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Personal and Business Papers (continued)
BOX 17 Telegrams
see also Western Union
BOX 17 Ten commandments for arrangers
BOX 17 Tepancingo
BOX 17 That's the ticket
BOX 17 Theatre people (correspondence)
BOX 17 Theatre programs
BOX 17 A thousand clowns
BOX 17 A thousand clowns-contracts M-1,2 1965 Sept. 17
BOX 17 A thousand clowns-costs
BOX 17 A thousand clowns-M-1,1 1965 Sept. 15
BOX 17 A thousand clowns-M-1,3 1965 Sept. 21-separate date
BOX 17 A thousand clowns-music cues and financial estimates
BOX 18 A thousand clowns-union
BOX 18 Three waltzes
BOX 18 Ticket school zone
BOX 18 A time for singing (2)
BOX 18 Top banana
BOX 18 Touch and go
BOX 18 Two for the show
BOX 18 Two's company
BOX 18 Unidentified show material
BOX 18 Union contracts and forms
BOX 18 United Artists Music Co. Inc.
BOX 18 University of Pennsylvania
BOX 18 The unsinkable Molly Brown
BOX 18 Up in Central Park
BOX 18 Urgent correspondence (2)
BOX 20 The vamp
see also Delilah
BOX 19 Wait a minum (2)
BOX 19 Walker, Mrs. Thomas J.
BOX 19 Walker lyrics
BOX 19 Walker publicity (historical notes)
BOX 19 Warnick, Clay "Buck"
Warner-Chappell
see Chappell proposition
BOX 19 Weissberger and Frosch
BOX 19 Western Union telegrams
see also Telegrams
BOX 19 What a day!
BOX 19 What makes Sammy run?-company
BOX 19 What makes Sammy run?-royalty statements
BOX 19 The wicked, wicked city
BOX 19 Windy city
BOX 19 Winter garden
BOX 19 Wish you were here
BOX 20 Wonderful town
BOX 20 Wright and Forrest
BOX 20 Your hit parade
BOX 20 Ziegfeld follies
BOX 20 Zorba I
BOX 20 Zorba II (road company)
BOX 20 Zorba III
BOX 20 Zorba programs
BOX 21-25 Writings
Bucket of Blood, circa 1958
Novel
BOX-FOLDER 21/1-4 Typescripts
Men of Notes, circa 1984
Memoir in the form of reminiscences of composers and musicians that Walker worked with; there was to be another volume, but, according to his daughter, he didn’t have enough time to complete it
BOX-FOLDER 21/5 Dedication, Forward, 1. Fletcher (Henderson), 2. Fred (Waring)
BOX-FOLDER 21/6 1. Fletcher (Henderson), 2. Fred (Waring)
BOX-FOLDER 21/7 3. Al (Albert Goodman), 4. George M.. (Cohan), 5. Rommy (Sigmund Romberg)
BOX-FOLDER 21/8 3. Al (Albert Goodman), 4. George M.. (Cohan)
BOX-FOLDER 21/9 5. Rommy (Sigmund Romberg), 6. Frank Black
BOX-FOLDER 21/10 6. Frank Black, 7. Cole (Cole Albert Porter)
BOX-FOLDER 21/11 7. Cole (Cole Albert Porter)
BOX-FOLDER 22/1 Patching pages, discards, etc.
BOX-FOLDER 22/2 Early attempts at preface, forward, and introduction/1st draft of “Fletcher”
BOX-FOLDER 22/3 Late discards and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s shows
BOX-FOLDER 22/4 Extras
BOX-FOLDER 22/5 Research
"Music Heard, Music Written"
A course Walker taught at Hunter College which he intended on turning into a book on orchestration. Includes material for a 1961 version of the book titled Technique of Orchestration
BOX-FOLDER 22/6-7 Final draft
BOX-FOLDER 22/8 Final draft-extra material
BOX-FOLDER 22/9 Foreward; Introduction: The plan of this work; Preface; Preface and dedication; The purpose
BOX-FOLDER 22/10 Chapter I: The musical thought
BOX-FOLDER 22/11 Chapter I: The musical facts of life
BOX-FOLDER 22/12 Chapter II: The dimensions of music
BOX-FOLDER 22/13 Chapter II: The memory of musical sounds; (miscellaneous)
BOX-FOLDER 22/14 Chapter III: The instruments and the score
BOX-FOLDER 22/15 Chapter III: Resultants of musical dimensions
BOX-FOLDER 22/16 Chapter IV: The woodwinds
BOX-FOLDER 22/17 Chapter IV: The process of musical thinking
BOX-FOLDER 23/1 Chapter V: The flute family; Chapter VI: The flute family
BOX-FOLDER 23/2 Chapter V: The linear instruments; Chapter V: The instruments and the score; (miscellaneous)
BOX-FOLDER 23/3 Chapter VI: The oboe family
BOX-FOLDER 23/4 Chapter VI: The score
BOX-FOLDER 23/5 Chapter VII: The clarinet family
BOX-FOLDER 23/6 Chapter VIII: The bassoon family
BOX-FOLDER 23/7 Miscellaneous: research, correspondence, glossary, etc.
BOX-FOLDER 23/8 Orchestration workbook, Kent Wheeler Keenan, Prentice-Hall, Inc., N.J., 1952
Course materials, 1957-1958
BOX-FOLDER 23/9 Organizational notes; Lecture outline; Semester I–Lecture I: The general plan; Lecture II: The musical thought; Lecture III: Factors governing musical thinking
BOX-FOLDER 23/10 Semester I–Lecture IV-VII: The dimensions of musical thinking, parts I-IV; Lecture VIII-IX: Procedures of musical thinking, parts I-II
BOX-FOLDER 23/11 Semester I–Lecture X-XI: Music writing procedures, parts I-II; Lecture XII: The arbitrary condition
BOX-FOLDER 23/12 Outline of lectures; Semester II–Lecture I. Woodwinds I—flutes and piccolos; Lecture II: The double reeds; Lecture III: The single reeds; Lecture IV: The horn; Lecture V: The trumpet
BOX-FOLDER 23/13 Semester II–Lecture VI: The trombone and tuba; Lecture VII: Strings in general; Lecture VIII: The violin and the viola; Lecture IX: The cello and the double-bass; Lecture X: The fretted strings
BOX-FOLDER 23/14 Semester II–Lecture XI: Percussion; Lecture XII: Keyboard instruments; Lecture XIII: The harp; Lecture XIV: The human voice; Lecture XV: Accordion, concertina, harmonica; Final examination
BOX-FOLDER 23/15 Semester III; Lecture I; Lecture II: The birth of orchestration; Lecture III: The childhood of orchestration; Lecture IV: Orchestration in adolescence; Lecture IV: Orchestration discovers life; Lecture VI: Orchestration comes of age
BOX-FOLDER 24/1 Semester III–Lecture VII: Orchestration in Valhalla; Lecture VIII: Orchestration acquires principles; Lecture IX: Further “principles” of orchestration; Lecture X: The foolproof orchestration–I; Lecture XI: The foolproof orchestration–II; Lecture XII: “What idiots call Impressionism”; Lecture XIII: The Olympian virtuosos; Lecture XIV: “Orchestration without music”
BOX-FOLDER 24/2 Semester IV–Lecture I-II: The electronic revolution–I-II; Lecture III-VII: Theatre orchestration I-concluded
BOX-FOLDER 24/3 Semester IV–Lecture VIII: Audio orchestration; Lecture IX: Video orchestration; Lecture X: Specialized orchestration; Lecture XI: The business of orchestration; Final examination
BOX-FOLDER 24/4 Miscellaneous
6-Piece Quintet, circa 1982-1983
Novel
BOX-FOLDER 24/5-8 Originals
BOX-FOLDER 24/9-12 Masters, 1983 draft
BOX-FOLDER 25/1-4 1982 draft
BOX-FOLDER 25/5 Pages in work
BOX-FOLDER 25/6 Superceded and scratch pages (for reference)
BOX-FOLDER 25/7 Chapter titles
BOX-FOLDER 25/8 Original “Toots” material (pre-revision) and original of re-typed copy
BOX-FOLDER 25/9 College songs and stomps, marches and blues of the middle twenties
BOX-FOLDER 25/10 Early notes, Asbury Park guide, etc.
BOX-FOLDER 25/11 Miscellaneous lyric sheets
Titles include: Alone too much; At the old sewing circle; Beat, old heart; The birth of the beat; Brooklyn’s outa dis world; Come back my love; Design for loving; The good humor man; If you didn’t belong to me; I’m takin’ the beat to Bali; The longer I love you; Love or reason; My love was young; No love/Still no love/Now love; Oh Friday; Rapunzel, Rapunzel (let down your hair); Salute to the Admiral; Sharp as a dart; You threw me a curve
BOX 26, 130 Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 26/1 Portraits of Walker
BOX-FOLDER 26/2 Walker family
BOX-FOLDER 26/3 Walker with others
Includes the Interfraternity Orchestra, University of Pennsylvania, and Milton Rosenstock
BOX-FOLDER 26/4 Miscellaneous photographs
BOX-FOLDER 26/5 Production photos from Mistress of the Inn
BOX-FOLDER 130/12 Fred Waring and the largest Synco-Symphonic Orchestra in the World, Roxy Theatre, New York
Photograph rolled
BOX 20, 27-133 Music
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