Three Little Negro Dances

Alternate Title

• See also “Three Negro Dances” (band)
• See also “Suite of Negro Dances” (orchestra)

Composition Year

• ca. 1933
• Two-piano, ca. 1949

Copyright Information

• Hoe Cake (solo): November 24, 1933, Theodore Presser Co., E pub. 38974
• Rabbit Foot (solo): November 24, 1933, Theodore Presser Co., E pub. 38975
• Ticklin’ Toes (solo): November 24, 1933, Theodore Presser Co., E pub. 38976
• Hoe Cake (Two-piano): November 23, 1949, Theodore Presser Co., E pub. 42187
• Rabbit Foot (Two-piano): November 23, 1949, Theodore Presser Co., E pub. 42188
• Ticklin’ Toes (Two-piano): November 23, 1949, Theodore Presser Co., E pub. 42189

Instrumentation

• Solo piano
• Two pianos, four hands

Length

• 3-4 min.

Manuscripts

• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score (undated): Box 17, Folder 36

Premiere Performance

• N/A

Published Editions

• Solo piano: Three Little Negro Dances. Philadelphia: Theodore Presser, 1933.
• “Hoe Cake.” The Etude 52 (April 1934): 229.
• “Rabbit Foot.” The Etude 52 (July 1934): 413.
• “Ticklin’ Toes.” The Etude 69 (September 1951): 34–35.
• Two pianos, four hands: Three Little Negro Dances. Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser, 1949.

Recordings

Thematic Incipits

• I. Hoe Cake
• II. Rabbit Foot
• III. Ticklin’ Toes

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.