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 Collection

The 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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.