Supporting Diversity in the Music Experience
This guide provides resources that support diversity within the music experience at St. Olaf.
- Music from Around the World
- African Musicians
- African American and Black Musicians
- Asian Musicians
- Australasian and Pacific Musicians
- Latin American and Caribbean Musicians
- Native American Musicians
- Woman Musicians
- LGBTQIA+ Musicians
- Database for Historically Underrepresented Composers
Research and Instruction Librarian for Music & Fine Arts
Recent Publications on Woman Musicians
Can't Stop the Grrrls
Available online.The Composer, Herself
Available online.Women's Leadership in Music
Available online.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Overviews
We have many more dictionaries and encyclopedias than those listed below. To find more reference sources, search Catalyst for your topic keywords and the phrase (dictionary OR encyclopedia) in parentheses, like this:
The Norton-Grove Dictionary of Women Composers
Call Number: Music Ref: ML105 .N38 1995Available in print.
Score Anthologies
Clarinet music by female composers : 18 pieces for clarinet (A and B♭) and piano
Call Number: M249 .K537Available in print.
Also in this series are volumes for flute (M241 .F56) and violin (M218 .V56).
Find Research and Repertoire -- Print Resources
Organ and Harpsichord Music by Women Composers
Available online.
Find Research and Repertoire -- Oxford Bibliographies
Oxford Bibliographies provides bibliographies on a wide range of research topics, including:
Find Repertoire -- Online Resources
- Karen's Giant Spreadsheet of Composer Diversity Websites -- a list of 60+ websites Karen consults when selecting new music by composers from historically underrepresented groups; please email Karen if you have suggestions of new sites to add or if links are broken.
Some of the sites Karen consults frequently from this spreadsheet include:
- Institute for Composer Diversity -- click the "search" button at the top to access their databases for composers, art songs, choral works, band works, orchestral works, and more.
- Diversity in Brass Music from Last Row Music -- lists of repertoire by woman composers and by Black composers
- No Broken Links -- Google spreadsheets for woodwind repertoire by composers from historically underrepresented groups
- Sphinx Catalogs -- music for strings by Latin American composers
- A Seat at the Piano -- piano repertoire by BIPOC and woman composers
- Music By Black Composers -- repertoire lists of music by Black composers, currently strongest in string repertoire; see also their directories of living and historic Black composers
- SongHelix -- originally designed to track art songs by topic, it now also permits searching by composer identities
- Alex Shapiro's Programming Resources -- includes pages on woman composers, LGBTQIA2s Composers, and Black, Latino, Asian, and Indian composers
Useful Links
- Music By WomenEducational resources, including theory examples, about woman composers.
- Boulanger InitiativeEducation resources about woman and gender-marginalized composers; includes a useful composer database,
- Women Composers Collection at the University of MichiganThe Women Composers Collection contains approximately 2,800 musical works by more than 700 composers. Many of the scores are digitized and available in HathiTrust.
There are many more repertoire resources for music by woman composers; see the boxes on finding research and repertoire.
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