Robert Nathaniel Dett

A Negro Spiritual in the form of a short unaccompanied motet for mixed voic

Deeply inspired by the music and mission of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Nathaniel Dett's piano music springs from the late Romantic traditions of florid texture and embellishment, along with programmatic...

Selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as an one of the American Masterpieces of choral music.

Selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as an one of the American Masterpieces of choral music.

This a cappella arrangement was originally published in The Dett Collection of Negro Spirituals (1936). Share this impressive work with today's choirs in a carefully crafted new edition by Dr. Marques...

This a cappella arrangement was originally published in The Dett Collection of Negro Spirituals (1936). Share this impressive work with today's choirs in a carefully crafted new edition by Dr. Marques...

Out of print for a number of decades, this important oratorio for soli, chorus and orchestra is once again available. The text is based on scripture and folk lore. Instrumental parts available for ren...

John Philip Sousa himself was a fan of the music of this important African-American composer. Cave of the Winds is an inventive and highly original march scored for band by Percy Grainger expert Dana...

Listen to the Lambs is, in its original form, an a cappella choral work. Called "a religious characteristic in the form of an anthem" by its composer, the composition is one of breath-taking beauty an...

Nathaniel Dett was one of John Philip Sousa's favorite composers, even in a time when racial relations in the United States were less than optimal. Dett's music is filled with melodic charm and harmon...

Listen to the Lambs is, in its original form, an a cappella choral work. Called "a religious characteristic in the form of an anthem" by its composer, the composition is one of breath-taking beauty an...

"In the Bottoms" is a Suite of five numbers giving pictures of moods or scenes peculiar to African-American life in the river bottoms of the South.  It is similar in its expression, and...

Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) wrote Enchantment: A Romantic Suite for the piano on an Original Program in 1922. A programmatic piece in four movements, Dett offers text at the beginning for each m...

Robert Nathaniel Dett was a Canadian-American Black composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor. Born and raised in Canada until the age of 11, he moved to the United States with...

This gorgeous arrangement features the Adagio Cantabile, the second movement of Cinnamon Grove by Robert Nathaniel Dett, who was the first composer of African descent to graduate from Oberlin College...

This gorgeous arrangement features the Adagio Cantabile, the second movement of Cinnamon Grove by Robert Nathaniel Dett, who was the first composer of African descent to graduate from Oberlin College...

This gorgeous arrangement features the Adagio Cantabile, the second movement of Cinnamon Grove by Robert Nathaniel Dett, who was the first composer of African descent to graduate from Oberlin College...

This gorgeous arrangement features the Adagio Cantabile, the second movement of Cinnamon Grove by Robert Nathaniel Dett, who was the first composer of African descent to graduate from Oberlin College...

John Philip Sousa himself was a fan of the music of this important African-American composer. Cave of the Winds is an inventive and highly original march scored for band by Percy Grainger expert Dana...

Despite his having moved to the United States with his family when he was 11 years old, Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) was born in Canada where glimpses of his talent had already begun to manifest...

Cave of the Winds was originally written by Robert Nathanial Dett as a march for piano and subtitled March and Two Step. Devon Morales arranged this boisterous, carnival romp with lightness and frivol...

Cave of the Winds was originally written by Robert Nathanial Dett as a march for piano and subtitled March and Two Step. Devon Morales arranged this boisterous, carnival romp with lightness and frivol...

Selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as an one of the American Masterpieces of choral music.

'Juba' is one of the earliest and possibly best compositions by R. Nathaniel Dett. Majoring in composition and piano at Oberlin, in 1908, Dett was the first black person to earn a Bachelor of Music de...