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    This document provides information about choral music composed by Black composers, including lists of works categorized by vocal forces and accompaniment. It includes brief biographies of notable composers such as William Grant Still, the first African American to conduct major symphony orchestras and have an opera produced by a major American company. The works listed cover a wide range of styles and include pieces for mixed choir, soprano-alto choir, and tenor-bass choir, both a cappella and accompanied works. Composers represented include Uzee Brown Jr., Undine Smith Moore, Rosephanye Powell, George Walker, and others.

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    This document provides information about choral music composed by Black composers, including lists of works categorized by vocal forces and accompaniment. It includes brief biographies of notable composers such as William Grant Still, the first African American to conduct major symphony orchestras and have an opera produced by a major American company. The works listed cover a wide range of styles and include pieces for mixed choir, soprano-alto choir, and tenor-bass choir, both a cappella and accompanied works. Composers represented include Uzee Brown Jr., Undine Smith Moore, Rosephanye Powell, George Walker, and others.

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    Beyond Elijah Rock: Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers

    Dr. Marques L. A. Garrett, presenter


    marques.garrett@unl.edu

    Mixed Choir Unaccompanied

    Uzee Brown, Jr. James Furman Bobby McFerrin


    Wake Me Up, Lord Hehlehlooyuh The 23rd Psalm
    • Roger Dean Publishing • Hinshaw Music, HMC312 • Hal Leonard - HL.8596598
    Company, 10/1262R

    Adolphus Hailstork Phillip McIntyre


    Mark Butler A Carol for All Children That’s How Good God Is
    Ave Maria • Alliance Music Publishers, • Shawnee Press,
    • Colla Voce, 34-96830 AMP 0072 HL.35022756
    Enter His Gates Nocturne
    • Colla Voce, 34-96810 • Theodore Presser,
    Miserere 312-41645 Julius C. Miller, III
    • Colla Voce, 34-96850 Set Me as a Seal
    • MorningStar Music
    Robert A. Harris Publishers, 50-9214
    Nathan Carter Oh, How Can I Keep from
    Psalm 131 Singing?
    • GIA Publications, G-6683 • Oxford University Undine Smith Moore
    Press/Edition Peters, Lord, We Give Thanks to Thee
    9780193857933 • GIA Publications, G-6232
    Salone T. Clary Striving After God
    I Want to Live with God • GIA Publications, G-6413
    • GIA Publications, G-6244 David Hurd
    We Have Seen His Star
    • GIA Publications, G-2619 Rosephanye Powell
    Charles D. Coleman Non Nobis Domine
    Alleluia • Fred Bock Music, 08739196
    • GIA Publications, G-7946 Ulysses Kay
    How Stands the Glass Around?
    • Associated Music Mitchell Southall
    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Publishers, Inc., In Silent Night
    The Lee Shore GSP25078OCT • Willis Music, J106
    • Novello, NOV451231 Lincoln Letter
    • http://www3.cpdl.org/wi • Edition Peters, PE.P06027
    ki/index.php/The_lee_sh Brandon J. Spencer
    ore_(Samuel_Coleridge- Gloria!
    Taylor) Betty Jackson King • Colla Voce, 15-94750
    Psalm 57
    • Jacksonian Press, JP104
    R. Nathaniel Dett George Walker
    Ave Maria A Babe Is Born
    • Hinshaw Music, HMC333 Edward Margetson • Lauren Keiser Music
    He Stooped to Bless Publishing, HL.42263
    • GIA Publications, G-6497 Stars
    • Lauren Keiser Music
    Publishing, HL.40350
    Mixed Choir Accompanied

    Jeffery L. Ames Christopher H. Harris William Grant Still


    In Remembrance I Am Loved Psalm for the Living
    • Walton Music, WLG115 • Hinshaw Music, HMC2484 • Bourne Music, IM.06666
    • piano, horn • piano • piano

    Roy L. Belfield, Jr. David Hurd André J. Thomas


    Give Thanks and Sing for Joy! Easter Antiphon Fences
    • GIA Publications, G-6778 • GIA Publications, G-2782 • Heritage Music Press,
    • organ • brass, timpani 15/1797H
    A Stable Lamp Is Lighted • piano
    Uzee Brown, Jr. • GIA Publications, G-4121 I Dream a World
    I Dream a World • flute, organ, opt. strings • Heritage Music Press,
    • GIA Publications, G-9368 • also available unison 15/1752H
    • piano • piano
    Psalm 117 Victor C. Johnson
    • GIA Publications, G-8124 Sing Out Your Joy
    • organ, trumpets • Shawnee Press, 35032583
    • piano
    Nathan Carter
    Psalm 150 Ulysses Kay
    • GIA Publications, G-5591 Epigrams and Hymn
    • organ (optional orchestra) • Carl Fischer, CF.PCB100
    • organ
    Roland M. Carter
    Hold Fast to Dreams Lena McLin
    • MarVel Let the People Sing Praise Unto
    • piano (optional orchestra) the Lord
    • Neil A. Kjos Music
    Marvin V. Curtis Company, KJ.GC48
    The City on the Hill • piano, brass
    • Mark Foster, MF2097
    • piano Mark E. Miller
    I Believe
    William L. Dawson • Choristers Guild,
    Out in the Fields CGA1310 William Grant Still (1895-1978)
    • Neil A. Kjos Music, • piano “Dean of African-American
    KJ.T130 Composers”
    • piano Carlos Simon First African American to…
    A Light • conduct a major US
    Derrick Fox • GIA Publications, G-9399 symphony orchestra
    Jubilate Deo • piano • conduct a major American
    • Mark Foster, 00252683 Sanctus network radio orchestra
    • piano • GIA Publications, G-7421 • have an opera produced
    • piano by a major American
    Adolphus Hailstork company
    Ye Shall Have a Song William Grant Still • have an opera televised
    • Alliance Music Plain Chant for America over a national network in
    Publications, AMP 0412 • William Grant Still Music the US (after his death)
    • piano • piano (or orchestra)
    Soprano-Alto Choir Unaccompanied Tenor-Bass Choir Unaccompanied

    Adolphus Hailstork David Morrow


    Meditation (Think on These Things) Rejoice!
    • Theodore Presser, 312-41870 • GIA Publications, G-8178
    Missa Brevis
    • Theodore Presser, 312-41835 Marques L. A. Garrett
    Seek Ye First
    Robert A. Harris • GIA Publications, G-8233
    The Lamb
    • Oxford University Press, 9780193857971 Robert A. Harris, arr. Lohman
    Oh, How Can I Keep From Singing?
    Rosephanye Powell • Oxford University Press, OU.9780193859203
    Sicut Cervus
    • Alliance Music Publications, AMP0584 Rosephanye Powell
    Bright Is the Ring of Words
    • Hal Leonard, HL.154614

    Soprano-Alto Choir Accompanied Tenor-Bass Choir Accompanied

    B. E. Boykin Uzee Brown, Jr.


    We Sing As One Giving
    • Klavia Press, KP0012 • GIA Publications, G-8290
    • piano • piano
    God, Give Us Men
    William L. Dawson • GIA Publications, G-8289
    Out in the Fields • piano
    • Neil A. Kjos Music, KJ.T131
    • piano Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
    Viking Song
    Marques L. A. Garrett • https://imslp.org/wiki/Viking_Song_(Col
    Invitation to Love eridge-Taylor%2C_Samuel)
    • Santa Barbara Music Publishing, SBMP 1454 • piano
    • piano

    Adolphus Hailstork
    I Am Only One
    • Alliance Music Publications, AMP 0474
    • piano

    George Walker
    Give Thanks Unto the Lord
    • Lauren Keiser Music Publishing,
    HL00040347
    • piano
    Gloria in Memoriam
    • Lauren Keiser Music Publishing, George Walker (b. 1941)
    HL00040346 First African American to win the Pulitzer Prize in
    • piano Music
    Choral Sets Choral-Orchestral Works

    Jason Max Ferdinand Margaret Bonds


    A Choral Triptych Ballad of the Brown King
    • GIA Publications, G-9162 • S. Fox Pub. Co.
    • SATB divisi, unaccompanied • SATB div, SATB soli, orchestra (or piano)

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
    Adolphus Hailstork Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast (from The Song of
    3 Dunbar Lyrics Hiawatha, Op. 30)
    • Theodore Presser • https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Hia
    • SATB, (SSA no. 2), unaccompanied watha,_Op.30_(Coleridge-Taylor,_Samuel)
    5 Short Choral Works • SATB, SB soli, orchestra (or piano)
    • Theodore Presser
    • SATB divisi, unaccompanied R. Nathaniel Dett
    The Ordering of Moses
    • Jubilate Music Group, AP.42280
    Ulysses Kay • SATB div, SATB soli
    4 Pieces, Men’s Voices
    • American Composers Alliance Adolphus Hailstork
    • TTBB, unaccompanied I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
    Choral Triptych • Theodore Presser, 312-41723
    • Associated Music Publishers • SATB div, Ten solo, chamber orchestra (or
    • SATB, piano/strings piano)
    A New Song, 3 Psalms for Chorus
    • C.F. Peters Corporation José Mauricio Nuñes-Garcia
    • SATB, unaccompanied Mass of St. Cecilia
    • http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/M
    ass_of_Saint_Cecilia_(Jos%C3%A9_Maur%
    George Walker C3%ADcio_Nunes_Garcia)
    3 Lyrics for Chorus • SATB, SATB soli
    • Lauren Keiser Music Publishing Requiem
    • SATB, piano • Carus-Verlag, 23.008
    • SATB, SATB soli, orchestra (or organ)

    Undine Smith Moore


    Scenes from the Life of a Martyr
    • Theodore Presser, VS7
    • SATB, SATB soli, narrator

    William Grant Still


    And They Lynched Him on a Tree
    • J. Fischer & Bro.
    • SATB double chorus, narrator

    George Walker
    Cantata
    • Lauren Keiser Music Publishing, #X078040
    • Boys choir, Sop Ten soli
    Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989) Mass
    “Dean of African-American Women Composers” • Lauren Keiser Music Publishing, #X078039
    • SATB
    Additional Collections Composer Websites

    Anthology of Art Songs by Black American B. E. Boykin


    Composers www.klaviapress.com/catalog
    Edward B. Marks Music - #M891 (HL.8242) Harry T. Burleigh
    www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200035730
    A New Anthology of Art Songs by African Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
    American Composers imslp.org/wiki/Category:Coleridge-
    Southern Illinois University Press Taylor,_Samuel
    José Mauricio Nuñes Garcia
    Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American www.josemauricio.com.br/JM_Eng.htm
    Women Composers (ed. Vivian Taylor) Robert A. Harris
    Hildegard Publishing Company - 491-00494 www.robert-a-harris.com
    Carlos Simon
    Arias, Duets and Scenes coliversimon.com
    William Grant Still Music – Vol. 1 (Arias for William Grant Still
    Soprano and Mezzo Soprano); Vol. 2 (Arias for www.williamgrantstillmusic.com
    Tenor, Baritone and Bass); Vol. 3 (Duets and George T. Walker
    Scenes) georgetwalker.com

    Black Women Composers: A Century of Piano


    Music (1893-1990) (ed. Helen Walker-Hill)
    Hildegard Publishing Company - 490-01070

    Four Early 20th Century Piano Suites by Black


    Composers
    G. Schirmer - HL.50482960

    King of Kings - Organ Music of Black Composers,


    Past and Present
    GIA Publications - Vol. 1 - G-7236; Vol. 2 - G-7489 R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943)
    “It is imperative, in my opinion, for people who are
    African-American Organ Music Anthology sincerely interested in the Negro and his one
    MorningStar Music Publishers - Vol. 1 - 10-545; Vol. unmistakable contribution to American civilization,
    2 - 10-546; Vol. 3 - 10-547; Vol. 4 - 10-548; Vol. 5 - 10- to use every opportunity to dignify the music of
    549; Vol. 6 - 10-586; Vol. 7 - 10-624 this people, not merely by encouraging the Negro
    to sing his folk songs in their truly beautiful
    Chamber Music by Black Women Composers primitive form, but also by encouraging him to
    (ed. Helen Walker-Hill) show their possibilities for use as themes for
    Hildegard Publishing Company - 494-02665 anthems, oratorios, and even operas.” – Bowdoin
    Literary Prize Theses, Harvard University, 1920

    A Virginia native, Marques L. A. Garrett is an Assistant Professor of Music in


    Choral Activities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Glenn Korff School
    of Music. He earned his PhD in Music Education (Choral Conducting) at Florida
    State University.
    In addition to his performances as a baritone and countertenor soloist, Dr. Garrett
    has served as a conductor or clinician with several church, community, collegiate,
    and festival choirs throughout the country. His compositions are published with
    GIA, G. Schirmer, Hinshaw, Walton, Santa Barbara, and others with several
    recordings of his music to date. Recent commissions and premieres include the
    University of New Hampshire, Seraphic Fire, Westminster Choir College, and the
    American Choral Directors Association.

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