Music

Freely available resources

• ***Institute for Composer Diversity*** (highly recommended)
  • Composer Diversity Database - search profiles of composers from underrepresented groups by facets like ethnicity, gender identity, dates, genres, etc.
  • Works Diversity Database - search wind band, orchestral, and art song repertoire
     
• Africa Diaspora Music Project - a listing of over 2,000 pieces--primarily focused on opera, art song, and orchestral music--by composers of the African diaspora (primarily West and Central Africa)
• African American Art Song Alliance list of Black composers - a large list of Black composers who regularly composed art songs
• Black and Brown Composers from Latin America - a list of composers from Latin America who lived prior to 1800. Arranged by nationality.
• Black Music History Library - a regularly updated, extensive bibliography of writings about black music in many different genres
• Center for Black Music Research browse list of creators - a large list of Black composers with materials represented in the Center for Black Music Research
• Chamber Music America: Composers Equity Project - a large list of Black, Latinx, Asian, Middle Eastern, Native American, female, and gender non-conforming composers
• Inclusive Early Music - a living bibliography maintained by members of the American Musicological Society focused on music before 1600, but inclusive of music through 1750
• Music by Black Composers - a site with several interesting offerings including composer directories, a bibliography of writings, and a few specific repertoire lists
  • Living Composers Directory
  • Historic Composers Directory - particularly unique amongst many of the resources readily available
• Music of Asian America Research Center - amongst other things, offers a large bibliography of materials related to Asian American music, as well as biographical essays
• National Association of Native American Music - an organization dedicated to preserving the past and promoting the future of Native American music
  • National Music Archive list - a massive list of all the recordings of music by Native American musicians in this association's archive

UCI Libraries Resources

Click on the following BIPOC composers to initiate a catalog search for that composer's scores.

• Abels, Michael (1959 - )
• Adams, Leslie (1932 - )
• Akiho, Andy (1979 - )
• Anderson, TJ (1928 - )
• Baker, David (1931 - 2016)
• Bonds, Margaret (1913 - 1972)
• Braxton, Anthony (1945 - )
• Brouwer, Leo (1939 - )
• Burleigh, Henry T. (1866 - 1949)
• Carreño, Teresa (1853 - 1917)
• Chen Yi (1953 - )
• Chin, Unsuk (1961 - )
• Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (1875 - 1912)
• Cunningham, Arthur (1928 -1997)
• Davis, Miles (1926 - 1991)
• Eastman, Julius (1940 - 1990)
• Ellington, Duke (1899- 1974)
• Esmail, Reena (1983 - )
• Frank, Gabriela Lena (1972 - )
• Ginastera, Alberto (1916 - 1983)
• Golijov, Osvaldo (1960 - )
• Hailstork, Adolphus (1941 - )
• Hancock, Herbie(1940 - )
• Hemphill, Julius (1938 - 1995)
• Hogan, Moses (1957 - 2003)
• Joplin, Scott (1868 - 1917)
• Kay, Ulysses (1917 - 1995)
• Lee III, James (1975 - )
• Leon, Tania (1943 - )
• Marsalis, Wynton (1961 - )
• Mason, Quinn (1996 - )
• Montgomery, Jessie (1981 - )
• Moore, Dorothy Rudd (1940 - )
• Moore, Undine Smith (1904 - 1989)
• Mumford, Jeffrey (1955 - )
• Nabors, Brian Raphael (1991 - )
• Piazzolla, Astor (1933 - 1990)
• Newton, James (1953 - )
• Parker, Charlie (1920 - 1955)
• Perry, Zenobia Powell (1908 - 2004)
• Price, Florence (1887 - 1953)
• Revueltas, Silvestre (1899 - 1940)
• Roumain, Daniel Bernard (1970 -  )
• Ruo, Huang (1976 - )
• Saint-Georges, Chevalier (1745 - 1799)
• Schifrin, Lalo (1932 - )
• Smith, Wadada Leo (1941 - )
• Still, William Grant (1895 - 1978)
• Stokes, Harvey J. (1957 - )
• Tanaka, Karen (1961 - )
• Takemitsu, Toru (1930 - 1996)
• Tan Dun (1967 - )
• Ung, Chinary (1942 - )
• Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887 - 1959)
• Walker, George (1922 - 2018)
• Wallen, Errollyn (1958 - )
• Williams, Evan (1988 - )
• Zhou Long (1953 - )

Freely Available Resources

• Boulanger Initiative Database
  • This database provides access to thousands of works by women and gender-marginalized composers. Note: this serves as an index and search tool while attempting to link you to where scores/recordings exist. You will need to get scores through ILL if they aren't held in UCI Libraries.
• ***Institute for Composer Diversity*** (highly recommended)
  • Composer Diversity Database - search profiles of composers from underrepresented groups by facets like ethnicity, gender identity, dates, genres, etc.
  • Works Diversity Database - search wind band, orchestral, and art song repertoire

• A Seat at the Piano: Promoting Inclusion in Piano Repertoire - a spreadsheet of piano music by underrepresented composers. Can sort by sex, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, level of music, etc.
• Chamber Music America. The Composers Equity Project - an inclusive listing of composers who are women or gender non-conforming, and also Black, Latinx, Asian, Arab/Middle Eastern, or Native American
• Diverse Brass Music List - a regularly updated list of music for brass instruments (trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba) and occassionally other non-brass instruments (in chamber music combinations)
• Donne. Women in Music - a massive list of female musicians, organized chronologically
• Many Many Women - an index of over 1000+ composers, improvisers, and global sound makers. Can search by keyword or genre.

UCI Libraries Resources

This is a selection of composers whose scores can be found in the UCI Libraries. Click on the following female composers to initiate a catalog search for that composer's scores.