Guides: Underrepresented Composers: Home

Introduction

Welcome to the Interlochen Center for the Arts LibGuide for Underrepresented Composers!

This LibGuide aims to highlight the achievements of underrepresented composers. Specifically, this LibGuide will focus on women composers, BIPOC composers, LGBTQ+ composers, and disabled composers. Each page will contain academic books, reference books, eBooks, music in the music library, and web resources that are available to the Interlochen community.

General Diverse and Underrepresented Composer Resources

Institue for Composer Diversity
This database is dedicated to promoting diverse composers. It is split up into four categories: art songs, choral works, orchestral works, and wind band works. Searches can be filtered through composer-specific demographic criteria such as living or deceased, gender identity, sexual or romantic orientation, and race or ethnicity.
Composers Equity Project
Created by Chamber Music America, this list features women and gender non-conforming composers arranged alphabetically by last name. Gender non-conforming composers have a diamond by their name and composers who identify as African/Black, Latinx, Asian/South Asian, Arab/Middle Eastern, or Native American have an asterisk by their name.
Rebalancing the Music Canon
This open-access database aims to make works by un(der)-represented people more discoverable, decenter the musical canon, and make data-driven music scholarship more diverse and inclusive. The repository contains a growing dataset of music incipits and excerpts from a large historical period by un(der)-represented groups, primarily women and people of color.

Underrepresented Composers: Home

Introduction

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