A new anthology of art songs by African American composers
By: selected by Margaret R. Simmons and Jeanine Wagner ; with companion CDs of accompaniments performed by Margaret R. Simmons ; with a foreword by William Brown.
Contributors: Simmons, Margaret R.; Wagner, Jeanine
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Carbondale, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Songs with piano.; Songs, English -- United States.; African Americans -- Music.
Genres: Music.
Other titles: Art songs by African American composers
Notes: Includes 2 compact discs with accompaniments performed by Margaret R. Simmons.

Includes biographical notes on the composers and performers.
Table of contents: title: Amazing grace ; from Nightsongs : Creole girl ; from The Wider view : Love come and gone ; My man / Leslie Adams.; title: from Child's world : Seven days ; Birthday song ; Seasons / Mable Bailey.; title: Black sheep, black sheep ; Leisure cruise ; Pied beauty / Charles S. Brown.; title: from the Giovanni Songs : Three/Quarters time / Wallace McClain Cheatham.; title: from Songs of love and justice (On texts of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) : Difficulties ; from Five Dunbar lyrics : The awakening ; Good night ; Create in me / Adolphus Hailstork.; title: On consciousness streams : On consciousness streams ; Thou alone canst inspire ; The season of remembrance / Jacqueline B. Hairston.; title: from Five songs for soprano and piano : Valentine's day ; How should I your true love know / William H. Henderson.; title: from Five art songs for voice and piano : I'll not forget ; We met by chance / Jeraldine Saunders Herbison.; title: Theology ; Compensation / Betty Jackson King.; title: from Four love songs : Gramercy Park ; Union square / William Foster McDaniel.; title: Lyric for Truelove / Undine Smith Moore.; title: from The moods of my people ; Daedalus, fly away home ; Mae's rent party ; Club woman / Byron Motley and Barbara Sherrill.; title: Heart ; Girl ; Havana dreams / Robert Owens.; title: Clear water / Nadine Shanti.; title: Singing for the sake of my soul / Frederick Tillis.; title: Velvet shoes ; Nails ; That black reef / Dolores White.; title: A song / Julius P. Williams.