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Black Composers |
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| Senku - Piano Music by Composers of African Descent | Fela Sowande's African Suite |
| Witness: What a Mighty God - Spirituals and Gospels for Chorus by James Bohn | George Walker: Orchestral Works |
| Chevalier de Saint-Georges | William Grant Still |
| Natalie Hinderas: Piano Music by African American Composers | Black Composers Series |
| Videmus: Works by Anderson, Baker, Fox, Watson | Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne & Ravel - Boléro, Sheherazade / Arleen Augér, ECO - Pesek, LPO - Tortelier by Marie-Joseph Canteloube |
| Marian Anderson Rare and Unpublished Recordings, 1936 - 1952 | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Sir Arthur Somervell: Violin Concertos |
| African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 2 by Paul Freeman | Samuel Coleridge Taylor | search results |
| Symphonic Brotherhood: The Music of African-American Composers | Piano Music by William Grant Still and Other Black Composers |
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Archives
of African American Music and Culture
Indiana U. |
African-American
Sheet Music from Brown University
This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920 | |
The
Library of Congress [American Memory
Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals (1938-1943) |
World
Book
African American Music |
| African Diaspora Arts and Entertainment Ring | International Association of African-American Music [IAAAM.com] |
| African American Music Presented by Smith/McIver | African-American
Music & Musicians
About.com |
| Yahoo! Directory United States > African-American Music | African
American Music Resources
usc.edu |
| AFROCENTRIC VOICES in "Classical" Music | Jass.com: African-American Music 1895-1920 |
Orchestral
Music of African-American Composers
Schirmer |
MSN
Encarta
African American Music |
Center
for Black Music Research
research unit of Columbia College Chicago, " is devoted to research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale." | |
Quincy
Jones Professorship
First in African-American Music |
African
American Music Resources at Questia
the world's largest online library of over 47,000 books and 375,000 journal, magazine and newspaper articles. Click to preview a title. Subscribe for unlimited access to the entire library | Watch the demo | |
African
American Music Resources
Compiled by Gerri Gribi |
Amazon.com:
Books
This Day in African-American Music |
African
American Music
Blues and Jazz | article | |
Spirituals
and Gospel Music
article |
Yahoo! Directory African American Music > Organizations |
| African American History and Heritage Site | Books documenting the history of Arican American music |
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Music Composition: Books @ Amazon
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| Composing Music | William Russo | Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition | Michael Miller |
| Musical Form and Analysis | Glenn Spring | Musical Composition | Reginald Smith Brindle |
| Composers on Composing for Band | Mark Camphouse | Musical Composition | Reginald Smith Brindle |
| MAKING MUSIC | Morton Subotnick | Counterpoint | Henry Martin |
| An Open Design for Computer-Aided Algorithmic Music Composition | Christopher Ariza | Creative Music Composition | Margaret Lucy Wilkins |
| New Music Composition | David Cope | Automated Music Composition | Phil Winsor |
| The Twentieth-Century Composer Speaks | Mari Nishimura | The materials of music composition | H. Owen Reed |
| Computer music compositions of the United States, 1976 | Carol Welby | A Conductor's Repertory of Chamber Music |
| Experimental Music | Isaacson Lejaren | A provisional list of electronic music compositions | Sven Hostrup Hansell |
| A provisional list of electronic music compositions | Sven Hostrup Hansell | Phrase generation in computer music composition | Lejaren Arthur Hiller |
| Instrumental Arranging | Gary C White | Composing for Voice; A Guide for Composers, Singers | PAUL BARKER |
| Interactive Music Systems | Robert Rowe | Creative Music Composition | Margaret Lucy Wilkins |
| Composing Music with Computers, First Edition | Eduardo Miranda | Computer music compositions of the United States | Carol Melby |
| Arranging & composing, for the small ensemble | David Baker | PC Music Composing with Cubasis VST & Notation | Vera Trusova |
| First steps in playing and composing | Satis N Coleman | David Baker's Arranging and Composing for the Small Ensemble |
| The Guitarist's Guide to Composing and Improvising | Jon Damian | Composing At The Piano Early Intemrediate Level | Lee Evans |
| Creating computer accompaniments | More Songwriting and Composing Techniques | Peter L. Alexander |
| Four Part Harmony for Solo and Comping | Sal Salvador | Stephen Paulus on Composing for Chorus |
| The art of improvisation | Bob Taylor | 353 Finger-picking Patterns for Guitar Plus! 124 Strums 360 Chords |
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Classical
Music Recordings of Black Composers
A Comprehensive Reference Guide to Recorded Works Available on Compact Disc | Compiled by Richard Greene | |
Black
Saint/Soul Note Records
presents some of the most amazing composers/musicians in jazz like Cecil Taylor, Muhal Richard Abrams, World Saxophone Quartet, Max Roach, Marilyn Crispell, Roscoe Mitchell, Sun Ra, Leo Smith, Glenn Spearman and others | |
T.J
Anderson
"one of the distinguished black musicians of the century" | Elma Lewis -The Cultural Post | |
B.E.T.com |
African-American
Music in Minnesota: from Spirituals to Rap
by Judy Henderson | book | |
WHMC-Columbia--African-American
Music
COLLECTION TITLES | alphabetical | |
African
American music
Wikipedia | encyclopedia | |
[PDF]
African American Music and Culture: Focus on the Blues
HTML |
| Ethnomusicology Archive: African-American Music in Los Angeles | World History Archives: The history of African American music | |
| African American Music Books | The
Universal Black Pages
Funk | Gospel | Hip-Hop | Jazz | Reggae/Soca | Rhythm and Blues | The Blues | World | The Industry | |
| African Americans in California Sheet Music | Blackrefer.com
Blacks/African American Music Artist Websites | |
| Resources For Teachers: African-American Music | The
History of African American Music By Yaya Diallo
interview |
| Archives of African American Music and Culture | World-Wide
Web Resources
African American Resources |
Related
links of interest to the African-American community
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CNN.com
Blacks' imprint on America - Feb. 5, 2003
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LookSmart
African-American Music History | |
WorldBeatPlanet
The History of African American Music | |
| African American Music Research | The African American Music Tradition in Country Music |
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| Discography of Music by Black Composers | International Dictionary of Black Composers |
| Famous Black Composers | Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries |
| Amazon.com:
Music
Piano Music Of Black Composers |
CBS
Records Black Composers Series
The College Music Society | |
| AGO
On-Line Store
Organ Music of Black Composers |
Black
Composers '94
text only - no links |
| References
Black Composers
text only |
WITNESS: Dance Like the Wind - Music of Today's Black Composers |
| African
American Composers
Compiled by Gerri Gribi |
Classical Discoveries Playlist-Music of Black Composers-01/03/2004 | |
| Ebony: 100 Best Songs by Black Composers | Piano Music by William Grant Still & Other Black Composers |
| Black
composers of Southern Africa
books |
alapage.com
Violin Concertos by Black Composers | |
| About.com
Resources on Black Classical Composers | |
Black History & Classical Music |
| Imani
Winds
links |
Classical
Music: Black Composers
awesome link list |
| The
Degree of Difference
By Jeffrey Mumford |
Musical Compositions by Dorothy Rudd Moore |
| Music Library-Finding Aids: African-American Music | Classically Black: Marian Anderson |
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| Classically Black on WILL-FM | Geometry.Net - Composers CDs: Boulogne Joseph |
| WITNESS - Dance Like the Wind | List
of composers of African descent
Wikipedia |
MENC
Heroes Gallery
Undine Smith Moore |
Real
Audio: Piano Music by William Grant Still
& Other BlackComposers |
| ClassicsToday.com Special Label Promotions | American Composers Forum |
H.
Leslie Adams
Composer Home Page |
TJ
Anderson Composer
links |
| Vance's Fantastic Classic Black Music Hall of Fame - COMPOSERS | The
WOSU Stations
Classical 89.7 | What's New |
BBC
- South West Wales Webguide
Black History Month |
Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women |
Black
Women Composers
Twentieth Century Music For Piano And Strings |
Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers |
| Walker-Hill's Piano Music by Black Women | Ragtime
Scott Joplin and Related Links |
| NITRO, formerly known as Black Theatre Co-operative | Stage Musicals 1920's - Part 3: New Composers |
| Penguin Books on: Black Composers | Meet
the Composer - Spotlight
Leroy Jenkins |
| Clarion - Title List | African
Music
Encyclopedia.com |
Books: Composers: 01
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Silence:
Lectures and Writings
by John Cage |
Beethoven
by Maynard Solomon |
Johann
Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
by Christoph Wolff |
Johannes
Brahms A Biography (Vintage)
by Jan Swafford |
Richard
Strauss (The Master Musicians)
by Michael Kennedy |
Mozart
: A Life
by Maynard Solomon |
George
Gershwin -- His Life & Music
by Ean Wood |
Mozart
by Peter Gay |
The
New Grove Russian Masters, I: Glinka, Borodin, Balakirev, Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky
(The New Grove Series)
by David Brown |
Gustav
Mahler : The Symphonies
by Constantin Floros |
Beethoven
: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives)
by Edmund Morris |
Richard
Wagner : The Last of the Titans
by Joachim Kohler, Stewart Spencer |
Mozart's
Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Spaethling |
Chopin:
Pianist and Teacher : As Seen by his Pupils
by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger |
The
Cambridge Companion to Bruckner
by John Williamson |
In
Search of Wagner
by Theodor W. Adorno |
Testimony
: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
by Solomon Volkov, Dmitri Shostakovich (Composer) |
Wagner:
The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art (General Interest)
by M. Owen |
The
Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Neal Zaslaw (Editor), William Cowdery (Editor) |
Sergei
Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Russian Music Studies)
by Sergei Bertensson |
Mozart's
Operas (A Centennial Book)
by Daniel Heartz, Thomas Bauman |
Beethoven:
The Music and the Life
by Lewis Lockwood |
Shostakovich
and Stalin : The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer
and the Brutal Dictator
by Solomon Volkov |
The
New Bach Reader
by Hans T. David |
Reflections
On Liszt
by Alan Walker |
The
Memoirs of Hector Berlioz (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Hector Berlioz |
Gustav
Mahler : A Life in Crisis
by Stuart Feder |
The
Lives and Times of the Great Composers
by MICHAEL STEEN |
Haydn:
A Creative Life in Music
by Karl Geiringer |
1791:
Mozart's Last Year
by H. C. Robbins Landon |
Late
Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination
by Maynard Solomon |
The
Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Perry Keenlyside |
Chopin
in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer
by Tad Szulc |
Arvo
Part (Oxford Studies of Composers)
by Paul Hillier |
The
Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn (Cambridge Companions to Music)
by Peter Mercer-Taylor |
The
New Grove Mozart
by Cliff Eisen |
Gustav
Mahler: Letters To His Wife
by Gustav Mahler |
Stravinsky:
A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934
by Stephen Walsh |
Beethoven
as I Knew Him
by Anton Felix Schindler |
The
Mozart Compendium: A Guide to Mozart's Life and Music
by H.C. Robbins Landon |
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Gustav
Mahler : Vienna : The Years of Challenge (1897-1904)
by Henry-Louis De La Grange |
Beethoven
and His World
by Scott Burnham (Editor), Michael P. Steinberg |
Thayer's
Life of Beethoven, Part I
by Elliot Forbes |
Clara
Schumann: The Artist and the Woman
by Nancy B. Reich |
The
New Grove Schubert (The New Grove
by Maurice J. E. Brown, Eric Sams |
Robert
Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age"
by John Daverio |
Rachmaninoff:
Life, Works, Recordings
by Max Harrison |
Amy
Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer,
1867-1944
by Adrienne Fried Block |
Delius
As I Knew Him
by Eric Fenby |
Sergei
Prokofiev: A Biography
by Harlow Robinson |
Franz
Liszt : Volume 3: The Final Years, 1861-1886 (Franz Liszt)
by Alan Walker |
Gift
of Music: Great Composers and Their Influences
by Jane Stuart Smith |
| The
Composers: A Hystery of Music
by Kevin Reeves, Reeves |
J.
S. Bach (Vol 1)
by Albert Schweitzer |
Benjamin
Britten (20th-Century Composers)
by Michael Oliver |
Puccini:
A Biography
by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz |
Mendelssohn:
A Life in Music
by R. Larry Todd, R. Larry Tood |
George
Frideric Handel
by Paul Henry Lang |
Richard
Strauss : Man, Musician, Enigma
by Michael Kennedy |
Charles
Ives: A Life With Music
by Jan Swafford |
Richard
Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work (Sources of Music
& Their Interpretation S.)
by Bryan Gilliam |
Bach's
Passion: The Life of Johann Sebastian Bach
by Ruthann Ridley, Ruthann Ridely |
Brahms
and the Principle of Developing Variation (California Studies in 19th Century
Music)
by Walter Frisch |
Gorecki
(Oxford Studies of Composers)
by Adrian Thomas |
Ernst
Von Dohnanyi: A Song of Life
by Ilona Von Dohnanyi |
Prokofiev--A
Biography: From Russia to the West 1891-1935
by David Nice |
Mozart's
Symphonies: Context, Performance Practice, Reception (Clarendon Paperbacks)
by Neal Zaslaw |
20th
Century Composers: Jean Sibelius
by Guy Rickards |
Domenico
Scarlatti
by Ralph Kirkpatrick |
The
George Gershwin Reader
by John Andrew Johnson |
Richard
Wagner: The Man, His Mind, and His Music
by Richard Wagner |
Wagner
on Music and Drama: A Compendium of Richard Wagner's Prose Works (A Da
Capo Paperback)
by Richard Wagner |
The
Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
by Bryan Magee |
Handel
by Christopher Hogwood |
Heart
at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
by Steven C. Smith |
Brahms,
His Life and Work (Da Capo Paperback)
by Karl Geiringer |
Tchaikovsky:
The Quest for the Inner Man
by Alexander Poznansky |
The
Great Composer As Teacher and Student: Theory and Practice of Composition
by Alfred Mann |
Brahms
by Malcolm MacDonald |
Verdi:
A Biography
by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz |
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Ruth
Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music
by Judith Tick |
Vaughan
Williams
by Simon Heffer |
The
Life and Works of Beethoven (Classic Literature with Classical Music)
by Jeremy Siepmann |
Chopin
: The Man and His Music
by James Huneker |
The
Composer-Pianists: Hamelin and The Eight
by Robert Rimm |
Antonio
Vivaldi : The Red Priest of Venice
by Karl Heller |
The
Cambridge Companion to Debussy (Cambridge Companions to Music)
by Simon Trezise |
Maligned
Master: The Real Story of Antonio Salieri
by Volkmar Braunbehrens, Eveline L. Kanes |
Schumann
and His World
by Bard Music Festival |
Chopin:
The Reluctant Romantic
by Jeremy Siepmann |
The
Mozart Myths: A Critical Reassessment
by William Stafford |
Schoenbe |