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Black composer Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III's compositional style blends musical ideas from both the African American and European traditions. Hailstork's "Bassoon Set" was composed at the request of Geneva Southall for the students of the…

Black composer Allison Loggins-Hull composed "Homeland" for solo flute. Program notes on flutronix.com state: "'Homeland' (2018) was written shortly after Hurricane Maria stormed through Puerto Rico in 2017. Maria represented the increasing strength…

African American bassist and composer Nick Dunston has been named in the New York Times as an "indispensable player of th eNew York avant-garde." His composition, "Mulch Awareness Month" was composed for contrabass. The piece, as Dunston explains at…

Acclaimed Syrian-born cellist, oud player, and composer, Kinan Abou-Afach composed "Message in a Bottle" for guitar and harp. It is a suite-like work in 4 movements. Contact the composer for more information on the score and/or availability of a…

Black Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor Robert Nathaniel Dett's "In the Bottoms", is subtitled "Suite caractéristique". The suite for piano has five movements: 1. Prelude (Night) 2. His Song 3. Honey…

Black composer William Grant Still (known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers") wrote the "Three Visions" suite in 1935 for solo piano. As written in the Wikipedia article on this work, the composer's daughter Judith Anne Still indicated that…

Black composer William Grant Still (known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers") wrote the "Incantation and Dance" for oboe and piano.

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 composer Ulysses Kay "composed his 'Suite in B for Oboe and Piano' in 1943, finishing the piece at Quonset Point, Rhode Island in July. He withdrew the work, along with several other compositions, in the mid-1950s. The distinguished…

Black composer Florence Price composed the "Sonata in E Minor" for piano in 1932. The composition won First Price in the 1932 Rodman Wanamaker music contest, the same year her Symphony in E Minor won overall honours.