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Music, 1932-1995 (continued)
Holograph Music, 1935-1990 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 1048/14 Lisbon sequence
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 22 p.
Title page: Lisbon opening
BOX-FOLDER 1048/15 Lisbon sequence
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil and red pencil ; 8 p.
Title page: New Lisbon sequence (Sept. 1958)
BOX-FOLDER 1048/15 Lisbon sequence
Typescript lyric sheets combined with letters from Richard Wilbur, annotations in pencil in LB's hand ; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1048/16 Lisbon sequence
Gambling scene: Money, money
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 11 p.
New Lisbon opening (19 Nov 56)
Holograph piano-vocal score/sketch in pencil ; [11] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1048/16 Lisbon sequence
Carbon of typescript lyric sheet ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1048/17 Lisbon sequence
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 2 p.
Caption title: Infant reprise
BOX-FOLDER 1048/18 Lisbon sequence
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; [1] p.
Caption title: New infant reprise
BOX-FOLDER 1048/19 Lisbon sequence
Holograph sketches in pencil ; [31] p.
Caption titles: Lisbon opening ; Syphilis song ; Lisbon? ; Inquisition scene
BOX-FOLDER 1048/19 Lisbon sequence
Holograph/typescript script and lyric sheets in pencil and ink ; [12] p.
Caption title: Lisbon opening; Lisbon opening scene; Lisbon scene 3
BOX-FOLDER 1048/20 Lisbon sequence
Holograph sketches in pencil; 6 p.
On envelope: Music later used in "Introduction to Eldorado"
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1048/21 Love duet
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil, no lyric ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1048/22 Love duet
Holograph sketches in pencil ; 5 p. + [3] p.
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1048/23 Love duet
Holograph piano-choral score in pencil ; 7 p.
Title page: Marriage ceremony (chorale-prelude on the theme of the love duet)
BOX-FOLDER 1048/24 Love duet
Holograph sketch in pencil and red pencil ; 3 p.
Titled: Chorale-prelude (Love duet theme) ; (Wedding ceremony?)
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1048/25 Lute song
Holograph sketch in pencil and ink ; 6 p.
Opening section became opening of "America" in West Side Story
Digital content available
Marquise's gavotte
see Life is happiness indeed
BOX-FOLDER 1048/26 Make our garden grow
see also A valentine for Jamie and Alexander
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 13 p.
Includes: holograph sketch ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1048/27 Minuetto
Holograph piano score/sketch in pencil ; [2] p.
Unused
BOX-FOLDER 1048/27 Minuetto
Holograph lyric sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
Alternate titles considered on lyric sketch "Venereal minuet" and "Paquette’s minuet"
BOX-FOLDER 1048/28 Money, money, money
see also Lisbon sequence and Gambling scene (Paris)
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1048/29 My love
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 4 p.
Title page: Governor's serenade
BOX-FOLDER 1048/30 My love
Holograph piano-vocal score/sketch ; [4] p.
Title page: Gov's serenade
Includes a crossed out cadenza
BOX-FOLDER 1048/31 Nagging travel
Holograph piano score ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1048/32 Nothing more than this
Holograph piano-vocal score/sketch in pencil ; [4] p.
Caption title: Not even you
Includes pasteover on p. [3]
In folder marked "El Dorado"
Same music as "This I know"
BOX-FOLDER 1048/33 Oh, happy we
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 7 p.
Title page: Proposal duet
Notes in colored pencil to and from "AA"–Arnstein (copyist)
Lyrics very different from final version
BOX-FOLDER 1048/34 Oh, happy we
Holograph sketches in pencil ; [3] p.
Caption titles: Love duet; Cheer-up song
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1048/35 The old lady
Typescript lyric sheet with annotations in pencil ; 1 leaf
Unused
BOX-FOLDER 1048/36 One word
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
Unused
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1048/36 One word
Holograph/typescript lyric sheets with annotations in pencil ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1083/6 Overture
Holograph full score in pencil on onion skins, annotations in red pencil and ink ; 45 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1048/37 Overture
Holograph short score sketch in pencil ; 19 p.
Includes cut material
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1048/38 Overture
Holograph sketch in pencil ; 3 p.
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1049/1 Packing to descent
Holograph piano score in pencil ; 2 p.
In original score "Candide’s return from Eldorado"; in Chelsea score "Eldorado"; in Scottish Opera score "Introduction to Eldorado"
BOX-FOLDER 1049/2 Paris
Holograph notes re scene breakdown and timings, inside folder ; [1] p.
Folder had also contained sketches for "Paris waltz scene," "You were dead you know," and "The pilgrims’ procession"
BOX-FOLDER 1049/3 Paris waltz scene
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 13 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1049/4 Paris waltz scene
Holograph sketch in pencil ; 9 p.
Caption title: Waltzes
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1049/5 Pilgrim's exit
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; [1] p.
Alternate ending crossed out in verso
BOX-FOLDER 1049/6 Pilgrims' procession
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 9 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1049/7 Pilgrims' procession
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [3] p.
At bottom p. [2-3] crossed out page from the end of "The best of all possible worlds"; p. [1] unidentified
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1049/7 Pilgrims' procession
Holograph/typescript lyric sheets in hands of LB and Richard Wilbur in pencil ; [5] p.
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