A White Rose

Alternate Title

“The White Rose”¹

Composition Year

1932 or after

Instrumentation

Piano and high voice

Length

1 min 30 sec

Lyricist and Source

John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890)
In Bohemia. Boston: Pilot Pub. Co., 1886.
- OCLC: 228698445
Henney, Nella Braddy, ed. The Standard Book of British and American Verse. Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., 1932.
- OCLC: 651422298

Manuscripts

MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
- Score, complete facsimile (undated): Box 61, Folder 1440²

Premiere Performance

Unknown

Published Editions

Heard, Richard, ed. 44 Art Songs and Spirituals by Florence Price. Fayetteville, AR: ClarNan Editions, 2015.
- OCLC: 902815587

Recordings

American Originals: A New World, A New Canon. Reginald L. Mobley, countertenor; Agave; Acis APL 20445, 2021.
- OCLC: 1287098335

Thematic Incipit

Bibliography

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.

Notes

While some online sources give the title of O’Reilly’s poem as “The White Rose,” the original collection in which it appeared lists it as “A White Rose.” ↩
This manuscript lists The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) as Price’s source. ↩