Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Barnes

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Miracle in Legacy
• no. 1. Never More Than Nothin' (Text: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton) [x]*
• no. 2. Finding Voice (Text: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton) [x]*
• no. 3. Grown from a Miracle (Text: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton) [x]*
• A Sable Jubilee
• no. 1. Inspiration (Text: Tesia Kwarteng) [x]*
• no. 2. Luxury (Text: Tesia Kwarteng) [x]*
• no. 3. Elevation (Text: Tesia Kwarteng) [x]*
• At Ease
• no. 1. Black Annie Hall (Text: Rio Cortez) *
• no. 2. Black Mary Wilkie (Text: Rio Cortez)
• no. 2. Much as I should miss Mother (Text: Tracy K. Smith) *
• no. 3. Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film (Text: Rio Cortez) *
• Epoch of Hughes
• no. 1. Poème d'Automne (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 2. Winter Moon (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 3. An Earth Song (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 4. Summer Night (Text: Langston Hughes)
• I Will Follow You Into The Dark [opera]
• When the Sun Goes Down (Text: Marcus Yi) [x]*
• Might Call You Art
• no. 1. Let Me (Text: King Weatherspoon) [x]*
• no. 2. Once You Get It They Move It (Text: King Weatherspoon) [x]*
• no. 3. Ambition (Text: King Weatherspoon) [x]*
• no. 4. America's Mandatory Pottery Class (Text: King Weatherspoon) [x]*
• Portraits: Douglass and Tubman
• no. 1. Do Right (Text: Frederick Douglass) [x]
• no. 2. Moral Growth (Text: Frederick Douglass) [x]
• no. 3. Death or Liberty (Text: Harriet Tubman) [x]
• no. 4. Every Great Dream (Text: Harriet Tubman) [x]
• Songs for the African Violet
• no. 1. Homa [x]
• no. 2. Is it Fair? [x]
• no. 3. Flowers [x]
• no. 4. Crowned [x]
• Songs For The People
• no. 1. Let Me Make Songs for the People [x]
• no. 8. Music to Soothe All Its Sorrow [x]
• The Greatest Personal Privation
• no. 3. In every probability (Text: Tracy K. Smith) *
• no. 4. We wish to act. We may yet (Text: Tracy K. Smith) *
• no. 5. Father, mother, son, daughter, man (Text: Tracy K. Smith) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Ambition (in Might Call You Art) (Text: King Weatherspoon) [x]*
• America's Mandatory Pottery Class (in Might Call You Art) (Text: King Weatherspoon) [x]*
• An Earth Song (in Epoch of Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Bathed in Black Maternity (Text: Takesha Meshé Kizart) [x]*
• Black Annie Hall (in At Ease) (Text: Rio Cortez) *
• Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film (in At Ease) (Text: Rio Cortez) *
• Black Mary Wilkie (in At Ease) (Text: Rio Cortez)
• Crowned (in Songs for the African Violet) [x]
• Death or Liberty (in Portraits: Douglass and Tubman) (Text: Harriet Tubman) [x]
• Do Right (in Portraits: Douglass and Tubman) (Text: Frederick Douglass) [x]
• Do Something! [x]
• Elevation (in A Sable Jubilee) (Text: Tesia Kwarteng) [x]*
• Every Great Dream (in Portraits: Douglass and Tubman) (Text: Harriet Tubman) [x]
• Father, mother, son, daughter, man (in The Greatest Personal Privation) (Text: Tracy K. Smith) *
• Finding Voice (in A Miracle in Legacy) (Text: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton) [x]*
• Flowers (in Songs for the African Violet) [x]
• Golden [x]
• Grown from a Miracle (in A Miracle in Legacy) (Text: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton) [x]*
• Heart, Be Brave (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
• Homa (in Songs for the African Violet) [x]
• I Am Not Your God (Text: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton) *
• In every probability (in The Greatest Personal Privation) (Text: Tracy K. Smith) *
• Inspiration (in A Sable Jubilee) (Text: Tesia Kwarteng) [x]*
• In the Beginning [x]
• Invocation (Text: Claude Mckay , as Eli Edwards)
• Is it Fair? (in Songs for the African Violet) [x]
• It is a painful and harassing business (Text: Tracy K. Smith) *
• I, too, Sing America (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
• John 3:16 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
• Let Me Make Songs for the People (in Songs For The People) [x]
• Let Me (in Might Call You Art) (Text: King Weatherspoon) [x]*
• Luxury (in A Sable Jubilee) (Text: Tesia Kwarteng) [x]*
• Moral Growth (in Portraits: Douglass and Tubman) (Text: Frederick Douglass) [x]
• Much as I should miss Mother (in At Ease) (Text: Tracy K. Smith) *
• Music to Soothe All Its Sorrow (in Songs For The People) [x]
• Never More Than Nothin' (in A Miracle in Legacy) (Text: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton) [x]*
• Normal Never Was (Text: Sonya Renee Taylor) [x]*
• Once You Get It They Move It (in Might Call You Art) (Text: King Weatherspoon) [x]*
• Peace (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
• Poème d'Automne (in Epoch of Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Revise? (Text: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton) [x]*
• Summer Night (in Epoch of Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Taking Names (Text: Shana Oshiro) [x]*
• The Fall [x]
• We wish to act. We may yet (in The Greatest Personal Privation) (Text: Tracy K. Smith) *
• When the Sun Goes Down (in I Will Follow You Into The Dark) (Text: Marcus Yi) [x]*
• Winter Moon (in Epoch of Hughes) (Text: Langston Hughes) *

Last update: 2025-10-11 11:41:14