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BOX 73-75, 99 Vocal Music
Vocal Music of the Vernon Duke Collection consisting of manuscripts, scores, parts, etc.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
BOX-FOLDER 73/1 Anima eroica (ode to St. Brigitte) ; for soprano solo, two flutes, oboe, clarinet and piano ; August 1966
Holograph score (transparencies) ; 18 p.
Words by Merrill Sparks
BOX-FOLDER 73/2 Anima eroica (ode to St. Brigitte) ; for soprano solo, two flutes, oboe, clarinet and piano ; August 1966
Ozalids (2) of above
BOX-FOLDER 73/3 Anima eroica (ode to St. Brigitte) ; for soprano solo, two flutes, oboe, clarinet and piano ; August 1966
Holograph parts (4) (transparencies) and (4) ozalids
BOX-FOLDER 73/4 As white swans slumber ; poem for voice and orchestra (reduction for voice and piano)
Holograph piano-vocal score (Russian) ; [2] p.
Words by Sluchevskii
Dedication: to Vitol'D Iosifovich Malishevsii
Completed January 11, 1920, Odessa
BOX-FOLDER 73/5 La Bohême et mon couer ; deuxième serie ; New York, May 1950
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score (transparencies) (French) ; 21 p.
Includes: Sept poèmes de Francis Carco
Contents of Carco Poems:
  • Adieu
  • Autre chanson
  • Parade
  • Le souvenir
  • Juin
  • Personages
  • Complainte
BOX-FOLDER 73/6 La Bohême et mon couer ; deuxième serie ; New York, May 1950
Ozalid (bound) of above
BOX-FOLDER 73/7 Fool that I was
Holograph piano-vocal score (no lyric) ; [3] p.
Lyric by Howard Dietz
BOX-FOLDER 73/8 Free as the air
Ozalids (2) of copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
Lyric by Vernon Duke
BOX-FOLDER 73/9 I touched a leaf of eucalyptus ; for soprano or tenor [and piano]
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) (Russian) ; 5 p.
Ozalid
Words by Nikolai Zabolotskii
On cover: Pacific Palisades, Calif. 1967
BOX-FOLDER 73/10 I'm mad about a man about town
Holograph piano-vocal score ; [4] p.
Typed lyric sheet ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 73/11 In this life ; 1964
Ozalid of holograph piano-vocal score with holograph lyric (Russian) ; 3p.
Lyric by Vernon Duke
BOX-FOLDER 73/12 Journey to Italy (suite for voice and piano) ; April 1932
Holograph piano-vocal score (incomplete) (Russian) ; [8] p.
Ozalids (2) ; 18 p.
Words by Mikhail Kuzmin
Contents:
  • I. Invitation
  • II. Morning in Florence
  • III. Trip to Assisi
  • IV. Venetian moon
BOX-FOLDER 99/1 Let me match my private life with yours
Printed piano-vocal score from November 5, 1932 "Daily Mirror" ; p. 6
From the revue Americana
Lyric by E. Y. Harburg
BOX-FOLDER 73/13 Little boy ("Colgate")
Ozalid of copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score ; [3] p.
Lyric by Ogden Nash
BOX-FOLDER 73/14 Little girl ("Colgate")
Ozalid of copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score ; [3] p.
Lyric by Ogden Nash
BOX-FOLDER 73/15 Lover's song, The
Holograph piano-vocal score ; [4 p.] + [2] p. sketches (unidentified, crossed out)
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 73/16 Six mélodies sur les paroles de Tristan L`Hermite ; 1951-1953
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) ; 21 p.
Uniform title: Mélodies sur les paroles de Tristan L`Hermite
Contents:
  • 1. L'amour
  • 2. Sur Lui-Même
  • 3. Le testament
  • 4. Le soupir ambigu
  • 5. Epitaphe d'un petit chien
  • 6. La belle Crèpusculaire
BOX-FOLDER 73/17 Six mélodies sur les paroles de Tristan L`Hermite ; 1951-1953
Uniform title: Mélodies sur les paroles de Tristan L`Hermite
Ozalid of above (bound)
BOX-FOLDER 73/18 My, what a rainy day
Holograph lead sheet ; [1] p.
Typed lyric sheet ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 99/2 Park avenue lyrics ; twelve songs for parlor use ; 1945
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score (transparencies) ; [17] p.
Words by Alfred Kreymbourg
Contents:
  • 1. Third avenue laughs at fourth
  • 2. Chicken salad
  • 3. Another wedding
  • 4. Globe Wernicke
  • 5. Travelling men
  • 6. Corporation counsellor
  • 7. Equal quality
  • 8. Hello darling
  • 9. Once a month
  • 10. Inch worms
  • 11. Park avenue busts
  • 12. Liebestod
BOX-FOLDER 99/3 Park avenue lyrics ; twelve songs for parlor use ; 1945
Ozalid (bound) of above
BOX-FOLDER 74/1 Quatre poèmes de Ch. Cros
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score ; 18 p.
Uniform title: Poèmes de Ch. Cros
Contents:
  • Chanson de la côte
  • Berceuse
  • Tableau
  • Noceur
BOX-FOLDER 74/2 Two poems of Baron A. Delvig ; for high voice and piano
Holograph piano-vocal score (Russian) ; [12] p.
Uniform title: Poems of Baron A. Delvig
Dedication: To Irina Polevitskaia
October-November 1929
In folder marked: Early songs 1919-1932
Contents:
  • I. First meeting
  • II. Home
BOX-FOLDER 74/3 Two poems of Baron A. Delvig ; for high voice and piano
Manuscript piano-vocal score (transparencies) ; 14 p.
Uniform title: Poems of Baron A. Delvig
Ozalids (2)
In folder marked: Early songs 1919-1932
BOX-FOLDER 74/4 Six poems of Kevgeny Baratynsky ; for high voice and piano
Manuscript piano-vocal score (Russian) ; 17 p.
Uniform title: Poems of Kevgeny Baratynsky
Ozalid
Dedication: to the memory of S.P. Diaghilev
Completed March 28-29, 1931
In folder marked: Early songs 1919-1932
Contents:
  • I. Tokens of love
  • II. This kiss
  • III. The flyer
  • IV. On the roofs of a neighboring village
  • V. Mila, what grace
  • VI. Yesterday, a night of 74/4 foul weather...
BOX-FOLDER 74/5 Cinq Poésies (nos. 1, 2, 3) ; Russischer Musikverlag G. m. b. H. Berlin, 1928
Piano-vocal score (3 titles) ; 3 p. each
Uniform title: Poésies
Words by A. Pouchkine
Contents:
  • Inscription sur une tonelle (the legend of the bower)
  • Dione (Dionea)
  • Si le dieu joyeux des pampres (the merry God of grapes)
BOX-FOLDER 74/6 Six romances ; 1964
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) (Russian) ; 18 p.
Uniform title: Romances
Contents:
  • 1. To a foolish beauty
  • 2. Stanzas
  • 3. To a friend
  • 4. Let the poet indict
  • 5. Grave of Ossian
  • 6. My supplication
BOX-FOLDER 74/6 Six romances ; 1964
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) "To a foolish beauty" ; 4 p.
Uniform title: Romances
Lyrics by Mikhail Lermontov
BOX-FOLDER 74/7 Six romances ; 1964
Uniform title: Romances
Ozalid of above (bound)
BOX-FOLDER 74/8 Two romances on lyrics of Dimitrii Klenovskii ; 1965-66
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) (Russian) ; 7 p.
Uniform title: Romances on lyrics of Dimitrii Klenovskii
Ozalid
Contents:
  • 1. Lines from highschool
  • 2. It is she, my beloved
BOX-FOLDER 74/9 Two romances on lyrics of Mikhail Kuzmin ; 1930
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) (Russian) ; 8 p.
Uniform title: Romances on lyrics of Mikhail Kuzmin
Ozalid
Contents:
  • 1. Far from the sounds of home
  • 2. Chodowiecki [i.e. Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (1726-1801), German painter]
BOX-FOLDER 74/10 Six songs (1919-1921) ; newly edited in 1930, New York
Holograph piano-vocal score (Russian with English versions by André Skalski) ; [18] p.
Uniform title: Songs
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