Mezzo-soprano, piano or chamber orchestra - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.5729-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 40 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #5729-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.5729-E). English.No Ordinary Woman is a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano. Contents:Bones, Be Good!TurningHomage to my HipsHomage to my HairThe Thirty-Eighth Year.

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.

Tenor voice solo and SATB choir unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8864-E Composed by James McCullough. Christmas, African American Heritage. 7 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8864-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8864-E). English. Matthew 1:16; Matthew 1:18; Luke 2:12.Three variants of this spiritual tune are set for Tenor Solo and unaccompanied SATB chorus. With its modal, plaintive quality, the form reflects a question-and-answer response structure, so commonly used in African American spirituals. However, the overall musical structure of this work is strophic in its melodic design. Mostly homophonic with approachable choral writing, this is a fresh and useful setting.

SSAA choir and piano - Moderately Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.6815-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 20 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #6815-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.6815-E). English.In Tambourines, a variety of hand-tapping patterns and vocal sounds are employed to suggest the playing of this instrument. The intent is to capture the spirit and joy of playing a tambourine (or an imaginary tambourine). These pseudo-tambourines then accompany several gospel tunes that appear into the middle of this piece. A joyous closing section celebrates tambourines to the glory of God!.

Boys choir or children's choir and piano - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8051-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 15 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8051-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8051-E). English.

SATB choir (choir divisi) and piano, or optional percussion and string orchestra - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7282-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 10 pages. Duration 2 minutes, 45 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7282-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7282-E). English.This text is contemporary and personal. Water becomes an image of the unsettled and uncertain nature of love, for which there is no real resolution. Lyrical and flowing, this movement has some necessary divisi in the soprano and bass staves. Duration: 2:45.

SSAA choir and piano - Digital Download SKU: MQ.6813-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 16 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #6813-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.6813-E). English.Spirituals is about strength. It opens with ascending patterns representing the rising shafts of mountains...something strong to put my hands on. The focus then shifts to the strength of song in times of trouble: I heard my mother singing when life hurt her: Gonna ride in my chariot someday! The music then rises to the affirmation: Sing, O black mother! Song is a strong thing..

TTBB choir, piano - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7299-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 9 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7299-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7299-E). English.

TTBB choir, piano - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7297-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 11 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7297-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7297-E). English.

SATB choir and organ - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8456-E Composed by David Hurd. Building Dedication, African American Heritage, New Year, Wedding. 15 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 20 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8456-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8456-E). English. Psalms 100.This anthem was commissioned by Dorothy Yates to mark the 50th anniversary of St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia. The text is announced by a brief fanfare on the organ. The raised 4th scale degree of the opening theme suggests the Lydian mode and accentuates the music’s upward thrust. Following the opening fanfare, the setting passes back and forth between duple and triple meter several times. Triple and duple rhythmic elements occur simultaneously and play off of one another. In the anthem’s middle section, the rhythmic energy of the opening is exchanged for a gentle extended crescendo as voices alternately sing their four-note, stepwise, rising lines over sustained organ chords. Then, the more energetic and somewhat metrically ambiguous elements of the previous section return. Finally, the text and music heard at the anthem’s opening recur in the manner of an antiphon. Duration: 3:20.

SATB choir (choir divisi) and chamber ensemble (SATB — 1 0 1 0 — 0 0 0 0 — 1[dr set,mar,vib,claves] — pf(cel) — vn,vc) - Difficult - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8829-E Composed by William Averitt. African American Heritage. 14 pages. Duration 4 minutes, 30 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8829-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8829-E). English.From the large work Black Pierrot, Jazzonia (1923) describes the scene in a Harlem café of the 1920s in which “six long-headed jazzers play,� and beautiful girls dance. After a short introductory section, the music moves into a lively ragtime—complete with drum set—that forms the background for the remainder of the piece. Altogether, it is something of a poetic and musical glance at the era of the Harlem Renaissance in which so much African-American music, art, and poetry emerged as vital forces in the arts. Duration: 4:30.

Tenor voice solo, SATB choir unaccompanied - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8084-E Composed by James McCullough. Advanced/Collegiate. African American Heritage. Octavo. 8 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 9 seconds. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8084-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8084-E). English. Psalms 35.Plead My Cause, O Lord was composed for my brother, Robert Louis McCullough, in 1971. It received its first performance by the Old South Church Choir, Copley Square, in Boston, during the Sunday Morning Service of March 7, 1972. Mr. Alfred Nash Patterson was the conductor, and the composer was the tenor soloist. Many other performances followed. A memorable one was given by The Marsh Chapel Choir of Boston University on Sunday, March 21, 1993. Julian James Wachner was the conductor and Frank Martinez was the tenor soloist. This piece uses the sprechstimme (or sprechgesang) technique appearing within an unaccompanied sacred work. This technique employs speech and singing without any specific pitch intonation. The first example of this technique appears in Pierrot Lunaire, the groundbreaking 1912 composition by Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951). -James McCulloughDuration: 3:09.

2-part or unison mixed choir & optional congregation a cappella, optional organ - Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7971-E Composed by Alice Parker. African American Heritage. Instrument part. 4 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7971-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7971-E). May love so dwell in our hearts, / May compassion so flow from our hands, / May peace so encompass our lives that justice and mercy abound in this world. / Sing love, sing compassion, sing peace. A graceful Benediction.

TTBB choir, piano - Digital Download SKU: MQ.7298-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. African American Heritage. 10 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7298-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7298-E). English.

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.