American Black or African experience

Af-Am exp

MIST OF TEARS

Composer: 
Jere Hutcheson

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Instruments

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List Price: 
$16.95 single copy; call ACA for discount on multiple copies for performance.

Prayer (from song cycle NIGHTSONGS )

Composer: 
H. Leslie Adams
Instrumentation freestyle: 
piano, voice

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Instruments

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List Price: 
$5.50 single song sheet music; specify voice range;
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$7.95 all three voice ranges low-medium-high (two copies $12.95)

TREEMONISHA

Composer: 
T.J. Anderson
Instrumentation freestyle: 
3-Act opera by Scott Joplin, orchestrated by T.J. Anderson

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Treemonisha performance: Trilogy, an Opera Company 2009Treemonisha performance: Trilogy, an Opera Company 2009

Words and music by Scott Joplin. Adapted, arranged, and orchestrated by T.J. Anderson.

Orchestration: T.J. Anderson

The first fully staged performance of the Scott Joplin opera was given on January 28, 1972 at Morehouse College, in a production staged by Katherine Dunham and conducted by Robert Shaw, with orchestrations by T.J. Anderson. This production received fine notices, and brought Treemonisha to international attention.

Premiere information:
Conductor: Robert Shaw 
Editors: T.J. Anderson & William Bolcom 
Wendell Whalum, Chorus Director 
Katherine Dunham, Stage Director
 Premiere featured cast members: Alpha Floyd, Simon Estes, Seth McCoy, Louise Parker, Joseph Bias, the African-American Workshop of Morehouse College, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Score and parts available from American Composers Alliance; Recording of this performance with interviews available to NPR stations through satellite, 2000.

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$39 Overture, full score for conductor
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$85 Full opera conductor's score (Overture sold separately); $22 Full score for No. 27 A Real Slow Drag
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for set of parts; vocal score (or portions of vocal score for specific scenes), contact ACA for quote

HYMN TO FREEDOM (Sop, Ten, BBar solo, plus 10 players)

Composer: 
H. Leslie Adams
Instrumentation freestyle: 
Sop, Ten, BassBar; Woodwind (1 player: picc, Bbcl, BbBscl, Ebaltosax), Bb trumpet, trombone, tuba (optional euph, bass tbn, or db), perc(1), piano, v1, v2, va, vc, db (opt)

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Commissioned by the Center for Black Music Research, Chicago.

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audio/mpeg iconEXCERPT from 2nd movement - Chicago performance
List Price: 
$29.50 conductor's full score

ONE AT A TIME, TWO AT A TIME - from the opera, Frederick Douglass

Composer: 
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Instrumentation freestyle: 
Soprano, Orchestra
Scoring: 
fl1,fl2,tp1,tp2,ob,ehorn,cl1,cl2,bcl,bsn,timp,perc,pf,vn1,vn2,va,vc,db; Soprano solo

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Aria from the opera Frederick Douglass, often performed in concert version.

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS, An Opera in 3 Acts

Composer: 
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Scoring: 
2-1-Ehn-2-bcl-1,2-2-1-btbn-0,perc,timp,pf,strings, Vocal Soloists

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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, circa 1818 – February 20, 1895) an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman, minister  and reformer. Escaping from slavery, he made strong contributions to the abolitionist movement, and achieved a public career that led to his being called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia". Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African American and United States history.

He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

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TRANSCENSION ("I have been to the mountaintop")

Composer: 
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Instrumentation freestyle: 
fl,ob,cl, strings

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Instruments

TRANSCENSION (“I have been to the mountaintop”), a chamber orchestra work in two movements, is scored for flute, oboe, clarinet and strings. It was commissioned by the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and was premiered in January 1986 at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.

 The title is a combination of the words “transcendence” and “ascension.” The composition is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was written in recognition of the first national holiday celebration of his birthday.

The first movement, Lento, is slow and contemplative, illustrating the reflective struggle of Dr. King’s commitment to humanitarian causes. Strains of “True believer” (from the spiritual “Sometimes I feel like a motherless child”) can be heard throughout. The second movement, Allegro, is agitated, depicting the fierceness of Dr. King’s resolve against forces that opposed him, and the triumph of his spirit that has kept his “dream” alive. --- Dorothy Rudd Moore

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audio/mpeg iconExcerpt - 2nd movement
List Price: 
$24.95 conductor's score

LET THAT DAY BE DARKNESS

Composer: 
Jan Gilbert
Scoring: 
Choir (SATB), perc

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For singers and West African percussion set in the Krio language of Sierra Leone, West Africa

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NIGER SYMPHONY

Composer: 
Frederick C Tillis
Scoring: 
cham orch:1-1-1-0,2-1-1-1,perc,str

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Instruments

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FREEDOM

Composer: 
Frederick C Tillis
Instrumentation freestyle: 
satb (pf for reh)

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Chorus speaks, whispers, vocal effects, sound study on words "misery, suffering, pain, anguish, distress, freedom, wretchedness, despair, poverty, agony, degradation, destitution, grief, humiliation, rejection, despondency, abasement,affliction" Recorded 1972 at U of Mass, Amherst.

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audio/mpeg iconExcerpt, Univ of Massachusetts Chorale Singers, Richard du Bois, conductor

IN THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH

Composer: 
Frederick C Tillis
Scoring: 
SATB, jazz trio, orch: 2-2-2-2, 4-3-3-1, timp, perc, str

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Instruments

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audio/mpeg iconExcerpt, Christopher Dukes, tenor; Hartford Symphony & Chorale
List Price: 
$41.95 full score
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set of parts - jazz trio and full orchestra (strings 44321) - request price quote
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$7.95 choral score/ea. call for discount on multiple copies

THEME & VARIATIONS

Composer: 
Robert Kelly
Scoring: 
vln,vla,pf

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RIGHTEOUS MAN, THE

Composer: 
H. Leslie Adams
Scoring: 
satb(8pt), hn(2),timp,perc,hp,str

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Cantata

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NIGHTSONGS

Composer: 
H. Leslie Adams
Instrumentation freestyle: 
voice and piano
Scoring: 
p/v (or small orchestra: 1.1.1.1 - 2.0.0.0 - timp.perc.hp - str)

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6 songs: Prayer (Langston Hughes), Drums of Tragedy (Langston Hughes), The Heart of a Woman (Georgia Douglas Johnson), Night Song (Clarissa Scott Delany), Sence You Went Away (James Weldon Johnson), and Creole Girl (Morgan Collins).

"Drums" and "Sense" are available in high and low . All other songs in three ranges, high/med/low voice.

The medium voice vocal edition matches the orchestral version created for Mezzo Soprano Hilda Harris.  It contains low voice version of "Drums," and high voice version of "Sense."

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audio/mpeg iconExcerpt: Darryl Taylor sings "Prayer" from Nightsongs
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$32 single copy/ $46.50 for 2 copies for performance; includes all available keys high-med-low.
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$29.95 Orchestral version full score (medium voice ranges); $159 Set of orchestra parts with strings 22221
List Price: 
$16.95 single copy of high/med/or low range editions; $24.96 includes second copy for accompanist (to same address)
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