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Miscellaneous Music, undated (continued)
Miscellaneous Music (Titled) (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 98/10 Polka Scandinavienne
see also Scandinavian polka ; Polka
Two photocopies of manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 9 p. each
Note: copyright 1941
BOX-FOLDER 98/11 A quiet song
Negative photocopy of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 98/12 Sailor beware - new #17, #40
Photocopy and negative of manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 3 p. each
On front: Oscar
BOX-FOLDER 98/13 Scandinavian polka
see also Polka Scandinavienne ; Polka
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink on transparencies and two photocopies, no lyric ; 4 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 98/14 Serenata
Photocopy of manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 5 p.
Note: the chorus is the same music that became "Dearly beloved"; copyright 1941
BOX-FOLDER 98/15 Singing a song in your arms
Photocopy of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
Note: Lyric by Oscar Hammerstein II; intended for Champagne and Orchids; copyright 1935
BOX-FOLDER 98/16 So you got took
Manuscript lead sheet in ink, no lyric ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 98/17 Something on my mind
see also No question in my heart
Photocopy and negative of manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 6 p. each
Note: may be "No question in my mind (you're in my heart)," lyric by Ira Gershwin, written in 1938
BOX-FOLDER 98/18 Strange interval
Two photocopies of manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric, 1 copy has annotations in ink ; [4] p. each
Note: copyright 1943
BOX-FOLDER 98/19 Sweetest sight that I have seen - new #11
see also I have seen
Photocopy and negative of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score ; 6 p. each
Note: Lyric by Oscar Hammerstein II; copyright 1945
BOX-FOLDER 99/1 There'll come a day - new #33
Photocopy and negative of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score ; 8 p. each
Note: Lyric by E. Y. Harburg; for the Universal picture Can't Help Singing; copyright 1944
BOX-FOLDER 99/1 There'll come a day
Photocopy of manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 4 p.
Note: copyright 1943
BOX-FOLDER 99/2 These orchids - new #49
Photocopy and negative of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score ; 6 p. each
Note:Lyric by Johnny Mercer; from You Were Never Lovelier; copyright 1942
Alternate title: These orchids if you please
BOX-FOLDER 99/3 Time: the present - new #50
Photocopy and negative (incomplete) of manuscript piano-vocal score ; 4 p.
Note in Kern's hand: "This becomes an Album Cover for material" and "DON'T DESTROY/This is Lucky Sheet"
Laid in: photostat of holograph sketch attached ; [2] p.
Note: Lyric by Ira Gershwin; ; copyright 1943; intended for Cover Girl
BOX-FOLDER 99/4 Trial in 4/4
Photocopy of manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 99/5 Untitled #4
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink on transparencies and two photocopies, no lyric ; 3 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 99/6 Valse lente - new #28
Photocopy and negative of manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 4 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 99/7 Watching little Alice
see also Midnight music
Photocopy of manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 99/8 The way that lovers use - new #22
Photocopy and negative of manuscript piano-vocal score ; 5 p. each
Note: Lyric from a poem by Rupert Brooke (1914)
Note: copyright 1945
BOX-FOLDER 99/9 What do I know about you?
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript piano-vocal score in ink and negative photocopy ; 2 p. each
Note: Lyric by Dorothy Fields
BOX-FOLDER 99/9 What do I know about you?
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; [3] p.
Note: Lyric by Dorothy Fields
BOX-FOLDER 99/9 What do I know about you?
Copyist manuscript lead sheet in ink ; [1] p.
Note: Lyric by Dorothy Fields
BOX-FOLDER 99/10 What's become of the night
Photocopy of manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 6 p.
Note: intended for Hayfoot, Strawfoot, lyrics by Hammerstein and Harbach
BOX-FOLDER 99/11 When I've got the moon
Negative photocopy of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score ; 4 p. (incomplete)
On front in Kern's hand: Oscar Get this released from MGM
Note: Lyric by Oscar Hammerstein II, copyright 1935
Note: intended for Champagne and Orchids
BOX-FOLDER 99/12 When we were very young - Terzettino new #36
Photocopy and negative of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score ; 11 p. each
Note: Lyric by Dorothy Fields
Note: intended for Lovely to Look At
BOX-FOLDER 99/13 When you hear that humming - new #25
Photocopy and negative of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score ; 4 p. each
Note: Lyric by Otto Harbach
Note: intended for Gentlemen Unafraid
BOX-FOLDER 99/14 Whistle number new #37
Photocopy and negative of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score ; 10 p. each
Note: appears to have been for a show titled Interlude
BOX-FOLDER 99/15 Whistling Dan
Manuscript piano/condensed score in pencil ; [3] p.
Note: originally from Ninety in the Shade (1915), lyric by Harry B. Smith, music reused as title song in Leave it to Jane
BOX-FOLDER 99/15 Whistling Dan
Copyist manuscript piano score in ink and negative photocopy ; 3 p. each
Note: originally from Ninety in the Shade (1915), lyric by Harry B. Smith, music reused as title song in Leave it to Jane
BOX-FOLDER 99/16 Who's complaining? - new #1
Photocopies and negative of manuscript piano-vocal score ; 4 p. each
Note: Lyric by Ira Gershwin
Note: from Cover Girl; copyright 1943
BOX-FOLDER 99/17 Windmill under the stars - new #13
Photocopy and negative of manuscript piano-vocal score ; 3 p. each
Note: Lyric by Johnny Mercer
Note: intended for You Were Never Lovelier; copyright 1942
BOX-FOLDER 99/18 Incipits - Themes
Negative photocopy manuscript; [4] p.
Note: 42 themes, many titled, some crossed out, some dated 1939 May 5, each theme consisting of a few measures of melody only
BOX 100-102 Miscellaneous Music (Untitled)
BOX-FOLDER 100/1 Ballet - Hartmann Sisters - Aida B - new #44
Photocopy and negative of copyist manuscript piano score ; [4] p. each
BOX-FOLDER 100/2 Ballet - new #46
Photocopy and negative of copyist manuscript piano score ; 4 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 100/3 #4 (Peasant) dance - school room scene - new #45
Photocopy and negative of copyist manuscript piano score ; [2] p. each
BOX-FOLDER 100/4 Whippoorwill #31
see also Opening act II - Parker Daniels in Very Warm for May
Four photocopies and four negatives of manuscript piano-vocal score, 2 versions, no lyric ; 3 p. ; 4 p. each
Note: copyright 1941
BOX-FOLDER 100/5 Opening act II - Entrance, melos and exit Philip
Photocopy and negative of Robert Russell Bennett manuscript piano score and holograph sketch ; [3] p. each
Note: intended for Three Sisters
BOX-FOLDER 100/6 New #18
Photocopy and negative of manuscript piano-vocal score with cello obbligato, no lyric ; 4 p. each
Note: "Melody for cello" appears on negative only
BOX-FOLDER 100/7 New #19
Photocopy and negative of manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 3 p. each
Note: "A stumble" appears on negative only
BOX-FOLDER 100/8 No. 31 (Chorus only)
Photocopy and negative of Robert Russell Bennett manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; [4] p. each
BOX-FOLDER 100/9 Old world folk song - new #56
Two photocopies and negative of Robert Russell Bennett manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 5 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 100/10 No. 24
Photocopy of manuscript sketch ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 100/11 New #48
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