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Black Composers in Classical Music

A research guide for finding recordings, music, and information on classical music written by black composers.

Lists of Scores of Classical Compositions by Black Composers

Black Composers in the Fleisher Collection
List of orchestral scores in the Fleisher Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia compiled by musicologist Gary Galvin.
Conductor Paul Freeman and Black Composers
List of repertoire performed and/or recorded by conductor Paul Freeman.

Black Composers - Scores
Links to composers' names and library holdings of scores by Black composers of classical music, based on Professor Richard Greene's site, "Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers."

Find Scores of Black Composers

Bibliography of Black Music by Dominique-Rene De Lerma
ISBN: 9780313213403
Publication Date: 1981-04-30
Brass Music of Black Composers by Aaron Horne
ISBN: 9780313298264
Publication Date: 1996-05-16
Choral Arrangements of the African-American Spirituals by Patricia J. Trice
ISBN: 9780313302114
Publication Date: 1998-02-12
Choral Music by African American Composers by Evelyn Davidson White
ISBN: 9780585047126
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Fifteen Black American Composers by Alice Tischler
ISBN: 9780899900032
Publication Date: 1981-11-01
An Index to African-American Spirituals for the Solo Voice by Kathleen A. Abromeit
ISBN: 9780313305771
Publication Date: 1999-01-30
Keyboard Music of Black Composers by Aaron Horne
ISBN: 9780313279393
Publication Date: 1992-08-21
Music, Printed and Manuscript, in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters, Yale University by Rae L. Brown
ISBN: 9780824093198
Publication Date: 1982-07-01
A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers by Margaret R. Simmons; Jeanine Wagner; William Brown (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780809325238
Publication Date: 2004-04-26
Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora by William H. Chapman Nyaho
ISBN: 9780193868243
Publication Date: 2007-2008
String Music of Black Composers by Aaron Horne
ISBN: 9780313279386
Publication Date: 1991-10-16
Towards an African Pianism by Cynthia Tse Kimberlin (Editor)
ISBN: 9780962747366
Publication Date: 2005-05-01
Woodwind Music of Black Composers by Aaron Horne
ISBN: 9780313272653
Publication Date: 1990-01-24