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	Robert Nathaniel Dett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nathaniel Dett, was a composer in the United States and Canada.
		Dett himself performed at Carnegie Hall and at the Boston Symphony Hall as a pianist and choir director.
		Dett was born in Drummondville, Ontario (now Niagara Falls, Ontario) where he studied piano at an early age showing initial interest at age three and formal piano lessons at age five.
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	AFROCENTRIC VOICES: R. Nathaniel Dett Biography
		Robert Nathaniel Dett was born in Drummondsville, Ontario, Canada, on 11 October 1882.
		Nathaniel Dett died of congestive heart failure on 2 October, 1943, in Battle Creek, Michigan, during an assignment as a musical advisor for the United Services Organization (USO).
		Among the legacies of Dett's contributions to the understanding and performance of Afrocentric music was the formation of the Nathaniel Dett Chorale in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1998.
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	R. Nathaniel Dett, African American Composer & Pianist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Nathaniel Dett was an African American composer, pianist and choral director.
		Dett was on the faculty at Sam Houston College in 1935, and from 1937 to 1942 he was choral director at Bennett College (Greensboro, North Carolina), a school for Black women.
		As a composer, R. Nathaniel Dett is remembered chiefly for the choral works he based on African American spirituals, and for the works for solo piano he composed in the Romantic style.
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	BookRags: Robert Nathaniel Dett Biography
		Robert Dett was born in Ontario, Canada, on Oct. 11, 1882, the youngest of four children of educated and musically talented parents.
		Dett was an idealist who loved humanity and was dedicated to uplifting his race through education.
		As a composer, Dett was a skillful craftsman in the language and style of the romanticists.
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	Dett, Nathaniel
		Dett was dedicated to the cause of fl music in America and in 1920 won the Bowdoin and Francis Boott prizes from Harvard U for a series of four articles titled 'Negro music' and for the motet 'Don't Be Weary, Traveller' (J. Church 1921) based on a Negro folk motive.
		He was awarded the Harmon Medal in 1927, the Palm and Ribbon of the Royal Belgian Band, and several literary prizes.
		The Dr. Nathaniel Dett Memorial Award has been established to honour a musician of stature who has contributed to the musical development of youth.
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	A King Celebration
		Dett's spent his childhood in Ontario, Canada, in a community established by former fugitive slaves who had escaped the U.S. via the Underground Railroad.
		Dett’s Chariot Jubilee is a free fantasia for chorus and orchestra with tenor soloist, commissioned in 1919 by Howard Lyman, conductor of the Syracuse University chorus.
		Dett remained a strong proponent of the importance of fl folk music in contemporary composition until his death in 1943.
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	Dett, Robert Nathaniel - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		DETT, ROBERT NATHANIEL [Dett, Robert Nathaniel] 1882-1943, American composer and pianist, b.
		After receiving degrees from Oberlin College and the Eastman School of Music, Dett studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger.
		Dett also arranged and published a collection of spirituals (4 vol., 1936).
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	Contact
		The Department of Music was established in 1928 under Canadian born Robert Nathaniel Dett.
		In 1908 he received the Bachelor's degree in Piano and Composition, and in 1932 he was awarded the Master of Music degree in Composition from Eastman School of Music.
		Dett was brought to Hampton Institute in 1913 as Director of Music, and he played a significant role in the development of music at Hampton.
	www.hamptonu.edu /arts_edu/music/contact.htm (125 words)

	Robert Nathaniel Dett - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) was an African American classical composer, pianist and professor.
		Dett was the first African American to complete a 5-year course at Oberlin which led to a B.A. in Music with a major in composition and piano.
		Dett was also a port, and published a book of poems called "The Album of the Heart" in 1911.
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	African American Registry: Classic composer, Robert N. Dett.
		From Drummondsyille, Ontario, R. Nathaniel Dett began learning piano as a child, studying at the Oliver Willis Halstead Conservatory of Music in Lockport, New York.
		Dett published his first composition, After the Cake Walk, for piano, in 1900.
		Dett is considered as one of the most important translators of spiritual music into works for the concert stage.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/593/Classic_composer_Robert_N_Dett (264 words)

	R. Nathaniel Dett, Compositeur afro-américain
		Dett est connu pour ses œuvres de chorale dont la thématique et la structure sont dans la veine des chants religieux Noirs, des chants folkloriques et ses œuvres pour piano solo, dont la plupart sont écrits dans le style romantique du XIXe siècle.
		Dett était un enfant musicalement précoce qui joua du piano à trois ans sans avoir pris de leçons.
		Dett publia une collection de ses propres poèmes en 1911 sous le titre « The Album of the Heart ».
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	This Week in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		African-American composer, poet, and pianist Robert Nathaniel Dett was born October 11, 1882, in Drummondsyille, Ontario.
		Dett began learning piano as a child, studying at the Oliver Willis Halstead Conservatory of Music in Lockport, New York.
		Some of his best-known works include "As by the Streams of Babylon," "Poor Me," and "Steal Away to Jesus." He later taught at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and during World War II, he worked for the USO in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he died in 1943.
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	AFROCENTRIC VOICES: Dorothy Maynor Biography
		In her second year, however, she was encouraged to audition for the prestigious Hampton Choir, then under the direction of Robert Nathaniel Dett.
		Dett later selected her as soloist for a concert the choir gave at New York's Carnegie Hall.
		Although Dett had left Hampton by the time she received her master of science degree in music from the college in 1933, she maintained contact with her former mentor, and he composed six settings of Negro spirituals especially for Maynor.
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	Robert N. Dett : Infos, paroles, photos
		Dett fut le premier afro-américain à obtenir un BA de musique (licence) avec un "major" (sujet de spécialisation) en composition et piano.
		Il est principalement connu pour ses oeuvres de chorale.
		Court portrait de Robert Nathaniel Dett, pianiste, professeur et compositeur afro-américain de musique classique.
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	Sheet Music Plus Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Nathaniel Dett: The Collected Piano Works Composed by R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943), edited by Judi Gowe.
		Nathaniel Dett: Juba Dance From The Suite "In The Bottoms" Edited by Judi Gowe, composed by R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943).
		Text: R. Nathaniel Dett; Translated by Frederick H. Martens; Series editor: Evelyn White.
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	Biography of Robert Nathaniel Dett \| Life of Robert Nathaniel Dett
		African American composer, conductor, and music educator Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) elevated the African American folk spiritual into an art form.Robert Dett was born in Ontario, Canada, on Oct. 11, 1882, the youngest of four children of educated and musically talented parents.
		…countries.As a composer, Dett was a skillful craftsman in the language and style of the romanticists.
		He is discussed in Maud Cuney-Hare, Negro Musicians and Their Music (1936); John P. Davis, ed., The American Negro Reference Book (1966); and the International Library of Negro Life and History, vol.
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	Robert Nathaniel Dett - Wikipedia
		Oktober 1942 in Battle Creek/Michigan) war ein aus Kanada stammender afro-amerikanischer Komponist und Pianist.
		Dett studierte 1903 bis 1908 am Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
		Danach unterrichtete er am Lane College in Jackson/Tennessee.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Nathaniel_Dett (175 words)

	Works Cited in the Annotations and Text - Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (The ...
		Cohen B: Norm Cohen, "Robert W. Gordon and the Second Wreck of the Old 97," Journal of American Folklore, 87 (1974), 12-38.
		Dett: Robert Nathaniel Dett, Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro as Sung at Hampton Institute.
		Grimm: Karen Grimm, "Prolegomenon to a Catalog of the Robert W. Gordon Collection of American Folksong," Northwest Folklore, 2:1 (1967), 8-10.
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	AllRefer.com - Robert Nathaniel Dett (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Robert Nathaniel Dett, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Robert Nathaniel Dett 1882–1943, American composer and pianist, b.
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	Discography of Music by Black Composers
		Includes spiritual arrangements by Undine Smith Moore, Hall Johnson, R. Nathaniel Dett, Leonard de Paur, John W. Work, Noah F. Ryder, William L. Dawson, Wendell Whalum, Evelyn La Rue Pittman, and Moses Hogan.
		Works by William Grant Still, R. Nathaniel Dett, Howard Swanson, Ulysses Kay, John Wesley Work Jr., Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
		Works by R. Nathaniel Dett, Thomas Kerr, William Grant Still, John W. Work III, George Walker, Arthur Cunningham, Talib Rasul Hakim, Hale Smith, Olly Wilson.
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		Description: Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) was an African American classical composer, pianist and professor of choral music.
		He was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. as a child.
		Dett founded choirs at Hampton Institute which won international acclaim.
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	Parks Canada-The Underground Railroad in Canada
		By 1851, the community was able to raise this fine brick chapel which continues to serve its community to this day.
		Named for a famous composer of sacred music who attended the church, the R. Nathaniel Dett BME Church also houses an important library of material about Black history in Canada.
		The church's present name is a tribute to church member Robert Nathaniel Dett, who became a famed composer of sacred music in the twentieth century.
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	Robert Nathaniel Dett - muzyka, teksty piosenek, informacje w bazie musiq.pl
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	Amy Beach And Her Chamber Music : Biography, Documents, Style. - Theodore Front Musical Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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		Robert Nathaniel Dett, 1882-1943, was an Afro-American composer,pianist,con- ductor and teacher.
		Garofalo, Robert J. See Garofalo's article on Converse in the New Grove 4/705f.
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	Indie-Music.com - African-American Slave Songs and Spirituals
		Gottschalk was a nineteenth-century white American composer who drew heavily on African-American and Creole sources.
		Significant fl American composers include Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), born in Great Britain, Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943), Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-1972), Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989) and Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953).
		The pieces listed in the bibliography of contemporary solo piano literature for African-American slave songs and spirituals show the use of the following pianistic devices to create traditional world music effects associated with the region.
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	Amazon.ca: R. Nathaniel Dett: Piano Works: Music: Denver Oldham,R. Nathaniel Dett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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		The music of Dett lives on, Oct 10 2002
		Nathaniel Dett was one of the first fl men to graduate from Oberlin College's school of music.
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		GEORGE ROCHBERG Sonata for Viola and Piano FREDERICK JACOBI Fantasy for Viola and Piano ALAN SHULMAN Theme and Variations QUINCY PORTER Speed Etude...
		Frederick Jacobi; Lowell Liebermann; Quincy Porter; George Rochberg; Alan Shulman · Cathy Basrak, viola; Robert Koenig, piano; William Kowhler, piano...
		Assisted by pianists William Koehler and Robert Koenig, "American Viola Works" also features music by George Rochberg, Fredreick Jacobi, Quincy Porter and...
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	The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia: Dett, Robert Nathaniel@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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	African American Composers - Compiled by Gerri Gribi
		Roque Cordero was born in Panama in 1916 of African, Spanish and Indian ancestory.
		In the Bottoms (Robert Nathaniel Dett): Easter Monday Swagger, scherzino for piano (Thomas Kerr); Visions (3) for piano (William Grant Still); Scuppernong, (John W. Work); Sonata for piano, No.1 (George Walker); Engrams for Piano (Arthur Cunningham); Soung-Gone (Talib Rasul Hakim); Evocation for Piano (Hale Smith); Piece for Piano and Electronic Sound (Olly Wilson.)
		There is something on this CD for every taste, and it provides an excellent introduction to a broad cross-section of musical styles: nineteenth-century romanticism, impressionism, jazz, Negro folk tunes, and contemporary classicism.
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