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

Angelina, Frieda Peycke

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Appreciation (baritone and piano), Gary Bachlund

A Prayer, Simon Sargon

A Prayer (high voice and piano), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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A Prayer (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund

A Sailor's Song, Edward Margetson

A Song, Wynn Leo Boyd

A Song, Vicki Tucker Courtney

A Song, Simon Sargon

A Song op.31 no.1 (coloratura-soprano and piano), Robert Owens

A Spiritual (Op. 29a, no. 1), Byron Christopher Mayes

A Starry Night op.17 (high voice and piano), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

A Starry Night (SATB a cappella), Ulysses Simpson Kay

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A Summer Night (medium voice or low voice and piano), Gary Bachlund

A Summer's Night, Philip Hayden

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At Candle-lightin' Time (voice and piano), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

At Sunset Time (mezzo-soprano and string quartet), Antonio John Lora

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At the Tavern (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund

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A Warm Day in Winter (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund

Ballad (high voice and piano), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Beyond the Years (voice and piano), Theophil Wendt

Bird of My Lady's Bower (high voice and piano), David Stanley Smith

Chris'mus is a-Comin'., Evelyn McCue Wright

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Chrismus Is A-Comin' (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund

Come Away to Dreaming Town (voice and piano), Charles Wakefield Cadman