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74 relations: Adela Florence Nicolson, African Americans, American Civil War, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Antonín Dvořák, Arrangement, Avery College, Baritone, Billboard (magazine), Calendar of saints, Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church), Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Casa Ricordi, Clarence Cameron White, Clark Atlanta University, Classical music, Common metre, Composer, Czechoslovakia, Deep River (song), Double bass, Edward MacDowell, Edward VII, Erie, Pennsylvania, Eubie Blake, Frank Lebby Stanton, Gabriel Fauré, Gas lighting, Hall Johnson, Heart failure, Howard University, Hymn tune, Ithaca, New York, J. P. Morgan, James Speyer, James Weldon Johnson, John McCormack (tenor), Just Awearyin' for You, Lake Erie, Langston Hughes, Lansing, New York, Manumission, Marian Anderson, NAACP, National Conservatory of Music of America, New York City, Noble Sissle, Paul Robeson, Pentatonic scale, Pittsburgh, ..., Printer's devil, Robert Burns, Roland Hayes, Singing, Slavery in the United States, Somerset County, Maryland, Spingarn Medal, Spiritual (music), St. George's Episcopal Church (Manhattan), Stamford, Connecticut, Steamboat, Stephen Foster, String Quartet No. 12 (Dvořák), Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák), Teresa Carreño, Tim Brooks (television historian), Union Navy, W. C. Handy, Wallace Willis, Walt Whitman, Walter F. Craig, William Arms Fisher, William Arthur Dunkerley. Expand index (24 more) »
Adela Florence Nicolson
Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory) (9 April 1865 – 4 October 1904) was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly.
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Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer.
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Arrangement
In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.
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Avery College
Avery College was a former college dedicated to the education of African Americans.
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Baritone
A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.
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Calendar of saints
The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.
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Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)
The veneration of saints in the Episcopal Church is a continuation of an ancient tradition from the early Church which honors important and influential people of the Christian faith.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (August 11, 1862 – December 28, 1946) was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular music from the 1890s through the early 1940s.
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Casa Ricordi
Casa Ricordi is a publisher of primarily classical music and opera.
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Clarence Cameron White
Clarence Cameron White (August 10, 1880 – June 30, 1960) was an African-American neoromantic composer and concert violinist.
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Clark Atlanta University
Clark Atlanta University is a private, historically black university in Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Classical music
Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.
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Common metre
Common metre or common measure — abbreviated as C. M. or CM — is a poetic metre consisting of four lines which alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambic trimeter (three metrical feet per line), with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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Composer
A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.
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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the:Czech Republic and:Slovakia on 1 January 1993.
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Deep River (song)
"Deep River" is an anonymous spiritual of African-American origin.
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Double bass
The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.
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Edward MacDowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period.
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Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
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Erie, Pennsylvania
Erie is a city in and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Eubie Blake
James Hubert Blake (February 7, 1887February 12, 1983), known as Eubie Blake, was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music.
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Frank Lebby Stanton
Frank Lebby Stanton (February 22, 1857 – January 7, 1927), frequently credited as Frank L. Stanton, Frank Stanton or F. L. Stanton, was an American lyricist.
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Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher.
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Gas lighting
Gas lighting is production of artificial light from combustion of a gaseous fuel, such as hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, or natural gas.
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Hall Johnson
Francis Hall Johnson (March 12, 1888 – April 30, 1970) was an American composer and arranger of African-American spiritual music.
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Heart failure
Heart failure (HF), often referred to as congestive heart failure (CHF), is when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs.
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Howard University
Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
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Hymn tune
A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung.
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Ithaca, New York
Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
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J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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James Speyer
James Joseph Speyer (July 22, 1861 – October 31, 1941) was an American banker based in the city of New York.
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871June 26, 1938) was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist.
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John McCormack (tenor)
John Francis McCormack, KSG, KSS, KHS (14 June 188416 September 1945) was an Irish tenor, celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repertoires, and renowned for his diction and breath control.
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Just Awearyin' for You
"Just Awearyin' for You" is a parlor song, one of that genre's all-time hits.
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Lake Erie
Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area.
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
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Lansing, New York
Lansing is a town in Tompkins County, New York, United States.
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Manumission
Manumission, or affranchisement, is the act of an owner freeing his or her slaves.
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Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American singer.
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.
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National Conservatory of Music of America
The National Conservatory of Music of America was an institution for higher education in music founded in 1885 in New York City by Jeannette Meyers Thurber.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Noble Sissle
Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an African-American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921), and its hit song I'm Just Wild About Harry.
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Paul Robeson
Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism.
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Pentatonic scale
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the more familiar heptatonic scale that has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.
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Printer's devil
A printer's devil was an apprentice in a printing establishment who performed a number of tasks, such as mixing tubs of ink and fetching type.
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Robert Burns
Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.
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Roland Hayes
Roland Hayes (June 3, 1887 – January 1, 1977) was an American lyric tenor and composer.
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Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
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Slavery in the United States
Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Somerset County, Maryland
Somerset County is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of Maryland.
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Spingarn Medal
The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for outstanding achievement by an African American.
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Spiritual (music)
Spirituals (or Negro spirituals) are generally Christian songs that were created by African Americans.
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St. George's Episcopal Church (Manhattan)
St.
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Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
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Steamboat
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.
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Stephen Foster
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter known primarily for his parlor and minstrel music.
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String Quartet No. 12 (Dvořák)
The String Quartet in F major, Op. 96, nicknamed the American Quartet, is the 12th string quartet composed by Antonín Dvořák.
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is an American negro spiritual.
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Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)
The Symphony No.
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Teresa Carreño
María Teresa Carreño García de Sena (22 December 185312 June 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor.
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Tim Brooks (television historian)
Tim Brooks (born April 18, 1942) is an American television and radio historian, author and retired television executive.
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Union Navy
The Union Navy was the United States Navy (USN) during the American Civil War, when it fought the Confederate States Navy (CSN).
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W. C. Handy
William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a composer and musician, known as the Father of the Blues.
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Wallace Willis
Wallace Willis was a Choctaw freedman living in the Indian Territory, in what is now Choctaw County, near the city of Hugo, Oklahoma.
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Walt Whitman
Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.
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Walter F. Craig
Walter F. Craig (December 20, 1854 – February 8, 1933) was a violin soloist and orchestra director in New York City.
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William Arms Fisher
William Arms Fisher (April 27, 1861 – December 18, 1948) was an American composer, music historian and writer.
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William Arthur Dunkerley
William Arthur Dunkerley (12 November 1852 – 23 January 1941) was an English journalist, novelist and poet.
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