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Music, 1930s-1960s (continued)
Original Compositions, 1930s-1960s (continued)
String quartet (continued)
Holograph 12-tone row elaborations; 1 page
Laid in: Excerpts from manuscript score transparency; 3 pages
Digital image available
BOX-FOLDER 2a/14 String quartet, 1951 September - 1952 May
Ozalid holograph score; 52 pages
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 2a/15 Suite for brass instruments
Holograph full score (incomplete); 2 pages
BOX-FOLDER 15/7 Symphony 1962
Ozalid copyist full score with annotations; 32 pages
Note: "Print from original masters of Symphony (1962) with corrections for publication" written on cover of portfolio
BOX-FOLDER 15/7 Symphony 1962
Photocopy of holograph score; 28 pages
Note: Different version
BOX-FOLDER 2a/16 There'll come a day, 1942
Words by Michael Lynde
Holograph score for voice and piano with annotations; negative photocopy of holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Three choruses from Alice in Wonderland, circa 1942
Two manuscript scores (transparency and Ozalid) for SATB chorus and piano; 21 pages each
Contents:
  • Lobster quadrille
  • Lullaby of the duchess
  • Father William
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 Three choruses from Alice in Wonderland, 1953
Two holograph scores (transparency and Ozalid) for women's chorus and piano; 19 pages each
Note: "Composed for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Bradford Junior College" written on cover of "Beautiful soup" and "The white knight's song"
Contents:
  • The knave's letter
  • The white knight's song
  • Beautiful soup
BOX-FOLDER 2a/22-27, 15/8 Unidentified
Holograph sketches; 54 pages
BOX-FOLDER 2a/17 Waltz
Holograph score (incomplete); 1 page
BOX-FOLDER 2a/18 What is this warm feeling?, 1942
Words by Maynard Kaplan
Holograph piano-vocal score; holograph sketches; manuscript lyric sheet sketches
BOX-FOLDER 2a/19 When men of war roll ashore in Cambridge Town
Holograph sketches for voice and piano; 8 pages
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 The white knight's song, 1943
Negative photocopy of score for voice and piano; 3 pages
Note: From Three choruses from Alice in Wonderland
Sketchbooks, undated
Holograph sketches in bound volumes. Contents are identified wherever possible.
Arranged by assigned number.
BOX-FOLDER 4/1 Sketchbook no. 1
Contents: Miscellaneous pencil sketches
Laid in: Typed Old Testament verses and pencil sketches
BOX-FOLDER 4/2 Sketchbook no. 2
Carl Fischer Spiral Music Writing Book
Contents: Quartet sketches; text of Ben Jonson's "O know to end as to begin" (used by Fine in The Hour Glass); miscellaneous pencil sketches
BOX-FOLDER 4/3 Sketchbook no. 3
Schirmer's Wire Bound Music Writing Book
Contents: Florida sketches; miscellaneous pencil sketches with 6 pages laid in; "My Little Salamander"
BOX-FOLDER 4/4 Sketchbook no. 4
Carl Fischer Spiral Music Writing Book
Contents: Three pages of unidentified pencil sketches
BOX-FOLDER 4/5 Sketchbook no. 5
Pheasant Music Book
Contents: Sketches for woodwind partita and string quartet
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 4/6 Sketchbook no. 6
The Spiral Music
Contents: Harmony exercises in pencil with 31 pages laid in
BOX-FOLDER 4/7 Sketchbook no. 7
The Spiral Music
Contents: Unidentified pencil sketches
BOX-FOLDER 4/8 Sketchbook no. 8
Boston Music Co. Series of Manuscript Books
Contents: Unidentified pencil sketches
BOX-FOLDER 4/9 Sketchbook no. 9
Carl Fischer Spiral Music Writing Book
Contents: Orchestral piece; tone row and transformations
BOX-FOLDER 4/10 Sketchbook no. 10
Pheasant Music Book
Contents: Pencil sketches, mostly unidentified except for "Sad Sack at the U. S. O." and "Choral New Yorker"
BOX-FOLDER 4/11 Sketchbook no. 11
Composer's Manuscript Tablet
Contents: Mostly counterpoint exercises
BOX-FOLDER 4/12 Sketchbook no. 12
The Spiral Music
Contents: Pencil sketches, consisting of a tone row very similar to that in Sketchbook no. 9
BOX-FOLDER 4/13 Sketchbook no. 13
Schirmer's Spiral Music Writing Book
Contents: Unidentified pencil sketches
BOX-FOLDER 4/14 Sketchbook no. 14
The Spiral Music
Contents: Unidentified pencil sketches
BOX-FOLDER 4/15 Sketchbook no. 15
Champion music book
Contents: Unidentified pencil sketches
BOX-FOLDER 4/16 Sketchbook no. 16
France
Contents: Pencil sketches, including some for a violin sonata
BOX-FOLDER 4/17 Sketchbook no. 17
Perfect Riter Music Book
Contents: Unidentified sketches in pencil and ink
BOX-FOLDER 4/18 Sketchbook no. 18
Champion music book
Contents: Holograph sketches in pencil and dream description
Music by Others, 1943-1963
Manuscript and printed scores, many of which are inscribed to Fine. Includes works by David Diamond, Jack Gottlieb, Walter Piston, Gardner Read, Claudio Spies, and Louise Talma.
Arranged alphabetically by composer and title therein.
Ballantine, Edward
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 Early in the morning and other pieces, for pianoforte. Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt Co., 1947.
Note: Inscribed by the composer
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 Variations for piano on Mary had a little lamb (2nd series). Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt Co., 1943.
Note: Inscribed by the composer
Berger, Arthur
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 Three bagatelles for piano. New York: Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, 1948.
Note: "For Irving--recalling old friendship that endures. Arthur. Jan. 1948" written on title page
Boulanger, Nadia
BOX-FOLDER 2a/3 Harmony course
Harmony/figured bass exercises (copy of manuscript); 2 books
Briggs, Mary
BOX-FOLDER 3/3 Sonata for flute and piano, 1947 December
Ozalid manuscript score with annotations; flute part
Note: "To Irving & Verna for multiple kindnesses" written at top
Cazden, Norman
BOX-FOLDER 3/4 Passacaglia for piano, opus 46, 1944
Ozalid manuscript score; 7 pages
Note: Inscribed by the composer
Diamond, David
BOX-FOLDER 3/5 Timon of Athens: a symphonic portrait after Shakespeare. New York: Leeds Music Corporation, 1950.
Study score
Note: "For Verna & Irving, with much affection, David, July 31, 1950, Tanglewood" written on title page
Gottlieb, Jack
BOX-FOLDER 3/6 Songs of loneliness, on seven poems by Constantine Cavafy, 1962
Ozalid manuscript score for voice and piano; 36 pages
Note: Dedicated to Irving Fine
Haieff, Alexei
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