My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord

Alternate Title

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

Composition Year

• 1931

Copyright Information

• August 12, 1937, Gamble Hinged Music Co., E pub. 63815

Instrumentation

• Solo piano and medium or high voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Spiritual

Manuscripts

• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (September 30, 1931): Box 1C, Folder 35¹
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Score, complete: Box 60, Folder 1415²
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Bound score, complete (undated): Box 61, Folder 1430³

Premiere Performance

Published Editions

• My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord. New York: Remick Music, 1937.⁴
• My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord. Chicago: Gamble Hinged Music Co., 1937.
• Taylor, Vivian, ed. Art Songs and Spirituals by African-American Woman Composers. Bryn Mawr, PA: Hildegard Publishing Co., 1995.

Recordings

Thematic Incipits

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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