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| Series I: Manuscripts (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Notebooks (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Fresno Ballet Book : T-U (continued) | |||||||||||||
| 5 songs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 15 FOLDER 191 | Fresno Ballet Book : V | ||||||||||||
| 1 song | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 192 | Fresno Ballet Book : W-X | ||||||||||||
| 11 songs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 193 | Fresno Ballet Book : Y-Z | ||||||||||||
| 2 songs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 194 | Fresno Ballet Book : Illegible Titles | ||||||||||||
| Includes master photocopy transcriptions of American folksongs from the Fresno Ballet Book whose songs titles are illegible (handwritten, 5 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 195 | Songs: Transcriptions (Notebook 1 of 5) | ||||||||||||
| Notations and transcriptions of American folksongs recorded in a bound music book belonging to Sam Eskin (7 3⁄4" by 6 3⁄4", Sit Lux Music Book No. 1815, handwritten, 41 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 196 | Songs: Transcriptions (Notebook 2 of 5) | ||||||||||||
| Notations and transcriptions of American folksongs and Jewish songs recorded in a bound music book belonging to Sam Eskin (7 1⁄4" by 4 3⁄4", Schirmer's Manuscript Music Book No. 1, handwritten, 19 songs; pages 5-10 have been cut out) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 197 | Songs: Transcriptions (Notebook 3 of 5) | ||||||||||||
| Notations and transcriptions of American folksongs recorded in a bound music book belonging to Sam Eskin (9" by 7 3⁄4", Presser's Music Writing Books, handwritten, 23 songs; many of the songs have been crossed out) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 198 | Songs: Transcriptions (Notebook 4 of 5) | ||||||||||||
| Notations and transcriptions of American and Spanish (Flamenco) folksongs recorded in a spiral bound music book belonging to Sam Eskin (9 1⁄4" by 11 3⁄4", Coles' Wire Bound Music Blank Book, handwritten, 24 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 199 | Songs: Transcriptions (Notebook 5 of 5) | ||||||||||||
| Notations and transcriptions of American folksongs recorded in a bound music book belonging to Sam Eskin (9 1⁄2" by 8", Warner's Harmony Student's Blank Music Book, handwritten, 35 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 200 | Songs: Notebook (1 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| "A Wonderful Dream" written by Doctor Watts (4" by 6 1⁄4", handwritten, 12 pp.; binding and cover are gone) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 201 | Songs: Notebook (2 of 3) Unknown Author | ||||||||||||
| A poem or song written by anonymous author (8" by 6 1⁄2", handwritten, 52 pp.; cover is gone, binding is loose, adhesive tape on the front page) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 202 | Songs: Notebook (3 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| A poem or song titled "Wishing You A Very Good 1941" written by [Martha from Connie] (7" by 10", typed, 6 pp.; stapled binding) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 203 | Songs: Transcriptions, Bound (1 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| Notations and transcriptions of Flamenco songs recorded in a bound blank book belonging to Sam Eskin (5" by 8", handwritten, 35 songs; hardback, tan canvas cover). Song genres include: Bulerias (4 variations); Farruca (3 variations); Granadinas (6 variations); Sevillanas (12 variations); Soleares (15 variations); Zambra (1 variation) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 FOLDER 204 | Songs: Transcriptions, Bound (2 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| Notations and transcriptions of American folksongs recorded in a bound blank book belonging to Sam Eskin (5 1⁄4" by 6 1⁄2", handwritten, 23 songs; hardback, brown canvas cover, water damage from top to bottom of 1/3 of the book) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 23 FOLDER 205 | Songs: Transcriptions, Bound (3 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| BOX 24 FOLDER 206 | Songs: Transcriptions in Binder-style Notebook | ||||||||||||
| Index | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 207 | Songs: Transcriptions in Accordion-style Folder | ||||||||||||
| Index | |||||||||||||
| Limericks and Quotations | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 208 | Limericks (1 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| "A base drummer..." to "But the Bishop was..."; Bawdy limerick clippings; also includes typed and handwritten limericks (60 limericks) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 209 | Limericks (2 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| "From Brooklyn..." to "There was a young maid..."; Bawdy limerick clippings; also includes typed and handwritten limericks (40 limericks) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 210 | Limericks (3 of 3) | ||||||||||||
| "There was a young maiden..." to "With..."; Bawdy limerick clippings; also includes typed and handwritten limericks (76 limericks) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 211 | Bound Notebook: "Stories, Etc." | ||||||||||||
| Quotations recorded in a bound blank book belonging to Sam Eskin (5" by 7", handwritten, 25 pp. filled; hardback, red cover) | |||||||||||||
| Notes and Lectures | |||||||||||||
| BOX 25 FOLDER 212 | Notes: Names of Performers, Informants | ||||||||||||
| Names of 30 performers and informants gathered by Eskin; additional information can be found on the back of some slips (handwritten, 30 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 213 | Notes: Addresses and Phone Numbers | ||||||||||||
| Contact information for performers and informants gathered by Eskin; (handwritten, 19 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 214 | Notes: Song Fragments | ||||||||||||
| Song fragments, poems, and quotations gathered by Eskin (handwritten, 26 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 215 | Notes: Limerick/Rhyme Fragments | ||||||||||||
| Limerick and rhyming fragments gathered by Eskin (handwritten, 5 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 216 | Notes: Information about Folksong Recordings | ||||||||||||
| Includes oeuvre of folklorist Alberto Hemsi (typed, 1 p.) and notes (handwritten, 2 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 217 | Notes: Vocabulary Terms and Definitions | ||||||||||||
| Includes correspondence defining "Creole" (typed, 2 pp.) and Andalusian music (typed, 2 pp.). Also includes definitions for the following terms: shanties, Calypso, Calypso instruments, Chinese instruments, and ethnomusicology (handwritten, 5 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 218 | Notes: Folksong | ||||||||||||
| Includes notes on folksong and folk music (handwritten, 4 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 219 | Notes: Folksong Publications | ||||||||||||
| Includes a bibliography of folksong resources (typed and handwritten, 1 p.); also includes published clippings and personal references to folksong resources (typed and handwritten, 20 leaves) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 220 | Notes: Information for a Folksong Radio Program | ||||||||||||
| Eskin's notes for a radio program interview, "F.S.L." (handwritten, 8 pp.); also includes related notes (handwritten, 3 leaves), and a transcript of a program interview given for KYIM (typed, 1 p., [December 1948 February 1949, Yuma, AZ]) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 221 | Notes: Chords and Hand Positions | ||||||||||||
| Includes a drawing of a cotton picker's hand position (hand drawn, 1 p.); fingerings and guitar hand positions (handwritten, 4 pp.); diagram depicting how to make a wooden whistle from a twig (master photocopy, 1 p.); guitar fret diagrams (handwritten, 3 pp.); and a clipping of an English concertina keyboard (published, 1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 222 | Notes: History of Various Places | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Australia" (published, 2 pp.); "Revolutionary Movements in Canada" (typed, 2 pp.); and "A Short History of New York State" (typed, 1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 223 | Notes: Easter Traditions | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following: a photograph clipping of an Easter egg cracking tradition; notes on Easter tradition (typed, 1 leaf); notes and questions concerning the tradition (handwritten, 2 leaves); and excerpts from The Easter Book by Francis Weiser (handwritten, 2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 224 | Music, Discussion of | ||||||||||||
| Excerpts from The Literature of Folkmusic ; includes an introductory essay (typed, 2 pp.), bibliography and further resources (typed, 6 pp.), and an essay titled, "Sound, Scales, and Modes" (typed, 10 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 225 | Publicity Data for Sam Eskin | ||||||||||||
| Drafted by Eskin and intended to be used as a publicity release; provides background history, experiences, philosophy, and growing involvement with folk music (handwritten, 3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 226 | Lectures: "Shifting Definitions of Folksong or What is a Folksong?" (1962) | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following: 2nd Annual University of Chicago Folk Festival program; a draft of Eskin's lecture on American folk music, "Shifting Definitions of Folksong, or What is Folksong?" (typed, 6 pp.); and a final draft of "Shifting Definitions of Folksong" (typed, 13 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 227 | Lectures: "Lore of the Folk, From the Folk, To All the Folk" (1962) | ||||||||||||
| Draft of Eskin's lecture on American folk music, "Lore of the Folk, From the Folk, To All the Folk" written for the Ulster County Folklore Society (1 original copy, 3 onion skin copies, typed, 2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 228 | Lectures, Untitled (1 of 2) | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following: introduction notes for a lecture (typed, 1 leaf); lecture "#1," which introduces American folksongs, leaves space for them to be played, and ends with an interpretive tie-in (typed, 9 pp.); lyrics to "Salt Horse" (typed, 1 leaf); and an untitled lecture that follows the same format as "#1," using different material (typed, 6 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 229 | Lectures, Untitled (2 of 2) | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following: an untitled lecture that introduces American folksongs, leaves space for them to be played, and ends with an interpretive tie-in (typed, 5 pp.); an untitled lecture that follows the same format using reel-to-reel tapes (typed, 8 pp.); an untitled radio show talk with a play list of American folksongs (typed, 4 pp.); draft of an untitled lecture on American folksongs (handwritten, 3 pp.); another draft of an untitled lecture with notes on potential folksongs (handwritten, 4 pp.); and a draft written for a talk given on the KFDM radio station [Beaumont, TX] (typed, 3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 230 | Assignments | ||||||||||||
| Includes: a syllabus for an English Literature class, Folksongs and Narrative Poems (typed, 2 pp.); song lists marked UCLA (handwritten, 2 cards, November 3, 1948); and a song list for a memorial program (handwritten, 1 leaf, Woodstock, N.Y. May 28, 1949) | |||||||||||||
| Articles | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 231 | Articles/Clippings: Animals | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: hoop-snakes (1 p.); and animal kingdom (1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 232 | Articles/Clippings: Ceilidh/Hootenanny | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: ceilidh folk celebration (1 p.) and related term hootenanny (1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 233 | Clippings on: ceilidh folk celebration (1 p.) and related term hootenanny (1 p.) | ||||||||||||
| "Games Little People Play" (2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 234 | Articles/Clippings: Dulcimer | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: constructing a dulcimer (3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 235 | Articles/Clippings: Folk Festivals | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Sun Valley Ketchum Folk Festival" (1 p.); "Festival of Music" (International Folkmusic Council, 2 pp.); "1st Annual Newport Folk Festival" (1 p.); and "5th Annual Miramichi Folksong Festival" (3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 236 | Articles/Clippings: Folk Music Performers | ||||||||||||
| Articles and clippings on the following performers: Joan Baez, Napoleon Coste, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Woody Guthrie, Sam "Lightnin" Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, John Jacob Niles, Harry Partch, Jeannie Robertson, and Jean Thomas | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 237 | Articles/Clippings: Folk Music Popularity | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Songs for Our Time" (20 pp.); "Listen to the Folksingers" (February 1963, 6 pp.); and "Folk Frenzy" (July 1960, 1 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 238 | Articles/Clippings: Folk Music Recordings | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: the album Bolters Bushrangers and Duffers (1 p.); the Archive of Folksong at the Library of Congress (1 p.); and the recording studio Folkways Recordings (1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 239 | Articles/Clippings: Folk Music in Various Locations | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: Bahamas, Colonial Williamsburg, (French) Canada, Israel, Mallorca, New Orleans, Rome, South Africa, and Trinidad | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 240 | Articles/Clippings: Folklife | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following article: "I Drove Mules on the C. and O. Canal" (1 p.); and an untitled essay published in Times Farm (2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 241 | Articles/Clippings: Folklore and Stories | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Problems of Collecting Oral Literature" (6 pp.); "Comeback of Goldilocks et al." (4 pp.); and "Ghost on the High Tor" (1 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 242 | Articles/Clippings: Folksong Collectors | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on the following collectors: Richard Dorson, Alan Dundes, Sam Eskin, Douglas Kennedy, and Alan Lomax | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 243 | Articles/Clippings: Houston Folklore Group | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on the Houston Folklore Group and Houston folk musicians: "Down Beat" (1 p.); and "Sound of Houston" (2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 244 | Articles/Clippings: Musical Genres | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on: bagpipes (highland), bluegrass, blues, carols, convivial songs, Creole slave songs, freedom songs, Indian (India) traditional songs, Israeli traditional folk music, Jewish music, and rock and roll | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 FOLDER 245 | Articles/Clippings: Ships | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "The She in Ships" (1 p.); and "Life on the Alabama " (34 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 246 | Articles/Clippings: Songs | ||||||||||||
| Clippings on American folksongs including song lyrics and/or scores (13 songs) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 247 | Articles/Clippings: Spanish Articles | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Nuestra Musica" (written in Spanish, five-day article series, 5 pp.); and "Margen" (3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 248 | Articles/Clippings: Terms and Definitions | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "A Glossary of Fight Terms for TV Fans" (1 p.); "Gullah Dialect and Humanities" (1 p.); and a clipping on corrido narration (2 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 249 | Articles/Clippings: Ulster County Folklore Society | ||||||||||||
| Includes articles with references to the following: Sam Eskin, performers (Nigerian Trinidad Artists and Pete Seeger), organization of the Society, organizing a hootenanny festival, and individuals belonging to the Woodstock folk music coterie | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 250 | Articles/Clippings: Miscellaneous | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Graffiti" (1 p.); "60 Ft. Serpent, Sighted Off Nantucket, Is Cross-eyed" (1 p.); and "Red Net Grows, Rightists Hear" (1 p.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 18 FOLDER 251 | Articles/Clippings: Posthumous | ||||||||||||
| Includes the following articles: "Marcus Daly Enters Heaven" (6 pp.); and "Leadbelly in New York" (master photocopy, 4 pp.) | |||||||||||||
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