A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers [With 2 CDs]

Foreword vii William Brown Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi H. Leslie Adams Amazing Grace 1(9) from Nightsongs Creole Girl 10(6) from The Wider View Love Come and Gone 16(7) My Man 23(14) Mable Bailey from Child's World Seven Days 37(3) Birthday Song 40(2) Seasons 42(5) Charles S. Brown Black Sheep, Black Sheep 47(3) Leisure Cruise 50(2) Pied Beauty 52(6) Wallace McClain Cheatham from The Giovanni Songs Three/Quarters Time 58(3) Adolphus Hailstork from Songs of Love and Justice (On texts of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) Difficulties 61(5) from Five Dunbar Lyrics The Awakening 66(4) Good Night 70(5) Create in Me 75(8) Jacqueline B. Hairston On Consciousness Streams On Consciousness Streams 83(2) Thou Alone Canst Inspire 85(2) The Season of Remembrance 87(6) William H. Henderson from Five Songs for Soprano and Piano Valentine's Day 93(4) How Should I Your True Love Know 97(3) Jeraldine Saunders Herbison from Five Art Songs for Voice and Piano I'll Not Forget 100(2) We Met by Chance 102(2) Betty Jackson King Theology 104(4) Compensation 108(5) William Foster McDaniel from Four Love Songs Gramercy Park 113(5) Union Square 118(6) Undine Smith Moore Lyric for Truelove 124(8) Byron Motley and Barbara Sherrill from The Moods of My People Daedalus, Fly Away Home 132(4) Mae's Rent Party 136(2) Club Woman 138(1) Robert Owens Heart 139(4) Girl 143(9) Havana Dreams 152(6) Nadine Shanti Clear Water 158(6) Frederick Tillis Singing for the Sake of My Soul 164(12) Dolores White Velvet Shoes 176(5) Nails 181(4) That Black Reef 185(6) Julius P. Williams A Song 191(4) Contributors 195