My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord

Alternate Title

Composition Year

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, five seconds

Lyricist and Source

  • Spiritual

Manuscripts

  • 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.

Notes

  1. This score was orchestrated by Jacob M. Velt. 

  2. Both scores in this folder appear to be in Price’s hand, but the folder also contains a cutout from a different score with the annotation that the piece was orchestrated by “Harold Byrns.”