Choral music by African American composers
A selected, annotated bibliography

Second edition

Compiled by Evelyn Davidson White

Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996, 226 p.

African American composers

Horne, Aaron
Baker, David N.

The United States and Canada in the Twentieth Century

Gordon, Stewart

Stars in de elements : a study of Negro folk music

Black Sacred Music 9:1-350 N1-2 1995

Resource guide for selected composers

Hall, Bonlyn G.
Hedges, Bonnie

Twentieth-Century composers in the Chesapeake Region

Hall, Bonlyn G.
Hedges, Bonnie

Theomusicology : query, theory, and methodology: Musicology as a theologically informed discipline

Black Sacred Music 8:36-63 N1 1994

Black American music : past and present

Second edition

Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 1992, 3668 p.

The William Grant Still reader : Preface

Black Sacred Music 6:ix-Xv N2 1992

The William Grant Still reader; the writings of Still; Nathaniel Dett; one of our "cultural pioneers"

Black Sacred Music 6:109-10 N2 1992

American opera : a checklist

By Edith Borroff

Edited by J. Bunker Clark

Detroit: Harmonie Park Press, 1992, 334 p.

The William Grant Still reader
An introduction to William Grant Still

Black Sacred Music 6:1-77 N2 1992

The R. Nathaniel Dett reader. Essays on black sacred music

Edited by Jon Michael Spencer

Duke University Press, 1991, 138 p.

Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology, Volume 5, number 2 (Special issue)

String music of black composers
A bibliography

Compiled by Aaron Horne

Foreword by Dominique-Rene de Lerma

New York: Greenwood Press, 1991

The R. Nathaniel Dett reader : essays on black sacred music

Black Sacred Music V5 N2 1991

The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music

Edited by Paul E. Bierley

William H. Rehrig

Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991

Afro-american vocal music
A select guide to fifteen composers

Berrien Springs, Michigan: Vande Vere Publishing Ltd., 1991, 133 p.

Dictionary of Afro-American performers
78 rpm and cylinder recordings of opera, choral music, and song, c1900-1949

New York & London: Garland, 1990

Bibliography of the Music
The Concert Music of the Harlem Renaissance Composers, 1919-1935

Floyd, Samuel A. Jr.       (Series: Contributions in Afro-American Studies; 128)

Harlem Renaissance Ideals in the Music of Robert Nathaniel Dett

Floyd, Samuel A. Jr.       (Series: Contributions in Afro-American Studies; 128)

Introduction : O black and unknown bards

Black Sacred Music 4:13-15 N1 1990

Eareviews (LP Selected Piano Works by Robert Nathanial) (performed by Denver Oldham)

Ear 14:52 May 1989

The CD spread Dett piano works : Oldham.

High Fidelity 39:65 Jul 1989

The development of Negro religious music

Journal of Black Sacred Music: 2:65-71 N1 1988

Black music biography : an annotated bibliography

White Plains, New York: Kraus International Publications, 1987

An annotated catalog of composers of African ancestry

New York: Vantage Press, 1986

The new Grove dictionary of American music

edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie

New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.

Black American music. Past and present

Vol. I

Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Krieger, 1985

A dictionary of American composers

New York: Garland, 1984

America's black musical heritage

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984, 336 p.

R. Nathaniel Dett's views on the preservation of black music

Black Perspective in Music: 10:132-48 N2 1982

R. Nathaniel Dett's views on the preservation of black music.

The Black Perspective in Music. 10 (1982), S. 133-148.

Contemporary American composers
A biographical dictionary

Second edition

Compiled by E. Ruth Anderson

Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982, 578 p.

Encyclopedia of music in Canada

Edited by Hellmut Kallman, Gilles Potvin, Kenneth Winters

Toronto: University of Toronto, 1981, 1076 p.

Early American music : music in America from 1620 to 1920

Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1981

Musicians in Canada
A bio-bibliographical finding list

Edited by Kathleen M. Toomey & Stephen C. Williams

Ottawa: Canadian Association of Music Libraries, 1981, 185 p.

Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981, 478 p.

Choral music by Afro-American composers
A selected, annotated bibliography

Compiled by Evelyn Davidson White

Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981, 167 p.

ASCAP biographical dictionary of composers, authors and publishers

Fourth edition

Compiled for the American Society of Composers, Authors and publishers by Jaques Cattell Press

New York: R. R. Bowker, 1980, 589 p.

The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians

London: Macmillan, 1980

Algemene muziek enciclopedie

hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra

Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984

Famous modern negro musicians

New York: Da Capo Press, 1978

[Review]

The Black Perspective in Music. 6 (1978), S. 91-92.

R. Nathaniel Dett : his life and works, 1882-1943.

Washington: Associated Publishers 1977. 152 S.

Blacks in classical music : a personal history

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977

Contemporary American composers
A biographical dictionary

1st ed.

Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976, 513 p.

International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians.

10th edition

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1975

Composers & lyricists

Moogk, Edward B.

Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon

Fortfuhrt von Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner

Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1974

Biographical dictionary of American music

West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p.

American Composers' Concerts and Festivals of American Music 1925-71; cumulative repertoire

Institute of American Music of the University of Rochester

Rochester, NY: 1972, 75 p.

American music since 1910

With an introduction by Nicolas Nabokov

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, 204 p.

Aspects of Music in Canada.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969

The life and works of Robert Nathaniel Dett.

Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.). 1967. dissertation.

Ann Arbor: University Microfilms 1968. 217 S.

ASCAP Biographical Dictionary.

3rd ed.

New York: Crowell, 1966

Zenei lexikon

Budapest: Zenemukiado Vallalat, 1965

History of Music in Canada, 1534-1974.

Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1960

The New College Encyclopedia of Music.

London: Collins, 1959

Encyclopedie de la musique.

Vol. 3

Paris: Fasquelle, 1958-1961

Baker's Biographical Dictionary.

5th edition

New York: G. Schirmer, 1958

Musiklexikon

12th edition

Mainz: B. Schott's Sohne, 1958

International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians.

7th edition

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1956

Grove's Dictionary.

5th edition

New York: St Martins's Press, 1954-1961

Diccionario de la musica labor

Iniciado por Joaquin Pena

Continuado por Higinio Angles

Con la colaboracion de Miguel Querol y otros distinguidos musicologos espanoles y extranjeros

Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1954, 2V, 2318P.

Our American music : three hundred years of it

Third edition, revised and reset.

With supplementary chapters by James Lyons

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1954, 841 p.

Oxford Companion to Music.

9th edition

London: Oxford University Press, 1952

ASCAP Biographical Dictionary.

2nd ed.

New York: Crowell, 1952

Sohlman's musiklexikon : nordiskt och allmant upplagsverk for tonkonst, musikliv och dans

Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl Allan Moberg [och] Einar Sundstrom

Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, [1951-]

Necrology section

Mize, J.T.H. / Dr.

Composers in America : biographical sketches of contemporary composers with a record of their works

Revised and enlarged edition

New York: MacMillan, 1947, 399 p.

Encyclopedie Grolier.

Montreal: Societe Grolier, 1947

Portraits of the World's Best-known Musicians

Philadelphia: Theo. Presser Co., 1946

Hinrichsen's musical year book 1945-46

Edited by Ralph Hill and Max Hinrichsen

London: Hinrichsen Editions, 1946, 404 p.

Who is who in music

1941 edition

Chicago: Lee Stern Press, 1941

Our contemporary composers : American music in the twentieth century

By John Tasker Howard with the assistance of Arthur Mendel

Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1941, 447 p.

Bio-bibliographical index of musicians in the United States of America since colonial times

Prepared by the District of Columbia Historical Records Survey Division of Community Service Programs Works project Administration

Washington, DC: 1941, 439 p.

Current Biography.

New York: H.W. Wilson, 1940

Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians

Fourth edition revised and enlarged

New York: G. Schirmer, 1940

Negro authors and composers of the United States

By W.C. Handy.

New York: Handy Brothers Music Co. Inc., 1938, 24 p.

Dizionario universale dei musicisti : Supplemento

Milan: Sonzogno, 1938, 806 p.

MacMillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians.

New York: MacMillan Co., 1938

Pierre Key's Musical Yearbook.

New York: P. Key, 1938

Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon : fur Musiker und Freunde der Musik

Begrundet von Paul Frank

Neu bearbeitet und erganzt von Wilhelm Altmann

Regensburg: Gustave Bosse, 1936, 730 p.

Negro musicians and their music

Washington, D. C.: Associated Publishers, Inc., 1936

Grove's American Supplement.

New York: MacMillan, 1935

Pierre Key's musical who's who
A biographical survey of contemporary musicians

Edited by Pierre V.R. Key; editor Musical Digest and ...

New York: Pierre Key, 1931, 498 p.

Who is who in music

Chicago: Who is Who in Music, Inc., 1929

Musiklexikon

11th edition

Berlin: Miltesse, 1929

Piano music : its composers and characteristics

By Clarence G. Hamilton, professor of music, Wellesley College

Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, [1925]

Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians

London: J.M. Dent, 1924

New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians.

New York: MacMillan Co., 1924

The world's best music

New York: University Society, 1921

Grove's dictionary of music and musicians. American supplement ...

Edited by Waldo S. Pratt. Associate editor: Charles N. Boyd.

New York: 1920

International who's who in music and musical gazetteer

Edited by Cesar Saerchinger

New York: Current Literature Pub. Co., 1918, 841 p.

Who's who of the colored race ... men and women of African descent
Vol. 1. 1915 ...

Edited by F.L. Mather.

Chicago: 1915

Follow me
The life and music of R. Nathaniel Dett

The writings of Robert Nathaniel Dett and William Grant Still on black music

R. Nathaniel Dett : his life and works (1882-1943)