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BOX 5-17, 85-95, 230 MAPCASE FOLDER 21 REEL 1-6 Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1887-2005 (bulk 1912-1954)
Holograph, manuscript, annotated, and printed scores and sketches; correspondence; programs, drafts, articles, and reviews; diaries, stories, poems, and yearbooks; scrapbooks, book mock-ups and illustrations; and clippings.
Materials are arranged into six subseries: Music, Correspondence, Writings by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Writings About Ruth Crawford Seeger, Music - Programs/Reviews, and Biographical Materials.
BOX 5-13 REEL 1-4, 6 Music, 1922-1998
Holograph manuscript scores, annotated scores, and sketches.
Materials from boxes 5-13 are available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reels 1-4 and 6. A complete contents list for the microfilm reels is available in the Ruth Crawford Seeger Holograph Music Manuscripts and Folk Materials Microfilm Contents List. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition.
Arranged in microfilm item order under the following headings: Chamber, Piano, Vocal, Arrangements, and Posthumously Printed Music.
Chamber
Four diaphonic suites
BOX-FOLDER 5/31 REEL 1 Diaphonic suites, 1930
Holograph score
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1
BOX-FOLDER 5/32 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 1: for bassoon and cello or 2 celli, 1930 February
Holograph score
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1a
BOX-FOLDER 5/33 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 1: for bassoon and cello or 2 celli, 1930 February
Ozalid of holograph score
Note: Includes annotations
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1b
BOX-FOLDER 5/34 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 2: for two clarinets, 1930 March
Holograph score
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1c
BOX-FOLDER 5/35 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 2: for two clarinets, [1930]
Manuscript score
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1d
BOX-FOLDER 5/36 Diaphonic suite no. 2: for two clarinets, 1930
Ozalid of holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 6/1 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 2: for two clarinets, 1931
Ozalids of holograph score (2)
Note: Includes annotations
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1f
BOX-FOLDER 6/2 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 2: for two clarinets, [1930]
Sketch, with paste-overs
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1e
BOX-FOLDER 6/3 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 3: for solo flute, [1930]
Holograph score, with paste-overs
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1g
BOX-FOLDER 6/4 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 3: for solo flute, [1930]
Holograph score
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1h
BOX-FOLDER 6/5 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 3: for two clarinets, [1930?]
Holograph fragment
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1i
BOX-FOLDER 6/6 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 4: for oboe and cello, 1930 December
Holograph score
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1j
BOX-FOLDER 6/7 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 4: for cello and oboe or cello and violin, [1930]
Holograph score
Note: Erroneously labeled as Suite no. 3
Note: Microfilm missing page 11
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1k
BOX-FOLDER 6/8 Diaphonic suite no. 4: for oboe and cello, [1930]
Photostats of holograph score (3), one negative
BOX-FOLDER 6/9 REEL 1 Fugue in 4 voices for string quartet, undated
Holograph score
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 3
BOX-FOLDER 6/10 REEL 1 The same theme treated in free style, undated
Holograph score
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 3a
BOX-FOLDER 6/11 REEL 1 Music for small orchestra, 1926 Spring
Ozalid of holograph score
Formerly: ML96.5 .S42 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 4
BOX-FOLDER 6/12 REEL 1 Nocturne for violin and piano, 1923
Holograph score
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 5
BOX-FOLDER 18/1 REEL 1 Rissolty, rossolty, 1941
Holograph full score; holograph parts
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 6
BOX-FOLDER 18/2 REEL 1 Rissolty, rossolty, [1941]
Ozalid of holograph full score
Formerly: ML96.5 .S42
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 6a
BOX-FOLDER 18/3 REEL 1 Rissolty, rossolty, [1941]
Ozalid of manuscript full score
Note: Includes annotations
Note: Mary Lemon Lambert, copyist
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 6b
BOX-FOLDER 18/4 REEL 1 Rissolty, rossolty, [1941?]
Ozalid of manuscript full score
Note: Includes annotations
Note: Mary Lemon Lambert, copyist
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 6c
BOX-FOLDER 6/13-14 REEL 1 Rissolty, rossolty, [1941]
Ozalids of holograph parts
Formerly: ML96.5 .S42 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 6d
BOX-FOLDER 6/15 REEL 1 Sonata for violin and piano, 1926
Holograph score
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 7
BOX-FOLDER 6/16 REEL 1 Sonata for violin and piano, 1926
Holograph violin part
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 7
BOX-FOLDER 7/1 REEL 1 Sonata for violin and piano, 1925
Ozalid of holograph violin part
Note: Includes annotations
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 7a
BOX-FOLDER 18/5 REEL 2 String quartet, 1931
Holograph score
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Request Microfilm 84/20216: reel 2, item 8
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 2, item 8
BOX-FOLDER 18/6 REEL 2 String quartet, 1931
Holograph parts
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 2, item 8
BOX-FOLDER 7/2 REEL 2 String quartet, [1931?]
Holograph fragment
Formerly: ML 96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 2, item 8a
BOX-FOLDER 7/3 REEL 2 String quartet, 1931
Ozalid of holograph score
Note: Includes annotations
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 2, item 8b
BOX-FOLDER 7/4 REEL 2 String quartet, 1931
Ozalid of holograph score
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 2, item 8c
BOX-FOLDER 7/5 String quartet, 1931
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