Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight

Alternate Title

• None

Composition Year

• Unknown

Instrumentation

• SATBar; 2.2.2.2 - 2.2.0.0 - timp - pf.org - strings

Length

• 30 min

Lyricist and Source

• Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
• The Congo and Other Poems. New York: The MacMillan Co., 1914.¹
  • OCLC: 40402773
• Price’s Source: Williams, Oscar, ed. A Little Treasury of American Poetry: The Chief Poets from Colonial Times to the Present Day. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948.
  • OCLC: 1362362

Manuscripts

• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Full orchestral score, complete (undated): Box 11, Folder 5
  • Piano-vocal score, complete (undated): Box 11, Folder 5
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Piano-vocal score, complete (undated): Box 2A, Folder 6
• MC2618: Florence Price Collection, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Piano-vocal score, complete (undated): Box 1, Folder 2
  • Full orchestral score, complete (undated): Box 1, Folder 3

Premiere Performance

• Unknown

Published Editions

• Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 2019.

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.

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