String music of black composers
A bibliography
A bibliography
Compiled by Aaron Horne
Foreword by Dominique-Rene de Lerma
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  Adams, Alton Augustus (b. 1889 d. 1987) |   bandmaster, composer |
  Adams, Leslie (b. 1932) |   cast, piano |
  Akinwole, Obataiye (a. 1975) |   composer |
  Akpabot, Samuel Ekpe (b. 1931) |   college professor, composer |
  Aldridge, Amanda Ira (b. 1866 d. 1956) |   piano, teacher |
  Allen, Gilbert (b. 1907) |   conductor, composer |
  Anderson, Thomas Jefferson (b. 1928) |   composer |
  Anderson, Walter Franklin (b. 1915) |   college professor |
  Atkins, Russell (b. 1926) |   poet, writer |
  Baiocchi, Regina A. Harris (b. 1956) |   composer |
  Baker, David Nathaniel (b. 1931) |   bassoon, composer |
  Ballanta-Taylor, Nicholas George Julius (b. 1893) |   ethnomusicologist |
  Batiste, Alvin (b. 1932) |   clarinet, composer |
  Bebey, Francis (b. 1929) |   singer, composer |
  Beckon, Lettie Marie (b. 1953) |   composer, piano |
  Belafonte, Harry [Harold George] (b. 1927) |   calypso singer, cast |
  Belaka, O'Sai Tutu (b. 1933) |   composer |
  Billups, Kenneth Browne (b. 1918 d. 1985) |   music educator, choir conductor |
  Bland, Ed [Edward Osmund] (b. 1946 a. 1989) |   composer, music director |
  Bledsoe, Jules (b. 1898 d. 1943) |   cast, singer |
  Boatner, Edward Hammond (b. 1898 d. 1981) |   composer |
  Bond, Curtis Horace (b. 1954) |   composer |
  Bonds, Margaret (Allison) (b. 1913 d. 1972) |   composer, piano |
  Bridgetower, George (Augustus) Polgreen (b. 1779 d. 1860) |   violin |
  Brooks, Harry (b. 1895 d. 1970) |   composer, piano |
  Brouwer, Leo [Juan Leovigildo] (b. 1939) |   composer, direttore d'orchestre |
  Brown, John Harold (b. 1902 d. 1981) |   composer |
  Brown, Lawrence Benjamin (b. 1893 d. 1972) |   composer, piano |
  Brown, Oscar (b. 1926) |   entertainer, composer |
  Brown, Uzee (b. 1951) |   bass-baritone, bass |
  Burleigh, Henry Thacker (b. 1866 d. 1949) |   composer, singer |
  Burrs, Leslie S. (b. 1952) |   flute, music educator |
  Capers, Valerie Gail (b. 1937) |   piano, music educator |
  Carter, John (Wallace) (b. 1929 d. 1991) |   clarinet, alto saxophone |
  Carter, Warrick (b. 1942) |   arranger, composer |
  Casseus, Frantz Gabriel (b. 1921) |   composer, lyricist |
  Ceron, Jose Dolores (b. 1897 d. 1969) |   composer |
  Chandler, Len (b. 1935) |   singer, guitar |
  Cheatham, Wallace McClain (b. 1945) |   organ, composer |
  Clark, Edgar Rogie (b. 1917 d. 1978) |   singer, composer |
  Clay, Omar (a. 1976) |   composer |
  Cloud, Lee Vernell (b. 1950) |   music educator, composer |
  Coleman, Charles DeWitt (b. 1926 d. 1991) |   composer, organ |
  Coleman, Ornette (b. 1930) |   alto saxophone, drums |
  Coleridge-Taylor, Avril Gwendolen (b. 1903) |   conductor, composer |
  Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (b. 1875 d. 1912) |   composer |
  Cook, Doc (b. 1891 d. 1958) |   piano, arranger |
  Cook, Will Marion (b. 1869 d. 1944) |   composer, director |
  Cooper, William Benjamin (b. 1920 d. 1993) |   organ, composer |
  Cordero, Roque (b. 1917) |   composer, conductor |
  Cunningham, Arthur H. (b. 1928) |   composer |
  Da Costa, Noel George (b. 1929) |   composer, violin |
  Dabney, Wendell Phillips (b. 1865 d. 1952) |   writer, studio teacher |
  Davis, Anthony (b. 1951) |   piano, trumpet |
  Davis, Nathan (b. 1937) |   composer, soprano sax |
  Dawson, William Levi (b. 1899 d. 1990) |   composer, conductor |
  Dede, Edmund (b. 1827 d. 1903 a. 1862) |   violin, clarinet |
  Defora Horton, Asadata (b. 1889 d. 1965) |   composer |
  Dennis, Mark Andrew (b. 1949) |   composer |
  Dett, Robert Nathaniel (Farbiger) (b. 1882 d. 1943) |   composer, teacher |
  Dickerson, Roger Donald (b. 1934) |   composer |
  Diton, Carl Rossini (b. 1886 d. 1962) |   piano, composer |
  Dorsey, James Elmo (b. 1905) |   baritone, composer |
  Drew, James Mulcro (b. 1929) |   composer, playwright |
  Dubois, Shirley Graham (b. 1906 d. 1977) |   author, composer |
  Ducander, Sten (b. 1923) |   composer |
  Duncan, John (b. 1913 d. 1975) |   composer, college professor |
  Edwards, Leo (b. 1937) |   composer |
  El-Dabh, Halim (Abdul Messiah) (b. 1921) |   composer |
  Elie, Justin (b. 1883 d. 1931) |   conductor, composer |
  Ellington (b. 1899 d. 1974) |   composer, direttore d'orchestra |
  Euba, Akin (b. 1935) |   composer, university professor |
  Fax, Mark Oakland (b. 1911 d. 1974) |   college professor, composer |
  Fiberesima, Adam (b. 1926) |   composer |
  Fischer, William Samuel (b. 1935) |   arranger, composer |
  Fletcher, John (a. 1973) |   composer |
  Fountain, Primous (b. 1949) |   composer |
  Fox, James Ingram (b. 1916) |   composer |
  Freeman, Harry Lawrence (b. 1869 d. 1954) |   composer, conductor |
  Freeman, Paul Douglas (b. 1936) |   conductor |
  Furman, James (b. 1937 d. 1989) |   composer, music educator |
  Garcia, Jose Mauricio Nunes (b. 1767 d. 1830) |   composer, organ |
  Garcia, Juan Francisco (b. 1892 d. 1974) |   composer |
  Gomes, Carlos [Antonio Carlos] (b. 1836 d. 1896) |   compositor, maestro de musica |
  Grider, Joseph William (a. 1986) |   composer |
  Gutierrez y Espinosa, Felipe (b. 1825 d. 1899) |   choir master, composer |
  Hagan, Helen Eugenia (b. 1893 d. 1964 a. 1912) |   organ, piano |
  Hailstork, Adolphus Cunningham (b. 1941) |   composer, conductor |
  Hakim, Talib Rasul (b. 1940 d. 1988) |   composer |
  Hammond, Douglas |   composer |
  Hampton, Ralph (a. 1975) |   composer |
  Hancock, Eugene Wilson (White) (b. 1929 d. 1994) |   music educator, organ |
  Handy, John (Richard) (b. 1933) |   alto saxophone, teacher |
  Handy, W.C. [William Christopher] (b. 1873 d. 1958) |   additional Music, cast |
  Harris, Howard C. (b. 1940) |   conductor, arranger |
  Harris, Margaret Rosezarian (b. 1943) |   piano, conductor |
  Harris, Robert Allen (b. 1938) |   piano, music educator |
  Hayes, Joseph C. (b. 1920) |   composer, music educator |
  Heard, Henry A. (a. 1986) |   composer |
  Heath, Jimmy [James Edward] (b. 1926) |   alto sax, sax |
  Hebron, J. Harvey (b. 1888) |   composer |
  Herbison, Jeraldine Saunders (b. 1941) |   violin, music educator |
  Hernandez, Julio Alberto (b. 1900) |   composer, compositore |
  Heywood, Donald (b. 1901 d. 1967) |   cast, composer |
  Holdridge, Lee Elwood (b. 1944) |   arranger, composer |
  Holland, Justin Miner (b. 1819 d. 1887) |   composer, guitar |
  Holmes, Robert (b. 1934) |   composer |
  Holt, Nora Douglas (b. 1885 d. 1974) |   journalist, critic |
  Jackson, Calvin (b. 1919 d. 1985) |   arranger, piano |
  Jenkins, Edmund Thornton (b. 1894 d. 1926) |   composer, reeds |
  Jenkins, Leroy (b. 1932) |   violin, composer |
  Johnson, Bessie Viola (b. 1880) |   composer |
  Johnson, Frank (b. 1792 d. 1844) |   clarinet, composer |
  Johnson, Hall (b. 1888 d. 1970) |   choir, choral director |
  Johnson, J. Rosamond [John Rosamund] (b. 1873 d. 1954) |   composer, singer |
  Johnson, J.J. (b. 1924 a. 1988) |   jazz trombone, trombone |
  Johnson, James P. [James Price] (b. 1891 d. 1955) |   cast, composer |
  Jones, Charles (a. 1973) |   composer |
  Jones, Quincy (Delight) (b. 1933) |   arranger, composer |
  Joplin, Scott (b. 1868 d. 1917) |   composer, librettist |
  Kay, Ulysses (Simpson) (b. 1917 d. 1995) |   composer |
  Kebede, Ashenafi (b. 1938) |   ethnomusicologist, composer |
  Kennedy, Joseph J. (b. 1923) |   violin, composer |
  King, Betty Jackson [Betty Lou] (b. 1928 d. 1994) |   music educator, composer |
  Ladipo, Duro (b. 1931) |   writer, composer |
  Lake, Oliver (Eugene) (b. 1942) |   alto saxophone, composer |
  Lampley, Calvin Douglas (b. 1924 a. 1982) |   composer |
  Lateef, Yusef (b. 1920) |   flute, tenor saxophone |
  Lavergne, Patrick (b. 1955) |   composer |
  Lawrence, William (b. 1895 d. 1981) |   accompanist, singer |
  Lee, Benjamin (a. 1989) |   composer |
  Lee, William James (b. 1928) |   composer |
  Leon, Tania Justina (b. 1943 a. 1967) |   composer, conductor |
  Lewis, John (Aaron) (b. 1920) |   arranger, composer |
  Logan, Wendell (Morris) (b. 1940) |   composer, music educator |
  Lovinggood, Penman (b. 1895) |   writer, singer |
  Margetson, Edward Henry (b. 1891 d. 1962) |   composer |
  McCall, Maurice Henderson (b. 1943) |   composer, music educator |
  McCreary, Ricard Deming (b. 1946) |   composer |
  McDaniel, William Foster (b. 1940) |   arranger, composer |
  McLin, Edward M. (b. 1928) |   composer |
  McLin, Lena Johnson (b. 1928) |   music educator, choir conductor |
  Mells, Herbert Franklin (b. 1909 d. 1956) |   music educator, composer |
  Merrifield, Norman Lavelle (b. 1906) |   composer, arranger |
  Meude-Monpas, J.J.O. (b. CAD2> d. CAD2>) |   composer |
  Mitchell, Roscoe (Edward) (b. 1940) |   reeds, saxophone |
  Moffatt, Richard Cullen (b. 1927 d. 1982) |   composer, piano |
  Moore, Carman Leroy (b. 1936) |   composer, writer |
  Moore, Dorothy Rudd (b. 1940) |   composer, soprano |
  Moore, Kermit Diton (b. 1929) |   cello, arranger |
  Moore, Phil (b. 1918 d. 1987) |   arranger, bandleader |
  Moore, Undine Smith (b. 1905 d. 1989) |   composer, music educator |
  Morgan, William Astor (b. 1890) |   composer, teacher of piano and theory |
  Morrison, George Sumner (b. 1891 d. 1974) |   bandleader |
  Mosley, J. Orville B. (b. 1909) |   composer |
  Nelson, Oliver (Edward) (b. 1932 d. 1975) |   composer, arranger |
  Nketia, Kwabena J.H. (b. 1921) |   ethnomusicologist |
  Nzewi, Emeka Meki (b. 1938) |   ethnomusicologist, university professor |
  Parks, Gordon Alexander (b. 1912) |   film producer, composer |
  Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor (b. 1932) |   composer, dance arranger |
  Perry, Julia (Amanda) (b. 1924 d. 1979) |   composer, conductor |
  Perry, Zenobia Powell (b. 1914) |   piano, composer |
  Pittman, Evelyn Larue (b. 1910 d. 1992) |   music educator, composer |
  Price, Florence Beatrice (b. 1888 d. 1953) |   composer, arranger |
  Price, John Elwood (b. 1935) |   composer, piano |
  Qamar, Nadi Abu (b. 1917) |   composer |
  Republicano, Assis (b. 1897 d. 1960) |   composer, conductor |
  Rivers, Clarence Joseph (b. 1931) |   composer of sacred music, priest |
  Robinson, Walter (b. 1951) |   composer |
  Roldan, Amadeo (b. 1900 d. 1939) |   composer, violin |
  Roxbury, Ronald Marle (b. 1946 d. 1986) |   composer, instrumentalist |
  Russell, George (Allan) (b. 1923) |   composer, theorist |
  Ryder, Noah Francis (b. 1914 d. 1964) |   music educator, conductor |
  Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne (b. 1739 d. 1799) |   composer, violin |
  Sancho, Ignatius (b. 1729 d. 1780) |   composer |
  Santos, Henry Jose (b. 1927) |   composer |
  Schuyler, Philippa Duke (b. 1932 d. 1967) |   piano, composer |
  Shirley, Donald (b. 1927) |   piano, set design |
  Singleton, Alvin (Elliot) (b. 1940) |   composer |
  Smith, Hale (b. 1925) |   composer, arranger |
  Smith, Nathaniel Clark (b. 1877 d. 1933) |   conductor, music educator |
  Smith, William D. (a. 1901) |   composer |
  Snaer, Samuel (b. 1832 d. 1896) |   composer |
  Southall, Mitchell Bernard (b. 1922 d. 1989) |   composer, arranger |
  Sowande, Fela [Olufela] (b. 1905 d. 1987) |   composer, organ |
  Stewart, Earl Lewis (b. 1950) |   composer |
  Still, William Grant (b. 1895 d. 1978) |   arranger, composer |
  Stokes, Harvey Jeffery (b. 1937 a. 1988) |   composer |
  Swanson, Howard (b. 1907 d. 1978) |   composer |
  Taylor, Billy [William Edward] (b. 1921) |   piano, music educator |
  Thomas, Blanche Katurah (b. 1885 d. 1977) |   choir conductor, teacher |
  Tillis, Frederick Charles (b. 1930) |   composer, administrator |
  Tyers, William H. (b. 1876 d. 1924) |   composer, ragtime composer |
  Wade, Marcus (a. 1986) |   composer |
  Walker, Charles (b. 1922 d. 1975 a. 1968) |   composer |
  Walker, George Theophilius (b. 1922) |   banjo, composer |
  Weston, Horace (b. 1825 d. 1890) |   banjo |
  White, Andrew Nathaniel (b. 1942) |   saxophone, composer |
  White, Clarence Cameron (b. 1880 d. 1960) |   composer, violin |
  White Lafitte, Jose (Silvestre de los Dolores) (b. 1836 d. 1918) |   violin, composer |
  Williams, Julius Penson (b. 1954) |   composer, conductor |
  Williams, Mary Lou (b. 1910 d. 1981) |   arranger, cast |
  Wilson, Olly (Woodrow) (b. 1937) |   composer, trombone |
  Woods, Michael E. (b. 1952) |   composer |
  Work, Frederick Jerome (b. 1880 d. 1942) |   composer, scholar |
  Work, John Wesley (b. 1901 d. 1967) |   composer, scholar |
  Work, Julian C. (b. 1910) |   arranger, composer |