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Ghanaian composer Fred Onovwerosuoke's "Six Variations on a Pende Folk Tune" was written in the early twentieth-century for flute. The work "begins with a plaintive melody, but immediately graduate into a show piece of imageries, dances and intrigues…

Chinese American composer Wayne Lu wrote "Solace for horn and organ" in 2008. The work is composed in one movement, an adagio of moderate difficulty. It was dedicated to hoorn player Tina Su. The score is available for purchase on Theodore Front…

Black composer Thomas Flippin's "A Soldier's Sonata" (2007, rev. 2020) depicts the psyche of a soldier in conflict. As indicated on the composer's website, it was "based on my relationships with Bosnian musicians Denis Azabagic and Vesna Mehinovic.…

Brazilian pianist, violinist, conductor, music educator and composer, Lycia de Biase Bidard composed "Solitude" for trumpet and piano in 1977. The work is dedicated to Henrique Cesar.

Cuban composer, conductor, educator and advisor to arts organization Tania León composed "Son Sonora" for flute and guitar. The work was commissioned by Duologue.

Black composer and conductor Quinn Mason composed his "Sonata" for solo guitar in 2018. As described on the composer's website, the "Sonata for solo guitar" in three movements, written for Tom Clippinger, "explores the lyricism of the classical…

African-American composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's "Sonata a la baroque" for solo flute was composed in 1994.

Black composer Alonso Malik Pirio composed his "Sonata for Bass Trombone and Piano" in 2018. The work is composed in two movements:

I. Meditative
II. Groovy

Black composer Ulysses Kay wrote this one-movement piece in 1941 while he was studying at Yale with Paul Hindemith. According to the publisher's website, "The Sonata for Bassoon and Piano has been unavailable for fifty years and is now presented for…

Black Creole violinist, conductor and composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (often referred to as "The Black Mozart") was a prolific French composer of the classical era. Born on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and was sent to…