The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face

Alternate Title

• None

Composition Year

• 1935

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
• Fifty Years and Other Poems. Boston: The Cornhill Company, 1917.¹
  • OCLC: 1647868

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Box 13, Folder 26
  • Box 14, Folder 9
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 59, Folder 1405

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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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