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Music, 1930s-1960s (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Balcony serenade
Holograph score, titled "Intro - Love #1"
Holograph sketch, titled "Love - Intro #2" (unrelated)
Note: P. [2] of "Intro - Love #1" contains unused material
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Ballad for very sad and very tired lotus eaters
Holograph score, with sketches for several other works
Sketches include:
  • p. [1]: Buddy Bolden fugue
  • p. [1] (bottom) - p. [2] (top): Congo square
  • p. [4] (top): Congo square
  • p. [4]: The gentleman is a major dope
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 Battle of swing
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 B.B.B. - Blues
Holograph score, titled "Mauve"
Parts ("Baker", "Jim" (2), "Terry", "Cat", "Harry", "Paul", "Butter", "John", "Britt", "Ray", "Bill", "Procope")
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Beautiful romance
Printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 2/9 Beggar's holiday
Scores (some are holograph) and sketches
Contents: Boll weavol ballet; Brown penny; Fol-de-rol; A fox will steal your chickens; Git movin'; Git out; The kindly worm; Loose living
BOX-FOLDER 2/10 Beggar's holiday
Scores (some are holograph) and sketches
Contents: Polly at his side; Rooster man; Sucker for a kiss; They're taking poor MacHeath away [?]; Thirteen boxes of rayon skirts; We don't want the wings of an angel
BOX-FOLDER 2/11 Beggar's holiday
Miscellaneous and unidentified scores (some are holograph) and sketches
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 Believe in love
By Carl T. Bignon
Lead sheet
BOX-FOLDER 2/13 Bellaface (I've grown accustomed to his face)
Holograph score
see also The nutcracker suite
BOX-FOLDER 2/14 Best wishes
Printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 2/15 Bewitched, bothered, bewildered
Holograph score, with scores for "Tenderly" on verso
BOX-FOLDER 2/16 Big house blues
Photocopied manuscript score in the hand of DE
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 Billy Strayhorn A/K/A
By David Passmore
Printed score
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 Birmingham break-down
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 3/3 Black and tan fantasy
Printed score for piano
Parts ("Brown", "Tricky", "Ray", "Carney", "Chauncey", "Otto")
BOX-FOLDER 3/4 Black beauty
see also Blues a-poppin; Top and bottom
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 3/5 Black butterfly
Holograph score
Printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 3/5 Black cat blues
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 3/6 The black cat blues
By Andy Cowson
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 3/7 The blessed and the damned
Holograph sketch and list of musical numbers
BOX-FOLDER 3/8 Bli-blip
Holograph scores (2)
Holograph sketch, with "Tricky" part for "P. P. and S." on verso
BOX-FOLDER 3/9 Blossom
Holograph lead sheet
Photocopied holograph score (incomplete, 1 page only)
see also Sketchbook 3
BOX-FOLDER 3/10 Blow by blow
Holograph scores/sketches
BOX-FOLDER 3/12 Blue bells of Harlem
Holograph score
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 3/13 Blue bird of Delhi
Holograph sketch, with sketch for "Let a song" on verso
BOX-FOLDER 3/14 Blue bubbles
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 3/15 Blue feeling
Score
BOX-FOLDER 3/16 Blue Harlem
Holograph scores/sketches
BOX-FOLDER 36/2 Blue heart
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full score
Parts (clarinet, alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-3, piano, double bass, drums)
BOX-FOLDER 36/3 Blue house
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Parts (clarinet, alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-3, trombone 1-3, piano, double bass, drums)
BOX-FOLDER 4/7 Blue is the evening
Holograph score
Parts ("Cooty" (2), "Johnny", "Barney", "Carney", "Otto", double bass)
Note: As recorded by the DE small-group, 1938
BOX-FOLDER 3/17 Blue light
Holograph scores/sketches
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 3/18 Blue mood
Lead sheet
BOX-FOLDER 3/19 Blue reverie
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 3/20 Blue star
Holograph scores (2)
Part for "Barney", with guitar part for "Don't get around much anymore" on verso
BOX-FOLDER 36/4 Blue star
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full scores (2)
Parts (clarinet, alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-3, trombone 1-3, piano, double bass, drums)
BOX-FOLDER 3/21 Blue tune
Lead sheet
BOX-FOLDER 36/5 Bluebird of Delhi
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full score
Parts (incomplete: alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, piano)
BOX-FOLDER 4/1 Blues
Holograph score/sketch
BOX-FOLDER 4/2 The blues
Holograph piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 4/3 The blues [Ellington]
Lead sheet
BOX-FOLDER 3/11 Blues a-poppin; Top and bottom
Holograph score, joined with lead sheet of "Black beauty"
Holograph parts, titled "Blue" on recto and "Cymbals" on verso (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet, double bass)
Note: As recorded in 1939
BOX-FOLDER 4/4 Blues at sundown
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 4/5 Blues I love to sing
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 4/6 Blues in orbit
Holograph scores (2)
Score
Part for "Paul"
BOX-FOLDER 4/8 Blues in purple
Printed score
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