Because

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  • None1

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  • Piano and voice

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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.

Notes

  1. Dunbar’s original poem is called “Compensation.” 

  2. This manuscript contains pencil corrections in mm. 13, 24, and 28.