{"id":10375,"date":"2023-05-26T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T01:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10375"},"modified":"2023-05-27T21:05:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T01:05:59","slug":"florence-price-childrens-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/05\/florence-price-childrens-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence Price children&#8217;s song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Composer Elaine Fine found <a href=\"https:\/\/musicalassumptions.blogspot.com\/2023\/04\/florence-price-thrift-store-find.html\">a children&#8217;s song by composer Florence Price.<\/a> This is kind of cool because Florence Price has recently been rediscovered by the classical music cognescenti as an exceedingly talented mid-twentieth century American composer who got forgotten because she was both Black and female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I wonder if Price wrote other children&#8217;s songs. And this also makes me think of another fabulous mid-twentieth century American woman composer, Ruth Crawford Seeger, who produced some books of children&#8217;s songs, containing her transcriptions and harmonizations of American folk tunes. And finally, wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if some of today&#8217;s &#8220;serious&#8221; composers turned their talents to children&#8217;s music?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer Elaine Fine found a children&#8217;s song by composer Florence Price. This is kind of cool because Florence Price has recently been rediscovered by the classical music cognescenti as an exceedingly talented mid-twentieth century American composer who got forgotten because she was both Black and female. Now I wonder if Price wrote other children&#8217;s songs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/05\/florence-price-childrens-song\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Florence Price children&#8217;s song&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[935],"class_list":["post-10375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-arts","tag-florence-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10376,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375\/revisions\/10376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}