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Music, 1913-1954 (continued)
Music from Shows (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 41/6 When the Debbies Go By
Typescript lyric sheet
Where the Delicatessen Flows
see In Sardinia
Note: Alternate title
BOX-FOLDER 41/7 Why Do I Love You?
GG holograph manuscript piano-vocal score; [1, 4] p.
Note: No lyric
Note: Discarded sketch of opening on p. [2]
BOX-FOLDER 41/8 Why Do I Love You?
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; 5 p.
Note: Emendations in an unidentified hand
Note: Includes four-bar introduction
Note: Key of E minor
BOX-FOLDER 41/8 Why Do I Love You?
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; 11 p.
Note: No lyric
Note: Emendations in an unidentified hand
Note: Includes encores on p. 6-11
Note: Key of A-flat major
BOX-FOLDER 41/8 Why Do I Love You?
Copyist manuscript piano score; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 41/8 Why Do I Love You?
Manuscript piano score; [1, 2] p.
Note: Encore music
BOX-FOLDER 41/8 Why Do I Love You?
Photocopy of sheet music (German)
BOX-FOLDER 41/8 Why Do I Love You?
Typescript lyric sheets; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 41/9 Untitled
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; [3] p.
In caption: 15 B
Note: No lyric
Note: Emendations in an unidentified hand
Note: Vocal line crossed out
BOX-FOLDER 41/9 Untitled
Copyist manuscript piano score; [1, 2] p.
On cover: 15 B
BOX-FOLDER 41/10 Run down sheet of copyist
Manuscript list; [1] p.
BOX 41 That's a Good Girl (1928)
BOX-FOLDER 41/11 Before We Were Married
Typescript lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 41/12 Chirp Chirp!
Typescript lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 41/13 Day after Day
Typescript lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 41/14 Let Yourself Go!
Typescript lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 41/15 The One I'm Looking For
Typescript lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 41/16 Sweet So-and-So
Typescript lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 41/17 There I'd Settle Down
Typescript lyric sheets; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 41/18 Weekend
Typescript lyric sheet
What to Do?
see Whoopee
Note: Original title
BOX-FOLDER 41/19 Whoopee
Typescript lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 41/20 Why Be Good?
Typescript lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 41/21 Libretto title page
IG holograph manuscript; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 41/22 Song synopsis
IG holograph/typescript manuscripts; [3] p.
Note: One version includes Lawrence Stewart holograph/typescript notes
BOX 41-45 Tip Toes (1925)
BOX-FOLDER 42/14 Entr’acte
14 orchestral parts (incomplete set)
BOX-FOLDER 42/15 Entr’acte [variant]
Eight orchestral parts (incomplete set)
BOX-FOLDER 41/23 Finale, Act I
Typescript lyric sheets; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 42/16 Finale, Act I
15 orchestral parts (incomplete set)
BOX-FOLDER 41/24 Finale, Act II
Typescript lyric sheets; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 42/17 Finale, Act II
15 orchestral parts
BOX-FOLDER 42/18 Finale, Act II [variant]
Piano part only
Florida
see Waiting for the Train
Note: Alternate title
BOX-FOLDER 41/25 Gather-Ye-Rosebuds
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; [4] p.
Note: No lyric
BOX-FOLDER 41/25 Gather-Ye-Rosebuds
Photocopy of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; [4] p.
BOX-FOLDER 41/25 Gather-Ye-Rosebuds
Photocopy of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; [5] p.
BOX-FOLDER 41/25 Gather-Ye-Rosebuds
IG holograph/typescript/photocopy of lyric sheets; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 41/26 Harbor of Dreams
Typescript lyric sheets; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 41/27 The Harlem River Chanty
GG holograph manuscript piano score; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 41/28 The Harlem River Chanty
GG holograph manuscript piano sketch; [2] p.
In caption : Part of Harlem River chanty; in the hand of IG
BOX-FOLDER 41/29 The Harlem River Chanty
Four Ozalid piano-vocal scores; 5 p. each
Note: Two scores have IG holograph notes
BOX-FOLDER 41/29 The Harlem River Chanty
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [7] p.
BOX-FOLDER 41/30 It's a Great Little World
GG holograph manuscript piano score; 3 p.
BOX-FOLDER 41/31 It's a Great Little World
Two copyist manuscript piano-vocal scores; 5 p. each
Note: One has emendations in an unidentified hand
BOX-FOLDER 41/31 It's a Great Little World
Manuscript/copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; 1, 1 p.
Note: Incomplete, no lyric
Note: Caption title in the hand of IG
BOX-FOLDER 41/31 It's a Great Little World
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 42/19 It's a Great Little World
17 orchestral parts
Cover title: Give in
BOX-FOLDER 41/32 Lady Luck
Typescript lyric sheets; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 42/20 Lady Luck
15 orchestral parts (incomplete set)
BOX-FOLDER 41/33 Life's Too Short to Be Blue
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [2] p.
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