Fantasie No. 2 in f-sharp minor

• Price composed this piece in March of 1940.
  • Price received multiple professional acknowledgements in 1940. Her Symphony No. 3 in c minor premiered that year, and she became a member of ASCAP. 
• Price’s manuscript explains that the piece is “based on a folk melody.” The melody is a spiritual which Price set elsewhere in her work with the text “I’m Working on My Building.”⁷² 
  • John Michael Cooper observes that the melody also resembles the beautiful, stark William Dawson arrangement of “Talk about a Child that Do Love Jesus.” 

“as sung to Fannie Carter Wood of Chicago / by her grandmother Malinda Carter / a former slave of Memphis Tennessee.”

Note on the melodic theme of this work, from Florence Price’s manuscript.¹

1. John Michael Cooper, ”Fantasy No. 2 (1940): Programme Note,” Wise Music Classical, accessed February 16, 2022, https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/60889/Fantasy-No-2–Florence-Price/.