They Lie, They Lie

Alternate Title

Composition Year

• 1946

Instrumentation

• Piano and medium voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• David Morton (1886–1957)
• American Mercury April 1946

Manuscripts

• MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Box 13, Folder 34
• MC988b: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Second Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, complete (October 14, 1946): Box 5B, Folder 32
• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Bound score, complete facsimile (October 14, 1946): Box 59, Folder 1404¹

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.

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