Contents: For You There is No Song (Leslie Adams) • Early in the Mornin' (David Baker) • A Good Assassination Should Be Quiet (David Baker) • Status Symbol (David Baker) • Three Dream Portraits: Minstrel Man; Dream Variations; I, Too (Margaret Bonds) • The Barrier (Charles Brown) • Song Without Words (Charles Brown) • Death of an Old Seaman (Cecil Cohen) • Two Songs for Julie Ju (Noel da Costa) • Cassandra's Lullaby (Mark Fax) • Love (Mark Fax) • A Charm at Parting (Adolphus C. Hailstork) • I Loved You (Adulphus C. Hailstork) • Absalom (Eugene Hancock) • Nunc Dimittis (Eugene Hancock) • Riding to Town (Thomas Kerr, Jr.) • Compensation (Charles Lloyd, Jr.) • If There Be Sorrow (Wendell Logan) • Marrow of My Bone (Wendell Logan) • Chanson Triste (Maurice McCall) • Sweet Sorrow (Maurice McCall) • Weary Blues (Dorothy Rudd Moore) • Love Let the Wind Cry...How I Adore Thee (Undine Moore) • Faithful One (Robert Owens) • Genius Child (Robert Owens) • A Child's Grace (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson) • Melancholy (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson) • Night (Florence Price) • Song to the Dark Virgin (Florence Price) • Velvet Shoes (Hale Smith) • Grief (William Grant Still) • A Death Song (Howard Swanson) • I Will Lie Down in Autumn (Howard Swanson) • The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Hoaward Swanson) • Lament (George Walker) • A Red, Red Rose (George Walker) • Wry Fragments (Olly Wilson) • Dancing in the Sun (John Work, Jr.) • Soliloquy (John Work, Jr.).