Black, Indigenous, people of colour (BIPOC) musicians

Consult this section to discover catalogues and search tools put forth by music publishers and vendors for locating repertoire by BIPOC composers.

This guide does not endorse any of the following publishers or vendors. The resources listed here are included because they provide pertinent information about selected works and composers.

• Daniel’s Orchestral Music Online 
  • Orchestral music finder tool: provides information about thousands of works 
  • Advanced search options filter by composer’s nationality, ethnicity, and gender 
  • Provides links to online perusals scores, program notes, and recordings 
• Aakuluk Music
  • Assists Nunavut musicians produce and promote their music, to contribute to the preservation of the territory’s distinct culture
  • The label will help record, market, and distribute Inuktitut music nationally and internationally now, and for future generations of Inuit musicians
• American Composers Alliance 
  • Search their main catalogue by ensemble type, instrumentation, theme, and genre 
  • Provides a separate catalogue of Music of Black Composers, categorized according to genre, with audio samples and links to purchase sheet music (print or PDF) 
• AM Publishing (African Music Publishing)
  • Catalogue encompasses a variety of works and formats, including conductor scores, orchestra parts, miniature scores, MP3s and CDs available for rent or purchase 
  • In collaboration with IMI - Intercultural Music Initiative, a concert and educational outreach program featuring classical and contemporary works by composers of African, Hispanic, and Asian-descent, along with standard repertoire
• Brent Michael Davids (Stockbridge Munsee Community)
  • Catalogue contains works for chorus, orchestra, band, and chamber ensemble, as well as dance music
  • The blog provides additional information about the works, including duration and grade level
• Editora Pontes 
  • List of selected composers from Brazil 
• The Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia 
  • Unique source of 19th- and 20th-century American music, including many rare and out-of-print works
  • The catalogue lists names, dates, and nationalities of composers, instrumentation, and titles of complete, incomplete, and uncirculated sets held by the collection 
  • Composers of African Descent 
  • Latin-American works 
• Filarmonika Music Publishing
  • Promotes the musical repertoire of Latin America and the Caribbean
  • View excerpts of scores and listen to audio examples
• Hildegard Publishing Company
  • Highlights the music of Black Women composers
• Latin American Art Song Alliance (LAASA)
  • Facilitates access for teachers and singers to the published repertoire of Latin American art song
• Mundo Arts
  • Specializes in Iberian and Latin American vocal music
• Musica Brasilis
  • Free sheet music distributed under the CC BY-SA license 
  • Search their composer database and filter by name, birth year, and gender 
• Theodore Front Musical Literature
  • Provides several catalogues of music by BIPOC composers, organized according to genre or instrumentation
  • Music by Black Composers
  • Music by Latin American Composers
  • Music by Asian and Asian-American Composers
• Wise Music
  • G. Schirmer Inc., part of Wise Music Group, announced the discovery and publication of three previously unpublished works of composer Florence Price