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Holograph Music, 1935-1990 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 1057/36 Grandma song
Photocopies of music and typescript lyric sheets with annotations in pencil ; [7] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1057/37 Green: for the Greens on their 26th Greening
Photocopy of piano-vocal score ; [4] p., taped
Date on envelope: Jan 31, 1985
BOX-FOLDER 1057/37 Green: for the Greens on their 26th Greening
Holograph sketch in pencil ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1057/37 Green: for the Greens on their 26th Greening
Typescript lyric sheets with annotations in ink and pencil ; 2 p.
Laid in: ALS from Betty Comden in ink ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1057/38 Greeting
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 3 p.
Ended up in Arias and Barcarolles; based on its prefatory note this is probably the 1955 manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 1057/38 Greeting
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1057/38 Greeting
Typescript lyric sheet with annotations in pencil ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1084/3 Halil
Manuscript short score in pencil in hands of LB and JG ; [25] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1058/1 Halil
Photocopy of reduction, heavily annotated in red pencil ; 15 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1058/2 Halil
Holograph sketches in pencil ; [28] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1058/3 Halil
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] leaf
Caption title: Nocturne
BOX-FOLDER 1084/4 Happy 2nd birthday
Color photocopy of lead sheet and drawing in red and blue pencil ; [1] p.
Signed and dated: "Tata/4 March ‘89"
BOX-FOLDER 1058/4 Happy Bnierwtyhedaary!!
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil [2] p.
Dated: "8 Sept ‘83"
For Jamie
BOX-FOLDER 1088/17 Happy Xmas to Harry from Harry Hanon
Photoreproduction of holograph piano sketch for a fugue ; [1] p.
At end: Echte Ur-Skizee
Dated: Xmas 73
BOX-FOLDER 1058/5 Harvard choruses (1957)
Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
The lonely men of Harvard (lament-march)
Holograph short score in pencil ; 8 p.
Became the "Sheeps Song" in the 1973 production of Candide
Harvard music coursework
BOX-FOLDER 1058/6 Bluebook exams
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1058/7 Division of music/examination B
Printed musical examples with LB annotations in pencil
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BOX-FOLDER 1058/8 Harmony exercises/counterpoint
Holograph exercises in pencil and ink, annotations by professor in red ; [54] leaves, mostly 8" x 7"
Mostly signed and dated between 1935-37
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BOX-FOLDER 1058/9 Harmony exercises/counterpoint
Continuation of Box-Folder 1058/8, but larger items ; [14] items, [22] leaves, mostly 8 1⁄2" x 11"
This batch includes string quartet exercises, exams with printed music where LB writes analysis below; one work is titled: "Gum-drop in E"
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1059/1 Music notebook
Schirmer’s harmony tablet, blue cover [55] p. ; 6 3/4" x 10", some pages have been removed
Note on folder: "‘Poco piu mosso’ went into On the Town"
Includes: Rhapsody in blue, arr. ; Poem re "Applebaum", signed A.B. Magil ; Anna ; Sonata in 2 movts for rec[order] + piano
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1059/2 Music notebook: The student’s music pad
Holograph sketches and scores in pencil and ink, bound, some p. missing, some loose at back ; [40] leaves, 6 3/4" x 10 5/8", signed on cover
Includes: with utter sterility ; Prelude in B minor ; Love duet ; Trio C# minor ; Hora staccatto ; Prelude in C ; Daffodil in a slender silver vase
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1059/3 Contemporary music: a defense
Typescript of paper with musical examples in ink, and annotations in pencil ; [37] leaves
Includes comments in pencil from professor, often extending to the verso of pages
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1059/4 String trio, for 2 violins and viola
Holograph score in pencil ; [21] p.
Dated on p. [15]: "Nov. 30, 1937"
In bound "Ditson music writing book," 9 3/8" x 7 1⁄2", p. [21] detached
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1059/5 Trio c# minor for violin, cello and piano
Holograph score in ink and pencil ; [56] p.
Signed on cover and inscribed on p. [1]: "To the Madison Trio/M.S./D.R./S.K."
In bound "Belwin music writing book," 9 1/4" x 7 3/4"
Digital content available
Harvard music coursework
The contents below were found together in a box labeled: LB at Harvard, Music MS, Box One/Vault 1579/Examined by CH + JG 11.23.94/Box LB-48 /'At an Old Trysting Place' (O)/'Barnyard' (O)/Harvard species counterpoint exercises / Harvard orchestration exercises (orchestrations of works by various composers)
BOX-FOLDER 1088/18 Box contents list
Typescript ; leaf [1]
BOX-FOLDER 1088/18 Barnyard
Holograph orchestration exercise in pen ; leaves [2-5]
BOX-FOLDER 1088/18 At an old trysting place
Holograph orchestration exercise in pen ; leaves [6-8]
Note suggests that this work and "Barnyard" may have been composed when LB was at Curtis
BOX-FOLDER 1088/18 Species counterpoint exercises
Holograph scores/exercises in pen and pencil ; [13] leaves
Two and three-part counterpoint exercises
One exercise is dated: Mar 9, 1938
BOX-FOLDER 1088/18, 1092/10 Counterpoint exercises
Holograph exercises in pen and pencil ; [15] leaves
One exercise dated: 3 June, 1939
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1089/1-4, 1092/11 Orchestration exercises and harmony notebook
Holograph exercises in pen and pencil ; [77] leaves and folder
Works identified by JG and/or by caption titles
JG speculates that "Allegro molto" may have been composed by LB
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Contents:
  • Schubert. March militaire
  • Prokofiev. Sarcasme
  • Schumann.Two pieces from Carnaval. Eusebius; Pantalon et Columbine
  • Honneger. Piece pour le piano
  • Ravel. Vocalise
  • Milhaud. Impanema
  • Schumann. Symphonic etudes
  • Hindemith. Sonata no. 2
  • Bartok. Melody in the mist
  • Bartok. Fifth chords
  • Bartok. M in the M
  • Liszt. Funérailles
  • Bartok. Peasant dance
  • Scriabin. Etude VI
  • Scriabin. Prelude XIV
  • Schubert. Op. 77, no. 9
  • Kreisleriana
  • Schubert. Op. 171, no. 6
  • Schubert. Op. 77, no. 6
  • Schubert. Op. 77, no. 8
  • Debussy. Bruyères
  • Bach. English suite in A minor. Sarabande
  • Mehul. Menuetto
  • Debussy. Danseuses de Delphes
  • Bach. Prelude VIII
  • Op. 171, no. 5
  • Schubert. Posthumous no. 4
  • Bernstein [?]. Allegro molto
BOX-FOLDER 1059/6 Harvard orchestration exercises
Photocopy of scores ; [21] p.
Titles include: Barnyard; At an old trysting-place; Allegro molto (used in Facsimile)
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1059/6 Harvard orchestration exercises
Letter from Vivian Perlis re enclosed copies of LB manuscripts found in Aaron Copland’s files ; [6] p.
Titles include: Very calm
BOX-FOLDER 1059/7 Hashkiveinu for Cantor, Choir and Organ (1945)
Holograph full score in pencil ; 21 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1059/8 Hashkiveinu
Holograph score in pencil, incomplete ; 3 p.
Notes on verso re concert repertory
BOX-FOLDER 1059/8 Hashkiveinu
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
On verso: map of America by LB
BOX-FOLDER 1059/9 Heinz 52
Holograph sketch/piano-vocal score in pencil ; [1] p.
Dedication: for HJK 11 Apr. ‘85
BOX-FOLDER 1059/10 Historeconomy (A small canon for two great voices)
Holograph vocal score in pencil and photocopy ; [1] p. each
Inscribed: To Arthur [Schlesinger] and Ken [Galbraith] on their birthday 15 October 1979
BOX-FOLDER 1059/10 Historeconomy (A small canon for two great voices)
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
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