Songs of the Oak

Alternate Title

• None¹

Composition Year

• 1943

Instrumentation

• 3+pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2+cbn - 4.3.3+btn.1 - timp.6perc - cel[=org] - hp - strings

Length

• 18 min.

Manuscripts

• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Scores, complete (1943): Box 3A, Folder 6; Box 4b, Folder 18
• MC2618: Florence Price Collection, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (1943): Box 1, Folder 7

Premiere Performance

• Unknown

Published Editions

• Songs of the Oak. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 2020.

Recordings

• Price: Songs of the Oak - Concert Overtures Nos. 1–2. Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen; John Jeter, conductor. Naxos 8.559920, 2022.

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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