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Charles Louis Seeger, 1900-1983 (bulk 1925-1979) (continued)
Composers' Collective, 1929-1937 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 79/12 Oh, what Lucas done to us, undated
BOX-FOLDER 79/13 A piety/Not yet, but when, undated
Lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 79/14 Repertoire of Manhattan Chorus [Go to sleep/Go down Moses], undated
BOX-FOLDER 78/99 Scottsboro Boys you shall not die!, undated
In Charles Seeger's hand; [composed by Elie Siegmeister?]
BOX-FOLDER 79/15 Stand guard and other songs, undated
BOX-FOLDER 79/16 They're talking war/Kevin Berry/We're the guys, undated
MAPCASE FOLDER 20 La varsovienne, 1938 May
French text by Stefan Priacal and Jeanne Perret`
BOX-FOLDER 79/17 A worker's campaign song, undated
Note: Includes Solidarity and Comintern
BOX-FOLDER 79/18 Worker's song sheet, undated
Lyric sheet
Note: Two copies
Contains:
  • The internationale
  • Comintern/Hanns Eisler
  • Hold the fort
  • Red front/Hanns Eisler
  • Scarlet banner
  • The Scottsboro Boys shall not die/L. E. Swift (Elie Siegmeister)
  • United front/J. Fairbanks (Henry Leland Clarke)
BOX-FOLDER 79/19 Workers peace song, undated
BOX-FOLDER 79/20 Workingmen unite/A thousand solid hands, undated
Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 79/21 Young comrades song, undated
Note: From Jazz comedy
Songbooks
BOX-FOLDER 79/22 30 [Tridt sat] pesen pionerov, 1933
BOX-FOLDER 79/23 American Music League, March and sing!, 1937
BOX-FOLDER 79/24 Antifashistske pesni, ed. Shneerson, G. M., 1939
BOX-FOLDER 79/25 Austrian work songs, undated
BOX-FOLDER 79/26 Chants des pueples soviétiques, undated
BOX-FOLDER 79/27 Chants révolutionnaires de divers pays, undated
BOX-FOLDER 79/28 Révolutionnaires français, undated
BOX-FOLDER 79/29 Gezang un kamf: songs for voice and piano, #3, ed. Schaefer, Jacob, 1935
Note: Annotated
Note: Two copies
BOX-FOLDER 79/30 Gezang un kamf: songs for voice and piano, #4, ed. Schaefer, Jacob, 1936
BOX-FOLDER 79/31 Gezang un kamf: songs for voice and piano, #5, ed. Schaefer, Jacob, 1937
BOX-FOLDER 79/32 International collection of revolutionary songs, 1933
Note: Includes notes
Note: Two copies
BOX-FOLDER 79/33 International collection of revolutionary songs, 1935
Note: Text in English, French, German, and Russian
BOX-FOLDER 79/34 Izbranny pseni sovietskii kompositorov, 1937
BOX-FOLDER 79/35 The left songbook, 1938
BOX-FOLDER 79/36 Mit gezang tzum kamf, ed. Schaefer, Jacob, 1932
BOX-FOLDER 79/37 My poem/We sing, ed. Shneerson, G. M. 1938
Note: In Russian
BOX-FOLDER 80/1 ¡Pasaramos!, ed. Shneerson, G. M. 1938
BOX-FOLDER 80/2 Pioneer songbook: songs for workers' and farmers' children, ed. Potamkin, Harry Alan 1933
Note: Includes Seeger's suggestions for 2nd edition, November 1934
BOX-FOLDER 80/3 Pionerskii pesnnik, 1935
BOX-FOLDER 80/4 Proletarische lieder der USSR, 1931
BOX-FOLDER 80/5 Red songbook, 1932
Note: Photocopy donated by Sidney Robertson Cowell
Note: Includes typewritten notes by Cowell on composers and their pseudonyms
Note: Three copies
BOX-FOLDER 80/6 Revolutionary and proletarian songs of USSR, 15, 1932
BOX-FOLDER 80/7 Rhumreiche banner: Märsche und lieder, undated
Note: Copy originally owned by Bess Brown Lomax; signed by her and dated 1938
BOX-FOLDER 80/8 S. A. lieder potpourri, undated
Note: Copy originally owned by Bess Brown Lomax; signed by her and dated 1938
BOX-FOLDER 80/9 Sbornik pesendlia natsal'noi shkoli, 1934
BOX-FOLDER 80/10 Sbornik proizvedenii molodykh kompozitorov (Vy push 2), 1935
BOX-FOLDER 80/11 Skhollan luhmomuro knaga, 1934
BOX-FOLDER 80/12 Sixteen songs for sixpence, undated
BOX-FOLDER 80/13 Songs against war and fascism, 1936
BOX-FOLDER 80/14 Songs for America: American ballads, folk songs, marching songs, songs of other lands, 1939
Note: Photocopy donated by Sidney Robertson Cowell
Note: Includes typewritten notes by Cowell on composers and their pseudonyms
Note: Three copies
BOX-FOLDER 80/15 Songs of the revolution, undated
BOX-FOLDER 80/16 Tri voennye pesni respublicanski Ispanii, ed. Shneerson, G. M., 1939
BOX-FOLDER 80/17 Vokal'nyi sbornik: sovietski kompository muzykal'noĭ samodeiatil'nosti, 1934
BOX-FOLDER 80/18 Wir mädel singer: liederbuch des bundes Deutscher mädel, 1938
BOX-FOLDER 80/19 Workers songbook #1, 1934
BOX-FOLDER 80/20 Workers songbook #1, revised, 1934
Note: Photocopy donated by Sidney Robertson Cowell
Note: Includes typewritten notes by Cowell on composers and their pseudonyms
Note: Three copies
BOX-FOLDER 81/1 Workers songbook #2, revised, 1934
Note: Photocopy donated by Sidney Robertson Cowell
Note: Includes typewritten notes by Cowell on composers and their pseudonyms
Note: Three copies
Subject Files
Articles, programs, publications, and reports
Arranged alphabetically by file unit
BOX-FOLDER 81/2 Declarations, undated
Miscellaneous files
BOX-FOLDER 81/6 Blake, Ben, ed., 12 Plays for boys and girls, undated
Note: Pictures by Bill Siegel
BOX-FOLDER 81/7 International Union of Revolutionary Theatre. "Thesis on organizational principles," 1934
BOX-FOLDER 81/8 Lebedinsky, Lev. "The crisis of bourgeoise music and the creative problems [of] the international revolutionary movement," 1933 June
BOX-FOLDER 81/9 Seeger, Charles (as Carl Sands). Reviews, 1934-1936
Clippings
Note: Includes list of reviews and response pieces
BOX-FOLDER 81/10 Unidentified. "Workers' chorus must be militant chorus, undated
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 81/3, 5/29-30 Programs, 1933-1934, 1936
Note: 1936 Festival of American Music League program inscribed by an unknown correspondent with a note to "Charles and Ruth"
BOX-FOLDER 81/4 Publications, 1932-1938
Contains:
  • Music Vanguard, 6, #2, 19335
  • Muzykal'naia samodeiatel'nost', 1934, 1936
  • Unison, vol. 1, #1, 3-4, 1936-1937 and vol 2, #1, 1938
  • The worker musician, 6, #1, 1932 December
  • Workers Music League bulletin, 1935
BOX-FOLDER 81/5 Reports, 1933, 1935, and undated
BOX 19, 82-83 Biographical Materials, 1908-1978
Clippings, forms, invoices, notes, obituaries, oral histories, programs, subject files, and vital records
Arranged alphabetically by file unit
BOX-FOLDER 82/1 Address books, 1978 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 82/2 Appointments, 1941-1978
BOX-FOLDER 82/3 Banking, 1961-1978
BOX-FOLDER 82/4 Biographies, 1923-1978
Note: Includes clippings
BOX-FOLDER 82/5 "Boyhood in Staten Island," undated
Note: Includes letter from Elsie Seeger with her comments and memories
BOX-FOLDER 82/6 Charles Louis Seeger bookplate, undated
BOX-FOLDER 82/7 Charles Seeger celebration, 1977
BOX-FOLDER 82/8 F. B. I. file, 1953
Redacted photocopy
BOX-FOLDER 82/9, 19/4 Harvard University, 1908, 1916
BOX-FOLDER 82/10 Health records, 1952, 1957, 1963, 1978, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 17/5 Honorary degree - Doctor of Fine Arts, University of California, 1968 March 23
BOX-FOLDER 82/11 Honorary memberships, 1970-1975
BOX-FOLDER 82/12 Honors, 1945, 1960, 1968
BOX-FOLDER 82/13 Invoices, 1956-1978 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 82/14 Medical care, 1964-1978
BOX-FOLDER 82/15 Obituaries, 1979
Clippings
Oral histories
BOX-FOLDER 82/16 KPFK radio program, Boris Kremenliev, 1969
BOX-FOLDER 82/17 University of California Los Angeles, 1970
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