collaboration.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.914176 Composed by R. Nathaniel Dett, Robert Nathaniel Dett. Arranged by Music for a While. 20th Century,Christian,Romantic Period,Sacred,Spiritual. Octavo. 11 pages. Music for a While #6416607. Published by Music for a While (A0.914176). Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) was born in Canada before moving to the Unites States at the age of 11. He began studying piano at an early age and went on to be the first black American to graduate from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Throughout his career he worked as a composer, organist, pianist, choral director and music professor; he received many awards for his music and writing and spent a period at the Fontainebleau School of Music south of Paris where he studied with Nadia Boulanger. Dett became well known for incorporating tunes and and elements of African American folk songs and spirituals into classical music.Listen to the Lambs is scored for mixed unaccompanied chorus with solo soprano part and was originally published by G. Schirmer in 1914. It became one of his most famous choral works and was featured in The Oxford Book of Spirituals and Choral Music: A Norton Historical Anthology. There are modern recordings of the anthem performed by chamber choirs but Dett himself conducted a 900-voice performance of the work at Hampton University, Virginia where he was the director of the music department between 1928 and 1932.

Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1363608 Composed by African-American Spiritual Song Compiled by John Wesley Work Jr. Arranged by Antonius Agung Setiawan. Christian,Christmas. 2 pages. Antonius Agung Setiawan #948002. Published by Antonius Agung Setiawan (A0.1363608). Go Tell It On The Mountain (African American Spiritual Song0 (in C major Scale)Compiled by John Wesley Work JrDuet guitar arrangement by Antonius Agung SetiawanFingerstyle guitar arrangement, Easy to playTo See more of my work, please visit https://linktr.ee/pakagung