My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord

Alternate Title

• See also “My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord” (solo voice and piano)

Composition Year

• 1931

Instrumentation

• Velt: 1 piccolo/flute, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 Bb clar., 2 bassoon, 4 horns in F, 2 Bb trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, timpani, harp, strings
• Price: 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 Bb clar., 2 bassoon, 4 horns in F, 3 Bb trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, strings

Length

• Two minutes

Lyricist and Source

• Spiritual

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Box 11, Folder 7
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 60, Folder 1416¹
  • Parts, complete (undated): Box 60, Folder 1416
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Bound scores, complete (undated x2): Box 60, Folder 1417²
  • Parts, complete (undated): Box 60, Folder 1417

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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