Beyond Elijah Rock: Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers Dr. Marques L. A. Garrett, presenter [email protected]

Mixed 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- Choir Unaccompanied - 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 (1941-2018) 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 • 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, 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 - Vols. 1-3 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 - Vols. 1-8 unmistakable contribution to American civilization, to use every opportunity to dignify the music of Chamber Music by Black Women Composers this people, not merely by encouraging the Negro (ed. Helen Walker-Hill) to sing his folk songs in their truly beautiful Hildegard Publishing Company - 494-02665 primitive form, but also by encouraging him to show their possibilities for use as themes for 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 soloist, Dr. Garrett has served as a conductor or clinician with several church, community, collegiate, and festival 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.