Sweet Honey in the Rock's musical sound has been described in High Fidelity magazine as breathtaking excursions into harmony singing and in Down Beat as neck-hair raising. This six-member African-American a cappella women's group has just celebrated its 25th anniversary. This wonderful collection compiled and edited by Ysaye M. Barnwell features three original compositions and one traditional song arrangement by each of the five singing members. The songs are presented in choral score for easy use by vocal ensembles. Also includes a moving foreword by Harry Belafonte, an introduction by Horace Clarence Boyer, the group's Her-story, a discography with album covers, photos, and extensive composer's and performance notes.
Contents:
Breaths
Would You Harbor Me?
We Are...
Cum Ba Yah
Young and Positive
Inner Voices
Run
Denko
Fulani Chant
Dream Songs of Love
Wodaabe Nights
Alunde
Stay
Prayer to the One
Goin' to See My Baby
Motherless Chil'
Ella's Song
Sometime
I Remember, I Believe
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