Sonata in E Minor

Alternate Title

• Sonata in E Minor for Pianoforte

Composition Year

• 1932¹

Copyright Information

• February 16, 1959, Florence Price, EU565746

Instrumentation

• Solo piano

Length

• 19 min.

Manuscripts

• MC988: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Collection, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score (undated): Box 2, Folder 4, Item 3
• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score (June 13–July 6, 1932): Box 18, Folder 16
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score (?): Box 1B, Folder 22
• Florence B. Price Music Manuscripts, Music Division, Library of Congress
  • Holograph facsimile: Call # ML96.5 .P865 no. 14 Case
• Helen-Walker Hill Collection, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago.
  • Facsimiles: Box 27 (Series 7), Folders 475–77.

Premiere Performance

• First Movement: July 1933²
• Full Sonata: Unknown³

Published Editions

• Sonata in E Minor for Piano. Edited by Rae Linda Brown. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1997.

Recordings

• Under Construction

Thematic Incipits

• In Progress

Bibliography

1. Brown, Rae Linda. “Florence B. Price and Margaret Bonds: The Chicago Years.” Black Music Research Journal 12 (Fall 1990): 11–14.
2. 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.
3. Ege, Samantha. “The Aesthetics of Florence Price: Negotiating the Dissonances of a New World Nationalism.” PhD diss., University of York (UK), 2020.
4. Floyd, Samuel A., Jr. The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
5. Holzer, Linda Ruth. “Selected Solo Piano Music of Florence B. Price (1887–1963).” DMA diss., Florida State University, 1995.
6. Jackson, Barbara Garvey. “Florence Price, Composer.” The Black Perspective in Music 5 (1977): 30–43.
7. Maxile, Horace J., Jr. “Culture and Craft in Florence Price’s Piano Sonata in E Minor (First Movement).” In Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900–1960, edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft, 139–63. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
8. Peebles, Sarah Louise. “The Use of the Spiritual in the Piano Works of Two African American Women composers—Florence B. Price and Margaret Bonds.” DA diss., University of Mississippi, 2008.
9. Shelton, Theresa Lorraine. “Idiosyncrasies of Music Narrative: Hypotheses for Further Investigation.” PhD diss., Indiana University, 1997.
10. Walker-Hill, Helen. “Music by Black Women Composers at the American Music Research Center.” American Music Research Center Journal 2 (1992): 23–52.

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