Row in Harlem, New York is a National Historic Landmark. His family house in Washington, DC was replaced by a building of Howard University. The site is marked and is recognized by Washington, DC on its African-American Heritage Trail. Notable works Clorindy: The Origin of the Cakewalk (1898), a one-act musical, produced at the Roof Garden The Policy Players (1900) The Casino Girl (1900) Uncle Eph's Christmas (1901), a Broadway musical The Cannibal King (1901), with Will Accooe In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy (1903), the first full-length, all-black musical produced at a major Broadway theater The Southerners (1904), a Broadway musical The Ghost Ship (1907) Bandanna Land (1907) The Traitor (1913) In Darkeydom (1914), with James Reese Europe The Cannibal King (1914) Swing Along (1929), Will Vodery Rain Song: Exhortation—A Negro Sermon (1912) See also African-American music African American musical theater George Lattimore Will Marion Cook House Notes References Brooks, Tim, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919, 292-299. University of Illinois Press, 2004. Recordings. Carter, Marva Griffin (2008). Swing Along: The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook. Oxford University Press. Krasner, D. (2011). African American Review, 44(1/2), 285-286. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/41328740 Rye, H. (2009). The Southern Syncopated Orchestra. Black Music Research Journal, 29(2), 153-228. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/20640678 Riis, Thomas L., ed. (1996). The Music and Scripts of In Dahomey. Music of the United States of America (MUSA) vol. 5. Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions. Southern, Eileen (1997). The Music of Black Americans: A History. W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition. External links Biography of Will Marion Cook at the electronic Performing Arts Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress In Dahomey at Music of the United States of America (MUSA) Chronology and Itinerary of the Career of Will Marion Cook: Materials for a Biography, Peter M. Lefferts University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1869 births 1944 deaths 19th-century African-American musicians 19th-century American composers 19th-century American male musicians 19th-century classical composers 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 American classical violinists American male classical composers American male violinists American musical theatre composers American Romantic composers Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) Classical musicians from Washington, D.C. Male classical violinists Male musical theatre composers Oberlin College alumni