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Works

Title Date Duration Publisher and Library info Listen/Watch

Blue Steel (3, B. Forsythe, after C. Moss); Troubled Island (3, L. Hughes and Arvey)

1934-1949      

A Bayou Legend

1941      

Highway 1, rev. as A Southern Interlude

1942/43 3:45   London Symphony

Costaso 

1949      

Mota; The Pillar

1951/1958      

La guiablesse 

1927

Sahdji 

1929-30

Lenox Avenue 

1937

Miss Sally’s Party 

1940 19:00   Naxos

Symphony no.1 ‘Afro-American’

1930 25:00 Fort Smith Symphony

Symphony no.2 ‘Song of a New Race’ in g minor 

1937 27:00 Fort Smith Symphony

Symphony no.5 ‘Western Hemisphere’ [orig. no.3]

1945 19:30 Fort Smith Symphony

Symphony no.4 ‘Autochthonous’

1947 26:00 Fort Smith Symphony

Symphony no.3 ‘The Sunday Symphony'

1958 18:00   Fort Smith Symphony

Darker America

1924 11:45 Westphalian Symphony

From the Heart of a Believer

1927

Ebon Chronicle

1933

Kaintuck for pf and orchestra

1935 11:00   Cincinnati Philharmonic

Beyond Tomorrow

1936

Dismal Swamp

1936 13:30 Cincinnati Philharmonic

Old California

1941

Poem

1944 10:30 Fort Smith Symphony

The Peaceful Land

1960      
American Suite 1918

3 Negro Songs; From the Land of Dreams for 3 female voices and orchestra

1922/24
From the Journal of a Wanderer 1925

From the Black Belt

1926 11:00 Westphalian Symphony
Africa 1928 28:00 Fort Smith Symphony

The Black Man Dances

1935      

A Deserted Plantation

1933      

Pages from Negro History

1943

Archaic Ritual

1946      

Wood Notes [after poems by J.M. Pilcher]

1947 16:30 Fort Smith Symphony

Danzas de Panama for string orchestra

1948 14:00 Serafin String Quartet

The American Scene, 5 suites

1957 72:00 Manhattan Chamber Orchestra

Patterns

1960

Los alnados de España

1962

Preludes for flute, strings, and pf

1962      

Can'tcha Line 'em

1940
Fanfare for American War Heroes 1943

In memoriam ‘The Colored Soldiers who Died for Democracy’

1943 7:30 Fort Smith Symphony

Festive Overture

1944

Ennanga for harp orchestra

1956      

Threnody in Memory of Jan Sibelius

1965

Miniature Overture

1965
Choreography Prelude for flute, strings, and pf 1970      

 

Title Date Duration Publisher and Library info Listen/Watch

Fanfare for the 99th Fighter Squadron

1945

From the Delta

1945

To You America!

1951      

 

Title Date Duration Publisher and Library info Listen/Watch

Song of a City (A. Stillman) with orchestra

1938

And They Lynched Him on a Tree (K.G. Chapin) with orchestra

1940 18:00 Naxos

Caribbean Melodies

1941

From a Lost Continent (Still) with orchestra

1948

We Sang our Songs: the Fisk Jubilee Singers

1971
Wailing Woman   9:00   Naxos
Swanee River (Old Folks at Home)   3:00   Naxos
Steal Away to Jesus with pf and solo 1923

Keep Me From Sinkin’ Down with pf

1938

Here’s One with pf; Little David, Play On Your Harp with pf; Were you There? with pf; 3 Rhythmic Spirituals with pf

1940-60      

 

Title Date Duration Publisher and Library info Listen/Watch

From the Hearts of Women (Arvey) for Soprano, flute, oboe, strings, and pf

1961 10:00 Manhattan Chamber Orchestra

Songs of Separation (A. Bontemps, P.-T. Marcelin, Dunbar, C. Cullen, Hughes) for Soprano and pf quintet

1949 7:00 Naxos

Plain Chant for America (K.G. Chapin) for Baritone, orchestra, and organ

1941

Levee Land (Still) for Soprano, violin, wind, percusion, pf, and t banjo

1925

Vignettes for oboe, bassoon, and pf

1962

4 Folk Suites for flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, strings, and pf

1962      
Ennanga for harp, pf, and string quartet   15:30   Naxos

 

Title Date Duration Publisher and Library info Listen/Watch

Good Night (P.L. Dunbar)

1917

Breath of a Rose (L. Hughes)

1926

Winter's Approach (Dunbar)

1926

Rhapsody (Arvey) for Soprano and orchestra

1955

Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit with pf

1930

1 and 2 from 12 Negro Spirituals with pf

1948

Memphis Man

1929

Brown Baby

1923      
Song for the Lonely   3:40   Naxos

 

Title Date Duration Publisher and Library info Listen/Watch
 3 Visions for pf 1936 10:00 Mark Boozer

Reverie for organ

1962 4:00 Naxos

Elegy for organ

1963 5:25   Naxos

7 Traceries for pf

1939 16:40   Mark Boozer
The Bells 1944 9:40   Naxos
Kaintuck for 2 pf 1935 11:30   Naxos
Quit Dat Fool'nish   1:30   Naxos

 

Title Date Duration Publisher and Library info Listen/Watch

Suite for violin and pf

1943 14:30 Naxos

Incantation and Dance for oboe and pf

1945

Aria for accordion

1960

Lilt for accordion

1960

Pastorela for violin and pf

1946 11:00   Naxos
2 Cameos for violin and pf   3:00   Naxos

 

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