Black History Month : African-Americans in the Performing Arts: MUSIC

The mission of the African Diaspora Music Project is to create a repository of concert works by composers throughout the world who are descended from people of West and Central Africa. It provides access to scores, recordings, and programmatic information about these composers and their works for students, teachers, professionals and presenters. The project aims to encourage the research, exploration and performance of these works, and to assist students who wish to enter the George Shirley African American Art Song and Operatic Aria Competition with appropriate repertoire choices.

Historic and contemporary African American singers and composers of Classical vocal music. Compiled by Randye Jones

Under "Organ Repertoire Lists," AGO offers bibliographies of organ works by East Asian, Latin American, and Black composers.

CelloBello offers compiled lists of works for cello by Black, Latin American, women, and 21st century composers.

Dissertation: This document aims to address the issue of accessible published works by Black Americans by presenting a current resource of available and ready-to-be- performed symphonic orchestral music by Black American composers.

A dedicated group of Juilliard studio faculty chairs and other leaders in the Music Division have joined together to create Music by Black Composers: An Introductory Resource, a document that seeks to expand knowledge and build a more inclusive approach to repertoire. Repertoire and pedagogical choices can often grow out of habit and a narrowness of knowledge, shaped by a history of exclusion and diminished voices. In the Music Division, we are taking important steps to broaden our knowledge by creating a faculty-researched list of works by Black composers to embrace and work toward a more representative world of classical music.

Music by Black Composers (MBC) was founded in 2001 as a project of the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation, a long-standing, anti-racist organization in classical music. MBC’s mission is to help rectify historic and ongoing racial injustices in the classical music sphere. Together with our nation, we grieve with the family of George Floyd, and all those in the Black community who suffer at the hand of racial injustice. We also stand in solidarity with those courageously demonstrating on behalf of justice and social reform in our country, and, as always, #BlackisClassical.

A Seat at the Piano promotes and advocates for the inclusion, study, and performance of a more equitably representative body of piano works. By creating a resource for musicians, pedagogues, and curious music appreciators, ASAP aims to broaden their knowledge of composers and their works. The database includes links to composer websites for biographical information and scores, recordings, and videos, when available.

Database of solo and chamber music featuring the viola by underrepresented composers, searchable individually or in combination by the following fields: composer name, date ranges, gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, country of origin, country of residence, LGBTQ+ status, title of composition, instrumentation, level of difficulty, other instruments besides viola, duration, has link to purchase, has link to library availability, has link to recording, publication status, and living composer status

This is a living collection of books, articles, documentaries, series, podcasts and more about the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day. Resources are organized chronologically and by genre for ease of browsing

Digital exhibit centered on Eileen Jackson Southern (1920-2002), an extraordinary scholar whose landmark book The Music of Black Americans inspired the academic subfield of Black music studies. This exhibit highlights archival materials from the collection that Southern left to the Harvard University Archives, and it introduces visitors to Southern's life and legacy.