African American composers

Horne, Aaron
Baker, David N.

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.

Blacks in opera.
An encyclopedia of people and companies, 1873-1993

By Eric Ledell Smith

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1995, 236 p.

Companion to the United Methodist hymnal

Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993, 940 p.

From cakewalks to concert halls.
An illustrated history of African American popular music from 1895 to 1930

By Thomas L. Morgan and William Barlow

Washington, DC: Elliot & Clark, 1992, 132 p.

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.

Afro-american vocal music
A select guide to fifteen composers

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

The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music

Edited by Paul E. Bierley

William H. Rehrig

Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991

String music of black composers
A bibliography

Compiled by Aaron Horne

Foreword by Dominique-Rene de Lerma

New York: Greenwood Press, 1991

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

New York & London: Garland, 1990

White Shows with Individual Songs by Black Composers

Riis, Thomas L.

Just before jazz : black musical theater in New York, 1890-1915

London: Institution Press, 1989, 309 p.

New York Shows by Black Composers 1898-1915

Riis, Thomas L.

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.

An annotated catalog of composers of African ancestry

New York: Vantage Press, 1986

America's black musical heritage

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

Contemporary American composers
A biographical dictionary

Second edition

Compiled by E. Ruth Anderson

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

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

Compiled by Evelyn Davidson White

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

Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians

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

Black power in the 1920's

Sampson, Henry T.

The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians

London: Macmillan, 1980

Famous modern negro musicians

New York: Da Capo Press, 1978

Contemporary American composers
A biographical dictionary

1st ed.

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

Sohlman's musiklexikon

2. rev. och utvidgade uppl.

Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl-Alan Moberg och Einar Sundstrom

Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, 1975-1979, 5 v.

The complete encyclopedia of popular music and jazz, 1900-1950

New Rochelle, N. Y.: Arlington, 1974

Index to biographies of contemporary composers

Vol. II

Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974, 567 p.

Suid-Afrikaanse musiekbibliografie : 1787-1952

1974

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.

Index to biographies of contemporary composers

New York: Scarecrow Press, 1964, 405 p.

The blue book of tin pan alley
A human interest encyclopedia of American popular music

Vol. 1: -1776-1860-1910

Watkins Glen, N.Y.: Century House, 1962, 304 p.

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.

Music and dance in New York State

New York: Bureau of Music Research, 1952

Famous old-time ballads and songs which should never die

Marks, Edward B.

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.

Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians

Fourth edition revised and enlarged

New York: G. Schirmer, 1940

The story of the house of Witmark : From ragtime to swingtime

By Isidore Witmark and Isaac Goldberg

New York: Lee Furman, Inc., 1939

Negro authors and composers of the United States

By W.C. Handy.

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

Negro musicians and their music

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

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

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