A Song of Living

Alternate Title

• N/A

Composition Year

• 1945

Instrumentation

• Solo piano and high voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Amelia Josephine Burr (1878–1968)
• Life and Living: A Book of Verse. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1916.
  • OCLC: 4629224

Manuscript

• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (December 18, 1945) x3: Box 12, Folder 2
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 12, Folder 2
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Bound score, complete facsimile (undated): Box 61, Folder 1429
• Helen Walker-Hill Collection, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College
  • Facsimile (undated): Box 28, Folder 486

Premiere Performance

• Unknown

Published Editions

• None

Recordings

• None

Thematic Incipits

• In progress

Bibliography

1. Brown, Rae Linda. The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020.