{"id":17159,"date":"2021-01-06T22:54:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T22:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=17159"},"modified":"2021-01-08T23:12:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T23:12:23","slug":"florence-b-prices-seven-descriptive-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/florence-b-prices-seven-descriptive-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence B. Price’s Seven Descriptive Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Michael Cooper shared with MusicUNTOLD the following: NUMBER ONE OF 2021: I awoke this morning to find that my edition of Florence B. Price’s Seven Descriptive Pieces for Piano Solo<\/a><\/strong> (1927-28) has been published by G. Schirmer & Associated Music Publishers.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That’s quicker than I expected, but hardly too quick considering that they’ve remained unpublished, unperformed, unheard, and absent from the literature for nearly a century. They’re pieces of some biographical significance also: the first six were composed in October, 1927, just before the Price family migrated to Chicago; and the last (“Pensive Mood”) was composed in March, 1928 — Price’s first securely dateable piano-solo piece after that difficult move that proved a watershed in her professional and personal life. They’re technically challenging and fascinating in many ways. It’s 20-22 minutes’ worth of fine music that is nowhere discussed or mentioned in any of the literature on Price — and that can now change.<\/p>\n

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For assistance in providing the tempo and character indications for the pieces — important information that Price omitted, even though the manuscripts are finished and revised — I thank my good friends Jonathan Bellman and Maeve Brophy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I hope you’ll enjoy these!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Michael Cooper shared with MusicUNTOLD the following: NUMBER ONE OF 2021: I awoke this morning to find that my edition of Florence B. Price’s Seven Descriptive Pieces for Piano Solo (1927-28) has been published by G. Schirmer & Associated Music Publishers. That’s quicker than I expected, but hardly too quick considering that they’ve remained…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[442],"class_list":["post-17159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-dr-michael-cooper","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17160,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159\/revisions\/17160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}