The Washerwoman

Alternate Title

Composition Year

• 1941

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Otto Leland Bohanan (1895–1932)
• “The Washer-Woman.” The Crisis 12, no. 2 (June 1916): 90.

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • 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 1437

Premiere Performance

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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.