Publications

Do you know which Black composer was a master swordsman in the 1700s and whose music inspired Mozart? Can you picture the first Black composer to win a Pulitzer Prize? Do you know that the first woman in Brazil to conduct a symphony orchestra was a Black composer who lived in the 1800s?

Learn about all of these accomplished composers and many more through The Rachel Barton Pine Foundation Coloring Book of Black Composers.

The first of its kind, this book honors forty remarkable international Black classical composers from the 1700s to the present day. Each vivid illustration by artist Sho-mei Pelletier is accompanied by a biography that puts his or her life and music into historical perspective.

Whether you are a music fan or a student, The Rachel Barton Pine Foundation Coloring Book of Black Composers offers a fun, educational, and eye-popping way to celebrate Black composers’ contributions to classical music.

Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students is the first volume to gather the genealogies of more than seventeen thousand classical composers in a single volume.

Music: An Appreciation welcomes nonmajors to the art of listening to great music. Roger Kamien continues to focus on coverage of the elements of music, fostering each student's unique path to listening and understanding. The Brief 10th edition of Music: An Appreciation equips students with the language, tools, and listening skills required to sustain a lifelong enthusiasm for music.

by Mellonee V. Burnim and Portia K. Maultsby

By Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Drawn from the acclaimed landmark in reference publishing, this incomparable one-volume encyclopedia of the black world is now within reach of every family, student, and educator. It brings the entire Pan-African experience into sharp focus, with entries ranging from "affirmative action" to "zydeco," from each of the most prominent ethnic groups in Africa to each member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Africana will provide hours of reading pleasure through its longer, interpretive essays on the religion, arts, and cultural life of Africans and of black people everywhere.

Compiled by Daisy Rubiera Castillo and Inés María Martiatu Terry

Editorial de Ciencas Sociales, 2011

A compilation of stories, essays and traditions of women of African origin in Cuba.

Distancing itself from typical academic discourse, the writing in these critical essays explores the complex issues of gender and race. Starting with the introductory text, the essays break with clichés about black women, which are usually reproduced by society in everyday life, in popular artistic production (for instance, in certain songs that promote stereotypes), in mass media, and other opinion-creating vehicles. The book subverts models rooted in various areas of inquiry, through the lenses of many different approaches, generations, and trends, bringing to light another point of view about black women, their action, thought, and history of resistance, as well as their pivotal influence in the consolidation of national identity.

by Tania León

CD-ROM and score/parts

American Composers Forum. 2003

by Raoul Abdul

Dodd Mead, 1977

by Maurice Edwards

Published by The Scarecrow Press, 2006

Joan Peyser's revised edition of To Boulez and Beyond recounts a meeting between Boulez and León during a celebration of Boulez's 80th Birthday by the Chicago Symphony, in which both Boulez's and León's work were performed.

by Joan Peyser and Charles Wuorinen (Foreword)

Scarecrow Press, 2007 (revised edition)

by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2000

By Robert Raines

Oxford University Press, 2015

American composers are at the forefront of a renaissance in concert music, in the process expanding the very definition of the category. The impact of digital technology on the creative process and the unprecedented diversity of contemporary composers are arguably among the catalysts driving the rebirth.

In this series of personal interviews with some of the most prominent composers of art music currently working on the American music scene — including Tania León — composer and educator Robert Raines leads the intimate conversations through subjects ranging from the source of inspiration to work habits, the realities of the business of music, and the impact of technology on music and life in the 21st century. A loving homage to the artistic spirit, this book is a must-read for students of composition, professors and scholars of music, composers and aspiring composers, and anyone interested in the subjective process of writing music. This rich and entertaining collection provides a unique glimpse into the workings of the creative spirit in the digital age.

by Dr. James R. Briscoe

Indiana University Press, 1997

by Martha F. Schleifer

Greenwood, 2003

by Andrea O'Reilly Herrera (Editor)

State University of New York Press, 2008

Includes In Search of the Palm Tree: An Afternoon with Tania Leon Interview by Iraida Iturralde

by Ellen Koskoff

Ron Hedge Publishing, 2005

by Alejandro L. Madrid and Robin D. Moore

Published by Oxford University Press, 2013

by Maurice Peress

Oxford University Press, 2004

New Publication features Alma for flute and piano!

One of 11 winners selected by the National Flute Association for its newly published music competition.

Commissioned for and curated by Marya Martin

Published by Theodore Presser Co., 2009

Theodore Presser Company is honored to publish a collection of commissioned flute solos by eight different composers, a result of a collaboration between flutist Marya Martin and Meet the Composer.

by Pilar Ramos Lopez

Published by NARCEA, S.A. de Ediciones (Madrid, Spain), 2003

by Helen Walker-Hill University of Illinois Press, 2007

By Jennifer Kelly (Lafayette College, Pennsylvania)

Univ. of Illinois Press, 2013

This collection of new interviews with twenty-five accomplished female composers substantially advances our knowledge of the work, experiences, compositional approaches, and musical intentions of a diverse group of creative individuals. With personal anecdotes and sometimes surprising intimacy and humor, these wide-ranging conversations represent the diversity of women composing music in the United States from the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first.

by Yew Choong Cheong

Published by ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing, 2011

University of Texas Press

State University of New York Press, 2008

Includes the article, Contemporary "Latin American" Composers of Art Music in the United States: Cosmopolitans Navigating Multiculturalism and Universalism by Marc Gidal, which discusses the compositional voice and ideas of Tania León.

Edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol

Indiana University Press, 2006

Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia records the contribution of women of Latin American birth or heritage to the economic and cultural development of the United States. The encyclopedia is the first comprehensive gathering of scholarship on Latinas. This encyclopedia will serve as an essential reference for decades to come. In more than 580 entries, the historical and cultural narratives of Latinas come to life.

by Sylvia Mendoza

Sylvia Mendoza, 2013

Edited by Robin Moore (General Editor, University of Texas, Austin) and Walter Aaron Clark (Editor, University of California, Riverside)

Published by W.W. Norton & Company, 2012

The most up-to-date and comprehensive Latin American music survey available. Covering one of the most musically diverse regions in the world, Musics of Latin America emphasizes music as a means of understanding culture and society: each author balances an analysis of musical genres with discussion of the historical and cultural trends that have shaped them. Chapters cover traditional, popular, and classical repertoire, and in-text listening guides ensure that students walk away with a solid understanding of the music.

Pamela Youngdahl Dees, Editor

Praeger Publishing, 2004

Acts as a companion to Volume I: Composers Born Before 1900 to create a comprehensive reference of women composers and their work. Volume II includes composers from countries around the world and of all different musical styles and levels, ranging from elementary to virtuoso. The only reference tool of its kind, this is an indispensable guide for professional pianists and piano teachers alike.

by Anne Gray, PhD

Birch Lane Press: NY, 1993

(chapters on women composers and women conductors)

Gale Group, 2003

This authoritative, 5-volume set provides a range of historical and current information on African-American history, society and culture. Students also will find chronologies, texts of important documents and speeches, brief biographical profiles, legislation, essays, statistics and more than 800 illustrations to help with research. A glossary, a selected bibliography and cumulative subject index make this resource easy to use.

How do I keep doing this―making art? Stacey D’Erasmo had been writing for twenty years and had published three novels when she asked herself this question. She was past the rush of her first books and wondering what to expect―how to stay alive in her vocation―in the decades ahead.

She began to interview older artists she admired to find out how they’d done it. She talked to Valda Setterfield about her sixty-year career that took her from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company to theatrical collaborations with her husband to roles in films. She talked to Samuel Delany about his vast oeuvre of books in many genres. She talked to Amy Sillman about working between painting and other media and between abstraction and figuration. She talked to landscape architect Darrel Morrison, composer Tania Léon, actress Blair Brown, and musician Steve Earle, and started to see connections between them and to artists across Colette, David Bowie, Ruth Asawa. She found insights in own experience, about what has driven and thwarted and shaped her as a writer.

Instead of easy answers or a road map, The Long Run offers one practitioner’s conversations, anecdotes, confidences, and observations about sustaining a creative life. Along the way, it radically redefines artistic success, shifting the focus from novelty and output and external recognition toward freedom, fluidity, resistance, community, and survival.