Rediscovering Margaret Bonds: Art Songs, Spirituals, Musical Theater and Popular Songs

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ART SONGS

Birth (Langston Hughes) [D4-A5]

Bound (Margaret Bonds) [F4-Eb5]

Even in The Moment (Edna St. Vincent Millay) [E4-G5]

Feast (Edna St. Vincent Millay) [D4-B5]

Hyacinth (Edna St. Vincent Millay)[E4-F5]

Pasture (Robert Frost)[C4-C6]

Pot Pourri (Janice Lovoos)

Go Back To Leanna [C4-E5]

No Man Has Seen His Face [D4-G5]

Touch The Hymn of His Garment [D4-E5]

Songs of the Seasons (Langston Hughes)

Young Love in Spring [D4-G5/opt B5]

Poème D'Automne [C4-A5]

Winter Moon [F4-Eb5]

Summer Storm [E4-A5/opt C6]

Sonnet: I Know My Mind (Edna St. Vincent Millay)[C4-G5]

Sonnet: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (Edna St. Vincent Millay)[D4-B#5]

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening (Robert Frost) [D4-G5]

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Langston Hughes) [A3-F#5]

To A Brown Girl Dead (Countee Cullen) [D4-G5]

SPIRITUALS

Five Creek-Freedman Spirituals

Sit Down Servant [E4-E5]

I'll Reach To Heaven [C4-G5]

Dry Bones [D4-G5]

Lord I Just Can't Keep From Cryin' [E4-E5]

You Can Tell The World [D4-B5]

Gwine Up [E4-F5]

He Never Said A Mumblin' Word [D4-A5]

Hold The Wind (high) [A4-F#5]

Hold The Wind (low) [Eb3-C4]

Little David Play On Your Harp [D4-G5]

Peter Go Ring Dem Bells [Bb3-Eb5]

Rise Up Shepherd [C#4-E5]

Run Sinner Run [E4-C#6]

Steady Jesus Listenin' [C4-Eb5]

This Little Light of Mine [G4-B5]

MUSICAL THEATER and POPULAR SONGS

April Rain Song (Langston Hughes) [G4-G5]

Be A Little Savage with Me (Langston Hughes) [C4-D5]

Georgia (with Joe Davis and Andy Razaf) [C4-E5]

No Good Man (Langston Hughes) [D4-F5]

Peachtree Street (with Joe Davis and Andy Razaf)[C4-C5]

Spring Will Be So Sad (with Harold Dickinson) [C4-Eb5]

Tropics After Dark

Cowboy From South Parkway (Langston Hughes)[Eb4-F5]

I'll Make You Savvy (Langston Hughes) [A3-Eb5]

Lonely Little Maiden by the Sea (Langston Hughes) [C4-G5]

The Way We Dance in Harlem (Langston Hughes)[D#4-Gb5]