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Boatwright Memorial Library

Diversify Your Repertoire

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Afrocentric Sounds
An online radio station, produced by Randye Jones of Grinnell College, featuring concert music composed and/or performed by Black musicians.
African-American Art Song Alliance
Promotes and uplifts the contributions made by African-Americans to art song, be they composers, performers or scholars.
African Diaspora Music Project
A repository of information about the concert works of composers of the African Diaspora.
Black Opera Database
A list of operas, musical theatre works, and oratorios by Black composers, or by non-Black composers writing about the Black experience
African-American Composer Initiative
Presents the works of living and historical African American composers in concert, shares video of these live concerts online, and commissions new compositions.

Solo Piano Music at Parsons Music Library

Music for Other Solo Instruments at Parsons Music Library

Solo Vocal Music at Parsons Music Library

Chamber Music

Two Flutes

Valerie Coleman

Flute & Piano

Valerie Coleman, Tania León; Brian Raphael Nabors

Oboe & Piano

Brian Raphael Nabors

Clarinet & Piano

Valerie Coleman; William Grant Still

Trumpet & Piano

Adolphus Hailstork

Trombone & Piano

Brian Raphael Nabors

Violin & Piano

T.J. Anderson; Black Violin; Jospeh Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint Georges; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Adolphus Hailstork; Jessie Montgomery; Dorothy Rudd Moore; Florence Price; Daniel Bernard Roumain;

Viola & Piano

Cello & Piano

Abdullah Ibrahim; Brian Raphael Nabors

Winds & Piano

William Grant Still;

Strings & Piano

Black Women Composers: 20th Century Music for Piano and Strings; Brian Raphael Nabors; Carlos Simon;

Woodwind Quintet

Valerie Coleman; Tania León; George Walker

String Quartet

Brian Raphael Nabors; Carlos Simon;

Winds & Strings

Valerie Coleman; Brian Raphael Nabors

Winds, Strings, & Piano

Tania León; Undine Smith Moore; Brian Raphael Nabors; William Grant Still

Saxophone Quartet

Strings

Tania León; Jessie Montgomery

Strings & Voice

Jessie Montgomery; Jessie Montgomery

Two Guitars

Last Updated: Jan 25, 2023 10:39 AM
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