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BOX 161-273 Music, 1931-2000
Holograph manuscript scores, sketches, and parts for original compositions by Diamond primarily comprise the music series. The series also includes a small amount of Diamond's arrangements of works by other composers, as well as harmony exercises and inscribed materials.
Arranged as three subseries.
Original Compositions, 1931-2000
Holograph manuscript scores, sketches, and parts for original compositions by Diamond are the chief components of this subseries. The term 'draft' refers to a complete early pencil score, whereas 'sketch' indicates material of a more fragmentary nature. Diamond's sketchbooks are located under the heading 'Miscellaneous works.'
Arranged alphabetically by title of work.
BOX-FOLDER 161/1-162/2, 225/1-2, 259/1-260/1 Ahavah: symphonic eulogy for narrator and orchestra (1954)
Draft, score, and parts
BOX-FOLDER 162/3 Album for the young: for piano (1946)
Draft
BOX-FOLDER 162/4 Album leaf for Ned's 60th birthday (1983)
Sketch
BOX-FOLDER 162/5-7 Alone at the piano: for beginners (1967)
Draft and scores
BOX-FOLDER 181/4-6, 225/3-4 L'âme de Claude Debussy: a cycle of nine songs for voice and piano (1948-1949)
Scores
Text: Claude Debussy
BOX-FOLDER 163/1-3 Amen and alleluia: for a cappella chorus (1990)
Draft and scores
Dedication: William Ferris Chorale
BOX-FOLDER 163/4 Amor et amicitia: for small orchestra and organ (1948)
Drafts
Dedication: Ralph Vaughan Williams
BOX-FOLDER 225/5-226/1 Anna Lucasta (film music, 1949)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 163/5 Anne Frank remembers: monodrama for Susan Strasberg and orchestra (1986-1987)
Sketch
Text: Pierre Szamek
BOX-FOLDER 163/6-7 Anniversary in a country cemetery: for voice and piano (1940)
Scores
Text: Katherine Anne Porter
BOX-FOLDER 163/8-9 An anniversary on the name of Leonard Bernstein: for piano (1981)
Sketch and score
BOX-FOLDER 163/10, 226/2-5, 260/2 Aria and hymn: for orchestra (1937)
Sketch and scores
Dedication: Albert Roussel
BOX-FOLDER 163/11 Aria and hymn: arranged for two pianos (1937)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 163/12 As life what is so sweet: for voice and piano (1940)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 163/13-15 Ashen pages: song cycle for voice and chamber orchestra (1934)
Draft and scores
Text: Lillian Morgan Saminsky
BOX-FOLDER 163/16 At pickle me tickle me (undated)
Short score/sketch
BOX-FOLDER 163/17 At the prick and spare not: for symphonic band (undated)
Short score/sketch
BOX-FOLDER 163/18-20 Ballade for chamber orchestra (1935)
Draft, score, and parts
Dedication: Sabina
Barcarolle no. 1 and no. 2 for piano (1993)
see Two barcarolles
BOX-FOLDER 164/7-8 Be music, night (1948)
Sketch and score
Text: Kenneth Patchen
Note: "Dawn the perspective" on verso
BOX-FOLDER 164/9 Bid adieu (1937)
Draft
Note: Also includes "Music for orchestration" sketch
BOX-FOLDER 164/10-13 Billy in the darbies: for voice and piano (1944)
Scores
Text: Herman Melville
BOX-FOLDER 164/14 A birthday parable for Vincenzo: for soprano and piano (1980)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 164/15 Birthday piece for Merritt Cootes: for piano four-hands (1960)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 164/16 Birthday variation for Eugene Ormandy: for piano (1970)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 164/17 Book II fugue I in C major: for piano (1940)
Score
Dedication: Katherine Anne Porter
BOX-FOLDER 164/18-19 Brigid's song: for voice and piano (1946)
Scores
Text: James Joyce
Dedication: Brian Otis
BOX-FOLDER 164/20-22 Brother, my brother: for voice and piano (undated)
Scores
Text: Robert Penn Warren
Dedication: Goddard Lieberson (later removed)
BOX-FOLDER 164/23 Buonarroti cycle: for voice and piano (1951-1960)
Score
Text: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
BOX-FOLDER 212/11, 226/6-227/1 A buoyant music: for orchestra (1970)
Sketch
BOX-FOLDER 164/24 Canon for piano (1982)
Sketch
BOX-FOLDER 164/25 The canticle of Saint Teresa of Avila (Vivo sin vivir en mi): variations for voice and piano (1943)
Scores
Text: Saint Teresa of Avila
Dedication: Jennie Tourel
BOX-FOLDER 258/1 Capriccio no. 2 (1989)
Draft
BOX-FOLDER 258/2 Capriccio no. 4 for solo flute (1991)
Score
Dedication: Scott Goff
BOX-FOLDER 164/26 Cathedral music for "The changeling": for piano (undated)
Draft
Text: James Joyce
BOX-FOLDER 212/12 Ceremonial fanfare: for brass, timpani, and percussion (1950)
Score
Earlier title: Fanfare for the United Nations
BOX-FOLDER 164/27-29 César: for voice and piano (1940)
Scores
Text: Paul Valéry
Dedication: Mme Povla Frigsch (later removed)
BOX-FOLDER 164/30 Chaconne for strings (1937)
Sketch
BOX-FOLDER 164/31 Chaconne for violin and piano (1947-1948)
Sketch
Dedication: Jean Westbrook
BOX-FOLDER 164/32-33, 227/2 Chamber symphony: for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, viola and piano (1935-1936)
Score and parts
Dedication: Aaron Copland
BOX-FOLDER 164/35-36 Chatterton: for voice and piano (1946)
Drafts and score
Text: John Keats
Dedication: Alfred Kazin
Note: Part of projected cycle, Three songs: 1. Chatterton, 2. ?, 3. Sleep
BOX-FOLDER 164/37-38 The children of the poor: for voice and piano (1949-1950)
Scores
Text: Victor Hugo
BOX-FOLDER 165/1 Choricos: a threnody for chamber orchestra, op. 52 (1934)
Score
Dedication: Dr. Frederick Herbert Adler
BOX-FOLDER 165/2 Christmas day music: for piano four-hands (1939)
Sketch
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