Faculty: Ordering Scores
- Music score order requestsFill out the form to request a score for either CSB or SJU
Score Publishers
Please use the form in the "Faculty: Ordering Scores" box or email Bonnie Finn to request scores for the library.
Online Collection Resources
- New Muses ProjectFrom the site: New Muses Project is a DEI-centered classical music organization, promoting justice and curiosity through performance, education, and scholarship.
- Institute for Composer Diversity databasesDatabases include: Composer Diversity, Works Diversity, Choral Diversity
- Wind Repertory ProjectFrom the site: "The Wind Repertory Project™ is a comprehensive database of wind literature, expanded by contributions of band directors/conductors, students, and wind band enthusiasts worldwide. Our goal is to help you find detailed information about wind band literature, including program notes, instrumentation, errata, media links, academic resources, and more. Our small but mighty team is constantly adding new information on works and composers, and you can help as well, by contributing any relevant information, from recent performances to program notes you have written to errata you've discovered along the way."
Composer lists
- African Diaspora Music ProjectA Compilation of original works by composers in the African Diaspora.
All research associated with this project is owned and presented by
Dr. Louise Toppin and Videmus. - AfriClassical: African Heritage in Classical Music52 composers, conductors and instrumental performers - Africans, African Americans and Afro-Europeans
- The Composers Equity Project A Database of ALAANA,* Women, and Gender Non-Conforming ComposersChamber Music America links to composer's websites
- Black Grooves: Reviews of New Black Music ReleasesThis is a music review site hosted by the Archives of African American Music & Culture (AAAMC) at Indiana University. Although no new blogs are anticipated, it spans from June 2006 to May 2021.
Piano
- A Seat at the Piano: Promoting Inclusion in Piano RepertoireA resource for pianists, pedagogues, and curious music appreciators to explore.
Vocal
- Afrocentric Voices in "Classical" MusicAfrocentric Voices focuses on classically trained American singers and composers of African descent and on the vocal music forms they influenced, especially opera and art songs–including Negro spirituals composed for concert performance (from the website)
- The African-American Art Song AllianceFounded in 1997, this is the home of interchange between performers and scholars interested in art song by African-American composers. Here you will find information and links to assist with your discovery of our contribution to song.
- Beyond Elijah Rock: The Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black ComposersWorking list of the non-idiomatic choral music of black composers
Strings
- Underrepresented Composer Database for ViolaThis database explores repertoire by underrepresented composers that involves the viola as a significant voice.
- The Sphinx Catalog of Latin-American Cello WorksMore than 2000 works of Latin American composers centered on the cello.
CSB and SJU Bibliographies
Piano Music by Black Women Composers by Call Number: CSB Clemens ML128.P3 W3 1992ISBN: 0313281416Publication Date: 1992-02-28Biographical dictionary and comprehensive bibliography of solo and ensemble piano music composed by African American women to 1992. Introductory overview on the contributions of black women in music and biographical sketches on the fifty-four composers profiled in the catalog. Over 300 piano works are listed, with detailed descriptive information on close to 200 works, including sources and levels of difficulty. Appendixes list available published music, ensemble instrumentation, music for teaching, and music published before 1920. A selected bibliography and a selected discography are also provided.
Blacks in classical music : a bibliographical guide to composers, performers, and ensembles by Call Number: SJU Alcuin ML128.B45 G7 1988ISBN: 0313260567Publication Date: 1988-06-20Comprehensive index to newspaper and periodical indexes, biographical dictionaries, bibliographies, dissertations and theses, music collections, and published discographies spanning from the mid-eighteenth century to 1988, and ranging geographically from Europe and Africa to the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Contains sections on composers, conductors, individual instrumentalists, symphony orchestras, opera singers and companies.
Pdf scores
Some pdfs are freely available scores and parts. Others may be downloaded for a fee, but we cannot order these for the library due to lack of ability to catalog and share them.
- Cuarteto Latino Americano Virtual LibraryLatin American works for string quartets
Workshops
- University of Michigan: Singing down the barriersAn intensive introduction to the repertoire of African American composers for the college student, apprentice, voice teacher, coach, choral conductor, or professional singer. In tandem with a directed curriculum of readings, resources, recordings, reflective exercises, and performance, the Institute seeks to help participants overcome the barriers that prevent successful engagement with and performance of African American concert repertoire including art song and spirituals (from the website).
