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Music, 1930s-1960s (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 21/1 The nutcracker suite
Holograph scores and sketches
Parts for "Trepak" ("Booty", "Tizol")
Note: Materials arranged by album track
Note: "End of overture" has "Rab" part for "Bellaface" on verso
Contents: Overture; Toot toot tootie toot; Peanut brittle brigade; Sugar rum cherry; Danse of the floreadores; "Trepak"
BOX-FOLDER 39/3-5 The nutcracker suite
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full scores (2)
Contents: Ouverture; Toot toot tootie toot; Peanut brittle brigade; Sugar rum cherry; Entr'acte; Volga vouty; Chinoiserie; Dance of the floreadores; Arabesque cookie
BOX-FOLDER 21/2 Nylons
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 21/3 Oh babe! Maybe someday
Printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 21/4 Old fashioned jive
Holograph mansucript score
BOX-FOLDER 21/5 Old King Dooji
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 21/6 On the Isle of May
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 21/7 On the sunny side of the street
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 21/8 On the verge
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 21/9 On the wrong side of the railroad tracks
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 39/6 On the wrong side of the railroad tracks
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full score
Parts (vocals, clarinet, alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-3, piano, double bass, drums)
BOX-FOLDER 21/10 Once there lived a fool
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 21/11 The one I love
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 21/12 One more once
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 21/13 One never knows
Printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 21/14 Only forever
Holograph score (incomplete, 1 page only)
Holograph parts ("Barney", "Otto"), with unidentified sketches on versos
Note: First eight bars used as introduction to "Frankie and Johnny"
BOX-FOLDER 21/15 Open letter
By Brick Fleagle
Score
BOX-FOLDER 21/16 Opening
Parts (conductor, alto saxophone 1, tenor saxophone 1, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-3, trombone 1-2, double bass, drums)
BOX-FOLDER 21/17 Orson
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 39/7 Orson
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full score
Parts (alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, flugelhorn, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-3, piano, double bass, drums)
BOX-FOLDER 22/2 Overture to a jam session
Holograph score
Holograph scores/sketches
BOX-FOLDER 22/3 Parimaribo
Holograph piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 40/1 Passing through
Holograph full score
Holograph full score (incomplete, 1 page only), possibly unrelated
BOX-FOLDER 22/4 Passion flower
Holograph score
Holograph score (16 bars only)
BOX-FOLDER 40/2 Passion flower
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full scores (2)
Parts (alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-3, piano, double bass, drums)
BOX-FOLDER 22/5 Pavanne
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 22/6 Peer Gynt suite
Holograph scores and sketches
Contents: Anitra's dance; Åse's death; Morning mood; Solvejg's song
BOX-FOLDER 40/3 Peer Gynt suites nos. 1 and 2
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full score
Parts (incomplete: clarinet, alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-3, piano, double bass, drums)
Contents: Morning mood; In the hall of the mountain king; Solvejg's song; Åse's death; Anitra's dance
BOX-FOLDER 40/4 Pentonsilic
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full scores (2)
see also Sketchbook 8
BOX-FOLDER 22/7 People
Holograph sketch (untitled)
BOX-FOLDER 22/8 Perdido
Holograph score
Holograph parts ("Baker", "Cat", "Clark", "Jim", "Proc", trombone 3)
Parts (8 bars each, with holograph additions) ("Cook", "Proc", "Ray", "Terry")
BOX-FOLDER 22/9 Piano medley
Holograph score
Note: Medley contains "Sophisticated lady" and "Solitude"
BOX-FOLDER 22/10 Pie Eye's blues
Holograph fragment, with title in the hand of DE
BOX-FOLDER 22/11 Pigeons and peppers
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 22/12 Pink lady
Holograph score/sketch, with unidentified part on verso
BOX-FOLDER 22/13 Play it by ear
By Carl T. Bignon
Lead sheet
BOX-FOLDER 22/15 Please be kind
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 22/16 Please forgive me
Printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 35/16 Please give me un seul baiser
By Jimmy "Lover man" Davis
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 22/17 Polly is a scatterbrain
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 22/18 Pomegranate
Score
Lead sheet
Lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 40/5 Pomegranate
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full score
Parts (clarinet, alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-3, piano, double bass, drums)
BOX-FOLDER 22/19 Portrait of a lion
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 40/6 Portrait of a silk thread
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full score
BOX-FOLDER 22/20 A portrait of Ella Fitzgerald [?]
Holograph sketch
BOX-FOLDER 22/21 A portrait of Swee' Pea
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