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This is the long-awaited study score for the orchestral setting of Margaret Bonds's powerful work, Credo, for soprano and baritone soloists, orchestra and SATB chorus. The text for this seven movement...

The spiritual “You Can Tell the World” remained fertile ground for Margaret Bonds’ compositional genius throughout her career. This SSA setting of “You Can Tell the World,” is unique, however, because...

Fire in the Garden: A Climate Change Trilogy was commissioned by the Cantilena Women's Chorus under the direction of Jennifer Kane and premiered in 2021 in Arlington, Massachusetts. Fire in the Garden...

Fire in the Garden: A Climate Change Trilogy was commissioned by the Cantilena Women's Chorus under the direction of Jennifer Kane and premiered in 2021 in Arlington, Massachusetts. Fire in the Garden...

Fire in the Garden: A Climate Change Trilogy was commissioned by the Cantilena Women's Chorus under the direction of Jennifer Kane and premiered in 2021 in Arlington, Massachusetts. Fire in the Garden...

With renewed interest in the music of Poldowski in recent years, this new critical edition is a welcome addition to the vocal repertoire. The edition, in two volumes, present all 36 of Poldowski's ext...

For solo voice and piano. Text by Langston Hughes. In the words of editor John Michael Cooper, this work is an example of the deeply poetic creative nature of the Bonds-Hughes collaborations. By genre...

This duet for two solo voices with piano accompaniment features text by Langston Hughes, whose words emphasize the powerful rhythms of African drums and the sensual appeal of the dance. Bonds' work of...

This work is typical of the unrelenting originality of Margaret Bonds' arrangements of spirituals. It was composed in 1969 for legendary soprano Leontyne Price and the A Cappella Choir of Rust College...

This is one of two short sacred choruses and two sacred songs on the same texts that Bonds composed in 1968. Bonds originally composed the work for solo voice and piano, then arranged it for chorus wi...

This is one of two short sacred choruses and two sacred songs on the same texts that Bonds composed in 1968. The words were written by her friend and frequent collaborator Janice Lovoos, a multifacete...

The text for this choral masterpiece is W. E. B Du Bois' 'Credo' (1904), promoting racial justice, equality and harmony. The piano/vocal score was the original score prepared by the composer. This is...

Margaret Bonds composed this choral piece in 1968. The text for this work is the well known and timeless 'Prayer for St Francis of Assissi' (anonymous) that begins 'Lord, make me an instrument of thy...

Adapted by acclaimed pianist Lara Downes from the original work “Especially Do I Believe in the Negro Race” by Margaret Bonds. This is the lyrical second movement from Bonds’ larger work, “Credo” on t...

The two works in this publication are Tangamerican and Fugal Dance. In the words of editor John Michael Cooper, Tangamerican is melodically, harmonically, and stylistically rich, but succinct - just t...

Timofeyeva’s Yiddishkeit, a transliteration of the Yiddish word for "Jewishness", was composed in 2008. Theearlier version of Yiddishkeit (for cello and 7-string guitar) was recorded by the Timofeyev...

Six Menuettos was originally written for piano and published in 1819. These minuets are in standard minuet form with a trio or double trio. Spanning numerous keys, these minuets are virtuosic in natur...

This beautiful lullaby for women's chorus uses text by Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918). Bonds sets this text as a tender lullaby, beginning quietly and moving to intricate melodies, lush harmonies, and tex...

Hymne au Soleil ('Hymn to the Sun') is suffused with impressionism's parallel chords, and it musically mirrors the various words of its text, an excerpt from an exotic play by Casimir Delavigne (1793-...

This edition of Viardot-Garcia's vocal works in Spanish for voice and piano sheds light, not only on this intellectual diva, singing professional and composer; but also on Pauline García, the Spaniard...

The songs in this volume document Margaret Bonds's musical life work as composer of art songs before her move to New York in 1939. "Sleep Song" and "Sea Ghost" are the first known works by Margaret Bo...

In 1969, soprano Leontyne Price commissioned Bonds to set I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free and three other spirituals for performance with the Rust College A Cappella Choir. The setting refl...

Evensong and its partner work "Shift" set texts by Mary Virginia Micka. Both works were commissioned and premiered in 2007 by WomanVoice - a concert of music for women's voices by women composers. The...

Shift and its partner work set "Evensong" texts by Mary Virginia Micka. Both works were commissioned and premiered in 2007 by WomanVoice - a concert of music for women's voices by women composers. The...