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Will Marion Cook

William Mercer Cook (January 27, 1869 – July 19, 1944), better known as Will Marion Cook, was an African-American composer, pianist, orchestrator, lyricist, violinist, and choral director. Cook was a student of Antonín Dvořák. In 1919 he took his New York Syncopated Orchestra (Southern Syncopated Orchestra) to England for a command performance for King George V of the United Kingdom, and tour. Cook is probably best known for his popular songs and landmark Broadway musicals, featuring African-American creators, producers, and casts, such as Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk (1898) and In Dahomey (1903). The latter toured for four years, including in the United Kingdom and United States. (From Wikipedia)

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Cook, Will Marion: In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy (piano-vocal score; London: K. Prowse and Co., c1902), also by Paul Laurence Dunbar, contrib. by Jesse Shipp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Additional books by Will Marion Cook in the extended shelves:

Cook, Will Marion: Any old place in Yankee land is good enough for me (Gotham-Attucks Music, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cook, Will Marion: Any old place in Yankee land is good enough for me (Gotham-Attucks Music, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cook, Will Marion: As the sunflower turns to the sun (John H. Cook Publ. Co. ..., 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cook, Will Marion: Brown-skin baby mine (G. Schirmer ;, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cook, Will Marion: Darktown barbacue (Boston Sunday American, 1905), also by H. B. Eddy and Abbie Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
Cook, Will Marion: Darktown is out to-night : cake walk song and chorus (M. Witmark & Sons ..., 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cook, Will Marion: Der'll be wahm coons a prancin' (Will Marion, in the 1900s) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cook, Will Marion: The lazy wind is loitering among the wayside flow'rs (M. Witmark & Sons, 1900), also by Louise Lamprey (page images at HathiTrust)
Cook, Will Marion: Three Negro songs (G. Schirmer, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cook, Will Marion: Three Negro songs (G. Schirmer, Inc., 1912) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cook, Will Marion: When I was a tiny pick (Gotham-Attucks Music Co., 1907), also by E. H. Pfeiffer, Alex Rogers, and Gotham-Attucks Music Co (page images at HathiTrust)

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