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Writings, 1920-1995 (continued)
BOX 22 Radio Scripts
BOX 22 Radio scripts 1943-46
BOX 23-117 Books, Index cards
Bakers Biographical Dictionary
BOX 23-37 6th edition [typescripts, amendments, corrections of earlier editions, publishers proofs]
BOX 38-46 7th edition
BOX 47-50 8th edition [typescripts]
BOX 51-54 Corrections and Additions
BOX 55-71 Index card files
Contents:
  • A-C (BOX: 55)
  • A-C (BOX: 56)
  • E-F; A-H (BOX: 57)
  • C-Z (BOX: 58)
  • A-L (BOX: 59)
  • A-Z, Baker's 7th (BOX: 60)
  • C-E; V-Z (BOX: 61)
  • L-Z; A-Z (BOX: 62)
  • C, G, H, S (BOX: 63)
  • I-Z (BOX: 64)
  • P-U (BOX: 65)
  • M, Q-T, V (BOX: 66)
  • Additions, corrections and Obits (1960-71), Baker's 5th (BOX: 67)
  • Miscellaneous (BOX: 68)
  • Obits A-Z (BOX: 69)
  • Obits A-F (BOX: 70)
  • Obits G-N (BOX: 71)
Lectionary of Music
BOX 72-79 Working drafts, McGraw-Hill [typescripts]
BOX 80-87 Index card files
Contents:
  • A-Ce (BOX: 80)
  • Ch-E, misc (BOX: 81)
  • F-J (BOX: 82)
  • K-N (BOX: 83)
  • O-R, A-Z (BOX: 84)
  • S (BOX: 85)
  • T-Z (BOX: 86)
  • Fouls A-S (BOX: 87)
Music Since 1900
BOX 88-93 Pre-1975 drafts, corrected page proofs, drafts (typed)
BOX 94 Early notebooks, source material and documents, misc., galleys (Pre-1975)
BOX 95-97 1986 edition (typescripts, proofs)
BOX 98-100 Corrections and additions (prefaces, supplements, notes, articles)
BOX 101-108 Index card files
Contents:
  • 1900-37 (BOX: 101)
  • 1938-48 (BOX: 102)
  • 1949-1970 (BOX: 103)
  • A-K (BOX: 104)
  • L-Z (BOX: 105)
  • Corrections inserted into Galley (BOX: 106)
  • Foul copy(s) (BOX: 107)
  • Galley proofs (BOX: 108)
Perfect Pitch
BOX 109-114 Working drafts
BOX 115-117 Corrections and Additions
BOX 118 Reviews, 1929-1994
Reviews by others of books, articles, music written or composed by Slonimsky. (see also: Scrapbooks)
Arranged in alphabetical order by subject matter.
BOX 118 Lectionary of Music
BOX 118 Music Since 1900
BOX 118 Perfect Pitch
BOX 118 Baker's Biographical Dictionary
BOX 118 Lexicon of Musical Invective
BOX 118 N.S. works, miscellaneous
BOX 118 Doctoral thesis
BOX 118 Comments on passages in Perfect Pitch
BOX 119-124, 340 Music Composed by Nicolas Slonimsky, 1913-1990
Music composed by Nicolas Slonimsky. These materials are divided into two subseries: Manuscript and Printed Music.
Arranged in alphabetical order by title.
BOX 119-121, 340 Manuscript, 1913-1990
BOX 119 15 Russian peasant songs, set and integrated from authentic phrases
Holograph in ink with pencil annotations and paste-in lyrics.
Composed June-July 1935.
Note: voice and piano
Contents:
  • Drëma (Dreamer).
  • Soloveĭ, solov'iushka (Nightingale, my nightingale).
  • Uzh vy shashki, kanashki moi (You, wily darlings).
  • Skuchno vremiachko (Tedious time).
  • S brazhki p'ianoiu ne byti (You can't get drunk on brew).
  • Krasny devitsy, da starye muzh'ia (Young maidens, old grooms).
  • Zain'ka (Little white bunny).
  • Uzh ty, iagodka krasna (My red berry).
  • Po nemetskoĭ po ulitse (Along German Street).
  • Devki, Ivan i kuznetsy (Girls, Ivan and the smiths).
  • Starushka, diadia Moseĭ, baba i shchi (A hag, Uncle Mo, a hussy and her broth).
  • Kartoshka moia (Fried potato).
  • Kurochka s bychkom, porosënok s iaichkom (Bull-bearing hen and an egg-laying pig).
  • Moĭ muzh ne khorosh (My husband, my sweetheart and I).
  • A kto u nas umen (Who is wise and knowing).
BOX 119 [15 Russian peasant songs]
Mss. in ink, nos. 4-15 lacking lyrics, no. 14 has lyric sheet laid in. Two copies of no. 6.
Note: voice and piano
BOX 119 Ach, du lieber Augustin!
Holograph in ink; 1 p.
No. 13 of "51 minitudes."
Note: piano
BOX 119 Advice
Holograph in ink with pencil annotations; 3 p.
Words by Pushkin, translated into English by Slonimsky.
Cover title: "A song."
Composed 1918/1920.
Note: voice and piano
BOX 119 Anti-dodecaphonic declaration
Holograph in ink; 1 p.
Note: textualized melody
BOX 119 April
Photocopy of holograph; 3 p.
Dated March 26, 1928.
Note: voice and piano
BOX 119 Aromas de leyenda (Aroma of a legend)
Holograph in ink with pencil annotations; 4 p.
On cover: "Final revised version (1938)."
Note: violin and piano
BOX 119 Aromas de leyenda (Aroma of a legend)
Holograph in pencil; 6 p.
On cover: "Final revised version (1938)."
Note: violin and piano
BOX 119 Autumn (O-sen')
Holograph in ink with English words in pencil; 2 p.
Words by Alexander Block (Aleksandr Blok).
At end: "Sofia, 18/X 1921."
Later published in slightly modified form as "Autumns of yesteryear."
Note: voice and piano
BOX 119 Bach's fugue no. 2 (multiplied by 2); Bach's fugue no. 2 in fluid tonality.
Score (holograph and partial photocopy) and sketches, in ink and pencil; 6 leaves.
Similar to no. 48 and no. 47 of "51 minitudes."
BOX 119 The ballad of the Oldtown fire, for baritone
Holograph in ink with pencil annotations; 4 p.
Completed in June of 1930.
Note: voice and piano
BOX 119 Blitzpartie
Holograph in ink; 1 p.
No. 15 of "51 minitudes."
Note: piano
BOX 119 Butterfly. Impromptu
Holograph in ink with pencil annotations; 4 p.
Dedicated to Helene Miramova.
At end: "4 January, 1924, Seattle, U.S.A."
Note: piano
BOX 119 Déjà entendu
Holograph in ink; 1 p.
No. 36 of "51 minitudes."
Note: piano
BOX 119 Etude
Holograph in ink; 3 p.
Dedicated to Isabelle Vengerova.
Completed Nov. 1918.
Note: piano
BOX 119 Etude no. 1
Holograph in ink; 6 p.
Completed Oct. 1918.
Note: piano
BOX 119 [fanfares by various composers]
Slonimsky holographs for the parts (and some scores) of fanfares by Manuel de Falla; Milhaud (Fanfare pour une fête); Prokofiev (Fanfare pour une spectacle) [includes a printed version]; Amadeo Roldán (Fanfare/Llamada) [includes 7 parts in unknown hand]; and Stravinsky (Fanfare for a liturgy) [includes 2 parts in an unknown hand]. [30 p.] Includes miniature printed versions of "Fanfare for a political address" by Arthur Bliss, and "Esquisse d'une fanfare" by Francis Poulenc. For Slonimsky's own fanfare,(see: "Fanfarria habanera para despertar a los trasnochadores.")
BOX 119 Fanfarria habanera para despertar a los trasnochadores
Holograph score (4 p.) and parts (5), in ink with pencil annotations.
Score signed "Habana, 22.-IV-1933"
Note: piccolo, clarinet, horn, bell, maracas, and bongos
BOX 119 Fragment of chorus from "Orestes" of Euripedes, from a conjectural version (400 B.C.)
Score (paste-in photocopies) and holograph/photocopy of holograph string parts (3).
Note: trumpet, suspended cymbal, tambourine, tam-tam, and strings
BOX 119 La fuite de la lune (Impressions)
Holograph in ink and pencil; 6 p.
Words by Oscar Wilde.
On cover: "To Dorothy Adlow."
Completed Nov. 4, 1926.
Note: voice and piano
BOX 119 Impromptu-miniature
Holograph in ink with pencil annotations; 4 p.
On p. 1: "Eastman School, Rochester, N.Y."
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