Beyond Elijah Rock: Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers

Dr. Marques L. A. Garrett, presenter

[email protected]

Mixed Choir 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-Alto Choir Unaccompanied Tenor-Bass 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 (b. 1941)
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 Requiem
• 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, Baritone 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 - Vol. 1 - G-7236; Vol. 2 - G-7489 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 - Vol. 1 - 10-545; Vol. unmistakable contribution to American civilization,
2 - 10-546; Vol. 3 - 10-547; Vol. 4 - 10-548; Vol. 5 - 10- to use every opportunity to dignify the music of
549; Vol. 6 - 10-586; Vol. 7 - 10-624 this people, not merely by encouraging the Negro
to sing his folk songs in their truly beautiful
Chamber Music by Black Women Composers primitive form, but also by encouraging him to
(ed. Helen Walker-Hill) show their possibilities for use as themes for
Hildegard Publishing Company - 494-02665 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 countertenor soloist, Dr. Garrett
has served as a conductor or clinician with several church, community, collegiate,
and festival choirs 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.