Microcourse: Music by Black Composers for Early Advanced Students

Music by Black Composers for Early-Advanced Students (from Unsung Heroes in Piano Pedagogy: 20 Pieces by Black Composers to Use in Your Studio Now)

Contributors include: Artina McCain and Leah Claiborne

Music by Black Composers for Early-Advanced Students offers teachers practical pedagogy for the teaching and performance of select piano repertoire by Black composers Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, R. Nathaniel Dett, and Margaret Bonds.

This is a fully online course comprised of video and written materials from Unsung Heroes in Piano Pedagogy: 20 Pieces by Black Composers to Use in Your Studio Now, a comprehensive course offered by the Frances Clark Center. The full, self-guided course is available at pianoinspires.com/courses.

This is a self-guided microcourse. Exploration questions serve as a way to reflect on the material as well as your own teaching and performing experiences. You will not respond to these questions on the platform, but you may wish to complete the activities for your own personal use.

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A Guide for Access to Materials

1.Three-Fours (Valse Suite), Op. 71 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Four Early 20th-Century Piano Suites By Black Composers, edited by Joseph Smith (G. Schirmer, Inc., 1997)

https://www.halleonard.com/product/50482960/four-early-20th-century-piano-suites-by-black-composers

2.“I’m Troubled in Mind” from24 Negro Melodies by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

(Boston: Ditson, 1907) public domain

https://ks4.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/8/84/IMSLP07288-Coleridge-Taylor_-_24_Negro_Melodies_(piano).pdf

3.“Morning/Barcarolle” from In the Bottoms by Nathaniel Dett

Four Early 20th-Century Piano Suites by Black Composers, edited by Joseph Smith (G. Schirmer, Inc., 1997)

https://www.halleonard.com/product/50482960/four-early-20th-century-piano-suites-by-black-composers

4.“The Angels Changed My Name” from24 Negro Melodies by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor