Brown Arms

Alternate Title

“Brown Arms (To Mother)”¹

Composition Year

Instrumentation

Solo piano and low voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

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

Manuscripts

MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
- Score, complete (undated): Box 1C, Folder 32²

Premiere Performance

Published Editions

Recordings

Thematic Incipits

In progress

Bibliography

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

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