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.
This collection was produced by University of Dayton's Department of Music
Musical Settings
A Banjo Song, Philip Hayden
A Banjo Song, Evelyn McCue Wright
A Banjo Song (baritone and piano), Gary Bachlund
A Boy's Summer Song (baritone and piano), Gary Bachlund
Accountability, Philip Hayden
Accountability (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
A Corn-song (voice, piano, strings and harp), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
A Crust of Bread (voice, SATB chorus and instrumental ensemble), Jean Berger
A Death Song (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
A Death Song (medium voice and piano), Howard Swanson
A Dream (voice and piano), Theophil Wendt
Advice (baritone and piano), Gary Bachlund
A Florida Night (Jump Back), Simon Sargon
A Frolic, Gary Bachlund
A Golden Day (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
A Little Dreaming by the Way, John Carrington
A Love Song (voice and piano), Marques L.A. Garrett
A Madrigal (SATB chorus a cappella), Ulysses Simpson Kay
An African Love Song (high voice and piano), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
An African Love Song (voice and piano), Harry G. Bull
An African Love Song (voice and piano), Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin
An Ante-bellum Sermon (voice and piano), H. T. (Harry Thacker) Burleigh
An Easy-Goin' Feller (baritone and piano), Gary Bachlund
A Negro Love Song, Reginald Evans
A Negro Love Song (Jump Back), Simon Sargon
