Beside the Sea

Alternate Title

Composition Year

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
• Lyrics of Lowly Life. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1896.
  • OCLC: 1165245

Manuscripts

• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 12, Folder 3[^fn1]
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 59, Folder 1397[^fn2]

Premiere Performance

Published Editions

Recordings

Thematic Incipits

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

[^fn1] This score has the dedication, “To Florence L. Price” (Price’s older daughter, Florence Louise). [^fn2] This score has the dedication, in pencil, “To M.A.” (Marian Anderson)