Music in the Margins: Music

Anthology of art songs by Black American composers by Willis C Patterson; George Shirley; Wendell P Whalum For you there is no song / Leslie Adams -- Early in the mornin' ; A good assassination should be quiet ; Status symbol / David Baker -- Three dream portraits. Minstrel man ; Dream variations ; I, too / Margaret Bonds -- The barrier ; Song without words / Charles Brown -- Death of an old seaman / Cecil Cohen -- Two songs for Julie Ju / Noel Da Costa -- Cassandra's lullaby ; Love / Mark Fax -- A charm at parting ; I loved you / Adolphus C. Hailstork -- Absalom ; Nunc dimittis / Eugene W. Hancock -- Riding to town / Thomas H. Kerr, Jr. -- Compensation / Charles Lloyd, Jr. -- If there be sorrow ; Marrow of my bone / Wendell Logan --Chanson triste ; Sweet sorrow / Maurice McCall -- Weary blues / Dorothy Rudd Moore -- Love let the wind cry-- How I adore thee / Undine Moore -- Faithful one ; Genius child / Robert Owens -- A child's grace ; Melancholy / Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson -- Night ; Song to the dark virgin / Florence B. Price -- Velvet shoes / Hale Smith -- Grief / William Grant Still -- A death song ; I will lie down in autumn ; The Negro speaks of rivers / Howard Swanson -- Lament ; A red, red rose / George Walker -- Wry fragments / Olly Wilson -- Dancing in the sun ; Soliloquy / John W. Work, Jr.

Black women composers: a century of piano music (1893-1990) by Montague Ring; Helen Walker-Hill Rippling spring waltz : 1893 / Estelle D. Ricketts -- Cuba libre : 1897 / Anna Gardner Goodwin -- Mother's sacrifice : 1908 / L. Viola Kinney -- Prayer before battle : from Four Moorish pictures (1927) / Amanda Aldridge (Montague Ring) -- Fantasie negre : 1929 / Florence B. Price -- Nitelife : 1930 / Mary Lou Williams -- Prelude for piano (1946, rev. 1962) / Julia Perry -- Before I'd be a slave : 1953 / Undine Smith Moore -- Spring intermezzo : from Four seasonal sketches (1955) / Betty Jackson King -- Fortune favored the bold player : from White Nile suite (1964) / Philippa Duke Schuyler -- Preludes no. 1 and 2 (ca. 1966) / Tania León -- Troubled water : 1967 / Margaret Bonds -- A summer day : ca. 1970 / Lena Johnson McLin -- Billie's song ; A taste of bass ; Blues for the Duke : from Portraits in Jazz (1976) / Valerie Capers -- Etude no. 2 from 2 piano etudes (1978-79) / Regina A. Harris Baiocchi -- A little whimsy : 1982 / Dorothy Rudd Moore -- Allegro moderato : from A summer afternoon in South Carolina (1983) / Joyce Solomon -- Prankster : 1986 / Mable Bailey -- Homage : 1990 / Zenobia Powell Perry.

Black women composers: twentieth century music for piano and strings by Helen Walker-Hill; Gregory Walker Kiép nào có yeu nhau : for violin and piano (1994) / Rachel Eubanks -- Bus stop : for cello and piano (2000) / Mary Watkins -- Las tarantulas : for cello and piano (1992) / Dolores White -- Saltarello for cello and piano (1998) / Jeraldine Saunders Herbison -- Excursion : for violin, cello, and piano (1989) / Zenobia Powell Perry -- Energico : for violin, cello, and piano (1981) : last movement of trio Memories / Lettie Beckon Alston. Includes introduction and biographical information.

Eighteenth century women composers for the harpsichord or piano by Barbara Harbach

Piano music of Africa and the African diaspora by William Chapman Nyaho Kwela no. 1 / Isak Roux -- Tender thought / Ulysses Kay -- My scarf is yellow / Hale Smith -- Dusk / Nkeiru Okoye -- Piano piece no. 2, Call and response / Robert Mawuena Kwami -- Soufiane / Halim El-Dabh -- Off-beat shorty / Hale Smith -- Ticklin' toes / Florence B. Price -- Sweet Mister Jelly Roll / Valerie Capers -- Dancing barefoot in the rain / Nkeiru Okoye -- Lullaby / Isak Roux -- The monk / Valerie Capers -- Lullaby / Bangambula Vindu -- Builsa work song / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- Ufie III / Christian Onyeji. Foreword, preface, acknowledgments, composer biographies and performance notes in English.

Slave Songs by Jerry Silverman (Compiled by); Kenneth B. Clark (Introduction by) Nobody knows the trouble I see -- I am a-trouble in the mind -- Darling Nellie Gray -- I can't stay behind -- Go in the wilderness -- Blow your trumpet, Gabriel -- Praise, member -- Go down, Moses -- Who laid de rail? -- Wade in the water -- Jim along Josey -- Jump Jim Crow -- The blue-tail fly -- Ole Zip Coon -- Heave away -- All the pretty little horses -- Michael, row the boat ashore -- I am sold and going to Georgia -- Charleston gals -- Raise a ruckus tonight -- Nat Turner -- Escape from slavery of Henry Box Brown -- Harriet Tubman's ballad -- Follow the drinking gourd -- Many thousand gone -- I want to go home -- Some valiant soldier -- Slavery chain done broke at last. A collection of more than two dozen songs sung by African American slaves.

Songs of Protest and Civil Rights by Jerry Silverman (Compiled by); Kenneth B. Clark (Introduction by) African-American songs made memorable in the sixties by the civil rights movement are accompanied by notes describing their historical background and their role in the continuing struggle of African Americans.

Voices of the Wind by Bryan Burton; Maria P. Kreiter (Contribution by)