The Poet and His Song

Alternate Title

Composition Year

• 1940

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
• Majors and Minors: Poems. Toledo, OH: Hadley & Hadley, 1895.
  • OCLC: 702705636

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Box 13, Folder 28
  • Box 14, Folder 10
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Score, complete (undated): Box 61, Folder 1421
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Score, complete (Feb. 9, 1940; rev. Feb. 12): Box 61, Folder 1422

Premiere Performance

Published Editions

Recordings

Thematic Incipits

• In progress

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.