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Black composer Joyce Solomon Moorman's "Three Pieces for Flute" was written in 1980.The score and recordings are available in the sources. See her Soundcloud profile for more music: https://soundcloud.com/jsm-13.

Black composer Lettie Beckon Alston composed "Pulsations" in 1974 for violin, and revised in 1993.

The composition is in three movements:
1. Gracefully, 2, Fast and Rhythmical, and 3. Slow with much expression.

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 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 Ulysses Kay wrote "Guitarra" for guitar in 1973, revised in 1985. The work was commissioned by (and dedicated to) Wilbur P. Cotton.

Black composer Zenobia Powell Perry wrote on "Homage" for piano in 1990. As described in a short article by Elizabeth Smith on Homage:"Homage is a movement in the set Piano Potpourri. Composed in 1990, it employs a wide variety of different textures…

Black composer, conductor, and musician David Baker wrote this unaccompanied "Sonata for Cello" in 1990.

African-American composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's "Blue/s Forms" for violin was composed in 1979.

African-American composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's "Lamentation - Black Folk Song Suite" for cello was composed in 1973.

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