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Black composer Udine Eliza Anna Smith Moore (known as the "Dean of Black Women Composers") wrote "Introduction and Allegro" for clarinet and piano in 1958.

Black composer T.J. Anderson composed "Vocalise" for violin and harp. Commissioned for Richar dHunt for Jacques and Gail Israelivitch. The first performance took place at Webster College in St. Louis, MO on November 23, 1980 by Jacques Israelivitch…

Black composer T.J. Anderson composed "Minstrel Man" for bass trombone and percussions (one player). Comissioned by (and Dedicated to) Thomas Everett, the work was premiered by the dedicatee in Providence, RI.

Black composer Ronald Roxbury completed "Two Songs of Walt Whitman" in the final weeks of his life. As included on Bridge Records' website: "“Goodbye My Fancy” is a lover’s farewell, and is set as a flowing barcarolle. “Here the Frailest Leaves”…

Black composer Regina Harris Baiocchi composed "Miles Per Hour" for B-flat or C Trumpet. The composition was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featuring George Vosberg.

Black composer Regina Harris Baiocchi composed "Chasé" for B flat clarinet and piano. The composition was premiered by Richard Nunley Jr. And Ester Hanviriyapunt in Chicago.

Black composer Quincy C. Hilliard is a composer and professor in the School of Music & Performing Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

In 2012, "Coty" was recorded on an album that was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Black composer Mary D. Watkins composed "Mount Cathedral" for trumpet and piano.

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…