Music: Instrument-Specific Lists

from Bass Players for Black Composers. Site includes links to scores and media.

Rebeca Tavares Furtado's doctoral document. Annotated catalog begins on page 34.

Spotlight list from the Institute for Composer Diversity

Edited by Brandon Rumsey, organized by work type (chamber, solo, etudes/studies)

from site: "It provides information about works [by Latin American composers] where the cello has a prominent role as a solo instrument, soloist with orchestra, in duo with another instrument or electronic media, or in cello ensembles."

Composer and/or publisher websites provided

From site: "a working list of the non-idiomatic choral music of black composers. In no way is it meant to be an exhaustive list. . . . Non-idiomatic, as it relates to black composers, refers to the original concert music that is not part of the traditional idiomatic canon associated with black musicians. That canon includes spirituals, gospel, jazz, hip-hop, and rap among others. There will be pieces that may be based on spirituals or gospel tunes but are, at their core, original songs similar to ones that use chorale tunes in cantatas and popular songs parodied in Renaissance masses

"Choral works of composers from underrepresented groups" compiled by the Institute for Composer Diversity.

An introduction to and survey of repertoire by composers of color and native-born South American composers from Brazil, Peru, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, and Bolivia from 1600 to 1800, with an emphasis on villancicos, cantatas, and other works for voices and chamber ensemble.

list compiled by Jenny Maclay

Spotlight list from the Institute for Composer Diversity

by the U of SC Flute Studio

Spotlight list from the Institute for Composer Diversity

"This spreadsheet will be an ever-updating resource for music written by Black composers for guitar/other plucked instruments, updating both as older works are rediscovered and new works are commissioned."

Spotlight list from the Institute for Composer Diversity

Spotlight list from the Institute for Composer Diversity

compiled by Calvert Johnson in 2013

Percussion solo and ensemble music; also includes links to other resources and the ability to suggest additions.

"Compiled/hosted by James Doyle, an open document of percussion ensemble works by women-identifying composers. Detailed instrumentation lists." (PAS

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.

A crowdsourced spreadsheet of inclusion in piano repertoire.

Spotlight list from the Institute for Composer Diversity

excel list compiled by Sarah Hetrick

Compiled by Natalie Mannix, Associate Professor of Trombone, University of North Texas

Spotlight list from the Institute for Composer Diversity

from Women of Note website

Spotlight list from the Institute for Composer Diversity

Spotlight list from the Institute for Composer Diversity

"Virtual ensemble videos of the some of the best young Black tuba and euphonium players from around the United States."

American Viola Society's database "explores repertoire by underrepresented composers that involves the viola as a significant voice."

Compiled by Rachel Barton Pine and Dr. Megan E. Hill for the RBP Foundation

"Compiled by Rachel Barton Pine and Dr. Megan E. Hill for the RBP Foundation. . . . This list is currently limited to works for acoustic violin and traditional symphony or chamber orchestra."

The database includes songs from the Baroque period through the 21st century, and have been categorized by level, voice type, language, composer, and composer dates. Related information includes range, tessitura, piano accompaniment, vocal line, and links to available scores.

list of 21st century composers and their websites

"searchable access to recorded track information for concert Negro Spiritual settings performed by solo Classical vocalists. The resource contains a selection from a century of historic and contemporary concert spiritual recordings."

"An extensive bibliography of books and other research resources. There is a small–but growing–list of biographies of vocalists and composers. . . . Most of these biographies now have video playlists of these musicians in performance themselves or of others performing their works, as well as photographs, music score examples, and links to resources related to their lives or careers."