Brown Arms

Alternate Title

  • “Brown Arms (To Mother)”1

Composition Year

Instrumentation

  • Piano and low voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

  • John H. Owens
  • “The Poet’s Corner.” The Crisis. 37, no. 5 (May 1930): 163.

Manuscripts

Premiere Performance

Published Editions

Recordings

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.

Notes

  1. “To Mother” is the title of Owens’s original poem. 

  2. This score lists the composer as “OAK LEAF” and the lyricist as “A Colored Poet.” It includes other markings (“Class I” and “103” [in blue pencil]) that suggest it was entered into a composition contest.