Author: Aurnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps (1902 - 1973)
Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]
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- A little while spring will claim its own * (My heart has know its winter and carried gall)
- A little while spring will claim its own * - Timothy Askew (My heart has known its winter and carried gall)
- Dark girl (Easy on your drums) GER *
- Dark girl (Easy on your drums) - Hermann Reutter GER *
- Easy on your drums GER * (Dark girl)
- Easy on your drums GER * - Hermann Reutter (Dark girl)
- Idolatry (You have been good to me, I give you this) *
- Idolatry (You have been good to me, I give you this) - Dorothy Rudd Moore, William Grant Still *
- My heart has know its winter and carried gall (A little while spring will claim its own) *
- My heart has known its winter and carried gall (A little while spring will claim its own) - Timothy Askew *
- Personals () - Thomas Jefferson Anderson [x] *
- Schwarzes Mädchen (Trommelt, Regen, Wind) (from Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung) *
- Schwarzes Mädchen (Trommelt, Regen, Wind) (from Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung) - Hermann Reutter *
- Southern mansions () - Dorothy Rudd Moore [x] *
- Trommelt, Regen, Wind (from Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung) * (Schwarzes Mädchen)
- Trommelt, Regen, Wind (from Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung) * - Hermann Reutter (Schwarzes Mädchen)
- You have been good to me, I give you this * (Idolatry)
- You have been good to me, I give you this * - Dorothy Rudd Moore, William Grant Still (Idolatry)
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