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
Compensation (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
Compensation (voice and piano), Charles Lloyd Jr.
Dawn, Reginald Evans
Dawn, Betty Jackson King
Dawn (high voice and piano), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Dawn (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
Dawn (soprano and piano), Richard Thompson
Dawn (voice and piano), Frederick D. Hall
Day (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
Day (TTBBB chorus, falsetto or boy's chorus ad libitum, a cappella), Henry Cowell
Death (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
De Las' Long Res', Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Down de Lover's Lane, Will Marion Cook
Dreamin' Town or Mandy Lou, Franklin W. Riker
Dreamin' Town (voice and piano), Ethel Glenn Hier
Dreamin' Town (voice and piano), Florence Beatrice Price
Dream Lovers, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Drizzle (Cycle of Songs on Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar), Zenobia Powell Perry
Ere Sleep Comes Down, Philip Hayden
Evening (TTBBB chorus, falsetto or boys' chorus ad libitum, a capella), Henry Cowell
Forever (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
Goin' Home, Reginald Evans
Good-Night (SAB, SSA, TTB), Matthew Emery
Good-Night (voice, piano and violoncello obbligato), N. Clark Smith
Growing Gray (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
