Scores.

Summary: American sheet music, probably from the larger collection of Mrs. Heyliger de Windt; chiefly for voice and piano, some for piano solo. Box 1. Popular music (early 1800s to 1870) chiefly published in Boston by Graupner; two books written and published by Gottlieb Graupner in Boston: 1st and 2nd "improved and enlarged" edition of Rudiments of the art of playing on the Piano Forte. Box 2. Music with lyrics by: Mrs. Hemans ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Oliver Wendell...

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Sheet music published in America, chiefly from (but not limited to) the Raymond S. Wilkins and Evert Jansen Wendell collections; for voice and piano, some for piano solo.

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American sheet music, scant few published in London; chiefly for voice and piano, some for piano solo, with lyrics by English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans.

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Music supplements from newspapers in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco; chiefly for voice and piano.

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Ukrainian sheet music, in popular and folk idioms; chiefly for voice and piano, some for chorus, some instrumental.

Music published in New York, Jersey City (N.J.), L'viv (Poland, then Ukraine), Ternopilʹ (Ukraine), Kharkiv (Ukraine), Kiev (Ukraine), Warsaw (Poland), and Riga (Latvia); primary publishers include Smolensky (New York) and Torban (L'viv).

Some texts by Taras Shevchenko.

Overview:

The collection includes autographed letters, photographs and theatrical ephemera associated with her career. The bulk of the collection consists of print and manuscript scores by composers Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Leonard Bernstein, Theodore Chanler and others; many of these are personally inscribed.

Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of printed scores: vocal exercises, opera and other large-scale vocal genres, instrumental music and songs. Many are annotated, some heavily, by Ricci and others.

Overview:

This collection contains musical scores submitted by the students of French composer Nadia Boulanger while attending the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France.

General Note:

Comprises popular and classical selections.

Sheet music published abroad, chiefly in Paris, also London, Bucharest, Budapest, Brussels, Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Leipzig, Vienna, Naples, Madrid, Havana, Casablanca, Rio de Janeiro, and Constantinople; chiefly for voice and piano, some for piano solo.

Summary: Ballet choreographed by Serge Lifar and performed in Monte-Carlo in 1946. Composed in 4 acts on the basis of rhythms by S. Lifar: Arthur Honegger composed acts I and IV, Alexandre Tcherepnin act II and Tibor Harsanyi act III. A manuscript score of 14 pages gives a rapid overview of the order of the ballet and the melodic and rhythmic themes. All bear the stamp of the Académie de Musique et de danse of Serge Lifar or the stamp of the Lifar collection. Acte I: 40 autographed manuscript pages...