The Dunbar Music Archive was established by Dr. Minnita Daniel-Cox in 2014. This resource is meant to increase awareness and consumption of musical settings of texts by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar the poet, author, librettist, activist, and essayist was a seminal figure in establishing a poetic voice that would influence African-American poets for generations, including those responsible for the blossoming of the Harlem Renaissance.
For translation and pronunciation information for dialect terms used in Dunbar's poetry, see the Dunbar Glossary of Dialect Terms.
This collection was produced by University of Dayton's Department of Music, the University Libraries and the University of Dayton's media production group.
The Dunbar Music Archive will be expanding through generous funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the University of Dayton College of Arts and Sciences. Please explore the contents of this collection and stay tuned for the launch of the Dunbar Library and Archive.
Musical Settings
Li'l' Gal, Leslie Adams
Li'l Gal (Op. 29a, no 3), Byron Christopher Mayes
Lil' Gal (voice and piano), John Rosamond Johnson
Little Brown Baby, Reginald Evans
Little Brown Baby, Philip Hayden
Little Brown Baby, Evelyn McCue Wright
Love and Sorrow (baritone), Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Love is the Light of the World (medium voice and piano), Arthur Bergh
Love Memory, H. Leslie Adams
Love Response, Leslie Adams
Love's Apotheosis (soprano and piano), Richard Thompson
Love's Exaltation (voice and piano), Wynn Leo Boyd
Love's Phases (voice and piano), Wynn Leo Boyd
Lullaby, Philip Hayden
Lullaby, Evelyn McCue Wright
Lullaby (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadows, Steven M. Allen (Streaming Media Available)
Mandy Lou (voice and piano), Frederick D. Hall
Morning (TTBBB chorus, falsetto or boys' chorus ad libitum, a cappella), Henry Cowell
Mortality (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
My Lady (voice and piano), Will Marion Cook
My Star (voice and piano), Henry Kimball Hadley
Night, Reginald Evans
Night (TTBBB chorus, falsetto or boys' chorus ad libitum, a cappella), Henry Cowell
Noddin' by de Fire (medium voice or low voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
