Jerome Kern collection, 1905-1951 (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

Container	Contents

	Show Music, 1905-1945 (continued)
		Manuscripts (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 29/5				Intro - pit scene #24a ; new #25
BOX-FOLDER 29/5					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 26/1				I've told every little star - office
BOX-FOLDER 26/1					Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 17 p.
BOX-FOLDER 27/11				I've told every little star
BOX-FOLDER 27/11					Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 29/6				I've told every little star #12
BOX-FOLDER 29/6					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 29/7				Melos A #23
BOX-FOLDER 29/7					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 26/2				On the bummel - intro #8
BOX-FOLDER 26/2					Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 26/2				On the bummel
BOX-FOLDER 26/2					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
BOX-FOLDER 27/12					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
BOX-FOLDER 27/12					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
BOX-FOLDER 27/13					Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 26/3				Opening act I #4 see also Finaletto #2
BOX-FOLDER 26/3					Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 26/4				Opening act II #16
BOX-FOLDER 26/4					Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink and pencil, annotations in pencil ; [124] p.
BOX-FOLDER 30/1				Opening act II #16
BOX-FOLDER 30/1					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 30/2				Out march #33
BOX-FOLDER 30/2					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 30/3				Pit scene ; Steel ballet see also Intro - pit scene
BOX-FOLDER 30/3					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/1				Prayer #7
BOX-FOLDER 27/1					Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 30/4				Prayer #7
BOX-FOLDER 30/4					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/2				Singverein
BOX-FOLDER 27/2					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
BOX-FOLDER 30/5					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 31/1				Small cues, office scene #9
BOX-FOLDER 31/1					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/3				The song is you (I hear music)
BOX-FOLDER 27/3					Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 27/14				The song is you
BOX-FOLDER 27/14					Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 30/6				The song is you (I hear music) #24
BOX-FOLDER 30/6					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 30/7				The song is you - reprise #26
BOX-FOLDER 30/7					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/4				Terzetto
BOX-FOLDER 27/4					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
BOX-FOLDER 31/3					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/15				There's a hill beyond a hill
BOX-FOLDER 27/15					Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 31/4				There's a hill beyond a hill #8
BOX-FOLDER 31/4					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 31/5				Vorspiel #1
BOX-FOLDER 31/5					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/5				Walk across
BOX-FOLDER 27/5					Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 14 p.
BOX-FOLDER 31/6				Walk across - scene change #18
BOX-FOLDER 31/6					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/6				When the spring is in the air
BOX-FOLDER 27/6					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
BOX-FOLDER 27/16					Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 31/7				When the spring is in the air #20
BOX-FOLDER 31/7					Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/17				Music in the Air selection
BOX-FOLDER 27/17					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
BOX-FOLDER 32/1-2					Two bound typescript scripts, ; act I (56 p.), act II (56 p.)
BOX-FOLDER 32/3				Lyric sheets
BOX-FOLDER 32/3					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
BOX 115					Two printed choral scores ; 48 p. each
BOX 115-116				Character part books
BOX 115-116					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
BOX-FOLDER 33/1					Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; 8 p.
					Alternate title: A man to match my car
BOX-FOLDER 33/1				Some fine day
BOX-FOLDER 33/1					Carbon of typescript lyric sheet, annotated ; [2] p.
					Alternate title: A man to match my car
BOX-FOLDER 33/2				Some fine day
BOX-FOLDER 33/2					Copyist manuscript piano score in ink ; [2] p.
			Ninety in the Shade (1915)
BOX-FOLDER 33/3				Can't you see I mean you
BOX-FOLDER 33/3					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
BOX-FOLDER 33/3					Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 33/4				Curtain up act II, opening
BOX-FOLDER 33/4					Manuscript full score in ink ; [4] p.
				I have been around a bit see Miscellaneous/Unidentified Show Music
BOX-FOLDER 33/5				*Just for to-night, or, Give me love, all your love!
BOX-FOLDER 33/5					Printed piano-vocal score ; 4 p.
					Note: Music by Harry A. Tierney, lyric by Worton David
BOX-FOLDER 33/6				Where's the girl for me?
BOX-FOLDER 33/6					Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; 7 p.
					Note: Arranged for piano by Charles N. Miller
					Note: Lyric by Harry B. Smith
					Note: Right side ragged and frayed
BOX-FOLDER 33/7				Whistling Dan see also Leave it to Jane ; Whistling Dan
BOX-FOLDER 33/7					Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, lyric and title in Kern's hand ; 5 p.
					Note: Lyric by Harry B. Smith
					In caption: Lone Star
BOX-FOLDER 33/8				Unidentified
BOX-FOLDER 33/8					Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
					In caption: Marjorie Blyth
BOX-FOLDER 33/8				Unidentified
BOX-FOLDER 33/8					Manuscript lyric sheet in pencil ; [1] p.
			Nobody Home (1915)
BOX-FOLDER 33/9				Buffo dance see also Buffo dance from Very Good Eddie
BOX-FOLDER 33/9					Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink, with some annotations in Kern's hand ; 12 p. + p. 1a, 2a (additional scoring for trumpets and bassoons)
					Crossed out title: Girls of yesterday
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