Five Art Songs

Song Collection

Five Art Songs is a set of undated songs by Florence Price which set the poetry of various American poets. The song cycle is published by Classical Vocal Reprints in an edition edited by Rae Linda Brown.

Florence Price's Five Art Songs includes:
1. Hold Fast to Dreams (Langston Hughes)
2. Travel's End (Mary Folwell Hoisington)
3. To My Little Son (Julia Johnson Davis)
4. Fantasy in Purple (Langston Hughes)
5. Sympathy (Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Composer: Florence PriceText: Langston Hughes, Mary Folwell Hoisington, Julia Johnson Davis, Paul Laurence Dunbar

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    Florence Price: Five Art Songs (Dr. Rae Linda Brown, ed.)

    Composer(s): Florence Price

    Song(s): 1. Hold Fast to Dreams (Langston Hughes)
    Key D Major - d minor
    2. Travel's End (Mary Folwell Hoisington)
    Key B Major (Low voice)
    3. To My Little Son (Julia Johnson Davis)
    Key B Major (Medium voice)
    4. Fantasy in Purple (Langston Hughes)
    Key f minor (Medium voice)
    5. Sympathy (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    Key E-flat (Medium-High voice)
    plus a transposed higher key, G Major (High voice)

    Voice Type: Medium/High

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    Florence Price: 44 Art Songs and Spirituals

    Composer(s): Florence Price

    Song(s): A White Rose (John Boyle O'Reilly)
    An April Day (Joseph Cotter)
    Because (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    Beside the Sea (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    Bewilderment (Langston Hughes)
    Dawn's Awakening (James Joseph Burke)
    Death's Gwineter Lay His Cold Icy Hand on Me (Spiritual)
    Feet o' Jesus (Langston Hughes)
    Four Encore Songs: Tobacco (Graham Lee Hemminger); A Flea and a Fly (Ogden Nash); "Come, come," said Tom's Father (Thomas Moore); Song of the Open Road (Ogden Nash)
    Go Down, Moses (Spiritual)
    God Gives Me You (Nora Connelly)
    Hold Fast to Dreams (Langston Hughes)
    I Grew a Rose (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    I'm Goin' to Lay Down My Heavy Load (Spiritual)
    Love-in-a-mist (Mary Rolofson Gamble)
    My Little Soul's Goin' to Shine (Spiritual)
    My Neighbor (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    My Soul's Been Anchored in de Lord (Spiritual)
    Night (Louise C. Wallace)
    Out of the South Blew a Wind (Fannie Carter Woods)
    Resignation (Florence B. Price)
    Rise Mourner (Spiritual)
    Save Me Lord, Save Me (Spiritual)
    Some o' These Days (Spiritual)
    Song to the Dark Virgin (Langston Hughes)
    Sunset (Odessa P. Elder)
    Sympathy (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face (James Weldon Johnson)
    The Moon Bridge (Mary Rolofson Gamble)
    The Poet and His Song (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    The Washerwoman (Otto Leland Bohanan)
    To My Little Son (Julia Johnson Davis)
    Travel's End (Mary Folwell Hoisington)
    Trouble Done Come My Way (Florence B. Price)
    Two Traditional Negro Spirituals: I am Bound for the Kingdom; I'm Workin' on My Buildin'
    We Have Tomorrow (Langston Hughes)
    Weary Traveler (Spiritual)
    What's the Use (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    Words for a Spiritual ("Capricorn")
    You Won't Find a Man Like Jesus (Spiritual)

    Voice Type: Medium/High

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