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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.

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

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

Black Sacred Music 8:36-63 N1 1994

Twentieth-Century composers in the Chesapeake Region

Hall, Bonlyn G.
Hedges, Bonnie

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

Black American music : past and present

Second edition

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

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

Black Sacred Music V5 N2 1991

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 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.

Introduction : O black and unknown bards

Black Sacred Music 4:13-15 N1 1990

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

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

New York & London: Garland, 1990

Harlem Renaissance Ideals in the Music of Robert Nathaniel Dett

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

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

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

Black music biography : an annotated bibliography

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The new Grove dictionary of American music

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An annotated catalog of composers of African ancestry

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Vol. I

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A dictionary of American composers

New York: Garland, 1984

America's black musical heritage

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Early American music : music in America from 1620 to 1920

Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1981

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.

The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians

London: Macmillan, 1980

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.

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Famous modern negro musicians

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

Washington: Associated Publishers 1977. 152 S.

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

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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

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

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Our American music : three hundred years of it

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With supplementary chapters by James Lyons

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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

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Revised and enlarged edition

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Edited by Ralph Hill and Max Hinrichsen

London: Hinrichsen Editions, 1946, 404 p.

Portraits of the World's Best-known Musicians

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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

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By John Tasker Howard with the assistance of Arthur Mendel

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Begrundet von Paul Frank

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Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, [1925]

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Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians

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The world's best music

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International who's who in music and musical gazetteer

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

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

Follow me
The life and music of R. Nathaniel Dett