Music by African American women composers

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The collection consists of hundreds of pages of Margaret Bond's music manuscripts and manuscript fragments, letters and cards from Langston Hughes and others, photographs, programs, and ephemera.

See the External Documents section below for a detailed inventory to the collection.

Scope and Contents The collection consists musical compositions authored by pianist and composer Ruth Norman, including music manuscripts and printed scores. Norman produced a variety of works, including piano solo compositions, organ solo compositions, choral compositions, solo vocal compositions, and orchestral compositions. The collection also includes a small amount of related documents, such as concert programs, correspondence, promotional flyers, and composition lists. Finally, the collection also...

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The collection contains materials related to Pan African composers and musicians that was collected by Hildred Roach. It includes music scores from a variety of Black composers, Hildred Roach concert programs, and music recordings (phonograph records, compact discs, and open reel). The collection includes William Grant Still, Ulysses Kay, George Walker, and many others.

Please see the External Documents section below for preliminary inventories of the collection.

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The collection consists of Evelyn Simpson-Curenton music manuscriots, scores, programs, correspondance, materials related to the 1990 Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman performance at Carnegie Hall, and one compact disc of recorded music by Simpson-Curenton titled "Reflections" (2009).

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The collection consists of papers and audio recordings that document the career of Karen Walwyn. It includes nine compact discs of commercial recordings, concert programs, a copy of The Caged Bird: The life and music of Florence B. Price on DVD (2015), and other documents.