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Symphonies nos. 1 and 3 / Florence Price ; edited by Rae Linda Brown and Wayne Shirley.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Price, Florence, 1887-1953, composer.
- Series:
- Music of the United States of America ; v. 19.
- Recent researches in American music ; 66.
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in American music ; 66
- Music of the United States of America ; v. 19
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Standardized Title:
- Symphonies, no. 1, E minor
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Symphonies--United States--20th century--Scores.
- Symphonies.
- Genre:
- Symphonies.
- Art music.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (lii, 296 pages, 3 pages of plates)) : facsimiles, portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.
- Summary:
- "Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887-1953), who settled in Chicago in 1927, was the most widely known African-American woman composer from the 1930s until her death. This edition presents two important unpublished orchestral works: the Symphony No. 1 in E Minor (1932) and the Symphony No. 3 in C Minor (1940). The style of these works is quite different. Price's symphony in E minor is squarely in the nationalist tradition, and it may be more fully considered in the context of the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Cultural characteristics are borne out in the pentatonic themes, call-and-response procedures, syncopated rhythms of the third movement's Juba dance, the preponderance of altered tones, and the timbral differentiation of instrumental choirs (the juxtaposition of the brass and woodwind choirs, for example). The symphony in C minor was inspired by new philosophical, political, and social currents, stemming from the Chicago Renaissance, underway from 1935 to 1950. The Great Migration of blacks from the south to Chicago, the Depression, and the adjustment to urban life provided vivid life experiences as subject matter for Chicago Renaissance writers and artists (including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Margaret Bonds). Price's third symphony, which omits overtly black themes and simple dance rhythms, presents a modern approach to composition--a synthesis, rather than a retrospective view, of African-American life and culture." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Lifting the veil : The symphonies of Florence B. Price / Rae Linda Brown
- Symphony no. 1 in E minor
- Symphony no. 3 in C minor
- Apparatus / Wayne Shirley.
- Notes:
- Due to copyright restrictions, the music of Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 3 (reprinted on pages 3-138 and 141-266 of the print version of this title, respectively) has been excluded from the electronic version. Please refer to the print version for the music.
- No. 1 composed 1931-1932, No. 3 composed 1938-1939.
- Essays on the composer and the symphonies by Rae Linda Brown (p. xv-lii); "Apparatus", essays on the sources, and critical commentary by Wayne Shirley (p. 267-293).
- "Literature cited": pages 294-296.
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed June 3, 2019).
- Contains:
- Container of: Price, Florence, 1887-1953. Symphonies, no. 3, C minor.
- OCLC:
- 1103601795
- Publisher Number:
- A066 A-R Editions, Inc.
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