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Black composer George Theophilus Walker composed "Sonata No. 2" for piano in 1956.

The work has four movements:
I. Theme and Variations
II. Presto
III. Adagio
IV. Allegretto tranquillo

Black composer Jeffrey Mumford's "A Wind of Suspended Prominences" for clarinet and piano was premiered by clarinetist William Powell and pianist Zita Carno on April 17, 1981.

Black composer Jeffrey Mumford's "linear cycles VII" (cambiamenti II) received its first performance by violinist Kurt Nikkanen on 22 July 1979.

Black composer Jeffrey Mumford's "morning thunder" for solo flute received its first performance on 15 December 1980.

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

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.