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Billy Strayhorn music manuscripts and estate papers, 1918-2015

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Music, 1930s-1960s (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 29/7 Wedding music
Holograph score (incomplete, 2 pages only)
BOX-FOLDER 29/8 Weep for me
Holograph scores (2)
BOX-FOLDER 29/9 We're quits! We're splits! We're through!
By Paul McGrane
Piano-vocal score, with BS annotations on title page
BOX-FOLDER 29/10 What a life!
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 29/11 What am I here for
Lead sheet (incomplete)
BOX-FOLDER 29/12 What else can you do with a drum?
Lead sheet
BOX-FOLDER 29/13 What's the good word Mr. Blue Bird?
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 29/14 When I first met you
Lead sheet
Holograph lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 28/9 When I grow too old to dream
Holograph score
Note: No known recordings by DE orchestra
BOX-FOLDER 29/15 When the violins were playing
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 27/26 When they ask about you
Holograph score (incomplete)
BOX-FOLDER 29/16 Where is love
Guitar part
BOX-FOLDER 41/10 Where or when
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full scores (2)
Parts (incomplete: alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-3, piano, double bass, drums)
BOX-FOLDER 29/17 Where you are
see also Balcony serenade
Holograph score
Note: Intro re-used in "Balcony serenade"
BOX-FOLDER 29/18 Who is she?
Photocopied manuscript score in the hand of DE
BOX-FOLDER 29/19 Who said it's light like that
Photocopied manuscript score in the hand of DE
BOX-FOLDER 29/20 Why was I born
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 29/21 Wig wise [?]
Holograph score, with trumpet part titled "Pass" on verso
Holograph double bass part, joined with part for unidentified work
BOX-FOLDER 29/22 Will you be there?
Score
Piano-vocal scores (4) (incomplete)
BOX-FOLDER 29/23 Wind
Holograph fragment
BOX-FOLDER 29/24 Wish I knew what happened
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 29/25 Without rhythm
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 29/26 A woman and a man
Holograph score (unfinished?)
Title page, with "Wally" part for "P. P. and S."
BOX-FOLDER 29/27 Work song
Parts (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone 1-2, trumpet 1-2, guitar, piano, double bass, drums)
BOX-FOLDER 29/28 Workin' blues
Piano-vocal scores (2)
BOX-FOLDER 41/11 Wounded love
Edited by Walter van de Leur
Printed full scores (2)
see also The love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the garden
BOX-FOLDER 30/1 Yearning for love
Printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 30/2 Yesterdays
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 30/3 You better know it
Piano-vocal score
see also A drum is a woman
BOX-FOLDER 30/4 You don't love me no more
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 30/5 You gave me the gate
Printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 35/25 You got what you wanted
By Carl T. Bignon
Lead sheet
BOX-FOLDER 30/6 You have stolen my heart
By Chick Finney
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 35/26 You just don't understand
By Carl T. Bignon
Lead sheet
BOX-FOLDER 30/7 You live longer
Holograph piano-vocal score (incomplete, 2 pages only)
BOX-FOLDER 30/8 You name it
Trumpet 3 part
BOX-FOLDER 30/9 You never know the things you miss
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 30/10 You think of everything
Holograph score (incomplete)
Laid in: unrelated score and sketches
Note: As recorded by the DE orchestra, 1940
BOX-FOLDER 30/11 You of all people
Piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 30/12 Young woman's blues
By Bessie Smith
Lead sheet
Lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 30/13 Your face
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 30/14 Your love has faded
Holograph score
Holograph score (unfinished)
BOX-FOLDER 30/15 You're my meat (Fat and forty)
By Skeets Tolbert
Piano-vocal score
Lead sheet
BOX-FOLDER 35/27 You're so wrong
By R. DiGioia
Lead sheet
BOX-FOLDER 30/16 Zan
Holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 30/17 Zig zag
Holograph score/sketch
Piano-vocal scores (3)
Lead sheet
BOX-FOLDER 30/18 Zonk
Printed score
BOX-FOLDER 30/19 Zonky blues
Printed score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 31/1-5 Unidentified
Scores/sketches, fragments, and parts in hands other than BS or DE
BOX-FOLDER 31/6-13 Unidentified
Mostly holograph scores/sketches, fragments, and parts
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