Words for a Spiritual

Alternate Title

• None

Composition Year

• 1948

Instrumentation

• Piano and voice

Length

Lyricist and Source

• Anonymous (“Capricorn”)
• Chicago Tribune August 20, 1948.

Manuscripts

• MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
  • Score, complete facsimile (1948): Box 61, Folder 1442[^fn1]

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.

Notes

[^fn1] This manuscript is bound to “Your Leafy Voice.”