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BOX-FOLDER 73/14 Little girl ("Colgate")
Ozalid of copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score ; [3] p.
Lyric by Ogden Nash
BOX-FOLDER 73/15 Lover's song, The
Holograph piano-vocal score ; [4 p.] + [2] p. sketches (unidentified, crossed out)
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 73/16 Six mélodies sur les paroles de Tristan L`Hermite ; 1951-1953
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) ; 21 p.
Uniform title: Mélodies sur les paroles de Tristan L`Hermite
Contents:
  • 1. L'amour
  • 2. Sur Lui-Même
  • 3. Le testament
  • 4. Le soupir ambigu
  • 5. Epitaphe d'un petit chien
  • 6. La belle Crèpusculaire
BOX-FOLDER 73/17 Six mélodies sur les paroles de Tristan L`Hermite ; 1951-1953
Uniform title: Mélodies sur les paroles de Tristan L`Hermite
Ozalid of above (bound)
BOX-FOLDER 73/18 My, what a rainy day
Holograph lead sheet ; [1] p.
Typed lyric sheet ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 99/2 Park avenue lyrics ; twelve songs for parlor use ; 1945
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score (transparencies) ; [17] p.
Words by Alfred Kreymbourg
Contents:
  • 1. Third avenue laughs at fourth
  • 2. Chicken salad
  • 3. Another wedding
  • 4. Globe Wernicke
  • 5. Travelling men
  • 6. Corporation counsellor
  • 7. Equal quality
  • 8. Hello darling
  • 9. Once a month
  • 10. Inch worms
  • 11. Park avenue busts
  • 12. Liebestod
BOX-FOLDER 99/3 Park avenue lyrics ; twelve songs for parlor use ; 1945
Ozalid (bound) of above
BOX-FOLDER 74/1 Quatre poèmes de Ch. Cros
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score ; 18 p.
Uniform title: Poèmes de Ch. Cros
Contents:
  • Chanson de la côte
  • Berceuse
  • Tableau
  • Noceur
BOX-FOLDER 74/2 Two poems of Baron A. Delvig ; for high voice and piano
Holograph piano-vocal score (Russian) ; [12] p.
Uniform title: Poems of Baron A. Delvig
Dedication: To Irina Polevitskaia
October-November 1929
In folder marked: Early songs 1919-1932
Contents:
  • I. First meeting
  • II. Home
BOX-FOLDER 74/3 Two poems of Baron A. Delvig ; for high voice and piano
Manuscript piano-vocal score (transparencies) ; 14 p.
Uniform title: Poems of Baron A. Delvig
Ozalids (2)
In folder marked: Early songs 1919-1932
BOX-FOLDER 74/4 Six poems of Kevgeny Baratynsky ; for high voice and piano
Manuscript piano-vocal score (Russian) ; 17 p.
Uniform title: Poems of Kevgeny Baratynsky
Ozalid
Dedication: to the memory of S.P. Diaghilev
Completed March 28-29, 1931
In folder marked: Early songs 1919-1932
Contents:
  • I. Tokens of love
  • II. This kiss
  • III. The flyer
  • IV. On the roofs of a neighboring village
  • V. Mila, what grace
  • VI. Yesterday, a night of 74/4 foul weather...
BOX-FOLDER 74/5 Cinq Poésies (nos. 1, 2, 3) ; Russischer Musikverlag G. m. b. H. Berlin, 1928
Piano-vocal score (3 titles) ; 3 p. each
Uniform title: Poésies
Words by A. Pouchkine
Contents:
  • Inscription sur une tonelle (the legend of the bower)
  • Dione (Dionea)
  • Si le dieu joyeux des pampres (the merry God of grapes)
BOX-FOLDER 74/6 Six romances ; 1964
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) (Russian) ; 18 p.
Uniform title: Romances
Contents:
  • 1. To a foolish beauty
  • 2. Stanzas
  • 3. To a friend
  • 4. Let the poet indict
  • 5. Grave of Ossian
  • 6. My supplication
BOX-FOLDER 74/6 Six romances ; 1964
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) "To a foolish beauty" ; 4 p.
Uniform title: Romances
Lyrics by Mikhail Lermontov
BOX-FOLDER 74/7 Six romances ; 1964
Uniform title: Romances
Ozalid of above (bound)
BOX-FOLDER 74/8 Two romances on lyrics of Dimitrii Klenovskii ; 1965-66
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) (Russian) ; 7 p.
Uniform title: Romances on lyrics of Dimitrii Klenovskii
Ozalid
Contents:
  • 1. Lines from highschool
  • 2. It is she, my beloved
BOX-FOLDER 74/9 Two romances on lyrics of Mikhail Kuzmin ; 1930
Holograph piano-vocal score (transparencies) (Russian) ; 8 p.
Uniform title: Romances on lyrics of Mikhail Kuzmin
Ozalid
Contents:
  • 1. Far from the sounds of home
  • 2. Chodowiecki [i.e. Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (1726-1801), German painter]
BOX-FOLDER 74/10 Six songs (1919-1921) ; newly edited in 1930, New York
Holograph piano-vocal score (Russian with English versions by André Skalski) ; [18] p.
Uniform title: Songs
In folder marked: Early songs 1919-1932
Contents:
  • I. Refrain (words by Anna Akhmatova)
  • II. Days, like colorful marbles (words by Vladimir Dukelsky)
  • II. Wooden church (words by Riourik Ivnev)
  • IV. My Phyllis (words by Fedor Sologoub)
  • V. For this serenity (words by Nicolai Goumilev)
  • VI. My attic window (words by Marina Tsvietaeva)
BOX-FOLDER 74/11 Six songs (1919-1921) ; newly edited in 1930, New York
Manuscript piano-vocal score (transparencies) ; 20 p.
Uniform title: Songs
Ozalid
In folder marked: Early songs 1919-1932
BOX-FOLDER 74/12 Piêsen; op. 4, no. 5. ; September 1919 Kiev
Holograph piano-vocal score (Russian) ; [1] p.
Uniform title: Songs
BOX-FOLDER 74/13 II. Morning in Florence (incomplete) ; IV. The Venice Moon
Holograph piano-vocal score (Russian) ; [6] p.
Uniform title: Songs dedicated to Rieti
In folder marked: Early songs 1919-1932
BOX-FOLDER 74/14 II. Morning in Florence (incomplete) ; IV. The Venice Moon
Photocopy of manuscript piano-vocal score (Russian w/ manuscript English text) ; 18 p.
Uniform title: Songs dedicated to Rieti
English text by Merril Sparks
In folder marked: Early songs 1919-1932
Contents:
  • I. An invitation
  • II. Morning in Florence
  • III. A trip to Assisi
  • IV. The Venice moon
BOX-FOLDER 74/15 Three songs for tenor solo, three women's voices and piano accompaniment
Ozalids (2) of holograph piano-vocal score ; 19 p.
Uniform title: Songs for tenor solo, three women's voices and piano accompaniment
Contents:
  • I. Apollo to the Graces (John Keats)
  • II. A night-rain in summer (Leigh Hunt)
  • III. Blow, blow thou winter wind (William Shakespeare)
BOX-FOLDER 75/1 Six songs from a Shropshire lad by A.E. Housman ; 1945-49
Holograph full score ; 34 p.
Uniform title: Songs from a Shropshire lad
Contents:
  • I. Into my heart
  • II. With rue my heart is laden
  • III. When I watch the living
  • IV. Loveliest of trees
  • V. Oh, when I was in love
  • VI. Now hollow fires
BOX-FOLDER 75/2 Six songs from a Shropshire lad by A.E. Housman ; 1945-49
Uniform title: Songs from a Shropshire lad
Parts (19)
BOX-FOLDER 75/3 Ten songs to words by Robert Hillyer and Charles Henri Ford ; 1936-1943
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score (transparencies) ; 52 p.
Uniform title: Songs to words by Robert Hillyer and Charles Henri Ford
Contents:
  • I. A month too late
  • II. Against my wall
  • II. Now on the idle pond
  • IV. Paris was the comeliest man
  • V. A sudden chime
  • VI. Piping Anne and husky Paul
  • VII. You cannot hear me
  • VIII. The grapes are ripe
  • IX. Slender Naiad of stone
  • X. Song of the muse
BOX-FOLDER 99/4 Ten songs to words by Robert Hillyer and Charles Henri Ford ; 1936-1943
Uniform title: Songs to words by Robert Hillyer and Charles Henri Ford
Ozalid (bound) of above
BOX-FOLDER 75/4 Sweetheart ; duet (two female voices) with orchestral accompaniment
Holograph full score (Russian) ; 31 p.
Text from poems of Ippolit Bogdanovich
Dedication to Sergei Prokofiev
BOX-FOLDER 75/5 Time to return home
Ozalid of manuscript piano-vocal score with holograph lyric transliteration (Russian) ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 99/5 Victorian street ballads for women's voices and piano ; October 1943
Ozalid (bound) of holograph piano-vocal score ; 22 p.
Contents:
  • I. She parted with her lover
  • II. The mulberry tree (1808)
  • III. The dark-hair`d girl
  • IV. The shepherd's holiday
  • V. I won't be a nun
BOX-FOLDER 75/6 Yours for keeps
Ozalid of copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score ; [3] p.
Lyric by Johnny Mercer
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