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American Poetry and Writings
The works in this collection are based on American poetry, literature, letters, speeches, and diary entries, and include an enormous range of authors - from popular writers like Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson to personal letters and poetry by complete unknowns. Many of these works are for vocalists, using the text directly as lyrics or libretto. Other works are instrumental, or without words, and use the texts as inspiration or for programmatic effect.
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Hart Crane - e.e. cummings - Emily Dickinson - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Langston Hughes - Edna St. Vincent Millay - Carl Sandburg - Walt Whitman - William Carlos Williams
Other authors and instruments can be specified using the filters below.
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Dorothy Rudd Moore
Voices from the Light - Full Score
SSA Women's Chorus, Oboe, String Quartet, and Piano
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Dorothy Rudd Moore
LULLABY from the opera Frederick Douglass - song version
Soprano and Piano
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Judith Shatin
We Hold These Truths (with Brass Quintet and Timpani)
Mixed Chorus (SATB) with Brass Quintet and Timpani
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Richard Thompson
Shadow of Dawn - For High Voice and Orchestra
High Voice and Orchestra 2222 - 2200 - timp, perc - voice - strings
$55.50 - $350.00 -
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Dolores R. White
Give Birth to the Dream - For Narrator, Soprano, and Orchestra
Narrator, Soprano, Orchestra 222+bscl2 4321 timp perc (2) strings
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Jay Anthony Gach
ANNE RUTLEDGE
Orchestra 2(2+picc)2(2=EH)22 - 423(3=btbn)1 - timp, 2 perc, hp - strings
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H. Leslie Adams
NIGHTSONGS (with Chamber Orchestra): Mezzo voice (mlm mhm)
Mezzo Voice and Chamber Orchestra 1111 - 2000 - timp, perc (1), hp - voice solo - strings
$40.00 - $210.00 -
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H. Leslie Adams
NIGHTSONGS (with Chamber Orchestra): Individual Songs
Voice and Chamber Orchestra 1111 - 2000 - timp, perc (1), hp - voice solo - strings
$25.00 - $75.00 -
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