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Personal and Business Papers (continued)
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
BOX 27-91, 107-126, 131-133 Show Music
70, girls, 70, 1971
Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb
Piano-vocal scores
BOX-FOLDER 91/18 Old Folks
BOX-FOLDER 91/19 The Caper
BOX-FOLDER 91/20 See the Light
Admiral Broadway revue, 1949
TV show on NBC and Dumont networks
BOX-FOLDER 28/1 Main title
Short score
Laid in: Credits and announcer text
Allah be praised, 1944
Music by Baldwin Bergerson and Don Walker, lyrics by George Marion Jr.
Full scores
BOX-FOLDER 107/1 Allah be praised
BOX-FOLDER 107/2 Allah be praised-continuation
BOX-FOLDER 107/3 Allah be praised-Kraft sisters
BOX-FOLDER 107/4 Allah be praised-Kraft Allah (new)
BOX-FOLDER 107/5 Allah be praised-Tag
BOX-FOLDER 107/6 Ballet finale
BOX-FOLDER 107/7 Ballet finale (new)
BOX-FOLDER 107/8 Emir's entrance
BOX-FOLDER 107/9 Finale ultimo
BOX-FOLDER 107/10 Intro to Finale ultimo
BOX-FOLDER 107/11 Finaletto-Act I
BOX-FOLDER 107/12 Hollywood ballet
BOX-FOLDER 107/13 I was a happier man in Dannemora
BOX-FOLDER 107/14 I was a happier man in Dannemora-encore
BOX-FOLDER 107/15 I was a happier man in Dannemora-Intro to encore
BOX-FOLDER 107/16 I'm getting oriental over you
BOX-FOLDER 107/17 I'm getting oriental over you-dance
BOX-FOLDER 107/18 I'm getting oriental over you-insert (Kraft entrance)
BOX-FOLDER 107/19 I'm getting oriental over you-Kraft sisters
BOX-FOLDER 107/20 I'm getting oriental over you-M'ladava
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