Works by African American

Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins - Thomas Bethune (1849-1908) A blind, slave pianist, autistic savant, musical prodigy from Georgia

• The Battle of Manassas (1866) • The Oliver Gallop (1860) • Water in the Moonlight (1892) • Sewing Song (1889) • Rain Storm (1865) • March Timpani (1880) • Reve Charmant (1881) • Wellenklange: Voices of the Waves (1882)

Scott Joplin (1867-1917) The “King of ”, an African American and pianist, achieved fame for his ragtime compositions

• Great Crush Collision • Something Doing (1903) • (1907) March (1896) • (1903) • Fig Leaf Rag 1908) • Combination March (1896) • Palm Leaf Rag (1903) • Sugar Cane (1908) • Harmony Club Waltz • The Sycamore (1904) • Sensation (1908) (1896) • The Favorite (1904) • Pine Apple Rag (1908) • (1899) • The Cascades (1904) • Pleasant Moments 1909) • (1899) • The Chrysanthemum • (1909) • Swipesy (1900) (1904) • Solace (1909) • Peacherine Rag (1901) • (1905) • Country Club (1909) • Sunflower • Blinks’ Waltz (1905) • Euphonic Sounds (1909) (1901) • The Rosebud March • Paragon Rag (1909) • Augustan Club Waltz (1905) • Stoptime Rag (1910) (1901) • Leola (1905) • Felicity Rag (1911) • (1901) • Eugenia (1906) • ’s New Rag • Cleopha (1902) • The Ragtime 1906) (1912) • A Breeze from Alabama • Antoinette (1906) • Kismet Rag (1913) (1902) • The Nonpareil (1907) • (1914) • (1902) • Gladiolus Rag (1907) • (1914) (1902) • • Searchlight Rag (1907) • Pretty Pansy Rag (1915?) • March Majestic (1902) • Lily Queen (1907) • Recitative Rag (1915?) • The Strenuous Life (1902) • Rose Leaf Rag (1907) • Reflection Rag (1917) Piano Works by African American Composers

Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949) African American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer known for his baritone voice

• From the Southland, six pieces (1914) [Through the Moanin’ Pines, The Frolic, In De Col’ Moonlight, A Jubilee, On Bended Knees, A New Hidin’ Place]

Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) Composer, organist, pianist, choral director, professor, born in Canada, moved to the U.S. at age 11

• After the Cakewalk (1900) • Enchantment (1922), a Romantic Suite for solo • Cave of the Winds (1902), march and two-step piano [Incantation, Song of the Shrine, Dance • Magnolia, Suite for Piano (1912) of Desire] • In the Bottoms (1913), Suite for piano [Prelude • The Cinnamon Grove (1928), a Suite for piano (Night), His Song, Honey (Humoresque), • Tropic Winter (1938), a Suite for Piano Barcarolle (Morning), Juba Dance] • Eight Bible Vignettes (1941–1943) • Eight Bible Vignettes • Nepenthe and the Muse • Inspiration Waltzes

James Sylvester Scott (1885-1938) Ragtime composer and pianist, regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime

• A Summer Breeze (1903) • Peace and Plenty Rag • The Fascinator (1903) • Ophelia Rag • Efficiency Rag • Honey Moon Rag • Sunburst Rag, two step for piano • Hilarity Rag • Ragtime Oriole • Grace and Beauty - A Classic Rag • Rag Sentimental • Frog Legs Rag • Quality Rag • Broadway Rag (1922)

Nora Holt (c.1885-1974) Singer, composer, music critic, first African American to receive a Master’s Degree in composition in the United States

• Negro Dance (1921) Piano Works by African American Composers

Florence Price (1887-1953) African American classical composer, pianist, organist, music teacher, from a mixed-race Arkansas family

• (1926) • [Ten Negro Spirituals for the Piano] [1937-42): • Impromptu No. 1 (1926) Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveler; I’m Troubled • Valsette Mignon (1926) in My Mind; I Know the Lord Has Laid His Hands • Preludes (1926-32): No. 1 Allegro moderato; No. on Me; Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho; Gimme 2 Andantino cantabile; No. 3 Allegro molto; No. 4 That Old Time Religion; Low, Sweet [“Wistful”] Allegretto con tenerezza; No. 5 Allegro Chariot; I Want Jesus to Walk with Me; Peter, Go Ring dem Bells; Were You There When They • At the Cotton Gin (1927) Crucified My Lord; Lord, I Want to Be a Christian • Song without Words in G Major (1928 or early Remembrance (1941 or earlier) 1930s) • • Village Scenes (1942): "Church Spires in • Meditation ([ca. 1929]) Moonlight," "A Shaded Lane," "The Park" • Fantasie nègre [No. 1] (E minor) (1929, rev. 1931); based on the spiritual "Sinner, please • Your Hands in Mine (1943) (originally don't let this harvest pass" titled Memory Lane) • Clouds [ca. 1940s] • On a Quiet Lake (June 23, 1929) Cotton Dance (Presto) ([ca. 1940s]) • Barcarolle (ca. 1929-32) • • 2 Fantasies on Folk Tunes (date unknown) • His Dream (ca. 1930-31) • In Sentimental Mood (1947) • Cotton Dance (Dance of the Cotton Blossoms) (1931) • Whim Wham (July 6, 1946) • Fantasie nègre No. 2 in (March, 1932) • Placid Lake (July 17, 1947) • Fantasie nègre No. 3 in F minor (March 30, • Memories of Dixieland (1947) 1932) • Sketches in Sepia (September, 1947) • Fantasie nègre No. 4 in B minor (April 5, 1932 - • Rock-a-bye (1947) [ca. 1937]) (4 versions) • [Three Roses]: To a Yellow Rose, To a White • Piano Sonata in E minor (1932) Rose,To a Red Rose (1949) • 3 Little Negro (1933); also arranged for • To a Brown Leaf (1949) for two (1949) • First Romance(ca. 1940s) • Tecumseh (published 1935) • Waltzing on a Sunbeam (ca. 1950 • 3 Sketches for little pianists (1937) • Snapshots: I. Lake Mirror (1952), II. Moon • Arkansas Jitter (1938) behind a Cloud (1949), III. Flame (1949) • Dance (1938) • Until We Meet (1952) • Dance of the Cotton Blossoms (1938) • Dances in the Canebrakes (1953) • Summer Moon (for Memry Midgett)' (April 6, • about 70 teaching pieces 1938) • I'm Troubled in My Mind • Down a Southern Lane (April 29, 1939) • Pieces to a Certain Pair of Newlyweds • On a Summer's Eve (June 15, 1939) • Three Miniature Portraits of Uncle • Rocking chair (1939) Ned (originally "Three Miniature Portraits of Uncle Joe"; later "Two Photographs” Piano Works by African American Composers

James Hubert “Eubie” Blake (1887-1983) Composer, lyricist, pianist of ragtime, and popular music

• The Rag • Rhapsody in Ragtime • Memories of You • Poor Jimmy Green • Bandana Days • Eubie Dubie • Troublesome Ivories • Brittwood Rag • Eubie’s Classical Rag • The Baltimore Todolo • The Chevy Chase Rag • Poor Katie Redd • Capricious Harlem • Kitchen Tom

Duke Ellington (1899-1974) Composer, pianist, leader of a jazz orchestra

• Soda Fountain Rag • Lotus Blossom • The Single Petal of a Rose • The Clothed Woman • Bird of Paradise • The Lake • Fleurette Africaine • Blues • Dancers in love [Perfume Suite No.3] • Black Beauty • Melancholia • Sacred Concerts Suite [The Lord’s Prayer, • Swampy River Meditation, New World A-Comin’] • Reflection in D • Fast and Furious • Black and Tan Fantasy

William Grant Still (1895-1978) The “Dean of Afro-American Music,” classical composer and conductor from Mississippi

• A Deserted Plantation, suite in 3 movements • Kaintuck for 2 pianos (1933) • Entrance of the Porteuses • 3 Visions (1935) [Dark Horsemen, • Bells (1943) [The Phantom Chapel, Fairy Knoll] Summerland, Radiant Pinnacle] • Marionette (1946) • Quit Dat Fool’nish (1935) • Preludes [5] for piano • 7 Traceries (1939) [Cloud Cradles, Mystic Pool, • Five Animal Sketches Muted Laughter, Out of the Silence, Woven • Swanee River, arrangement Silver, Wailing Dawn, A Bit of Wit] Piano Works by African American Composers

John Wesley Work III (1901-1967) Composer, educator, choral director, musicologist, scholar of African-American folklore and music

• Sassafras, pieces for piano (1946) • Big Bunch of Roses

Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989) The "Dean of Black Women Composers," a notable, prolific American composer, professor of music, classical pianist

• Valse Caprice (1930) • Before I'd Be a Slave (1953)

Howard Swanson (1907-1978) African American composer of classical music

• “The Cuckoo” Scherzo for piano (1948) • Piano Sonata (1950)

Zenobia Powell Perry (1908-2004) Composer, professor from Oklahoma

• Childhood Capers (1935) • Soliloquy (Rev.1979) • Rhapsody (1960) • March (Three Notes) (1980) • Nocturne (1961) • Blaize (1985) • Times Seven (1964, Rev. 1985) • Suite from Tawawa House (1985, Rev.2014) • Orrin and Echo (1970) [Overture, Cake Walk, Sunday Dance Tune, • Flight (1970) Prelude, Fire Music, Jumping Over the Broom] • Ties (1970) • A Jazz Trifle (1986) • Teeta (1972, Rev.1988) • Vignette No.1 (1990) • Round and Round (1977) • Vignette No.2 (1990) Piano Works by African American Composers

Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) Jazz pianist, arranger, composer from Georgia

• Runnin’ Wild (1922), arrangement • Twinklin’ (1944) • The Moon is Low (1929), arrangement • Special Freight (1944) • Sleepy Time Gal (1924), arrangement • I Never Knew (I Could Love Anybody) • In a Mist (1927), arrangement • Bobo and Doodles (1944) • Little Joe from Chicago (1938) • Mary’s Boogie, transcription • Lullaby in Rhythm (1938) • The Moon is Low • Duces Wild (1944) • Drag ‘em • Chili Sauce (1944) • Nite Life • The Duke and the Count (1944)

Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-1972) African American composer and pianist from Chicago

• Lillian M. Bowles: For the piano • Troubled water

John Len Chatman “Memphis Slim” (1915-1988) Blues pianist, singer and composer

• Mr. Freddie • 44 Blues • Sail On Blues • 88 Boogie • Walkin’ the Boogie • Down Home Blues • Cow Cow Blues • Down That Big Road • Jefferson County Blues • Roll and Tumble • Four O’Clock Blues • Crowing Rooster • Trouble in Mind • Woman Blues Boogie

Ulysses Kay (1917-1995) African American neoclassical composer from Arizona

• Four Inventions (1946) • First Nocturne for Piano (1973) Piano Works by African American Composers

Billy Taylor (1921-2010) Jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, educator

• Black Swan Rag

George Walker (1922-2018)

Composer, pianist, organist, first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music

• Music for Two Pianos • Piano Sonata No. 5 • Piano Sonata No. 1 • Sonata for Two Pianos • Piano Sonata No. 2 • Spatials for Piano • Piano Sonata No. 3 • Spektra for Piano • Piano Sonata No. 4

Julia Amanda Perry (1924-1979) Classical composer and teacher

Pearls on Silk Prelude for Piano • •

Hale Smith (1925-2009) Composer, pianist, educator, arranger, editor from Cleveland

• My Scarf is Yello • Mirrors: Rondo and for 2 pianos • Off-Beat Shorty 1. Agitato • Evocation 2. Slowly

Betty Jackson King (1928-1994) Pianist, singer, educator, choral conductor, composer

• Four Seasonal Sketches: Spring Intermezzo, Summer Interlude, Autumn Dance, Winter Holiday Piano Works by African American Composers

Thomas Jefferson “T.J.” Anderson (1928) Composer, professor of music

• Five Portraitures of Two People, 4 hands (1965) • Call and Response (1982) • Watermelon (1971) • Pasacaglia and Blues (1990) • Street Song (1977) • Boogie Woogie Fantasy (1997) • Play Me Something (1979)

David Baker (1931-2016) Jazz composer, conductor, musician, and educator from Indianapolis

• Sonata No.1 • Jazz Dance Suite (1989) • Five Short Pieces for Solo Piano (1970)

H. Leslie Adams (1932) Composer, choral conductor, show music director, educator

• Three Piano Preludes (1961) • Contrasts for Piano (2001) • Twenty-six Etudes for Solo Piano

Roger Donald Dickerson (1934) Composer, jazz pianist, educator

• Sonatina

Valerie Capers (1935) A Juilliard trained blind jazz composer, pianist, educator

• Portraits in Jazz (1976), 12 pieces {Ella Scats a Little Lamb, Waltz for Miles, The Monk, Sweet Mister Jelly Roll, A Taste of Bass, Blues for Duke, Billy’s Songs, Mr. Satchmo, Canción de la Havana, Bossa Brazilla, Blue Bird, Cool-Trane] Piano Works by African American Composers

Julius Eastman (1940-1990) Composer, pianist, vocalist, dancer, combined minimalism with elements of pop music

• Piano Pieces I-IV (1968), solo piano • Crazy Nigger (ca. 1980) for 4 pianos • Touch Him When (1970) for piano 4 hands • Piano 2 (1986), solo piano • Gay Guerilla (ca. 1980) for 4 pianos

Dorothy Rudd Moore (1940) Composer, music educator, co-founder of the Society of Black Composers

• A Little Whimsy (1978) • Dream and Variations (1974)

Alvin Singleton (1940) Composer from Brooklyn, New York

• Mutations (1966) • Le Tombeau du Petit Prince (1978), for • Cinque (1969) harpsichord • Argoru I (1970) • Inside-Out (19884), piano 4 hands • Changing Faces (1970) • In My Own Skin (2010)

Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork (1941) Composer, professor

• Trio Sonata for Solo Piano • Piano Sonata No.3 • 2 Scherzos for solo piano • Ignis Fatuus (Mysterious Fires) • Piano Sonata No.1. • Eight Variations on Shalom Chevarim • Piano Sonata No.2 Piano Works by African American Composers

Anthony Braxton (1945) Composer, musician, educator from Chicago

• Composition No.1 (1968) • Composition No.31 (1974) • Composition No.5 (1969) • Composition No.32 (1974) • Composition No.10 (1969) • Composition No.33 (1974) • Composition No.16 for 4 pianos (1971) • Composition No.139 (1988) • Composition No.30 (1973) • Composition No.301 (2001)

Wallace McClain Cheatham (1945)

Composer, musician, researcher, conductor, educator

• Prelude No.1 “Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho” • Prelude No.3 “Didn’t it Rain” • Prelude No.2 “Pour Mourner’s Got a Home”

Joyce Solomon Moorman (1946) Composer, educator

• Theme and 12 Variations • A Summer Afternoon in South Carolina • Piano Suite • Piano Sonata • A Young Woman’s Impressions of

Earl Louis Stewart (1950)

Composer, musician, conductor from Louisiana

• The Budding Rose Rag (1969) • Birthday Rag (2003) • Preludes for the Young Pianist (1973) [Lullaby • In a Meeting Rag (2003) for Sonny, Song of the Fourth, Clouds] • Joplin Lives (2003) • Song for Annell (1978) • My Neah Rag (2003) • Afro-Inventions Book 1 (1994) [Swing, Rag, • Festive Rag (2010) Ngoma, New Orleans, Traditional Calypso, • A Glimpse Into Another World Rag (2010) Afro-Latin, Neo-Salsa, Afro-Latin, Neo-Funk, Swing, Neo-New Orleans, Neo-Bebop] Piano Works by African American Composers

Richard Thompson Composer, pianist, performer, jazz educator

• Six Preludes for Piano

Lettie Beckton Alston (1953-2014) Composer, educator

• The Journey: The Longest Mile • Three Rhapsodies for Solo Piano (1994) [Well- • Etude Marked, Solemn, Playful with Expression] • Moods for Piano (1993) [Playful, Mysteriously, • Variations on “Let Every Voice and Sing” (2000) Gloomy, Joyfully]

Anthony Curtis Davis (1951) Composer, pianist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his opera

• A Walk Through the Shadow (1981) • Middle Passage (1983) • Behind the Walk (1984) • Wayang VI (1985) • Goddess Variations (1999)

Geoffrey Dana Hicks (1954) Composer, director, educator, pianist, performer, recording artist,

• The Storm (1964) • The Impromptu Preludes for Piano (2003) • Theme and Variation for Piano in C (1970) • The New England Preludes for Piano (2010) • Sonata for Tape and Piano (1975) • The Outdoor Preludes for Piano (2011) • 24 Short Pieces for Piano (1980) • Die Klavier Skizzen (The Piano Sketches • A Tribute to R.N. Dett (1988) (2011-2012) • The Picture Preludes for Piano (1992) Piano Works by African American Composers

Geoffrey Mumford (1955) Composer, educator

• two Elliott Carter tributes • a flower in folding shadows (1986) I. For Elliott (1983-84) • a landscape of interior resonances (2001) II. a celebration of Elliott (2006) • four dances for Boris (2004) • barbaglio del manca (1981) • of ringing and layered space (2010) • variations (1984) I. “Jenny” • fragments from the surrounding evening (1984) II. “Lura”

Regina Harris Baiocchi (1956) Composer, author, poet, educator from Chicago

• Azuretta • Legacy • Déjà Vu • Liszten, My Husband is Not a Hat! • Equipoise by Intersection

Michael Abels (1962) Award winning composer of film scores, orchestral and solo works, arranger, editor

• Iconoclasm (2017)

Trevor Weston (1967) Composer, educator

• A Shepherd’s Vouage (1996) • New Blues for TJ (2003) • Meme la lune devient triste de temps en temps • Eurythmy Variations (2007) (1998) • Wafting Clouds (2019) • Knell (2002) Piano Works by African American Composers

Nkeiru Okoye (1972) Composer

• African Sketches [Dusk, Drums Talking, The Village Children at Play, Dancing Barefoot in the Rain]

John Wineglass (1973) Emmy Award-winning television composer, performer

• Piano Suite No.2 in E-flat • Fantasy No.5 for Piano: Ascending Towards 1. A Midsummer Waltz Heaven 2. The Journey 3. Distant Memories

James Lee III (1975)

Composer from Michigan, educator

• Piano Sonata No.1 (2002) • Four Jewish Songs (2018) • Fantasia Ritmica (2003) • Piano Sonata No.3 (2018) • 12 Preludes of the New Earth (2009) • Recuerdos Diaspóricos (2018) • Piano Sonata No.2 (2011) • Window to Eternity’s Threshold (2018) • Souls of Alkebulan (2012) • Ya’akov’s Last Words (2018)

Gregory Jackson (1976) Composer, percussionist, director, educator from Tennessee

• Etude, Op.1, No.1 & 2 • Postlude, Op.17 • Prelude, Op.3 • Etude, Op.27 • Prelude Op.4 • Berceuse, Op.51 • Op.7, Allegro • Subjective Reality, Op.57 • Mood change, Op.8 • The First Frost, Op.73 • Fantasia, Op.11 (1999) • For Ilyse, Op.101 Piano Works by African American Composers

Joe W. Moore III (1986) Percussionist, educator, composer

• 29 • Lanota • Iceberg • My Favorites • Just This Once • Spectrum

Jessica Mays (1987) Composer, pianist, singer-songwriter

• Monday (2004) Piano Works by African American Composers

Image Credits:

Anthony Braxton: Peter Gannushkin Anthony Davis: Anthony Davis Adolphus Hailstork: Old Dominion University Billy Taylor: jazztimes.com David Baker: jazzinamerica.org Duke Ellington: public domain publicity photo Earl Louis Stewart: Photo Credit: Global Music Awards Eubie Blake: U.S. Library of Congress Florence Price: University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collection Geoffrey Dana Hicks: from tremonttemple.org Geoffrey Mumford: faculty image at Oberlin.edu George Walker: Photograph by Frank Schramm, New York Times Obituary Gregory Jackson: Innovative Percussion, Inc. H. Leslie Adams, Photograph by Michael Dalby, Wikipedia Hale Smith: classicalmpr.org Harry T. Burleigh: Photographed by Maud Cuney-Hare, Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1936, p. 328. Copyright not renewed Howard Swanson: Center for Black Music, Columbia College, Chicago. Photograph by Maurice Seymour, New York James Lee III: Morgan State University James Scott: U.S. Library of Congress Jessica Mays: Jessica Mays via newmusicusa.org John Len Chatman “Memphis Slim”: deepsouthernsoul.blogspot.com Joe W. Moore III: C. Alan Publications John Wesley Work: U.S. Library of Congress John Wineglass: musicinmay.org Joyce Solomon Moorman: discogs.com Julia Amanda Perry: blackpast.org Julius Eastman: Photographed by Christine Rusiniak Lettie Beckton Alston: colorado.edu Margaret Bonds: Public Domain Image Mary Lou Williams: Photograph by William P. Gottlieb, restoration by Adam Cuerden, U.S. Library of Congress Michael Abels: Photo by Jason LaVeris/Film Magic Nkeiru Okoye: Credit: Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Nora Holt: Carl Van Vechten, U.S. Library of Congress Regina Harris Baiocchi: Regina Harris Baiocchi Richard Thompson: richardthompsonpiano.com Robert Nathaniel Dett: U.S. Library of Congress, public domain Roger Dickerson: louisarmstrongjazzcamp.com Scott Joplin: public domain Thomas Wiggins: Photoprint by Golder & Robinson, N.Y. Copyrighted by John G. Bethune, U.S. Library of Congress Trevor Weston: Photo credit Trevor Weston TJ Anderson: Jeffrey Herman, nmbx.newmusicusa.org Ulysses Kay: ca. 1975. Ulysses Kay Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Undine Smith Moore: Wikipedia Valerie Capers: Valerie Capers Wallace M. Cheatham: amicimusicensemble.com William Grant Still: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, U.S. Library of Congress Zenobia Powell Perry: colorado.edu