Desire

Alternate Title

Composition Year

• 1948

Copyright Information

• July 29, 1959, Florence B. Price and E.P. Taylor, EU587304

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Orma Jean Surbey (1894–1967)
• Harrison, Henry, ed. Florida Poets

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Box 12, Folder 9
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 5B, Folder 27

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.