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Ballo: musical scores

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Description: A set of six autograph instrumental musical scores; with paper covers and bound loosely with thread. The scores are titled: Ballo; Cassa; Oboe; Ofleide; Timpani; and 2nd Tromba; the Ballo was an Italian dance form during the 15th century, a Cassa is a bass drum and a Ofleide is a wind instrument. The front cover of the first score also contains the titles: "un villino conteso" and "Il casino di campagna" on separate lines but does not contain the name of a composer or date of composition; the autograph scores have annotations and corrections in Italian using black, blue, green, and red pencil.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 19th century.
Call number: mssHM 83793
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In Library as of 1979.
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Didn't My Lord Deliber Daniel: orchestral score

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A full autograph orchestral score; an arrangement of the African American spiritual "Didn't My Lord Deliber Daniel." It was found in the music files of film composer Dmitri Tiomkin; the score is believed to be part of Tiomkin's research for the score for "The Negro Soldier" (1944), from Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series during World War II.

mssHM 84111

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Original scores for various productions

Manuscripts

Contains scores for: Lovely Miss Linley (Lee Gilmore piano score used in 1942 production); Lazarus Laughed (Arthur Alexander original music, 1928, in five parts, some copies and some handwritten); Follies of Pasadena (original scores, blueprint copies, undated); and original music composed in 1939 and undated by Vincent Bowditch for unidentified Pasadena Playhouse productions.

mssPlayhouse

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Manuscript musical scores

Manuscripts

The Harold Bruce Forsythe papers consists of manuscripts of Forsythe's musical scores, poems, short stories, essays, and a novel. Included in the correspondence are six letters from Forsythe to long-time friend Verna Arvey, who later married composer William Grant Still. Included in the manuscripts are several essays by Forsythe about William Grant Still and about several of Still's works, particularly his ballet "Sahdji." There are also audio cassette tape recordings of the Forsythe program at the Huntington Library, February 1997.

mssHM 59571-59825

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Ballet Scores and Sheet Music

Manuscripts

The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, ephemera, and printed material related to the FNCB, NCB and local ballet companies; the papers also include sheet music and original music scores, ballet production files and photographs for the FNCB and NCB. The papers are especially strong as a visual record with a large number of photographs, publicity material, costume sketches, and printed posters.

mssHM 68942-69272

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Musical scores, indentures, etc

Manuscripts

A collection of approximately 2000 manuscripts, chiefly individual letters, documents, and notes collected by Gerald John Kane for their autograph value. Also included in the collection is a group of letters addressed to the autograph collector Howes Norris.

mssHM 29330-30299

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To the office and back : Notes towards a portrait of Wallace Stevens in words and music

Manuscripts

This radio drama was broadcast on November 7, 1978. The script is a mimeograph copy (21 pp.), and the music score is an autograph manuscript (25 pp.) in pencil and ink

mssHM 56791

Ballo: musical scores

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