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Calypso Lullaby Joel Raney 2009 Hope Publishing Company SATB, SAB, Piano with optional
Two-Part flute, 3 octave hand-
bells, bass guitar, and
percussion

The Christmas Spiritu- William Ryden 1988 Bourne Co. Two-part Piano
als of Jester Hairston

I’ll Take Sugar in My Nathan Scott Alfred Music SATB
Coffee-O
(discontinued)

Mary’s Little Boy Child Valerie Shields 1996 Bourne Co. SSA Keyboard, 2 trumpets
(or flutes) and optional
string bass

Mary’s Little Boy Child Ed Lojeski 2008 Hal Leonard SATB, SAB, Piano, guitar, percus-
SSA sion, and electric or
string bass

Mary’s Little Boy Child Stan Bowsher Bourne Co. TTBB

Table 4. Ensemble Voicings in Hairston’s Published Choral Works

Voicing Number of Selections Voicing Number of Selections

SSATB 20 SSATTB 1

SATB 12 SSAATTBB 1

SSATBB 5 SAATTBB 1

SSATTBB 4 SSAATB 1

SATTBB 4 SATBB 1

SSAATBB 2 TTBB 1

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