Out of the South Blew a Soft Sweet Wind

Alternate Title

• Out of the South Blew a Wind

Composition Year

• 1946

Copyright Information

• June 5, 1946, Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, EP7626

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Fannie Carter Woods (1882–1948)

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Box 13, Folder 15
  • Box 14, Folder 10

Premiere Performance

Published Editions

• Clark, Edgar Rogie, ed. Negro Art Songs: Album by Contemporary Composers for Voice and Piano. New York: Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, 1946.

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.