String Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography

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Following the pattern established with his pioneering work, Woodwind Music of Black Composers, Aaron Horne now presents a comparable work for the string music of Black composers. Composers from Africa as well as the Diaspora are covered in this, the most comprehensive work on the topic yet published. Organized in alphabetical order by composer, each entry provides information, where available, on the composer's life and career, and then details all works that include strings as well as information about commission, premiere, and composer bibliography and discography. The volume includes a string index, as well as a general discography and bibliography. This work should prove invaluable for scholars examining the impact of Black composers on classical music, opera, and ballet, and it will be equally valuable to those devising repertoire for teaching and concert purposes.

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The book, therefore, exceeds in value the restrictions of its title by providing more than a list of chamber works by Afro-American composers. In fact, some of the secondary virtues compete in importance with the book's implied purpose.-ARBA
This is the second of Horne's series of bibliographic manuals on concert music by black composers. A careful scholar who knows the secondary literature well, Horne (Northeastern Illinois University) has also maintained communication with the contemporary composer. This volume (which includes music for plectral instruments as well as the bowed strings) employs the same format as Woodwind Music of Black Composers (CH, Dec '90): a respectable biographic sketch for each composer, the register of appropriate works (including publisher imprint, duration, and recordings), and a bibliography of sources consulted. The composers are alphabetized within geographic regions (Africa, the US, and Latin America) and the works are indexed by medium. This is a major publication of score bibliographies which should be of interest to all musicians, especially those responsible for teaching or repertoire development. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate collections. Lerma, Columbia College-Choice
"The book, therefore, exceeds in value the restrictions of its title by providing more than a list of chamber works by Afro-American composers. In fact, some of the secondary virtues compete in importance with the book's implied purpose."-ARBA
"This is the second of Horne's series of bibliographic manuals on concert music by black composers. A careful scholar who knows the secondary literature well, Horne (Northeastern Illinois University) has also maintained communication with the contemporary composer. This volume (which includes music for plectral instruments as well as the bowed strings) employs the same format as Woodwind Music of Black Composers (CH, Dec '90): a respectable biographic sketch for each composer, the register of appropriate works (including publisher imprint, duration, and recordings), and a bibliography of sources consulted. The composers are alphabetized within geographic regions (Africa, the US, and Latin America) and the works are indexed by medium. This is a major publication of score bibliographies which should be of interest to all musicians, especially those responsible for teaching or repertoire development. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate collections. Lerma, Columbia College"-Choice

Author Bio

AARON HORNE is Professor of Music at Northeastern Illinois University as well as a lecturer at Northwestern University. Among his earlier publications is Woodwind Music of Black Composers (Greenwood Press, 1990).