bowie, maryland harlem songs - gwyneth walker

Gwyneth Walker

2. Harlem Night SongLangston Hughes

Harlem Songs

Catalog No. 5770

for SATB Chorus and Piano

Premiere Performance May 12, 2001Bowie, Maryland

Commissioned by the Chesapeake ChoralePaul Rardin, Artistic Director

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Copyright 2003 by E. C. Schirmer Music Company.A division of ECS Publishing, Boston, Massachusetts.

All rights reserved. Made in U.S.A.

as in the distance

as in the distance

as in the distance

The poem “Harlem Night Song” © 1994 by the estate of Langston Hughes.Used by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.

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non-pitched vocal sounds

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Come, Let us roam the night to geth

Come, Let us roam the night to geth

er

er

Sing ing.

Sing ing.

sim.

I

playfully

love you. I

passionately

love you.

I

playfully

love you. I

passionately

love you.

I

playfully

love you.

I

playfully

love you.

A

A

I

passionately

love you.

I

passionately

love you.

cross The Har lem roof tops Moon is

cross The Har lem roof tops Moon is

shi ning.

shi ning.

Night sky is

Night sky is

Stars are great drops Of

Stars are great drops Of

blue.

blue.

gold en dew. I

sustained

love

gold en dew. I

sustained

love

gold en dew.

gold en dew.

you, I love you, I love you, I love you.

you, I love you, I love you, I love you.

I

sustained

love you, I love you, I love

I

sustained

love you, I love you, I love

you, I love you.

you, I love you.

sim.

ah

ah

ah

rit.

ahrit.

Swing rhythm = 160

Down the

Down theTutti: finger snaps

Swing rhythm = 160

(walking bass)

swung eighths(with piano)

ya baswung eighths(with piano)

ya ba

street A band is play ing,

street A band is play ing,

Tutti: finger snaps

da ba da da play ing. Down the

da ba da da play ing. Down the

play ing.

play ing.

street, street, street A band is play ing.

street, street, street A band is play

ya ba

swung eighths

ya ba

swung eighths

I

playfully

love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.

I

playfully

love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.

I

playfully

love you,

I

playfully

love you,

I love you, I love you, I love you.

I love you, I love you, I love you.

Come,

cantabile

Let us roam the night to geth er

Come,

cantabile

Let us roam the night to geth er

Come,

cantabile

Let us roam the night to geth er

Come,

cantabile

Let us roam the night to geth er

Sing ing.

rit. a tempo

Sing ing.

S ng ing.

S ng ing.

rit. a tempo

swung eighths

ch

cymbal-like sounds

ch ch ch ch ch

swung eighths

ch ch ch ch ch chswung eighths

ch ch ch ch ch chswung eighths

ch ch ch ch ch ch

ch ch ch

ch ch ch

ch ch ch

ch ch ch

poco rit.

I

voices enter separately at random speeds

love you, I love you, (etc.)

die out to only a few voices

voices enter separately at random speeds

I love you, I love you,

die out to only a few voices

(etc.)

(die out to only a few voices)

voices enter separately at random speeds

I love you, I love you, (etc.)

die out to only a few voices

I

voices enter separately at random speeds

love you, I love you, (etc.)

die out to onlya few voices

swung eighths

ch

(same tempo, no rit.)

t t ch

swung eighths

ch t t ch

swung eighths

ch t t ch

swung eighths

ch t t ch

(same tempo, no rit.)