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BOX 1-20, 137-139, 141, 145-153 Music, 1875-1996
Chiefly holograph manuscript scores, annotated reproductions, and sketches for works composed by Louise Talma between 1928 and 1994. Many titles are accompanied by tone rows, corrections, correspondence, programs, notes, and other items pertaining to the work and its creation. Also included are manuscripts from other composers, many of whom were Talma's colleagues at Fontainebleau, The MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo.
Organized chiefly by musical genre: dramatic, vocal, choral, and instrumental, along with miscellaneous sketches and music by other composers. The latter is arranged alphabetically by last name of composer, then within by title of work.
Dramatic, 1958
BOX-FOLDER 151/1-5, 152/1-3 The Alcestiad, 1958
Full scores
BOX-FOLDER 141/1-4 The Alcestiad, 1958
Full score
2nd and 3rd acts only
BOX-FOLDER 1/1-2, 145/1-6 The Alcestiad, 1958
Short scores
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 The Alcestiad, 1958
Short score and corrections
BOX-FOLDER 145/7 The Alcestiad, 1958
Chorus score
BOX-FOLDER 1/4-6 The Alcestiad, 1958
Libretti, tone rows, corrections, correspondence, interview transcripts, articles, and promotional materials
Vocal, 1925-1993
All the days of my life
see Cantata: All the days of my life
BOX-FOLDER 145/8 And wilt thou leave me thus? (voice, piano), circa 1928?
Score
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Birthday song (voice, flute, viola), 1960
Score and sketches
For Thornton Wilder
Cantata: All the days of my life (voice, clarinet, cello, piano, percussion), 1963
see ML 30.3c.T345 no. 1
Score
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Cantata: All the days of my life (voice, clarinet, cello, piano, percussion), 1963
Score, parts, lyric sheets, correspondence, and programs
BOX-FOLDER 145/9-11 Cantata: All the days of my life (voice, clarinet, cello, piano, percussion), 1963
Scores, sketches, and lyric sheets
BOX-FOLDER 146/1 Cards and kisses; His pilgrimage (voices), undated
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 Carmina Mariana (voices, piano), 1943
Score, vocal score, sketches, parts, and programs
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Carmina Mariana (voices, organ), 1963
Score
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Carmina Mariana (voices, organ, orchestra), 1964
Score and parts
BOX-FOLDER 146/2 A child's fancy (voice, piano), 1935
Scores, sketches, and program
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 Death be not proud (voice, piano), undated
Score and lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 2/7, 149/1 Diadem (voice, instrumental ensemble), 1980
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Diadem (voice, instrumental ensemble), 1980
Short scores
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Diadem (voice, instrumental ensemble), 1980
Sketches and tone rows, lyric sheets, corrections, and programs
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 Finis (voice, piano), 1992-1993
Score, sketch, and lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 Fourteen groundbass variations on Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird (voices, piano), 1938
Score and vocal parts
Glory be to God for dappled things
see Pied beauty
BOX-FOLDER 3/3-4 Have you heard? Do you know?: divertimento in seven scenes (voices, orchestra), 1975-1980
Full score
BOX-FOLDER 149/2 Have you heard? Do you know?: divertimento in seven scenes (voices, orchestra), 1975-1980
Full score and corrections
BOX-FOLDER 3/5 Have you heard? Do you know?: divertimento in seven scenes (voices, orchestra), 1975-1980
Short score
BOX-FOLDER 3/6-7 Have you heard? Do you know?: divertimento in seven scenes (voices, orchestra), 1975-1980
Piano-vocal scores
BOX-FOLDER 4/1 Have you heard? Do you know?: divertimento in seven scenes (voices, orchestra), 1975-1980
Piano-vocal score and corrections
Contains annotations for short score
BOX-FOLDER 4/2 Have you heard? Do you know?: divertimento in seven scenes (voices, orchestra), 1975-1980
Sketches and tone rows, libretti, corrections, correspondence, and programs
BOX-FOLDER 4/3 Heaven-haven (voice, piano), 1993
Score and lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 4/4 The hound of Heaven: poem for tenor and small orchestra, 1938
Score
BOX-FOLDER 4/5 The hound of Heaven: poem for tenor and small orchestra, 1938
Sketches and lyric sheets
BOX-FOLDER 146/3 I fear a man of scanty speech (voice, piano), 1938
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 146/4 I sing of a maiden that is makeles (voices), 1928
Score
BOX-FOLDER 4/6 In praise of a virtuous woman (voice, piano), 1990
Scores, tone rows, lyric sheet, and correspondence
BOX-FOLDER 5/1, 149/3 Infanta Marina (voice, piano), 1988-1990
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 5/1 Infanta Marina (voice, piano), 1988-1990
Score
1st through 6th movements only
BOX-FOLDER 5/1 Infanta Marina (voice, piano), 1988-1990
Sketches and tone rows, lyric sheets, notes, and articles
BOX-FOLDER 5/2 Invocation to the rain (voice, piano), 1925
Score
On cover: By H. W. W.
BOX-FOLDER 5/3 Leap before you look (voice, piano), 1945
Scores, sketches, lyric sheet, and notes
BOX-FOLDER 146/5 Late leaves (voice, piano), 1934
see also Never seek to tell thy love
Score, sketch, and lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 5/4 Letter to St. Peter (voice, piano), 1945
Scores and sketches
BOX-FOLDER 146/6 Merry Margaret (voices), 1928
Score
Incomplete
BOX-FOLDER 146/5 Never seek to tell thy love (voice, piano), 1934
see also Late leaves
Score, sketch, and lyric sheet
Other title: Love's secret
BOX-FOLDER 5/5 One need not be a chamber to be haunted (voice, piano), 1941
Scores and sketches
BOX-FOLDER 5/6 Pied beauty (voice, piano), 1946
Other title: Glory be to God for dappled things
Score and sketches
BOX-FOLDER 5/7 Rain song (voice, piano), 1973
Scores and sketches
BOX-FOLDER 5/8 Seven songs (voice, piano), 1986
Score
Contents: Glory be to God for dappled things; Leap before you look; One need not be a chamber to be haunted; Rain song; Sonnet: I wake and feel the fell of dark; Sonnet: Not, I'll not, carrion comfort; Spring and fall: to a young child
BOX-FOLDER 146/7 Shakespeare sonnets (voice, piano), 1936?
Scores, sketches, and lyric sheets
BOX-FOLDER 5/9 Song of the songless (voice, piano), 1928
Score and sketch
BOX-FOLDER 5/10 Sonnet: I wake and feel the fell of dark (voice, piano), 1946
Scores, sketches, and lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 5/11 Sonnet: Not, I'll not, carrion comfort (voice, piano), 1950
Scores, sketches, and article
BOX-FOLDER 146/8 Sonnets from the Portugese (voice, piano), 1934-1935
Scores, sketches, and programs
BOX-FOLDER 5/12 Spring and fall (voice, piano), 1946
Score and sketches
BOX-FOLDER 5/13-14 Terre de France (voice, piano), 1945
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 6/1 Terre de France (voice, piano), 1945
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