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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
. = 60
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.)