Keyboard Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography (Music Reference Collection) [Hardcover]

Aaron Horne (Compiler)

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Series: Music Reference Collection | Publication Date: August 30, 1992

Following the pattern established with his pioneering works String Music of Black Composers and Woodwind Music of Black Composers, Aaron Horne now presents a comparable work for the piano and related instruments (such as accordion, harpsichord, and organ). Composers from Africa as well as the Diaspora are covered in this volume, the most comprehensive work on the topic yet published. Organized in alphabetical order by composer, each of the more than 200 entries provides information, where available, on the composer's life and career, and then details all works that include piano as well as information about commission, premiere, and composer bibliography and discography. The volume includes a keyboard music index as well as a general discography and a bibliography. This work should prove invaluable for scholars examining the impact of Black composers on music and dance, and it will be equally valuable to those devising repertoire for teaching and concert purposes.

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“. . . a welcome addition to the currently available bibliographic tools for African-American keyboard music useful for its range and quantity of information will be very helpful to scholars, educators, and performers.”–Sonneck Society Bulletin

About the Author

AARON HORNE is Executive Assistant to the Chancellor of the Board of Governors Universities in Springfield, Illinois and Professor of Music at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Among his earlier publications are Woodwind Music of Black Composers (Greenwood Press, 1990) and String Music and Black Composers (Greenwood Press, 1991).

Product Details

Hardcover: 360 pages
Publisher: Greenwood Press (August 30, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031327939X
ISBN-13: 978-0313279393
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,612,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Ayo Bankole was born 1n May, 1935, in Lagos, Nigeria; he died in November 1976, also in Lagos. Read the first page

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New York, Columbia College, Library of Congress, Music Collection, New Orleans, Black American Music, Eubie Blake, Scott Joplin, Don Lee, Jelly Roll Morton, Partial Listing of Organ Music, Kent State University Press, Our Culture, Sources Information, Carl Fischer, Piano Compositions, The Music of Black Americans, Kansas City, David Anthony Lofton, Volume One, Dane Publications, Amistad Research Center, Clarence Williams, Contemporary American Composers, Rio de Janeiro

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