The Oak

Alternate Title

• None¹

Composition Year

• 1943

Instrumentation

• 3+pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp.4perc - hp - strings

Length

• 13 min.

Manuscripts

• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (1943): Box 10, Folder 6
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete: Box 3A, Folder 5
• MC2618: Florence Price Collection, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (1943): Box 1, Folder 1
• Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
  • Score, complete (undated): M1002.P945 O11 1900z²

Premiere Performance

• Unknown

Published Editions

• The Oak. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 2019.

Recordings

• Florence Price: The Oak, Mississippi River Suite, Symphony No. 3. Apo Hsu, conductor; The Women’s Philharmonic. Koch International Classics 3-7518-2 2111, 2007.
• 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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