Come, Come, Said Tom's Father (from Four Encore Songs)

Alternate Title

• None

Composition Year

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

• 30 sec.

Lyricist and Source

• Thomas Moore (1779–1852)¹
• Fables of the Holy Alliance, Rhymes on the Road, &c. &c. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823.

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Box 12, Folder 19
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 4A, Folder 15; Box 6B, Folder 42

Premiere Performance

Published Editions

• Heard, Richard, ed. 44 Art Songs and Spirituals by Florence Price. Fayetteville, AR: ClarNan Editions, 2015.
  • OCLC: 902815587

Recordings

• My Dream: Art Songs and Spirituals by Florence Price. Richard Heard, tenor; Roy L. Belfield, Jr., piano. Percentage Records, 2012.

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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