Colonial Dance

Alternate Title

• None

Composition Year

• In or before 1942¹

Instrumentation

• 2+pic.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp.2perc - strings

Length

• 6 min.

Manuscripts

• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 10, Folder 2
  • Parts, miscellaneous: Box 10, Folder 2
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 1B, Folder 28
  • Parts, miscellaneous: Box 1B, Folder 27; Box 4A, Folder 3 and Folder 5
• MC2618: Florence Price Collection, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 1, Folder 4

Premiere Performance

• Unknown

Published Editions

• Colonial Dance. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 2019.

Recordings

• Price: Songs of the Oak - Concert Overtures Nos. 1–2. Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen; John Jeter, conductor. Naxos 8.559920, 2022.

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.
2. Layne, Maude Wanzer. The Negro’s Contribution to Music. Charleston, WV: Mathews Printing and Lithographing Co., 1942.

Entry History

• Submitted May 29, 2024

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