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Music, 1931-2000 (continued)
Original Compositions, 1931-2000 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 163/21-164/6, 209/1 Two barcarolles for piano (1993)
Score
Contents: No. 1 For Carole Rosenberger; No. 2 For Amelia Haygood
BOX-FOLDER 209/2 Two choruses for male a capella voices (1950)
Draft
Text: Herman Melville
BOX-FOLDER 209/3-4 Two elegies for voice and string quartet (1935)
Scores
Text: Christina Rossetti
Dedication: Minna Hager
Contents: Remember; When I am dead
BOX-FOLDER 209/5 Two Hebrew preludes: op. 68, for piano (1934)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 209/6 Two pieces for violin and piano (1946)
Score
Dedication: Tossy Spivakovsky
Contents: Canticle; Perpetual motion
BOX-FOLDER 209/7 Two songs for voice and piano (1969)
Draft
Text: Malcolm Cowley
Contents: The Mother; The first born
BOX-FOLDER 209/8-14 Two songs for voice and piano (1964)
Scores
Text: Theodore Roethke
Dedication: Dr. Harry Segal and Dr. Max Wiener
Contents: Prayer; My Papa's waltz
BOX-FOLDER 209/15, 257/2-3 Variations for small orchestra (1937)
Draft and scores
Dedication: Igor Stravinsky
BOX-FOLDER 209/16, 257/4 Variations on a theme by Erik Satie: for orchestra (1935-1936)
Sketch and score
Dedication: Roger Sessions/Virgil Thomson
BOX-FOLDER 209/17-19 Violin and piano chamber music for young people to play (1935)
Sketch, draft, and score
Dedication: Zunie
BOX-FOLDER 209/20-210/4, 229/4-230/1 Violin concerto no. 1 (1936)
Sketches, scores, and parts
Dedication: Nicolai Berezowsky
BOX-FOLDER 210/5-7, 230/2 Violin concerto no. 2 (1947)
Scores
Dedication: Dorotha Powers
BOX-FOLDER 211/1-2, 261/2-262/1 Violin concerto no. 3 (1967-1969)
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 211/3 Violin concerto no. 4 (1997)
Sketch
Dedication: Tricia Park
BOX-FOLDER 211/4 Vista: for a capella chorus (1935)
Score
Text: Alfred Kreymborg
BOX-FOLDER 211/5-8 Vocalises for soprano and viola (1935, 1956)
Draft and scores
Dedication: Virgil Thomson
BOX-FOLDER 211/9 Warning: for SATB chorus and tubular chimes (1970)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 211/10-11 We two: a song cycle for voice and piano (1964)
Scores
Text: William Shakespeare
Dedication: Carolyn Reyer
BOX-FOLDER 211/12-13 Weeping women: a lake song for four-part women's a capella voices (1935)
Sketch and score
Text: Jean Starr Untermeyer
BOX-FOLDER 211/14 When we were lost: for voice and piano (1953)
Score
Text: Carson McCullers
BOX-FOLDER 211/15 While Adam slept: for voice and piano (1945)
Score
Dedication: Hildegarde Watson
BOX-FOLDER 258/6 White nocturne: for harp and string quartet (1933)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 211/16-212/5, 257/5 Why?: a cantata for men's chorus, string orchestra, piano, and percussion (1991-1992)
Draft and scores
Text: William Blake
Dedication: Dennis Coleman
BOX-FOLDER 212/6-7 The wings of the dove: music drama in four acts (1953)
Sketch and score
Note: Based on a novel by Henry James
BOX-FOLDER 257/7-8 The world of Paul Klee: for orchestra (1956-1959)
Scores
Commission: The Rockefeller Foundation
BOX-FOLDER 212/8-10 Young Joseph: for women's chorus, piano, organ, or string orchestra (1944)
Sketch and scores
Text: Thomas Mann
Dedication: Sabina
BOX-FOLDER 213/1 Unidentified work for harpsichord and orchestra (undated)
Short score
BOX-FOLDER 213/2-3 Unidentified fragments and sketches
Arrangements, 1934-1993
This subseries contains scores for Diamond's arrangements of works by Eric Satie, Maurice Ravel, and other composers.
Arranged alphabetically by title or last name of composer.
BOX-FOLDER 216/9 Beethoven, Ludwig van. Cavatina from String quartet, op. 130 (1955)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 216/10-13 Debussy, Claude. Hommage à Haydn (1975, 1992)
Scores and parts
BOX-FOLDER 216/14 Fauré, Gabriel. Pénélope: Les cailloux ont abîme tes pieds (1989)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 217/11 Old English folk songs of the 15th and 16th centuries (1936)
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 217/12-13 Prose de lâne (undated)
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 216/15-16 Ravel, Maurice. Fugue from Le tombeau de Couperin (1993)
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 216/17-20 Ravel, Maurice. Menuet sur le nom de Haydn (1992)
Scores and parts
BOX-FOLDER 216/21 Satie, Erik. Chorale hypocrite (undated)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 216/22-217/1 Satie, Erik. Messe des pauvres (1949)
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 217/2-4 Satie, Erik. Passacaille (1949)
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 217/5-7 Satie, Erik. 2 ème gymnopédie (1949)
Scores
BOX-FOLDER 217/8 Schoenberg, Arnold. Three small pieces from Sechs kleine Klavierstücke (1934)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 217/9 Scriabin, Alexander. Album leaf; Désir (1934)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 217/10 Sessions, Roger. Scherzino (1935)
Score
BOX-FOLDER 217/14 Wilder, Diamond. Concerto for oboe, string orchestra, and percussion (1957)
Score
Other Music, 1934-1937
This subseries contains harmony exercises and analytical studies, scores from notable composers inscribed to Diamond, and a holograph manuscript sketch by Marc Blitzstein.
Arranged by subject.
Exercises and Studies
BOX-FOLDER 217/15 Analysis and harmony examples and exercises (1937)
BOX-FOLDER 217/16 Cadence examples (1936)
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