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Where is the music? Presentation by: Jessica Wilkins Owner of JDW Sheet Music www.jdwsheetmusic.com The Land of Dead White Composers Education Students attend music school and study Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and other famous dead white

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Where is the music?

Presentation by: Jessica Wilkins Owner of JDW Sheet Music www.jdwsheetmusic.com

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The Land of Dead White Composers

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Education

  • Students attend music school and study Bach,

Beethoven, Brahms and other famous dead white composers.

  • These students graduate and begin their

professional teaching & performance careers dealing with those famous dead white composers.

  • Those new professional teach their students

the same composers and the cycle continues

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It’s not hard to find music

  • Excerpt books, sheet music dealers, free
  • nline sources, articles, commercial

recordings.

  • The access to this information is one easy

Google search away.

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Google search for Mahler

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The Land of Forgotten Composers

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Education (or lack thereof)

  • The music of Florence Price, Samuel Coleridge

Taylor, Ulysses Kay, Marie Grandval, Margaret Sutherland, etc is not studied in school.

  • When students grow up without this

knowledge they don’t teach it to their future students.

  • The cycle continues.
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I can’t find it

  • This music is not mentioned in excerpt books
  • Very few commercial recordings (or amateur

recordings)

  • Very few sheet music dealers distribute the

pieces

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A score but no parts?

  • Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Song of Hiawatha

score is available for free but not the parts

  • The publisher wants to charge $250 for a set
  • f parts for each movement (total $750)
  • There are four movements (3rd one doesn’t

seem to be available)

  • That didn’t happen with Mahler’s music
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Where do we go from here?

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We need to research

  • Institute for composer diversity

(www.composerdiversity.com)

  • Works database
  • Composer database
  • Bibliography of books about women and

composers of color

  • There is an option to submit composers to the

database

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Search for oboe works by underrepresented composers

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How is JDW Sheet Music helping with the diversity issue?

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Creating new editions from old manuscripts

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Marie Grandval’s Four pieces EH & Piano

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Releasing new works

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Ayser Vancin’s Chant for Oboe, Clarinet & Piano

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Creating new transcriptions

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Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Deep River

  • Arr. Oboe & Piano
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Distributing other composers works

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List of possible distributed works

  • Succubus Moon – oboe & string quartet

Written by: Eleanor Alberga

  • Loving touches for oboe & piano

Written by: H. Leslie Adams

  • Sonata for oboe & piano

Written by: Brian Raphael Nabors

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Black Excellence Series

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Other valuable resources

  • Africlassical
  • Afrovoices
  • Music By Black Composers
  • Sphinx Organization
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Conclusion