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Music: Explore Diverse Repertoire: Band/Orchestral/Large Ensembles

A guide to musical repertoire by composers of color and other historically-marginalized groups.

Concert Band/Wind Ensemble

Jazz Combos/Ensembles

Large Ensembles, Miscellaneous

Full Orchestra

Music by Black Composers
Resources for Diversity in Early Music Repertoire
We Rise: A Movement Songbook
Music By Black Composers: Violin and Orchestra
List of music for violin and orchestra by Black composers.
Symphony No. 1 (Afro-American)
Still, WIlliam Grant (identifies as Black)
Piano Concerto in One Movement (1934)
Price, Florence (identifies as Black)

Chamber Orchestra

African Diaspora Music Project: Orchestral Repertoire
Strum for string orchestra
Montgomery, Jessie (identifies as Black)
Caprice for string orchestra
Tillis, Frederick C. (identifies as Black)