Song of the Open Road (from Four Encore Songs)

Alternate Title

Composition Year

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
• “Song of the Open Road.” New Yorker (October 15, 1932): 18.

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Box 12, Folder 19
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 4A, Folder 15; Box 6B, Folder 42

Premiere Performance

Published Editions

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.