Lullaby for a Black Mother

Alternate Title

Composition Year

• 1945

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Langston Hughes (1901–1967)
• “Lullaby.” The Crisis. 31, no. 5 (March 1926): 224.

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Box 13, Folder 8
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (March 21–24, 1945): Box 5B, Folder 32
  • Sketch (March 21, 1945): Box 10, Folder 14

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.