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In one movement. A brief, unmetered piece. The two instruments mostly perform in sync, but there are also some opportunities for improvisation.

Black composer Margaret Bonds composed "Troubled Water" for piano. As Joel Fan describes in the comments on recorded performance on YouTube, "The poet Maya Angelou described "Troubled Water" as one of Margaret Bonds masterpieces. Based on the…

Black composer Margaret Bonds composed "The Ballad of the Brown King" in the early 1950s. A Cantata, it is one of her most frequently composed works. The Ballad was written in honor of the African king Balthazar, to text by Langston Hughes. It was…

Black composer Edward Osmund Bland composed "For Bassoon" in 1979 on commission by the bassoonist Fail Hightower of New York City.

Black composer and musical director Edward Osmund Bland composed "One On One" for bassoon and clarinet. As David Schwartz recounts in his liner notes for the album Legacy: Black Composers on which the work appears, the work "display[s] a style of…

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.

Brazilian pianist, violinist, conductor, music educator and composer, Lycia de Biase Bidard composed "Serie Retratos" for trumpet and piano in 1987. The work is dedicated to Paulo Reis.

Brazilian pianist, violinist, conductor, music educator and composer, Lycia de Biase Bidard composed "Concerto para piano ed trompete" in 1977.

Black composer and avant-garde jazz clarinetist Alvin Batiste composed "Episodes" for clarinet and piano.