Websites for identifying composers from underrepresented backgrounds
- African Diaspora Music ProjectA compilation of original works by composers in the African Diaspora.
- BIPOC VoicesA resource to help you program works for solo voice(s) and instruments by composers who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color.
- Black Composers - ScoresProvides links of composers' names to library holdings of scores of Black composers of classical music. Clicking on a name will yield the composer's scores in Worldcat, the combined online catalogs of thousands of libraries worldwide. Clicking on the title of a work will show the libraries that own the work. Musicians wishing to perform a work can check if a local library has the score to a particular work, or request a score on interlibrary loan.
- Catalogue of the Musical Works of the Archive of Mexico City CathedralCatalog of the music manuscripts and music books of the archive of Cabildo Catedral Metropolitano de la Ciudad de México
- Composer Diversity DatabaseThe Composer Diversity Database was created to allow conductors, performers, presenters, educators, and researchers a tool with which to expand and broaden their scope of composers and repertoire.
- Kassia DatabaseA resource for musicians to aid in the discovery and celebration of art song by women composers.
- Music by Black ComposersProvides several repertoire lists and directories of living and historic black composers
Women Composers
- Women Composers and Songwriters byCall Number: ML105 .C593 1996ISBN: 0810831309Music & Dance Library-Reference (In Library Use Only)
Also available online - International Encyclopedia of Women Composers byCall Number: ML105 .C7 1987ISBN: 0961748524Music & Dance Library-Reference (In Library Use Only)
- Women in Music byCall Number: ML105 .H6 1993ISBN: 0810827697Music & Dance Library-Reference (In Library Use Only)
Composer Dictionaries
International Dictionary of Black Composers by Call Number: ML105 .I5 1999ISBN: 1884964273Shelved At Music & Dance Library-Reference
Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians by Call Number: ML105 .S67 1982ISBN: 0313213399Music & Dance Library-Reference (In Library Use Only)
Latin American Classical Composers by Call Number: ML105 .F53 2002ISBN: 0810845172Music & Dance Library-Reference (In Library Use Only)
New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers by Call Number: ML105 .N39 1994ISBN: 0333515986Music & Dance Library-Reference (In Library Use Only)
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Call Number: ML100 .N48 2001ISBN: 1561592390Shelved At Music & Dance Library-Reference (In Library Use Only)
The online version is available through Oxford Music Online as Grove Music Online. Grove Music Online includes Grove Jazz and Grove Opera.
The Harvard Dictionary of Music by Call Number: ML100 .H37 2003ISBN: 0674011635Shelved At Music & Dance Library-Reference
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Music by Call Number: ML105 .S612 1997ISBN: 0028712714Shelved at Music & Dance Library-Reference
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of MusiciansCall Number: ML105 .B16 2001ISBN: 0028655257Shelved At Music & Dance Library-Reference
A Chronology of American Musical Theater by Call Number: ML1711.8.N3 N67 2002ISBN: 0195088883Shelved At Music & Dance Library-Reference
