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

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Musical Settings

A Banjo Song, Philip Hayden

A Banjo Song, Evelyn McCue Wright

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A Banjo Song (baritone and piano), Gary Bachlund

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A Boy's Summer Song (baritone and piano), Gary Bachlund

Accountability, Philip Hayden

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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

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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

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Advice (baritone and piano), Gary Bachlund

A Florida Night (Jump Back), Simon Sargon

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A Frolic, Gary Bachlund

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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

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An African Love Song (voice and piano), Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin

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An Ante-bellum Sermon (voice and piano), H. T. (Harry Thacker) Burleigh

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An Easy-Goin' Feller (baritone and piano), Gary Bachlund

A Negro Love Song, Reginald Evans

A Negro Love Song (Jump Back), Simon Sargon