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George and Ira Gershwin collection, 1895-2008

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Music, 1913-1954 (continued)
Miscellaneous Music (continued)
Women of America (continued)
Laid in: Three typescript letters from Dave Gordon to IG, 1962 Oct 22, 1962 October 24, 1962 November 13
Laid in: Holograph letter from Theodore Grouya to IG, 1976 January 16
Laid in: Typescript letter from IG to Dave Gordon, 1962 November 14
BOX-FOLDER 139/8 You're a Dear - That's What You Are
Typescript lyric sheet; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 139/9 You're the Witch Who is Bewitching Me
Typescript lyric sheet; [1] p.
Note: IG holograph note in caption
BOX-FOLDER 57/2 Unidentified cello sketch
GG holograph manuscript; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 135/19 Unidentified lyric fragment
IG holograph manuscript; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/3 Unidentified melody sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/4 Unidentified melody sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/5 Unidentified melody sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/6 Unidentified melody sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/7 Unidentified piano sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [1] p.
Note: Found with Pay Some Attention to Me materials
BOX-FOLDER 57/8 Unidentified piano sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/9 Unidentified piano sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/10 Unidentified piano sketches, 1923 August 4
GG holograph manuscript; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/11 Unidentified piano sketches, 1921 October 27
GG holograph manuscript; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/12 Unidentified piano sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/13 Unidentified piano sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/14 Unidentified piano sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/15 Unidentified piano-vocal sketch
GG holograph manuscript; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/16 Unidentified short score sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/17 Unidentified short score sketch
GG holograph manuscript fragment; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/18 Unidentified short score sketch
GG holograph manuscript; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 57/19 Unidentified piece for banjo
GG holograph manuscript leadsheet; [1] p.
Laid in: Photocopy of photograph of Bill Bowen and Fred Van Eps
BOX 58-59, 141 Music Notebooks and Composition Exercises
The music notebooks and composition exercises are organized alphabetically by title.
BOX-FOLDER 58/1 501 W. 110th St. N.Y.C., 1921 October 6
GG holograph manuscript sketches; [1, 4] p.
Contents:
  • p. 1: unidentified study
  • p. 3: Kitty’s Kisses
  • p. 4: Titles of songs used in Oh, Kay
  • p. 5: Maybe
BOX-FOLDER 141/48 1936 Notebook
GG holograph manuscript sketch; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 58/2 Black notebook
GG holograph manuscript sketches, undated; 11 p.
Contents:
  • p. 1: I Was Doing All Right
  • p. 2: Wake Up, Brother, and Dance; unidentified
  • p. 3: unidentified; My Honor Was at Stake [Titled: Hot Dogs]
  • p. 4: I Used to – but I Don’t Anymore; It’s Nice to Know
  • p. 5: Waltz; Yes, Yes, Oui, Oui
  • p. 6: Hold On; unidentified
  • p. 7: Love Is Here to Stay; Ask Me Again
  • p. 8: unidentified; Simple as A.B.C.
  • p. 9: unidentified; Unforgettable; I Got Rhythm
  • p. 10: unidentified
  • p. 11: unidentified
BOX-FOLDER 58/3 Composition exercises, 1923 January 29 and February 1
Two GG holograph manuscripts; [2] p. each
Laid in: IG holograph notes; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 58/4 Figured choral, 1921 July 27
GG holograph manuscript short score; [1, 2] p.
Bound Fragments, Sketches, 1929-1931
GG holograph manuscript; [84] p.
Note: Formerly owned by Michael Feinstein
Note: Occasional notations in the hand of IG
Contents:
  • p. 6: Liza
  • p. 15: Embraceable You
  • p. 17: Lady of the Moon; I Wants to Stay Here
  • p. 20: I Speak English Now
  • p. 38: My Sunday Fella
  • p. 43: Oh You Kid
  • p. 53: That Well-Known Smile
  • p. 54: Pay Some Attention to Me
  • p. 58: French Waltz
  • p. 59: Barbary Coast
  • p. 60: Embraceable You; But Not for Me
  • p. 61: Barbary Coast; Embraceable You
  • p. 62: Treat Me Rough
  • p. 72: Love Is Sweeping the Country
  • p. 76: Luckiest Man in the World
  • p. 78: Delishious
BOX-FOLDER 58/5 Geo. M. Gershwin. tunes, 1916-1922
GG holograph manuscript sketches; [40] p.
Note: Some sketches have lyrics in the hand of IG
Contents:
  • p. 1-2: Melodies
  • p. 3-4: Beautiful Bird
  • p. 5-6: Ain’t Love Grand
  • p. 7-8: Year After Year [Titled: Moonlight]
  • p. 8: He’s Gone
  • p. 9-10: Nobody but You [untitled]
  • p. 11: We’re Here Because
  • p. 12: If I Only Had Somebody Like You
  • p. 13: Isn’t it Wonderful
  • p. 14: Who’s Winning; unidentified fragment
  • p. 15: Melody
  • p. 16: Helen of Troy
  • p. 17: Yankee Doodle Blues [Titled: American Blues]
  • p. 18: Foxtrot; unidentified fragment
  • p. 19: Tune; unidentified fragment
  • p. 20: Tune
  • p. 21: When Do We Dance? [untitled]
  • p. 22: unidentified
  • p. 23: Somebody Loves Me [Titled: Tune]
  • p. 24: How About a Boy? [Titled: One Step]; unidentified fragment
  • p. 25: unidentified; unidentified fragment; A Little Bit
  • p. 26: My Baby; unidentified fragment; Waltz; Little Jazz Bird
  • p. 27: unidentified fragments; Rag Tune (A Raggy Rhythm)
  • p. 28: unidentified fragments
  • p. 29: Anything for You
  • p. 30: unidentified fragments
  • p. 31: Molly on the Shore; unidentified fragment
  • p. 32: Naughty Baby [untitled]; unidentified fragment
  • p. 33: Walking Home with Angeline [untitled]
  • p. 34-35: unidentified fragments
  • p. 36: unidentified fragment; Maybe [untitled]; unidentified fragment
  • p. 37-38: unidentified fragments
  • p. 39: Waltz Hayseed; unidentified fragment; Tune
  • p. 40: Theme; One Step; unidentified fragment
BOX-FOLDER 58/6 Girl Crazy [notebook], 1930 July
GG holograph manuscript sketches; [48] p.
Laid in: IG holograph/typescript notes; [6] p.
Contents:
  • p. 1-6: Bronco Busters
  • p. 9-12: The Gambler of the West
  • p. 13: Of Thee
  • p. 14: Tune; unidentified
  • p. 15: unidentified fragment; Oh You Kid / Who’s Charming? / I Want a Little More of What I Got Last Night; unidentified fragment
  • p. 16: unidentified – [Sweet Packard?]
  • p. 17: How Beautiful [untitled]
  • p. 18: Finale Mat; unidentified fragment; Some Girls Can Bake a Pie
  • p. 19: unidentified fragment; Because, Because; Garcon, S’il Vous Plait
  • p. 20: There’s No Stopping Us Now
  • p. 21: Posterity Is Just around the Corner; Finale Mat
  • p. 22: unidentified fragments
  • p. 23: Love Is Sweeping the Country [untitled]
  • p. 24-25: unidentified fragments
  • p. 26: The Dimple on My Knee; Because, Because [untitled]
  • p. 27: Because, Because
  • p. 28: Jilted; Love Walked In [untitled]
  • p. 29: unidentified fragments
  • p. 30: Entrance of Supreme Court Judges
  • p. 31: Trumpeter Blow Your Golden Horn [Titled: Bless Our President]; unidentified fragment
  • p. 32: A Kiss for Cinderella [untitled]
  • p. 33: Who Is the Lucky Girl to Be? [untitled]
  • p. 34-37: I Was the Most Beautiful Blossom [Titled: Recitative Diana]
  • p. 38: Posterity Is Just around the Corner
  • p. 39: Who Cares?
  • p. 40: Come, Come to Jesus / Dawn of a New Day [untitled]; unidentified fragment
  • p. 41-42: unidentified fragments
  • p. 43: unidentified fragment; Union Square
  • p. 44-50: unidentified fragments
BOX-FOLDER 58/7 Girl Crazy sketches
GG holograph manuscript; [4] p.
Contents:
  • p. 1: But Not for Me; Spanish
  • p. 2: unidentified fragment; I Got Rhythm
  • p. 3: Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall; Hot
  • p. 4: Tune; Tune
BOX-FOLDER 58/8 Harmony exercises
GG holograph manuscript; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 58/8 Harmony exercises
GG holograph manuscript; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 58/9 Kilenyi notebook, 1919 August
GG holograph manuscript; [27] p.
BOX-FOLDER 58/10 Notebook, 1924 March-April
GG holograph manuscript; [23] p.
Note: Chiefly unidentified sketches
Note: p. 16: first sketch for "The Man I Love"
Laid in: IG typescript notes; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 58/11 Notebook A, Studies with Joseph Schillinger, 1932
Manuscript in the hand of GG and Joseph Schillinger; [58] p.
Note: Chiefly in the hand of GG
Note: Self-caricature on cover
BOX-FOLDER 59/1 Notebook B, Studies with Joseph Schillinger, 1932
Manuscript in the hand of GG and Joseph Schillinger; [77] p.
Note: Chiefly in the hand of GG
Laid in: IG holograph notes; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 59/2 Notebook C, Studies with Joseph Schillinger, 1936
Manuscript in the hand of GG and Joseph Schillinger; [41] p.
Note: Chiefly in the hand of GG
Laid in: IG holograph notes; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 59/3 Red tune book, 1922 September 26
GG holograph manuscript; [31] p.
Note: Some sketches have IG holograph lyric fragments
Laid in: IG typescript notes; [2] p.
Contents:
  • p. 1: unidentified fragments
  • p. 2: unidentified fragments; Blues
  • p. 3: One Step; Tune
  • p. 4: Let’s Be Lonesome Together [untitled]
  • p. 5: Hang On to Me
  • p. 6: unidentified fragment; Naughty Baby
  • p. 7: unidentified
  • p. 8: unidentified fragments
  • p. 9: unidentified fragment; Play Me a Lowdown Tune
  • p. 10: Virginia; The Sunshine Trail
  • p. 11-16: unidentified fragments
  • p. 17: Slow foxtrot; unidentified fragment
  • p. 18: unidentified fragment; Paris
  • p. 19: Where Is She?; The Matrimonial Handicap; Aarons
  • p. 20: Weather Man; unidentified fragments
  • p. 21: unidentified fragments; The Half of it, Dearie, Blues
  • p. 22-23: unidentified fragments
  • p. 24: Toddle; unidentified fragment
  • p. 25: Love Is in the Air [Titled: Theme]; unidentified fragment; Flower Boat; unidentified fragment
  • p. 26: unidentified fragments; Ukulele Lorelei; unidentified fragments
  • p. 27-28: unidentified fragments
  • p. 29: When Toby Is Out of Town; What Is it about You Makes Me; unidentified fragment
  • p. 30: unidentified fragment; Leave it to Love
  • p. 31: unidentified fragment; Opening cho.
Bound T.B. Harms 62 W. 45th St., N.Y.C. [notebook], 1922 December 22
Manuscript chiefly in the hand of GG; 23 p.
Note: Theory and composition exercises
Note: This item was formally housed in Box 59, Folder 4; it was treated for conservation and subsequently rehoused in a clamshell box.
BOX-FOLDER 59/5 Themes [notebook], 1924-1925
GG holograph manuscript; [1, 17] p.
Laid in: IG typescript notes; [3] p.
p. 17: Piano pieces
Contents:
  • p. 1: Southern Soil; [Rhapsody in Blue?]; Rhapsody in Blue [Titled: Piano theme against this]
  • p. 2: [Prelude III?]; unidentified fragments; Rhapsody in Blue [untitled]
  • p. 3: unidentified fragments; Harlem Serenade; [Prelude or Sleepless Nights?]
  • p. 4: [Prelude or Sleepless Nights?]
  • p. 5-9: Concerto in F [untitled]
  • p. 10: [The Half of It, Dearie, Blues?]
  • p. 11: Concerto in F [untitled]
  • p. 13: [An American in Paris?]; Strike Up the Band (1927) [untitled]; unidentified fragment
  • p. 15: unidentified fragment
  • p. 16: Rhapsody in Blue [untitled]
BOX-FOLDER 59/6 Tune book, [1933-1937]
GG holograph manuscript; [96] p.
Note: Title annotations in the hands of IG and Kay Swift
Laid in: IG typescript notes; 10 p.
Contents:
  • p. 1: Stand Up and Fight; unidentified fragments
  • p. 2: Chicadee; unidentified fragment
  • p. 3: Special Love; unidentified fragments
  • p. 4: First Lady and First Gent; unidentified fragments
  • p. 5: unidentified fragment; Comes the Revolution; unidentified fragments
  • p. 6: Mine [Titled: Love Is O.K.]
  • p. 7: Finale material; Verse to 3-note waltz
  • p. 8-10: unidentified fragments
  • p. 11: Revolution in Blue
  • p. 12: Good Old Revolutions; March; unidentified fragment
  • p. 13: Waltz; March for a Ballet; unidentified fragment
  • p. 14: unidentified fragment; Love Walked In; Mary
  • p. 15: unidentified fragments
  • p. 16: Blues; Crown; Melody for Crown
  • p. 17: Crown Development; Crown-Robbins Fight
  • p. 18-19: unidentified compositional studies
  • p. 20-21: unidentified fragments
  • p. 22: unidentified fragment; Spiritual
  • p. 23: Cuban G.T.; Chromatic melody; Porgy
  • p. 25: Serena
  • p. 26: I Got Plenty o’ Nuthin’ [Titled: Porgy]
  • p. 27-28: unidentified fragments
  • p. 29: Choral effect
  • p. 30: Tune
  • p. 31: unidentified fragment; I Used to but I Don’t Anymore; Jingle
  • p. 32: It’s Nice to Know [Titled: Tune for Show]
  • p. 33: [Cockeyed Strain for Ballet?]; unidentified fragment; Ballet
  • p. 34: G.T. Waltz; unidentified fragment
  • p. 35: Southern style; Every Evenin’
  • p. 36: Operetta
  • p. 37: Chromatic tune; What’s the Big Idea
  • p. 38: Atmospheric tune; unidentified fragment
  • p. 39: Wake up, Brother, and Dance; unidentified fragment
  • p. 40: unidentified fragment; Conversational verse; unidentified fragment
  • p. 41: Tune; King of Swing
  • p. 42: Canon starts here; King of Swing
  • p. 43: Nostalgic; unidentified fragment
  • p. 44: unidentified fragment; Good verse; Cho. Hot; unidentified fragment
  • p. 45: Hold On!; unidentified fragments
  • p. 46: Instru; Prelude type
  • p. 47: unidentified fragment; unidentified
  • p. 48: The More I See You
  • p. 49: I Sigh I Cry
  • p. 50: I’m a Naughty Name; Bored; unidentified fragment
  • p. 51: What Can We Lose; unidentified fragments
  • p. 52: Who’d Ever Thought; unidentified fragment; Violin piece
  • p. 53: Slowly; Ballet; I’ve Got Beginner’s Luck
  • p. 54: Strong Afterbeats; One Word Title
  • p. 55: unidentified fragment; In the Nick of Time; Verse
  • p. 56: Prelude
  • p. 57: Say the Word; unidentified fragment; Western
  • p. 58: By Strauss; unidentified fragments
  • p. 59: Pay Some Attention to Me; Smooth one step
  • p. 60: I’ll Get You Yet; Just Another Rhumba [Titled: Cuban Rhythm and A Certain Spanish Lady]; Listen to Reason
  • p. 61: Melancholy; Mel; G.T.
  • p. 62: They Can’t Take That Away from Me; unidentified fragments
  • p. 63: Siren; Waltz
  • p. 64-65: unidentified fragments
  • p. 66: unidentified fragment; They All Laughed
  • p. 67: unidentified fragment; My Honor Was at Stake
  • p. 68: unidentified fragment; Slap That Bass; I Do the Right Thing but at the Wrong Time
  • p. 69: unidentified fragments
  • p. 70: They Can’t Take That Away from Me; I’ve Got Beginner’s Luck
  • p. 71: Try; unidentified fragment; I’m Myself Again; Rhythm
  • p. 72: unidentified fragments
  • p. 73: unidentified fragment; Stiff Upper Lip
  • p. 74: Try; Verse
  • p. 75: Nice Work if You Can Get It; unidentified fragments
  • p. 76: unidentified fragment; You’re So Unforgettable
  • p. 77: I Can’t Be Bothered Now
  • p. 78: Romantic theme for song?
  • p. 79: Try; unidentified fragment
  • p. 80: unidentified fragment
  • p. 81: Southern tune; Sleepless Night
  • p. 95: List of titles for a projected suite
  • p. 96: Tune; unidentified fragment; Ballet?
BOX 60-61, 141 Lyric Sheets
The lyric sheets are divided into three subseries. The first subseries is organized alphabetically by title. The second and third subseries, "Untitled" and "Notes and Miscellany," are arranged alphabetically by first line.
BOX 60 Titled Lyric Sheets
BOX-FOLDER 60/1 All of Them Was Friends of Mine
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