Song Information

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Margaret Bonds • 1913 - 1972

Poet Langston Hughes

Voice Type High

Range A3 - F#5

Genre Art Song

Dialect No

Instrumentation Piano

Tempo Moderate; Also Available in Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Women Composers (Hildegard Publishing Company)

Copyright Date 1942

Publisher Handy Brothers Music | Classical Vocal Reprints

Publication Date 2020 | 2021