(Your passport to a new world of music). By Raleigh Green. For Guitar. Guitar Method or Supplement. National Guitar Workshop. Multicultural. Book & CD. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(SATB a cappella)

SKU: HL.1436099

Arranged by Bryon K. Black. Hinshaw Music. Octavo. Hinshaw Music #HMC2718. Published by Hinshaw Music (HL.1436099).

UPC: 196288203971.

This arrangement of a moving spiritual includes enhanced original text. The piece utilizes each individual voice part for canonic material in the chorus to create a building foundation towards the cornerstone of the message, supporting the alto soloist as they deliver the melody in a way that hearkens back to how it would have been sung as a field holler during the years of African American slavery. The arrangement is suitable for a mixed collegiate choir, advanced high school choir or large community choir. “Hold On Just a Little While Longer” is a great piece for concerts to feature a strong alto soloist, or themed around hope, perseverance or African American music. This piece conveys a message of hope and endurance for all in the face of life's challenges.

Edited by Judi Gowe. . Series: Summy-Birchard supplementary piano. 40 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Master Text II. By Various. Piano Collection. 432 pages. Published by G. Schirmer, Inc.

Choral (SATB)

SKU: HL.456057

Composed by J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson. Arranged by Rollo Dilworth. Festival Choral. African-American, Concert, Festival, General Worship, Gospel, Inspirational, Sacred, Spiritual. Octavo. Duration 240 seconds. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.456057).

UPC: 196288066675. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.

Now available for SATB and SAB. Often referred to as the “Black National Anthem,” young people need to know this song and its importance in American history. Singers of all ages need to sing this song and know this inspirational anthem of faith and hope.

Choral (SAB Choir)

SKU: HL.456058

Composed by J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson. Arranged by Rollo Dilworth. Festival Choral. African-American, Concert, Festival, General Worship, Gospel, Inspirational, Sacred, Spiritual. Octavo. Duration 240 seconds. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.456058).

UPC: 196288066682. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.

Now available for SATB and SAB. Often referred to as the “Black National Anthem,” young people need to know this song and its importance in American history. Singers of all ages need to sing this song and know this inspirational anthem of faith and hope.

Composed by John Coltrane. For C instrument. Format: fakebook (spiral bound). With lead melody, chord names and introductory text. Jazz. 125 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Choir Secular (2-Part choir)

SKU: AP.47653

Composed by Andy Beck. MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Secular. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-47653. Published by Alfred Music (AP.47653).

UPC: 038081543468. English.

Black as the midnight, and white as the snow; gold as the sunshine, my cat of calico. A bouncy and buoyant melody is supported by a folk-song-style piano accompaniment and some easy-to-sing harmonic patterns in this truly charming 2-part original by Andy Beck. Singers won't be able to get enough of the tongue-twisting patter text as they tell the tale of the whimsically colorful cat. Directors can take special pride in teaching the optional cue notes and accented descant that adds a fluffy coat near the end. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

About Alfred Choral Designs

Th e Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

(The John Coltrane Real Book). By John Coltrane. For C Instruments. Fake Book. Softcover. 144 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Alto saxophone, piano

SKU: FG.55011-432-6

Composed by Matthew Whittall. Fennica Gehrman #55011-432-6. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-432-6).

ISBN 9790550114326.

Acco rding to the composer, the sonata for alto saxophone and piano, which he regards as his first mature composition, takes its title from the astronomical term referring to the spacetime boundary in a black hole beyond which light can no longer escape - a point of no return. Event Horizons is an intensely emotional piece, stemming from reflections on the immensity of the universe and one's own place in it. The title was merely a catalyst, an image that sparked the creative process. Whittall was also greatly affected by the spaciousness and subtle intricacies of Eastern music - the gamelan music of Bali in particularly.

Much of the resulting music is reminiscent of the ringing of bells or gongs, which in so many cultures has great ceremonial and spiritual importance. They can be seen as a symbol of connection between the natural and meta-physical worlds. At its core, Event Horizons is an intense rite of passage, a quest for ultimate understanding, and perhaps reaches it, at least in part.

By Dan J. Royal (Editor). For Saxophone. Classical. 160 pages. Published by Music Sales.

Concert Band Concert Band - Grade 2

SKU: FJ.B1762S

Score Only. Composed by Timothy Loest. Concert Band. FJH Young Band. Form: March. Patriotic. Score. Duration 2:30. The FJH Music Company Inc #98-B1762S. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc (FJ.B1762S).

English.

This spirited march commemorates the U.S. Navy's first African-American officers, known as the Golden Thirteen. While traditional in form, the work cleverly incorporates fragments of Anchors Aweigh while the trio section is based on the spiritual Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. A perfect concert or contest march that is equally appropriate for Veterans Day or Black History Month.

About FJH Young Band

Appro priate for middle school and smaller high school groups. Second clarinets usually stay below the break. Parts are written with more independence, and instrumentation increases slightly. There is still adequate doubling in the lower voices. Grades 2 - 2.5

Composed by Mark Hayes (1953-). Sacred. Lorenz Publishing Company #70/2260L. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

Concert Band Concert Band - Grade 2

SKU: FJ.B1762

Composed by Timothy Loest. Concert Band. FJH Young Band. Form: March. Patriotic. Score and Part(s). Duration 2:30. The FJH Music Company Inc #98-B1762. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc (FJ.B1762).

UPC: 241444398098. English.

This spirited march commemorates the U.S. Navy's first African-American officers, known as the Golden Thirteen. While traditional in form, the work cleverly incorporates fragments of Anchors Aweigh while the trio section is based on the spiritual Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. A perfect concert or contest march that is equally appropriate for Veterans Day or Black History Month.

About FJH Young Band

Appro priate for middle school and smaller high school groups. Second clarinets usually stay below the break. Parts are written with more independence, and instrumentation increases slightly. There is still adequate doubling in the lower voices. Grades 2 - 2.5

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.140401340

Sketches for Piano. Composed by Harry T. Burleigh. Edited by Lara Downes. 16 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #140-40134. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.140401340).

ISBN 9781491134450. UPC: 680160684953.

Best known for his settings of spirituals and influence on Dvorák, Henry T. Burleigh was a celebrated baritone, and a prolific composer of original works. FROM THE SOUTHLAND is a suite of six atmospheric scenes of the American south, inspired by Black musical and cultural traditions. FROM THE SOUTHLAND is within reach of intermediate pianists and artistically suited for professional recitals.
In 1835, Henry T. Burleigh’s maternal grandfather purchased his own release from slavery for the sum of $50, and traveled north out of Maryland to begin a new life as a free man. He established his family in Ithaca, NY, and then moved to the bustling lakefront city of Erie, PA, where three decades later his grandson Henry would be born and raised.For Burleigh, the “Southland” that inspired this collection of piano sketches was a distant place that could not have been more different from the physical world he knew, up there in the northern snowbelt. And yet these southern landscapes and vignettes must have been intensely present in his consciousness, absorbed through the stories and songs he first learned at his grandfather’s knee.The music of the South – the spirituals and work songs he heard as a child –would travel with Burleigh throughout his long and illustrious musical life. Even as he progressed through his early classical training, his career as a baritone soloist in Erie’s churches and synagogue, his move to New York to study at the National Conservatory of Music, and his rise to national prominence as a concert soloist, these ancestral melodies stayed firmly centered in his musical identity.When he wrote From the Southland, his only composition for solo piano, Burleigh was just beginning his career as a composer. The art songs that would establish him as one of America’s best known composers in the genre were still to come. And so were his iconic arrangements of spirituals that would bring the songs of slavery onto concert stages around the world, transformed into timeless and uniquely American music.These little piano sketches bring together all the things that made Burleigh the musician he was – the lush, late-romantic style of his time; a broad vision for American music; and a profound respect for his heritage, a memory of the world his grandfather left behind, and a love of the music he brought with him.

TTBB and Powwow (or Hand) Drum Choral (TTBB Choir) Lakota Spiritual Arranged for TTBB and Powwow (or Hand) Drum. Composed by Linthicum- Blackhorse. Gentry Publications. American Indian, Folk, Multicultural, Native American. Octavo. 16 pages. Gentry Publications #JG2668. Published by Gentry Publications

SATB choir, divisi, piano reduction, oboe, english horn 1 & 2, bassoon, violin 1, violin 2, cello 1 & 2, bass - Advanced

SKU: GI.WW1761

Composed by Ken Burton. Jason Max Ferdinand. Classical. 36 pages. Walton Music #WW1761. Published by Walton Music (GI.WW1761).

UPC: 785147021360. English. Text Source: Various Authors.

This work for chorus and chamber orchestra was premiered to acclaim by the Oakwood University Aeolians at the 2019 National ACDA conference. Composer Ken Burton has combined new material with spirituals and text by important historical figures to create a piece that follows the experience of black Americans during and after the Civil Rights period. Includes texts by Martin Luther King, Jr., Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thomas Day, John Bicknell, and William Blake. This substantial work will be a good fit for collegiate, professional, and community ensembles. Can be performed unaccompanied or with chamber orchestra.

SKU: GI.G-CD-605

Composed by Various. Sacred. CD. GIA Publications #605. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-CD-605).

Prayer and praise hymns have become an integral part of the sacred hymnody of the African American religious experience. Twenty years after the Emancipation, the children of the slaves found themselves living in the reality of separateness, and their religious practice turned increasingly inward. A unique body of hymnody grew out of that period, approximately 1885–1925. These are songs of Southern origin, of a rural people working the land. These songs are different from spirituals and Black meter music, yet show their influences. These songs are Bible-based, highly repetitive in accord with the nature of oral tradition, and of anonymous authorship. Wyatt Tee Walker has researched this segment of the history of African American church music more than any other known scholar. His original three paperback volumes have been edited and combined by James Abbington into this clothbound edition worthy of its historical and musical significance. The book now includes a recording of the twenty-four selected “prayer and praise” hymns researched by Rev. Dr. Walker. This exciting CD highlights not only the hymns, but the singing style of the period as well, being faithful to the impromptu harmonies and dissonance brought about by inspired song. A separate songbook for choirs and congregations is also available, making this valuable repertoire accessible for use in Sunday worship.