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Archive: February 2017 (1 Post)

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Celebrating Black Composers

Posted by: Katie Rodda

In honor of Black History Month, this blog post will highlight materials in the music section that are written by or about African American composers. These composers wrote in many styles, including popular, Western classical, jazz, gospel, and more. Here is some music by three Black composers that we have available in our collection. Harry …