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BOX 3-5 Music, 1872-1905
Holograph and printed scores and sketches for original compositions by Buck. Manuscripts include full scores of orchestral works, works for SATB and TTBB chorus and orchestra, and an opera. Published works include sacred music as well as popular songs. Some materials contain inscriptions by Buck, as well as notes detailing provenance.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 46th Psalm, 1872
Printed scores for various instrumentations
BOX-FOLDER 4/1 Album of Twelve Songs by Dudley Buck, 1877
Printed scores for voice and piano
Contents:
  • Creole Lover's Song
  • Crossing the Bar
  • Fear Not Ye, O Israel
  • One Sweetly Solemn Thought
  • Spring's Awakening
  • Sunset
  • There's a Merry Brown Thrush
  • The Silent World Is Sleeping
  • The Tempest
  • When Life Hath Sorrow Found
  • Where Did You Come From?
  • Where the Lindens Bloom
LCCN: 2009546751 (bound) Canzonetta et bolero, undated
Holograph full score
LCCN: 93729830 (bound) Centennial Cantata, 1876
Words by Sidney Lanier
Holograph full score for SATB chorus and orchestra
LCCN: 2009546752 Concert Variations on the "Last Rose of Summer," 1875
Holograph score for string quintet
BOX-FOLDER 4/2 Dudley Buck Songs, Volume I, circa 1905
Bound volume of printed scores for various instrumentations
BOX-FOLDER 4/3 Dudley Buck Songs, Volume II, circa 1905
Bound volume of printed scores for various instrumentations
LCCN: 2022560142 Festival Hymn, op. 57, 1872
Holograph full score for SATB chorus, orchestra, and organ
LCCN: 2009546753 (bound) Festival Overture, undated
Holograph full score
LCCN: m60001860 Festival Overture on "The Star-Spangled Banner," undated
Holograph score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 5/1 Hymn to Music, circa 1877
Printed score for SATB chorus and piano
LCCN: 2007562693 Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis, circa 1887
Holograph score for SATB chorus and organ
LCCN: 2009546755 (bound) Marmion, undated
Holograph full score
BOX-FOLDER 5/2 Marmion, undated
Sketches
LCCN: 2007562694 O Ye That Hear and Understand, undated
Holograph score for baritone or bass voice and organ
LCCN: 2007563576 Praise Ye the Lord, For He Is Good, 1884
Holograph score for TTBB chorus and organ
LCCN: 2009546757 Romanza and Scherzo, undated
Holograph score
LCCN: 2009546758 Romanza for Four French Horns, undated
Holograph full score
LCCN: 2009546754 (bound) Scenes from Longfellow's Golden Legend, undated
Holograph full score
LCCN: 2009546756 Scenes from Longfellow's Golden Legend. My Redeemer and My Lord, undated
Holograph score for contralto and piano
LCCN: 2009546759 (bound) Serâpis, undated
Holograph full score
BOX-FOLDER 5/3 Seven Songs, 1905
Printed scores for baritone or contralto and piano
Note: Inscribed from Dudley Buck to L. Rowley Phillips
Laid in: Note from Dudley B. Blossom describing provenance
Contents:
  • Spring Song: "It Was a Lover and His Lass"
  • Consolation
  • De Gray Owl
  • My Dream
  • The Tempest
  • A Life-Picture
  • Hamlet's Soliloquy: "To Be, or Not to Be"
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 Six Cantatas for Men's Voices, 1905
Printed scores for tenor and bass voices, piano, and organ
Note: Inscribed from Dudley Buck to Dudley Buck III
LCCN: 2007563567 Three Character Songs. No. 2, Sleep, Kentucky Babe!, undated
Words by Richard Henry Buck
Holograph score for voice and piano
LCCN: 2007563574 Three Character Songs. No. 3, Go Sleep, Ma Honey, undated
Words by Edward D. Barker
Holograph score for voice and piano
BOX-FOLDER 5/4 To the Poet, Bedtime, undated
Words by Burges Johnson
Sketches
LCCN: 2009546760 The Triumph of David, undated
Holograph score for voice and organ; libretto
LCCN: 2007562695 Virgin's Lullaby, circa 1895
Printed score for alto and organ
LCCN: 2009546761 The Warrior's Death, undated
Holograph score for TTBB chorus
BOX-FOLDER 5/4 Unidentified works, undated
Sketches
BOX 2, 7 Biographical Materials, 1861-1939
This series consists of clippings, biographies, tribute books, photographs, programs, a map, and a genealogy of the Buck family. Also included is a scrapbook of correspondence, programs, and various materials related to the Apollo Club. Buck's New and Complete Dictionary of Musical Terms, written by Dudley Buck, and The Complete Dudley Buck Bibliography are also present.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or material type.
BOX-FOLDER 2/38 Apollo Club, 1903
Dudley Buck retirement tribute book
BOX-FOLDER 2/37 Apollo Club, 1909
Dudley Buck memorial service book
BOX-FOLDER 2/39 Blossom, Dudley Buck, undated
Genealogy
BOX-FOLDER 2/40 Buck, Dudley, 1939 and undated
Biographies
Includes: The Dudley Buck Centenary
BOX 7 Buck, Dudley. Correspondence, programs, and the Apollo Club, 1861, 1880-1894, and undated
Scrapbook
BOX-FOLDER 2/41 Buck's New and Complete Dictionary of Musical Terms, 1901
BOX-FOLDER 2/42 Clippings 1908-1909 and undated
Obituaries and tributes
BOX-FOLDER 2/43 Dudley Buck Complete Bibliography, circa 1906
BOX-FOLDER 2/44 Organ recital programs, 1878 May 22
BOX-FOLDER 2/45 Photographs, undated
Contents include: Dudley Buck and Mary E. Buck [Mrs. Dudley Buck]
BOX-FOLDER 2/46 Travel information, undated
Voyage map annotated by Dudley Buck
BOX-FOLDER 5/2 Psalm 133 Wood Carving, undated
Score for voice and piano carved into wooden plaque
Note: Inscription reads "Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Amen."

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