Music 295: String Literature and Pedagogy

Website for the American Society for the Violin

Website for the American Viola Society

Website for the American String Teachers Association

CelloBello is not a professional society; it is a non-profit dedicated to supporting performers, students, and teachers. Their website includes many of the kinds of tools (repertoire lists, etc.) that professional societies offer.

Website for the International Society of Bassists

Website for the Twin Cities Musicians' Union, the local chapter of the American Federation of Musicians

Website for the Music Teachers National Association

Use the "instrument" filter on the left to select the instrument for which you want to see repertoire.

Rebeca Tavares Furtado's DMA thesis, open access from the University of Iowa.

String repertoire by Black Indigenous Musicians of Color, hosted by violinist Gabriela Díaz.

From Bass Players for Black Composers.

Searchable by name and by various demographic tags; living composers self-report their identifiers. Does not index individual works; you will need to research the composers separately to see what they have composer for strings.

St. Olaf's student-led database for music by diverse composers available in Halvorson Music Library

Compiled by Rachel Barton Pine and Dr. Megan E. Hill; available on the Music by Black Composers website.

Compiled by Rachel Barton Pine and Dr. Megan E. Hill; available on the Music by Black Composers website.

Hosted by CelloBello.org; CelloBello's "repertoire" menu also lists databases for women composers and Black composers, but as of 2/10/23, those databases were not working.

A PDF repertoire list from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.

Viola repertoire by underrepresented composers. Pieces are graded and leveled.