Easy-goin'

Alternate Title

None¹

Composition Year

1935

Instrumentation

Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
Majors and Minors: Poems. Toledo, OH: Hadley & Hadley, 1895.
- OCLC: 702705636

Manuscripts

MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
- Bound score, complete (Mar. 21, 1935): Box 60, Folder 1418²

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

Dunbar’s original poem is called “An Easy-Goin’ Feller.” ↩
This manuscript is bound in a collection called Four Negro Songs that also includes “Summah Night,” “Dat’s My Gal,” and “Good-bye, Jinks.” This song includes the dedication, “To Edith” (Price’s younger daughter, Edith Cassandra). ↩