Bewilderment

Alternate Title

• None¹

Composition Year

• 1946

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Langston Hughes (1901–1967)
• Fine Clothes to the Jew. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.
  • OCLC: 35834822
• Cullen, Countee, ed. Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets. New York: Harper and Bros., 1927.
  • OCLC: 2695994

Manuscripts

• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, incomplete (undated): Box 12, Folder 4
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (November 5, 1946): Box 4B, Folder 13
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Bound score, complete (facsimile of score in MC988b): Box 59, Folder 1398

Premiere Performance

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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.

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