Still, Florence Price, R. Nathaniel Dett, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. White drew upon thematic and harmonic content from African American and other African diasporic musical styles and traditions. His early output consisted of compositions that incorporated quotes of spirituals and arrangements of spirituals such as Bandanna Sketches: Four Negro Spirituals, Camp Song:(Water Boy), Levee Dance, Forty Negro Spirituals, and Traditional Negro Spirituals. As he matured, the forms utilized by the composer became more varied. The 1954 Benjamin Award was presented to him for Elegy, a composition for orchestra. He also used decidedly 'Negro' themes for his string quartet and other chamber music. List of musical compositions Bandanna Sketches: Four Negro Spirituals (1918) From The Cotton Fields Op. 18 (1920) Triumphal March (1926) Forty Negro Spirituals (1927) Camp Song: (Water Boy) Op. 26 No. 1 (1927) Levee Dance Op.26 No.2 (1927) Tambour (1929), a play by John Matheus Ouanga! (1932) Legende d'Afrique (1955) Spiritual Suite (1956) for four clarinets Elegy for orchestra Methods books A System of One Octave Scale Studies for the Violin (1915) The Violinist's Daily Dozen, Twelve Special Studies for the Development of Correct Finger Action in Violin Playing (1924) References Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition. "Clarence Cameron White." Notable Black American Men. Gale Research, 1998. "Clarence Cameron White." Music inside my Heart; Biography of Clarence Cameron White. W. W. Norton & Company; 4th edition. Brooks, Tim, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919, 492-496, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. A 1919 recording by White is on the CD Lost Sounds, Archeophone ARCH 1005. External links 1880 births 1960 deaths 20th-century African-American musicians 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians 20th-century classical composers African-American classical composers American classical composers African-American male classical composers African-American opera composers American male classical composers Howard University alumni Male opera composers Neoromantic composers Oberlin College alumni Virginia State University faculty