I'm Going to Lay Down My Heavy Load

Alternate Title

• “I’m Goin to Lay Down My Heavy Load (Negro Folk Song}”

Composition Year

• 1926

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Spiritual

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Box 12, Folder 29
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Bound score, complete: Box 59, Folder 1411¹

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.

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