From the same team that brought you 24 Italian Songs & Arias by Women Composers, comes 24 French Songs & Arias by Women Composers! These songs are not found in the most well known and available French...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
Edited by John Michael Cooper. Those who know the composer from the melodic richness and emotional intensity of her works 'Troubled Water', 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', and 'Three Dream Portraits' wi...
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...
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...
Hildegard Music Publishing, the foremost proponent of women composers through the ages, embarks on an exciting new project, Voices of Tomorrow. The premiere offering is the Psalm of Thanksgiving, writ...
This is a must-have collection of spirituals and composed works by a variety of African-American composers. No voice teacher should be without this essential resource.
This collection includes 5 chants for Advent and Christmas. Includes the popular antiphon, 'Ave generosa'.
After performing Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols with her choir, choral director and composer Elinor A. Armsby was inspired to set one of the texts from this collection, 'I Sing of a Maiden', to...
This collection includes 5 chants for Advent and Christmas. Includes the popular antiphon, 'Ave Maria'.
This collection includes 4 chants for Advent and Christmas. Includes the popular antiphon, 'O viridissima virga'.
This is the study score of Bonds' powerful orchestral work. Composed in 1964 and dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr. The work is based on the African American spiritual "I Want Jesus to Walk with Me....
