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
Lead Gently, Lord (voice and piano), Wynn Leo Boyd
Life (Cycle of Songs on Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar), Zenobia Powell Perry
Life (low voice and piano), Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter
Life (low voice or medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund
Life (SATB chorus a cappella, or voice and piano), Herbert Haufrecht
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
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
