A diverse repertoire of art songs for piano and voice
The art song--a delicate and inspiring blend of mu-sic and
poetry--has been performed by singers and pianists and appreciated
by audiences around the world for more than two hundred years.
While collec-tions of art songs abound, this welcome volume and its
accompanying compact discs make readily avail-able the
contributions of contemporary African American composers to the
popular genre. Including thirty-nine pieces for voice and piano
created since 1968 by eighteen artists, "A" "New Anthology of Art
Songs by African American Composers "navigates a varied musical
terrain from classical European tradi-tions to jazz and spirituals.
With nearly half of the featured songs composed by women and with
others by lesser-known and emerging composers, this im-portant
collection offers a diverse, representative sampling of African
American art songs and works to secure the places of these songs
and artists in the canon of contemporary American music.
Selected by Jeanine Wagner and Margaret R. Simmons, prolific and
celebrated performers who have presented recitals throughout the
world featur-ing the art songs of African American composers, this
dazzling new repertoire of twentieth-century music is cogently
framed by a thorough introduction and sub-stantial biographies of
each composer. The compact discs feature piano tracks of all
thirty-nine composi-tions.
The featured composers are H. Leslie Adams, Mable Bailey, Charles
S. Brown, Wallace McClain Cheatham, Adolphus Hailstork, Jacqueline
B. Hairston, William H. Henderson, Jeraldine Saunders Herbison,
Betty Jackson King, William Foster
McDaniel, Undine Smith Moore, Byron Motley, Bar-bara Sherrill,
Robert Owens, Nadine Shanti, Frederick Tillis, Dolores White, and
Julius P. Williams.
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