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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Vengeance is Sweet (baritone or bass and piano), Gary Bachlund

Violets and Other Tales, Steven M. Allen

W'en I Gits Home (Op. 29a, no. 5), Byron Christopher Mayes

We Wear the Mask, Reginald Evans

We Wear the Mask, Phillip Magnuson

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We Wear the Mask (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund

We Wear the Mask (soprano and piano), Richard Thompson

What's the Use?, Florence Beatrice Price

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What's the Use? (high voice and piano), Gary Bachlund

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When A Feller's Itchin' to be Spanked (baritone and piano), Gary Bachlund

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When All Is Done (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund

When All Is Done (voice and piano), Wynn Leo Boyd

When Malindy Sings, Lennie Niehaus

Where Healing Waters Flow (SATB chorus a cappella), Matthew Emery

Where the Rainbow Ends, Philip Hayden

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Whip-Poor-Will and Katy-Did (mezzo-soprano and piano), Gary Bachlund

Who Knows?, Ernest R. Ball

Why Fades a Dream?, Wynn L. Boyd

Why Fades a Dream? (medium-high voice and piano), Marie F. Busch

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Why Fades a Dream? (medium voice and piano), Gary Bachlund

Why Fades a Dream? (voice and piano), Wynn Leo Boyd

Winter's Approach (high voice and piano), William Grant Still