Florence Beatrice Smith Price

Florence was born on April 9, 1887 in Little Rock (Pulaski county). Her parents names were James H. Smith and Florence Gulliver Smith. When she was little she had musical training from her mother and she also had musical pieces published while she was in high school. She was very well educated, she graduated as valedictorian in 1903 then went to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and in 1907 she got her degree as an organist and as a piano teacher. With a lot of racial tensions in Arkansas in the 1920s the family moved to Chicago in 1927. She kept up with her music the American Conservatory of Music and Chicago Musical College. In 1928 G. Schirmer, a major publishing firm, accepted for publication Price's At the Cotton Gin. She won many awards in 1932 for competitions sponsored by the Rodman Wanamaker foundation for her Piano Sonata in E Minor. Florence's art songs and spiritual arrangements were frequently performed by well-known artist of the day. Overall she composed more than 300 works that ranged from small teaching pieces for piano to large-scale compositions such as symphonies and concertos, as well as instrumental chamber music, vocal compositions, and music for radio. Her music style is a mixture of black spirituals and European music.

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You can really here the mixture between the black spiritual and the European style. It sounds like an orchestra mixed with piano, horns, bass, and flutes. Im not exactly sure what the form is but if I had to guess I would say that it is AABC. It has a spring time sound to it. Each phrase is about 12 counts long and then there is a bridge that about 4 counts and then the chorus is 8 counts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xepfezwe1KM