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.

Twentieth-Century composers in the Chesapeake Region

Hall, Bonlyn G.
Hedges, Bonnie

[major article]

Roach, Hildred

American opera : a checklist

By Edith Borroff

Edited by J. Bunker Clark

Detroit: Harmonie Park Press, 1992, 334 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

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)

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

New York & London: Garland, 1990

Woodwind music of black composers

Compiled by Aaron Horne

New York: Greenwood Press, 1990, 145 p.

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

Black American music. Past and present

Vol. I

Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Krieger, 1985

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.

Letters of Clarence Cameron White in the Collections of the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

The Black Perspective in Music. 10 (1982). S. 189-212.

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

Compiled by Evelyn Davidson White

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

Clarence Cameron White.

The Black Perspective in Music. 9 (1981), S. 51-72.

Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981, 478 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.

Algemene muziek enciclopedie

hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra

Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984

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.

Biographical dictionary of American music

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

Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon

Fortfuhrt von Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner

Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1974

Black Idioms in Opera as Reflected in the Works of Six Afro-American Composers.

Southern California. 1974. Ph.D.

Index to biographies of contemporary composers

Vol. II

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

Index to biographies of contemporary composers

New York: Scarecrow Press, 1964, 405 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

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-]

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.

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.

Who is who in music

1941 edition

Chicago: Lee Stern Press, 1941

Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians

Fourth edition revised and enlarged

New York: G. Schirmer, 1940

[no title]

Handy, William Christopher

Negro musicians and their music

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

Virginia composers, giving a biographical sketch of each composer with
A list of compositions, published and unpublished, together with other interesting data

Virginia Federation of Music Clubs, 1935, 60 p.

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

Edited by F.L. Mather.

Chicago: 1915