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Show Music, 1905-1945 (continued)
Manuscripts (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 29/1 Finaletto #2 ; Interlude #3 ; Opening act I #4
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/6 Frieda sings hurdy gurdy
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 29/2 Frieda's Abgang #19
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 29/3 Frieda's cue #10
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/8 I am so eager
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 27/9 I'm alone
see also The Cat in the Fiddle
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 5 p.
Note: first written for The Cat and the Fiddle
BOX-FOLDER 25/7 I'm coming home
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 110 p.
BOX-FOLDER 29/4 I'm coming home #13
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/10 In Egern on the Tegern See
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 31/2 In Egern on the Tegern See
Parts
Interlude
see Finaletto #2
BOX-FOLDER 29/5 Intro - pit scene #24a ; new #25
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 26/1 I've told every little star - office
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 17 p.
BOX-FOLDER 27/11 I've told every little star
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 29/6 I've told every little star #12
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 29/7 Melos A #23
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 26/2 On the bummel - intro #8
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 26/2 On the bummel
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; [112] p.
BOX-FOLDER 27/12 On the bummel ; Stony brook scene ; Walking song
Manuscript piano-vocal score in various hands in ink and pencil, some lyric in Kern's hand ; [28] p.
Note: various pages with laid in items
BOX-FOLDER 27/12 On the bummel
Copyist manuscript conductor score/lead sheet in ink, annotations in pencil ; 15 p.
On verso: various cues in pencil
BOX-FOLDER 27/13 One more dance
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 26/3 Opening act I #4
see also Finaletto #2
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 26/4 Opening act II #16
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink and pencil, annotations in pencil ; [124] p.
BOX-FOLDER 30/1 Opening act II #16
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 30/2 Out march #33
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 30/3 Pit scene ; Steel ballet
see also Intro - pit scene
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/1 Prayer #7
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 30/4 Prayer #7
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/2 Singverein
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 28 p.
Note: By Hammerstein-Beethoven-Kern
BOX-FOLDER 30/5 Singverein #5, #6
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 31/1 Small cues, office scene #9
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/3 The song is you (I hear music)
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 27/14 The song is you
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 30/6 The song is you (I hear music) #24
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 30/7 The song is you - reprise #26
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/4 Terzetto
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 34 p.
Note: In Bennett's hand on p. 10: "N.B. Bell note might be played by neighboring trombonist if he doesn't charge $15 for doubling."
BOX-FOLDER 31/3 Terzetto #14
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/15 There's a hill beyond a hill
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 31/4 There's a hill beyond a hill #8
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 31/5 Vorspiel #1
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/5 Walk across
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 14 p.
BOX-FOLDER 31/6 Walk across - scene change #18
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/6 When the spring is in the air
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; p. 1-10, 14-22, 24-41
BOX-FOLDER 27/16 When the spring is in the air
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 31/7 When the spring is in the air #20
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/17 Music in the Air selection
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript piano score in ink ; 18 p.
Includes: I've told ev'ry little star; There's a hill beyond a hill; And love was born; In Egern on the Tegern See; I am so eager; When the spring is in the air; The song is you
BOX-FOLDER 32/1-2 Scripts
Two bound typescript scripts, ; act I (56 p.), act II (56 p.)
BOX-FOLDER 32/3 Lyric sheets
Typescript lyric sheets, some with annotations in pencil or ink, multiple copies for some ; [49] p.
Includes:
  • Brook scene ; And love was born
  • Damn good time (bedroom scene)
  • Finale - We belong together
  • I'm alone - office scene (Frieda sings solo)
  • In Egern on the Tegern See
  • Interlude (after school)
  • I've told every little star - office scene (Duet: Karl and Sieglinde)
  • Letter song - office scene (Bruno sings solo)
  • Prologue (little girls sing offstage)
  • We belong together
  • Zoo scene
Included in Prologue (little girls sing offstage):
  • Little star (school scene)
  • Melodies of May
  • There's a hill beyond a hill
  • Interlude
  • When the spring is in the air
  • We belong together
BOX 115 Chorus books
Two printed choral scores ; 48 p. each
BOX 115-116 Character part books
Typescript part books, 2 copies for each character (the 1st copy usually in red and black, the 2nd a carbon) ; 82 books
The Night Boat (1920) lyrics by Anne Caldwell
BOX-FOLDER 33/1 Some fine day
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; 8 p.
Alternate title: A man to match my car
BOX-FOLDER 33/1 Some fine day
Carbon of typescript lyric sheet, annotated ; [2] p.
Alternate title: A man to match my car
BOX-FOLDER 33/2 Some fine day
Copyist manuscript piano score in ink ; [2] p.
Ninety in the Shade (1915)
BOX-FOLDER 33/3 Can't you see I mean you
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink and pencil, annotations in Kern's hand in pencil; [4] p.
Note: Lyric by M.E. Rourke
Note: later used with rewritten lyric in Very Good Eddie, as "Isn't it great to be married" and in London production of Theodore and Company, with further altered lyric, as "All that I want is somebody to love me"
BOX-FOLDER 33/3 Can't you see I mean you
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 33/4 Curtain up act II, opening
Manuscript full score in ink ; [4] p.
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