Peter Schickele Papers, 1874-2013, bulk 1955-2013

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Series I: Works Composed under Peter Schickele, 1955-2013

Series I: Works Composed under Peter Schickele consists of material related to compositions created by Peter Schickele under his name. It includes manuscript scores, arrangements, annotated, revised, and rearranged versions, engraved parts, sketches (identified and unidentified), and notes. The series also includes correspondence on revisions with Schikele's collaborators in the production of the musical drama The Rivals.

The series is arranged chronologically, with different compositions from the same year arranged in alphabetical order.



Box 1 Folder 1 Four Sketches for String Quartet, 1955-1993

(manuscript score and parts)



Box 4 Folder 7 Snapshot (Four Sketches no. 5 ), 2006

(later addition toFour Sketches for String Quartet)



Box 6 Folder 1 Four Pieces for Piano , 1957

(copyist score)



Box 1 Folder 2 Little Suite for Josie, 1957/1976

(manuscript score)



Box 6 Folder 2 Fantasy , 1958

(manuscript score, revised)


Box 6 Folder 3 Fantasy , 1958

(copyist score and parts)



Box 1 Folder 3 Songs for Baritone, Bassoon, and Trombone , 1958

(fair copy in Schickele's hand)



Box 6 Folder 4 Elegy for Lennie, 1960/1989

(manuscript score)



Box 1 Folder 4 Girls , 1960

(manuscript score)


Box 1 Folder 5 String Trio , 1960

(engraved score and parts)


Box 1 Folder 6 The Three Faces of Eve , 1960

(engraved parts)



Box 21 Folder 2 The Three Faces of Eve , 1960

(engraved score)



Box 1 Folder 7 Three Strange Cases: 1. The Irksome Prude, 1960

(engraved score and parts)


Box 1 Folder 8 Kyrie , 1961

(manuscript score and parts)


Box 1 Folder 9 On this Plain of Mist , 1961

(manuscript score; copyist parts)



Box 6 Folder 5 Cool Clean Walter , 1962

(manuscript score copy; copyist parts)


Box 6 Folder 6 The Flow of Memory , 1963

(copyist score and parts)


Box 6 Folder 7 Part-Time Invention , 1964

(manuscript score and part copies)


Box 6 Folder 8 Miscellaneous songs,1966-1967

(rhythm charts; including "Blue Window," "Love has to Change," "Homin' Pigeon," "You're Gonna Need Me," "One-Way Window," "Mama," "You Should See Her," "She's Gone," "Somebody's Changed Her Mind," "There's Gonna be Trouble," "Laugh if you Want to," "Highways of your Time," "Turn and Go," "Hush Little Baby," "Don't Look Back," "If it's Gone, Let it Go")



Box 7 Folder 4 Miscellaneous songs, undated

(engraved lead sheets; "There's Gonna be Trouble," "You Should See Her," "She's Gone," "Somebody's Changed Her Mind")



Box 6 Folder 9 Various leadsheets, 1969, 1978, 1969, 1978

(manuscripts and photocopies; including "Different People," "Fat Cats are Few and Far," "Feel Free," "Flyin' Home to You," "Going on a Moonwalk," "Pretty Lady," "3 Glances Over the Shoulder," "A Likely Story")



Box 1 Folder 10 Songs, including Smaze, 1971

(manuscript rhythm charts and lead sheets; "Smaze," "Go Down Garbage," "Her Hair is the Color of Wheat," "Standing Room Only," "My Time of Day," "By the Dead Sea," "Don't Put X-Marks on my Windows" "Is There Life on Earth?")



Box 8 Folder 1 Songs, including Smaze, 1971

(typeset parts and lead sheets; manuscript copies; "Smaze," "Go Down Garbage," "Sweet Innocence," "Her Hair is the Color of Wheat," "Standing Room Only," "My Time of Day," "Big Back Yard," "By the Dead Sea," "Don't Put X-Marks on my Windows" "Is There Life on Earth?," "Come On Out")



Box 6 Folder 10 A Garland of Rags , 1972

(manuscript score)



Box 1 Folder 11 A Garland of Rags , 1972

(fair copy)



Box 6 Folder 11 Silently, Invisibly , 1972

(manuscript score copy)


Box 6 Folder 12 Things to Try on a Summer Day , 1972

(manuscript score copy)



Box 1 Folder 12 Last Tango in Bayreuth , 1973

(fair copy)


Box 1 Folder 13 Night Music , 1973

(manuscript score)


Box 1 Folder 14 Round Up , 1973

(fair copy)


Box 1 Folder 15 Skylights , 1973

(sketch)



Box 20 Folder 1 Skylights , 1973

(manuscript score copy)


Box 20 Folder 2 Skylights , 1973

(transparencies)



Box 7 Folder 8 Skylights , undated

(engraved parts)


Box 7 Folder 9 Skylights , undated

(part transparencies)



Box 6 Folder 13 Two-bit Epiphanies , 1973

(manuscript score)



Box 1 Folder 16 Two-bit Epiphanies , 1973

(fair copy)


Box 1 Folder 17 Various Rounds, 1973-1976 1987 2001 undated, 1973-1976, 1987, 2001 undated

(manuscript scores)



Box 8 Folder 2 Miscellaneous organ pieces, 1974 undated

(photocopies printed and manuscript scores with annotations; by Schickele and other composers; were kept inside Langlais, Jean.Organ Book; Johnson, David, "Trumpet Tune in B flat Major"; Bull, John, "Variations"; Homilius, Gottfried August, "Durch Adams Fall"; untitled scores)



Box 6 Folder 14 All's Well that Ends , 1976

(manuscript score)



Box 1 Folder 18 All's Well that Ends , 1976

(fair copy)



Box 6 Folder 15 All's Well that Ends , 1976

(script)



Box 1 Folder 19 Duo Triptych: Nocturne , 1976

(manuscript score)


Box 1 Folder 20 Duo Triptych: Stepping Out , 1976

(manuscript score, copyist parts)


Box 1 Folder 21 Duo Triptych: River Run , 1976

(manuscript score, engraved part)



Box 6 Folder 16 Weiss und Rot, 1976/1989

(manuscript score)



Box 1 Folder 22 "Mixing It" Signature, 1977

(manuscript score)


Box 1 Folder 23 Incantations , 1978

(manuscript score, notes, annotated score photocopy)


Box 1 Folder 24 Mink Hollow Music, 1978/1980

(manuscript score)


Box 1 Folder 25 Miscalleneous Songs, 1978

(engraved scores and lead sheets)



Box 6 Folder 17 Songs from Shakespeare , 1978

(lead sheet; manuscript score and copies)



Box 1 Folder 26 Johann Sebastian Bach (round), 1980/2001

(manuscript score)



Box 6 Folder 18 Presents for kids, 1980 undated

(manuscript scores; "The Day-after-Valentine's-Day-Wish-I-were-There Blues," "Lullaby for Laada")


Box 6 Folder 19 Table Music , 1980

(manuscript scores; "The Brothers Joad," "Johann Sebastian Bach")


Box 6 Folder 20 Three Songs for a Wedding, 1981/1985

(manuscript score)



Box 1 Folder 27 Piano Concerto No. 3 in A flat Major, 1982

(manuscript score, copyist parts)



Box 6 Folder 21 Miscellaneous songs, 1983

(manuscript scores; "Ask me No Questions," "Dear Madeleine")


Box 6 Folder 22 Morning Music, 1983/1994

(manuscript score; revised photocopied score)



Box 8 Folder 3 Morning Music, 1983/1994

(revised photocopied score)



Box 2 Folder 1 String Quartet No. 1: "American Dreams", 1983

(manuscript score)



Box 6 Folder 23 Summer Serenade, 1983/1989

(manuscript score; engraved parts; 1st version score copy)



Box 2 Folder 2 Ceremony , 1984

(manuscript score)


Box 2 Folder 3 Songs I taught my Mother , 1988

(manuscript score)


Box 2 Folder 4 Here Now , 1989

(manuscript score)



Box 8 Folder 4 Classical Rap , 1990

(script)



Box 2 Folder 5 St. George and the Dragon , 1990

(manuscript score)



Box 6 Folder 24 Delta Jukebox , 1991

(manuscript score)


Box 6 Folder 25 If Love is Real , 1991

(manuscript lead sheet)



Box 2 Folder 6 Timepiece , 1991

(manuscript score, performance notes)



Box 8 Folder 5 Timepiece , 1991

(script)



Box 6 Folder 26 Four Pop Settings , 1992

(manuscript score)



Box 2 Folder 7 Go for Broke , 1992

(pencil deshon, last 2 pages)



Box 8 Folder 6 Go for Broke , 1992

(lyrics)



Box 2 Folder 8 Octet, 1992

(manuscript score)


Box 2 Folder 9 Octet, 1992

(manuscript parts)


Box 2 Folder 10 Serenade for Three , 1992

(manuscript score, list of corrections)


Box 2 Folder 11 Serenade for Three , 1992 undated

(printed score and part copies with annotations)


Box 2 Folder 12 Blue Set No. 1: "possible cello solo for 'Tucumcari'," 1993/1996

(manuscript part)



Box 8 Folder 7 Blue Set No. 1, 1993/1996

(manuscript score copy)



Box 2 Folder 13 Fanfare for the Well-read Baron , 1993

(manuscript score)



Box 16 Folder 6 Oboe Concerto, 1994

(manuscript score)



Box 21 Folder 1 Thurber's Dogs, 1994

(manuscript score)



Box 2 Folder 14 Fili Mi, Absalon , 1995

(Schuetz, arranged by Schickele; manuscript score)


Box 2 Folder 15 "Little Fugue," B.W.V. 899, 1995

(J.S. Bach, arranged by Schickele; manuscript score)



Box 6 Folder 27 My Heart is like a Singing Bird, 1995/2001

(manuscript score)



Box 8 Folder 8 My Heart is like a Singing Bird, 1995/2001

(manuscript photocopy)



Box 2 Folder 16 Ritual , 1995

(manuscript score)



Box 19 Folder 3 Symphony No. 1, 1995

(manuscript score and proof with revisions)



Box 6 Folder 28 Blue Set No. 2 , 1996

(manuscript score)



Box 2 Folder 17 What Ho! , 1996

(manuscript score)



Box 6 Folder 29 Finish Line at the Rat Race , 1997

(manuscript score)



Box 2 Folder 18 Percussion Sonata No. 2: "Woodstock,", 1997

(manuscript score)


Box 2 Folder 19 Percussion Sonata No. 2: "Woodstock,", 1997

(corrected printed score)



Box 3 Folder 1 Quintet No. 2, 1997

(manuscript score)


Box 3 Folder 2 Viola Dreams , 1997

(manuscript score)


Box 3 Folder 3 Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, 1998

(obsolete string parts used at the premiere)



Box 16 Folder 7 Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, 1998

(manuscript score)



Box 3 Folder 4 Concerto for Chamber Orchestra, 1998

(printed parts)


Box 3 Folder 5 "My Soul doth Magnify the Lord,", 1998

(manuscript score)



Box 5 Folder 4 The Rivals , undated

(sketches)


Box 5 Folder 5 The Rivals , undated

(early manuscript)



Box 10 Folder 1 The Rivals , 1998

(open rehearsal program)


Box 10 Folder 2 The Rivals , 1998

(correspondence and list of changes)


Box 10 Folder 3 The Rivals , 1998

(printed piano arrangements)


Box 10 Folder 4 The Rivals , 1998

(printed score with revisions)


Box 10 Folder 5 The Rivals , 1998

(manuscript score copy)



Box 16 Folder 1 The Rivals , 1998

(manuscript score copy)



Box 10 Folder 6 The Rivals , 1998

(manuscript copy with annotations)



Box 16 Folder 3 The Rivals , 1998

(curtain call manuscript score and copy)



Box 10 Folder 7 The Rivals , 1998

(printed script)


Box 10 Folder 8 The Rivals , 1998

(printed parts with revisions)


Box 10 Folder 9 The Rivals , 1998

(list of corrections)



Box 11 Folder 2 The Rivals , 1998

(correspondence)


Box 11 Folder 3 The Rivals , 1998

(script with annotations)


Box 11 Folder 4 The Rivals , 1998

(script, revised script, performance notes, and correspondence)


Box 11 Folder 5 The Rivals , 1998

(printed parts with revisions)


Box 11 Folder 6 The Rivals , 1998

(printed parts with annotations)


Box 11 Folder 7 The Rivals , 1998

(printed parts with annotations)


Box 11 Folder 8 The Rivals , 1998

(printed piano and vocal arrangement)



Box 12 Folder 1 The Rivals , 1998

(parts)


Box 12 Folder 2 The Rivals , 1998

(parts (stage) )


Box 12 Folder 3 The Rivals , 1998

(correspondence, stage plan)



Box 7 Folder 15 The Rivals , 1998

(correspondence, stage plan)



Box 3 Folder 6 String Quartet No. 5: "A Year in the Country,", 1998

(manuscript score)



Box 8 Folder 9 String Quartet No. 5: "A Year in the Country,", 1998

(original unrevised typeset parts)



Box 3 Folder 7 String Quintet No. 1, 1998

(manuscript score)



Box 6 Folder 30 Two Songs on Elizabethan Lyrics , 1998

(manuscript score)


Box 6 Folder 31 Goldberg , 1999

(manuscript score; second movement)



Box 8 Folder 10 Goldberg , 1999

(composition notes)


Box 8 Folder 11 Nights at the Bear , 1999

(manuscript score)



Box 6 Folder 32 Ragtempus Fugit , 1999

(manuscript score)


Box 6 Folder 33 Rikki, Rikki , 1999

(manuscript score)



Box 3 Folder 9 Pastorale, 1999/2013

(manuscript score original and revised)



Box 4 Folder 1 Pastorale, 1999/2013

(sketches)


Box 4 Folder 2 Pastorale, 1999/2013

(printed parts with annotations)



Box 8 Folder 12 Pastorale, 1999/2013

(old printed score and parts)


Box 8 Folder 13 Pastorale, 1999/2013

(old parts with annotations)



Box 6 Folder 34 Carol Jean (The Road We Walk ), 2000

(manuscript score)



Box 4 Folder 3 Las Vegas Intro , 2000

(manuscript score)



Box 8 Folder 14 New Century Suite , 2000

(composition plan)



Box 17 Folder 1 New Century Suite , 2000

(incomplete manuscript score)


Box 17 Folder 2 New Century Suite , 2000

(sketches)


Box 17 Folder 3 New Century Suite , 2000

(manuscript score)


Box 17 Folder 4 New Century Suite , 2000

(obsolete manuscript score copy)


Box 17 Folder 5 New Century Suite , 2000

(incomplete manuscript copy)


Box 17 Folder 6 New Century Suite , 2000

(manuscript score, 3 incomplete copies)



Box 4 Folder 4 Passacaglia in C Minus , 2000

(manuscript score)



Box 8 Folder 15 Passacaglia in C Minus , 2000

(printed, unproofed parts)



Box 6 Folder 35 Top O' the Millenium , 2000

(manuscript score)



Box 4 Folder 5 Chicory-Ah , 2001

(manuscript score copy)



Box 8 Folder 16 Symphony No. 2 , 2001

(sketches)



Box 18 Folder 2 Symphony No. 2 , 2001

(first printed score, 2 copies)



Box 6 Folder 36 Two Miniatures , 2001

(manuscript score)


Box 6 Folder 37 Armadillo Encore , 2003

(manuscript parts)



Box 8 Folder 17 Somewhere , 2004

(manuscript score)



Box 18 Folder 1 Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, 2005

(manuscript score and copy; viola part copy)



Box 19 Folder 1 Zaide Overture

(unrevised manuscript score)


Box 19 Folder 2 Zaide Overture

(manuscript score with revisions)



Box 4 Folder 6 Mountain Music II , 2006

(manuscript score)



Box 8 Folder 18 Mountain Music II , 2006

(sketch)



Box 4 Folder 8 After Hearing Bach , 2007

(manuscript score)



Box 18 Folder 5 Lincoln at Ease , 2007

(first version score)



Box 4 Folder 9 Three Cellos , 2007

(manuscript score and copy)


Box 4 Folder 10 Piano Trio, "Alaria,", 2010-2011

(manuscript score, revised)


Box 4 Folder 11 Piano Trio, "Alaria,", undated

(sketches)



Box 7 Folder 10 Mass for Men's Voices , undated

(manuscript score)



Box 4 Folder 12 Music for Judy , 2011

(manuscript score)



Box 6 Folder 38 Six Studies , 2011

(manuscript score)



Box 4 Folder 13 String Quartet No. 6, "Shadow Mountain,", 2012

(manuscript score)


Box 4 Folder 14 Serenade for String Trio , 2013

(manuscript score)



Box 8 Folder 19 Serenade for String Trio , 2013

(manuscript score copy)



Box 4 Folder 15 String Quintet No. 2, 2013

(manuscript score)


Box 4 Folder 16 Blake's Proverbs , undated

(manuscript score)


Box 4 Folder 17 The Bottom Line , undated

(manuscript score)


Box 4 Folder 18 Various sketches, undated

(fromThe Civilian Barber;Chaconne A;Son Gout;Beautiful Dreamer;Gaudeamus)


Box 4 Folder 19 The Emperor's New Clothes , undated

(manuscript score)


Box 4 Folder 20 The Fantastic Garden , undated

(manuscript solo parts)



Box 7 Folder 1 The Fantastic Garden , undated

(copyist parts)


Box 7 Folder 2 A Garland of Rounds , undated

(manuscript score)



Box 4 Folder 21 Hornsmoke , undated

(sketches; P.D.Q. BachDiverse Ayressketch on verso)


Box 4 Folder 22 How Sweet , undated

(manuscript score, copyist parts)


Box 4 Folder 23 Keep all your Windows Clean , undated

(fair copy)


Box 4 Folder 24 Knight of the Burning Pestle , undated

(sketch)



Box 8 Folder 20 Loose sketches, undated



Box 4 Folder 25 Lowest Trees , undated

(sketch)



Box 20 Folder 3 Metropolitan Wind Ensemble , undated

(manuscript score)



Box 7 Folder 3 Miscellaneous pop songs, undated

(rhythm charts; "For You but You," "Get Yourself another Doormat," "If It Ain't One Damn Thing," "In My Mind," "Never Thought I'd Meet You," "There's Just One Road to Heaven," "Yes I Heard You")



Box 4 Folder 26 Monochrome III , undated

(sketch)



Box 7 Folder 5 My Mother Told Me Not to Worry , undated

(manuscript score)



Box 4 Folder 27 Nell Gwyn , undated

(rhythm chart)



Box 7 Folder 6 Nights in Hamburg (Brahms Rag ), undated

(manuscript score)


Box 7 Folder 7 Old Welsh Song , undated

(manuscript score)



Box 4 Folder 28 Queen Anne's Lace , undated

(manuscript score; manuscript parts; various unrevised parts)



Box 8 Folder 21 Queen Anne's Lace , undated

(list of corrections; various unrevised parts)



Box 5 Folder 1 String Quartet No. 2, undated

(sketches)



Box 18 Folder 3 Symphony No. 2 , undated

(sketches)


Box 18 Folder 4 Symphony No. 2 , undated

(manuscript score)



Box 5 Folder 2 Three Scenes for Five Instruments , undated

(sketch)


Box 5 Folder 3 Unidentified sketches, undated



Box 16 Folder 5 What Did You Do Today at Jeffey's House , undated

(manuscript score)

Series II: Works Composed under P.D.Q. Bach, 1966-2012

Series II: Works Composed under P.D.Q. Bach consists of material related to compositions created by Peter Schickele and presented as the excavated work of the fictional composer P.D.Q. Bach. The series includes manuscript scores, annotated and revised versions, engraved parts, and sketches.

The series is arranged chronologically, with different compositions from the same year arranged in alphabetical order.



Box 15 Folder 1 Diverse Ayres , 1966

(manuscript fair copy; corrected copy)


Box 15 Folder 2 Perückenstück , 1966

(manuscript score)


Box 15 Folder 3 Should , 1966

(manuscript score copy)


Box 15 Folder 4 Sonata for Violin Four Hands , 1966

(manuscript copy; engraved parts masters)


Box 15 Folder 5 Fugue in C minor , 1967

(manuscript score copy)


Box 15 Folder 6 Traumarei , 1967

(manuscript copy)


Box 15 Folder 7 Two Madrigals , 1968

(manuscript score copy)


Box 15 Folder 8 "Erotica" Variations, 1972

(original and revised manuscripts)



Box 14 Folder 1 Please, Kind Sir , 1973

(cello part mock-up)



Box 13 Folder 1 Fanfare for the Common Cold , 1974

(published manuscript copy)


Box 13 Folder 2 Good King Kong Looked Out , 1976

(manuscript score and copy)


Box 13 Folder 3 O Little Town of Hackensack , 1976

(manuscript score)



Box 15 Folder 9 "Dutch" Suite, 1977/1979

(manuscript score; corrected copy)



Box 13 Folder 4 Liebeslieder Polkas , 1979

(manuscript score copy)


Box 13 Folder 5 Liebeslieder Polkas , 1979

(manuscript score)



Box 15 Folder 10 Three Teeny Preludes , 1980

(manuscript score)



Box 13 Folder 28 Twelve Quite Heavenly Songs , 1980, undated

(manuscript score copy; recording schedule)



Box 14 Folder 2 Choral Prelude: "Ah," , 1982

(manuscript copy)



Box 13 Folder 6 Shepherd on the Rocks with a Twist , 1982

(manuscript score)


Box 13 Folder 7 Sonata Innamorata , 1982

(manuscript score)



Box 15 Folder 11 A Veritable Paean of Praise , 1982

(manuscript score and copies)



Box 13 Folder 8 Canzon per Sonar , 1983

(manuscript score)



Box 14 Folder 3 Canzon per Sonar , 1983

(engraved parts masters)



Box 13 Folder 9 Knock, Knock Cantata: "I Dream," 1985/1990

(manuscript score)



Box 15 Folder 12 Four Folksong Upsettings , 1986

(manuscript score)



Box 13 Folder 10 The Magic Bassoon , 1986

(manuscript score)


Box 13 Folder 11 The Magic Bassoon , 1986

(pages from original parts and notes)



Box 14 Folder 4 The Magic Bassoon , 1986

(partial script with annotations)



Box 13 Folder 12 The Preachers of Crometheus , 1986

(bound score)


Box 13 Folder 13 The Preachers of Crometheus , 1986

(sketches)



Box 15 Folder 13 Little Pickle Book , 1987

(manuscript score)


Box 15 Folder 14 Come, Ye Sons of Art and Martha , 1989

(manuscript score)



Box 13 Folder 14 Fanfare for Fred , 1989

(manuscript score copy)


Box 13 Folder 15 Canzonetta "La Hooplina," , 1990

(manuscript score)


Box 13 Folder 16 Lip my Reeds , 1991

(manuscript score; engraved parts)



Box 15 Folder 15 The Short-Tempered Clavier , 1993

(manuscript score)



Box 13 Folder 17 Two Hearts, Four Lips, Three Little Words , 1993

(manuscript score)


Box 13 Folder 18 Here's to the OK Mozart Festival , 1994

(manuscript score)



Box 15 Folder 16 Sonata da Circo , 1995

(manuscript score)


Box 15 Folder 17 Three Chorale-Based Piecelets , 1995

(manuscript score)



Box 14 Folder 5 Long Live the King , 2001

(original version manuscript score)



Box 15 Folder 18 Long Live the King , 2001

(final version manuscript score)



Box 13 Folder 19 Sarah Neighed , 2003

(manuscript score)



Box 19 Folder 4 Eine Kleine Kiddiemusick , 2004

(original manuscript score and corrected manuscript score)



Box 13 Folder 20 Gott Sei Dank , 2004

(manuscript score; printed score with corrections; engraved score)


Box 13 Folder 21 Allegretto Gabinetto , 2005

(manuscript score)



Box 14 Folder 6 Joy to the World, Especially Out-of-Work Musicians , 2006

(manuscript score)



Box 13 Folder 22 The Mary Variations , 2012

(manuscript score)


Box 13 Folder 23 Air for G Strings , undated

(manuscript score)



Box 14 Folder 7 Air for G Strings , undated

(engraved score and parts)



Box 15 Folder 19 The Goldbrick Variations , undated

(manuscript score)


Box 15 Folder 20 Little Notebook for Piggy Bach , undated

(incomplete manuscript score)


Box 15 Folder 21 March of the Cute Little Wood Sprites , undated

(engraved parts masters)



Box 13 Folder 24 Royal Firewater , undated

(manuscript score; deleted trio)



Box 15 Folder 22 Sonata "Abassoonata,", undated

(manuscript score)



Box 13 Folder 25 Sonata Piccola , undated

(manuscript score; first version)


Box 13 Folder 26 Swing Sweet, Low Chariot , undated

(manuscript score)



Box 15 Folder 23 Swing Sweet, Low Chariot , undated

(manuscript piano arrangement)



Box 13 Folder 27 Throw the Yule Log On, Uncle John , undated

(manuscript score and copy)



Box 15 Folder 24 The "Trite" Quintet, undated

(engraved parts masters)

Series III: Memorabilia, 1874-1999

Series III: Memorabilia contains items not related to specific compositions by Schickele. It includes personal correspondence, photographs and printed images (such as book covers, images printed on loose calendar pages, and blank postcards), concert programs, pamphlets, newsletters and brochures, newspaper clippings and copies, tape cassettes (containing music sent to Schickele by other composers and recordings of works by W.A. Mozart and possibly C.P.E. Bach), and scores sent to Schickele by other composers. The series includes two sets of stereograph images dated 1874 and 1903.



Box 9 Folder 1 Stereograph cards, 1874, 1903, 1874, 1903



Box 7 Folder 11 Memorabilia, 1941-1966, undated, 1941-1966, undated

(including printed PR photos of films and The Beatles, undated newspaper clippings including an article in Russian fromPravdaon Joan Baez, and a concert program of violinist Phillip Aaron)


Box 7 Folder 12 Langlais, Jean. Organ Book, 1957



Box 5 Folder 6 Memorabilia, 1958 undated

(humoristic "wanted" sign featuring Schickele; a page from a musical score "Op. 19 (1958)" containing part of a Japanese poem)



Box 9 Folder 2 Memorabilia, 1959-1980 undated, 1959-1980, undated

(including correspondence, brochures, photos, concert programs, book covers and other printed images, newspaper clippings, and stamps)



Box 7 Folder 13 Record album flyer, 1970

(advertisement supplement toRolling Stone)



Box 9 Folder 3 Newspapers, 1974

(includingThe Hays Daily News,Allegro,Asahi Evening News, andThe Niho Kogyo Shimbun)



Box 8 Folder 22 Letters and memorabilia, 1975, undated

(including add flyers, concert announcement, P.D.Q. Bach concert program addendum note, vitae of music faculty candidates and and headshots of actors, and an undated, unsigned letter)



Box 7 Folder 14 Campbell, Mark. Songs., 1977, undated

(lead sheet copies; "With You or Without You," "Separate Ways," "See You Around"; including a dated handwritten note; appended tape cassette filed separately--see folder "tape cassettes")



Box 9 Folder 4 Tape cassettes, 1977, undated

(including music by Campbell, Mark)


Box 9 Folder 5 Pamphlets and newsletters, 1987, undated

(including a newsletter from Saint Anne's School and a flyer titled "Musical Terms You Should Know")


Box 9 Folder 6 Planyavsky, Peter, composition and letter, 1990



Box 11 Folder 1 The Rivals , 1998

(press release and reviews)



Box 3 Folder 8 Review of The Rivals in Christian Science Monitor, 1999 February, 1999



Box 16 Folder 2 The Rivals , 1999, undated

(newspaper clippings)



Box 9 Folder 7 Photos and memorabilia, undated

Series IV: Additions to the Collection


Sub Series IV.1, 2023 Addition


Composition sketchbooks:



Box 22 Sketchbook number 1, Summer 1962


Box 22 Sketchbook number 2, June 1963 - March 1964


Box 22 Sketchbook number 3, August 1966 - September 1967


Box 22 Sketchbook number 4, October 1966 - September 1968


Box 22 Sketchbook number 5, March 1968


Box 22 Sketchbook number 6, August 1969 - December 1970


Box 22 Sketchbook number 7, November 1969


Box 22 Sketchbook number 8, 1971-1972?


Box 22 Sketchbook number 9, October 1972 - July 1973


Box 22 Sketchbook number 10, July 1973 - February 1975


Box 22 Sketchbook number 11, March 1975 - September 1976


Box 22 Sketchbook number 12, September 1976 - July 1978


Box 22 Sketchbook number 13, August 1978 - September 1979


Box 22 Sketchbook number 14, October 1979 - June 1980


Box 22 Sketchbook number 15, June 1980 - May 1981


Box 22 Sketchbook number 16, May 1981 - October 1982


Box 22 Sketchbook number 17, October 1982 - October 1983


Box 22 Sketchbook number 18, October 1983 - October 1984


Box 22 Sketchbook number 19, October 1984 - September 1985


Box 22 Sketchbook number 20, October 1985 - June 1986


Box 22 Sketchbook number 21, June 1986 - Decmber 1986


Box 22 Sketchbook number 22, January 1987 - June 1988


Box 22 Sketchbook number 23, June 1988 - March 1990


Box 22 Sketchbook number 24, March 1990 - June 1991


Box 22 Sketchbook number 25, May 1991 - April 1992


Box 22 Sketchbook number 26, April 1992 - October 1992


Box 22 Sketchbook number 27, October 1992 - June 1993


Box 22 Sketchbook number 28, June 1993 - December 1993


Box 22 Sketchbook number 29, January 1994 - August 1994


Box 22 Sketchbook number 30, August 1994 - December 1994


Box 22 Sketchbook number 31, January 1995 - August 1995


Box 22 Sketchbook number 32, August 1995 - March 1996


Box 22 Sketchbook number 33, March 1996 - August 1996


Box 22 Sketchbook number 34, August 1996 - March 1997


Box 22 Sketchbook number 35, March 1997 - August 1997


Box 22 Sketchbook number 36, August 1997 - June 1998


Box 22 Sketchbook number 37, June 1998 - February 1999


Box 22 Sketchbook number 38, February 1999 - December 1999


Box 22 Sketchbook number 39, December 1999 - March 2001


Box 22 Sketchbook number 40, March 2001 - March 2003



Box 23 Sketchbook number 41, April 2002 - April 2003


Box 23 Sketchbook number 42, April 2003 - August 2004


Box 23 Sketchbook number 43, August 2004 - July 2006


Box 23 Sketchbook number 44, July 2006 - August 2006


Box 23 Sketchbook number 45, Aug 06 - Jan 12


Box 23 Sketchbook number 46, January 2010 - Summer 2012


Box 23 Sketchbook number 47, Summer 2011 - September 2012


Box 23 Sketchbook number 48, September 2012 - July 2013


Box 23 Unnumbered sketchbook


Box 23 Unnumbered sketchbook


Box 23 Unnumbered sketchbook


Box 23 Unnumbered sketchbook


Box 23 Unnumbered sketchbook


Box 23 Quintet for horns


Box 23 Several more unnumbered sketchbooks


Box 23 Partial listing of sketchbook contents


Box 23 Chronological composition notebooks (2)



Box 24 Eine Kleine Saxmusick


Box 24 Missa "If I Fell"


Box 24 New Goldbe (add'l mvts? some already written)


Box 24 At The Lake (fl, vlc, accordion, harp parts)


Box 24 Bird Song (retrograde inversion canon)


Box 24 Charlotte Letter


Box 24 Dawn Songs


Box 24 Eighty Years Ago (implied title)


Box 24 Eine Kleine (retrograde inversion canon)


Box 24 For Beth's 86th


Box 24 Heilige Dank (retrograde inversion canon)


Box 24 If It's Gone L (song lead sheet)


Box 24 If You Will Try It


Box 24 Lay of the Ja (retrograde inversion canon)


Box 24 Little Mushroom


Box 24 Love Has To (song lead sheet)


Box 24 Mantra


Box 24 Oh Calcutta (Oh Calcutta finale)


Box 24 Que Sarah, Sarah


Box 24 Snapshot (mvt 5 of "Sketchbook")


Box 24 Tangowaltz


Box 24 Thanksgiving Hymn


Box 24 Time for You (song lead sheet)


Box 24 Untitled set PS pencil


Box 24 You Should


Box 24 Shady Dawn


Box 24 Peaslee Porridge Cold


Box 24 Hillhouse Dawn


Box 24 Waltz


Box 24 Aubade


Box 24 Untitled piano piece


Box 24 Day After Valentine's Day Wish-I-Were-There Blues


Box 24 The Road We Walk


Box 24 Lullaby for Laada


Box 24 Pealing Sixty-Two


Box 24 Bellshadows


Box 24 Boston Won (suite for narrator, fl, pno)


Box 24 Brass Quintet


Box 24 Celebration for Carillon


Box 24 Ceremony


Box 24 Die Heiligen um ihre Gestalt


Box 24 Duo Triptych


Box 24 Four Choruses from Pogo


Box 24 Girls


Box 24 Had I the Heavens


Box 24 My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird


Box 24 My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord


Box 24 Oh David and Gail


Box 24 Pastorale


Box 24 Piano Concerto No. 3 in Ab major


Box 24 Sequiturs


Box 24 Seven Miniatures


Box 24 Small Serenade


Box 24 Such Should


Box 24 Suite for 2 pianos four hands


Box 24 Tale of the Boston Wonder


Box 24 Tangowaltz


Box 24 Terra Cotta


Box 24 Three Cellos


Box 24 Three Songs


Box 24 Timepiece


Box 24 Untitled mv (for vln, vla, vlc, pno)


Box 24 Chaconne a son gout


Box 24 Fish


Box 24 Garbage


Box 24 Hard Rock ID


Box 24 Lament for (script/dialog between King and Nell)


Box 24 Little Suite for Josie


Box 24 Oh Calcutta: What Will You Do When It's Over


Box 24 Pathetic Symphony


Box 24 Percussion Sonata No. 3 Maverick


Box 24 Starting Lines


Box 24 Three Songs for Chorus and Piano


Box 24 Three Songs on Robert Herrick


Box 24 Three Songs on Seventeenth-Century Lyrics


Box 24 Timepiece


Box 24 Twelve Quit (orch version)


Box 24 Unidentified ob, EH, str 4tet


Box 24 Unidentified (cb and pno, pages half-burned)


Box 24 Unidentified schema


Box 24 Unidentified script


Box 24 Unidentified script and music


Box 24 Unidentified solo line written in several keys


Box 24 Untitled multi-mvt piece, with lyrics for mvt 4



Box 25 A Triumph of Incompetence perf notebook


Box 25 A Triumph of Incompetence perf notebook (Michele Eaton's performance book)


Box 25 What's Your Sign perf notebook


Box 25 Bach Portrait (Prof.) (PS conductor score)


Box 25 Beatleset (PS piano perf part)


Box 25 Bestiary (includes intro notes used for Calliope performances)


Box 25 Bestiary (PS perf score; used for Calliope performances)


Box 25 Concerto for Bassoon vs Orchestra (PDQ; PS conductor score)


Box 25 Concerto for Two Pianos vs Orchestra (PDQ; PS ‐ piano II)


Box 25 Elegies (cl & pno; PS; piano perf part)


Box 25 Go For Broke (SSATB a capp; PS perf score)


Box 25 Good King Kong Looked Out (PDQ; copy of pub'd music)


Box 25 Gott sei Dank, dass Heute Fre (PDQ; piano perf part)


Box 25 Hansel & Gretel & Ted & Alice (PDQ; piano perf part)


Box 25 Haydn Andante (Hyden; str 4tet; bound engraved score)


Box 25 I Like To Go To (4‐pt round)


Box 25 Liebeslieder Polkas (PDQ; spiral‐bound copy of PS ms used for his performances)


Box 25 Little Nightmare Music (PDQ; special edition for "40 Years of Musical Mayhem")


Box 25 Little Suite (for concert band PS PS conductor score)


Box 25 Mystery case (has a spoken intro, xword puzzles, tums and a hairbrush)


Box 25 New Goldberg (vlc & pno PS piano perf part)


Box 25 O Little Town of Hackensack (PDQ xerox of engraved score)


Box 25 Oedipus Tex (PDQ xerox of short version kbd part)


Box 25 Oedipus Tex (PDQ PS perf part)


Box 25 On the Banks of the Roundout (sopranino part of mvt 3 from Six Quartets)


Box 25 Pavilion Piece concert band (PS PS conductor score)


Box 25 Quintet No. 2 for piano and s (PS PS piano perf part)


Box 25 Stoned Guest (PDQ score and mat'ls used for recording)


Box 25 Swing Sweet, Low Chariot (Prof xerox of PS perf part)


Box 25 Three Songs for a Wedding (PS accordion‐bd copy of PS ms, 1st song only, used in PS & Dusing song program)


Box 25 Throw the Yule Log on, Uncle (PDQ PS copy of pub'd music)


Box 25 Tribe of Ahasueconcert band (PS PS conductor score)


Box 25 Twelve Quite Heavenly Songs (PDQ xerox of engraved version for 3 singers)


Box 25 Twelve Quite Heavenly Songs (PDQ pub'd score marked for only some mvts to be performed)



Box 26 Baptism poems


Box 26 Knock Knock mock‐up


Box 26 PDQ Concerto for Simply Grand Piano, work score & solo pno part


Box 26 PDQ tour show tech requirement sheets


Box 26 Piano quintet (superseded by published edition)


Box 26 Twelve Quite Heavenly Songs Director's Cut, work papers


Box 26 Miscellaneous notes and financials


Box 26 A stack of miscellany too numerous to list individually


Box 26  Folk Song Set


Box 26 If Love Is Real


Box 26 Piano Trio Alaria


Box 26 String Quartet No 6


Box 26 String Quintet


Box 26 String Quintets (No 1 & 2 work papers)


Box 26 Three Songs for a Wedding


Box 26 Viola Quintet



Box 27 Abduction of Figaro (orch score, pv, libretto)


Box 27 Schickele (non‐PDQ) programs, 1999‐2000



Box 28 Unsorted box marked "original pencil PS"



Box 29 Topical / Occasional music:


Box 29 Armadillo Encore '03


Box 29 Bert Skakoon


Box 29 Chicory‐Ah


Box 29 Christmas Vocalise


Box 29 DCB


Box 29 Fanfare for Walther


Box 29 Farfisa


Box 29 Five Pleasing and Melodious Pieces (5 composers)


Box 29 Fogul the Mogul


Box 29 For Art and Martha Kaemmer's 25th…(lyric sheet only)


Box 29 For Mary and Leo


Box 29 For Stewart Warkow's 60th


Box 29 Happy Birthday David Shifrin


Box 29 Happy Birthday in the Pines


Box 29 Here's a Bar


Box 29 Here's to the OK Mozart Festival


Box 29 Here's What Matters


Box 29 Hey Alan and Mamie


Box 29 It's About Time


Box 29 Jon Kimura Parker


Box 29 The Lazy Mississippi Macaroon


Box 29 Mixing It Signature


Box 29 No‐No Nonette (8‐bar pencil excerpt)


Box 29 Oh Danny B


Box 29 Oh Eriko


Box 29 Over the Ocean and Onto the Plains


Box 29 Requiem for Nancy


Box 29 Robert Sherman Ramen Sherbert


Box 29 A Sermon, A Narrative and a Prayer


Box 29 Somewhere


Box 29 Ten Short Years Ago


Box 29 Ten Years Ago


Box 29 Thank you Very Much


Box 29 These are a Few of Judy Grunberg's Favorite Things


Box 29 Twas the Year that Nothing Went Wrong


Box 29 WNYC


Box 29 You've Heard


Box 29 American History Lesson all materials



Box 30 Amazing Grace (PS arr, copy of ms)


Box 30 Amazing Grace (score masters)


Box 30 Autumn Trio (pencil score)


Box 30 Baptism (Vanguard scores)


Box 30 Beatleset (pencil sketch of bsn pt mvt 6)


Box 30 Birthday Present for Joan Tower? (For pno)


Box 30 Blakes Proverbs (work score)


Box 30 Blue Set No 2 (3 c. of work scores)


Box 30 Bobbin Jack (sketches)


Box 30 Carnival of the Animals (poems)


Box 30 Ceremonial March (score masters)


Box 30 Chorale Prelude Froh


Box 30 Eagle Rock (score masters)


Box 30 Emperor's New Clothes (Script Corrections, score, Copyist's Corrections)


Box 30 Fanfare for the Common Cold


Box 30 Fantasy for Organ (score masters)


Box 30 Flow My Tears (with PS Orchestration Notes)


Box 30 Gross Concerto No 2


Box 30 Guide My Soul (score masters)


Box 30 Hal's Aria (from the "Magic Bassoon")


Box 30 Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice


Box 30 Here's to Diane (String Quartet)


Box 30 Hoarse Trojan (p/v score masters)


Box 30 Hollers, Hymns and Dirges (score masters)


Box 30 Hymn Set (sketches)


Box 30 I am a Moon Rider… (pencil score for "phony piano")


Box 30 Jekyll & Hyde show


Box 30 Jekyll & Hyde show (add'l mat'l)


Box 30 Kate and Karla (wedding gift song)


Box 30 Little Suite for Susan score (copy of PS ms)


Box 30 Morning Noon and Night (mvt 3 pencil excerpts of some parts)


Box 30 Oh Calcutta (folder of scores with PS notations)


Box 30 One More Dawn (4 pt round)


Box 30 Quodlibet (old ending)


Box 30 Three Songs for a Wedding (voice & gtr score masters)


Box 30 Three Strange Cases


Box 30 Thurber's Dogs


Box 30 Unidentified orch score (winds, strings, piano ‐ 2 mvts)


Box 30 Variations on a Medieval Theme ("corr for publication")


Box 30 Variations on a Theme Somebody Threw Away… (onion skins)


Box 30 Whereas (Round for 3 Voices)



Box 31 Business folders:


Box 31 Tour schedules


Box 31 Musicians


Box 31 Librettos


Box 31 A Likely Story


Box 31 Flyers


Box 31 Corrections (Music)


Box 31 Various business, 1992‐1993 



Box 36 Radio scripts


Box 36 Abduction of Figaro narration


Box 36 PDQ scripts WTWP


Box 36 PDQ Bach scripts TV, etc


Box 36 PDQ Bach texts


Box 36 PDQ timings


Box 36 Tour itineraries


Box 36 Tour lists


Box 36 PDQ Bach video cassettes



Box 69 Business Correspondence, 1985-1990



Box 70 Business Correspondence, A-J, 1991-1997



Box 71 Business Correspondence, K-Z, 1991-1997



Box 32 Disney materials (Pomp & Circumstance arr. for Fantasia 2000)



Box 33 PDQ Bach concert heralds



Box 34 PDQ printed programs, 1989‐1995



Box 35 PS "Items" lists ‐ business between PS and office assistant



Box 37 Tour schedules


Box 37 Folders re recordings


Box 37 PDQ Programs, 1989‐1990


Box 37 Misc commission and contract folders


Box 37 Idea lists


Box 37 Expired membership cards


Box 37 Various handwritten materials



Box 38 PS: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, '91 score, obsolete.


Box 38 PDQ: Schleptet, full score (corr.)


Box 38 PS: Concerto for Piano and Chorus, full score (corr.)


Box 38 PS: Serenade for Six, pencil score master


Box 38 PS: Music for Mary/What Did You Do at Jeffrey's House?, pencil score master


Box 38 PS: Go for Broke, pencil score master


Box 38 PS: Mountain Music I, score master


Box 38 PS: 3 Uncharacteristic Pieces, score and parts


Box 38 PS: Summer Music, score master


Box 38 PS: Two Pleasant Songs/The Boston Wonder, score masters


Box 38 PS: Prelude and Potboiler, score


Box 38 PS: Four Easy Folk Song Settings, score


Box 38 PS: Overture to "The Civilian Barber", score


Box 38 PS: The Civilian Barber, parts


Box 38 PS: Dances for Three, parts


Box 38 PS: Dream Dances, parts


Box 38 PS: Last Tango in Bayreuth, parts


Box 38 PS: Little London Trio, parts


Box 38 PS: A Little Mosey Music, parts


Box 38 PS: The Lowest Trees Have Tops, parts


Box 38 PS: Monochrome I, II, III, V, parts


Box 38 PS: Mozart on Parade, parts


Box 38 PS: Mountain Music I, parts


Box 38 PS: Music for an Evening Wedding, parts and score


Box 38 PS: Requiem I, parts


Box 38 PS: Summer Serenade, parts



Box 39 PS: Summer Music, full score (corr.), 18 copies, one black-bound



Box 38 PS: Summer Music, score, (uncorr.), 9 copies, not black-bound


Box 38 PS: Dream Dances, full score (corr.)


Box 38 PS: What Did You Do Today at Jeffrey's House?, 7 copies of score



Box 39 PS: What Did You Do Today at Jeffrey's House?, 1 copy of score


Box 39 PDQ: Canzonetta "La Hooplina", score


Box 39 PDQ: Capriccio "La Pucelle de New Orleans", full score (corr.)


Box 39 PDQ: Echo Sonata, full score (corr.)


Box 39 PDQ: The Musical Sacrifice, score


Box 39 PS: Three Canons, full score (corr.), corr. to Pub. and a few earlier versions PS: Mountain Music I, full score (corr.)



Box 38 PS: Summer Serenade, full score (corr.)


Box 38 PS: Songs from Shakespeare, score


Box 38 PS: A Walk at Briones, parts


Box 38 PS: Summer Serenade, score (uncorr.), 3 copies


Box 38 PS: 3 Uncharacteristic Pieces, full score (corr.)


Box 38 PS: Mountain Music I, full score (corr.), 2 copies PS: What Did You Do Today at Jeffrey's House?, 2 scores


Box 38 PS: Go for Broke, score, 2 copies


Box 38 PS: Concerto for Piano and Chorus, full score (corr.) , 4 copies


Box 38 PS: Go for Broke, full score (corr.)



Box 40 "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" scores


Box 40 "Knight" retracted pieces and incidential cues


Box 40 "Knight" extra parts with added notes and changes for a past performance


Box 40 "Knight" script


Box 40 "Knight" Back-up part sets


Box 40 "My Mother Told Me Not To Worry"



Box 41 Cello concerto sc & parts used for premiere; now obsolete



Box 42 Cello concerto sc & parts used for premiere; now obsolete



Box 43 Concerto for Simply Grand Piano and Orchestra


Box 43 Symphony No. 2 "The Sweet Season"


Box 43 Score IV C (II & III)


Box 43 II "Out On the Dance Floor"


Box 43 Score in C I "Piper At The Gates of Dawn"


Box 43 Symphont No 2 scores and parts



Box 44 Abduction of Figaro ‐ sc, parts, libretto, other misc mat'ls



Box 45 Abduction of Figaro ‐ sc, parts, libretto, other misc mat'ls



Box 46 Easy‐Going Waltz Tempo (PS String Sextet Movement of a larger piece)


Box 46 After Bach (PS ob, vln, vla, vlc Is this the same as "After Hearing Bach"?)


Box 46 All the Things You Are (pencil sc & pts)


Box 46 Amazing Grace (PS arr)


Box 46 Amazing Grace (PS arr. pno.)


Box 46 American in Texas & River (PS 4 undesignated parts)


Box 46 Answers to Questions We Are Often Asked (PS)


Box 46 Aspendicitis (PS pencil sc & pts plus some work materials)


Box 46 Autumn Trio (PS)


Box 46 Bachanale (PS pencil parts)


Box 46 Bagatelle (Pno.)


Box 46 Baptism (PS)


Box 46 Beatle Set (PS Sop and orch)


Box 46 Better Dead Than Red (PS MS and parts masters on onion skin)


Box 46 Birthday Ode to Big Daddy Bach (PS pv photocopy but has a couple of onion skin original pages added)


Box 46 Blue Chain (PS pencil parts)


Box 46 Boston Wonder (PS flute and pno.)


Box 46 Cantata Singalonga Melior Cave Canem (PDQ)


Box 46 Canzona for Organ (PS PS‐engraved onion skin)


Box 46 Ceremonial March (PS)


Box 46 Christmas Carols ‐ by Edmund Edwards (PS arr pencil scores, several titles)


Box 46 Civilian Barber Variations ‐ Tonight Show (PDQ pencil parts)


Box 46 Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (PS)


Box 46 Concerto for Flute and Orch (PS Flute and 2‐piano reduction)


Box 46 Concerto for Piano vs Orchestra (PDQ obsolete; superseded by revised version)


Box 46 Concerto for Simply Grand Piano and Orchestra (PDQ)


Box 46 Concerto for Violin (PS Full pencil score plus engraved parts)


Box 46 Cool Clear Walter (PS copy of pencil ms; orig pencil parts)


Box 46 Description of Spring & This Song Wants Drink (PS bar voice & bsn & tbn mvts 3 & 4 of a larger unidentified work)


Box 46 Divertimento (* winds, brass, perc, timp, harp, cb *composer Lawrence Widdoes, but it's in PS hand)


Box 46 Dream Dances (PS orig pencil on onion skin, plus parts masters engraved on onion skin)


Box 46 Duo Caprice (PS pencil sc plus engraved parts masters ‐ onion skins)


Box 46 Duo Concertante (vn,vla, orch)


Box 46 Dutch Suite in G major (PDQ PS ms onion skin, plus printed copy)


Box 46 Eagle Rock (PS)


Box 46 Fantasy for Organ (PS)


Box 46 Five Pop Settings (PS 2 bassoons, pno., strings)


Box 46 Guide My Soul (PS)


Box 46 History of Susanna (PS Mezzo and The Open Window Pencil  score and pencil parts)


Box 46 Hoarse  Trojan (PDQ Solo singers and orch mostly photocopies, some pencil parts)


Box 46 Hoarse Trojan (PDQ pencil sc and pencil pv)


Box 46 Hollers, Hymns and Dirges (PS)


Box 46 I am a Moon Rider Bound for Another Paradise (PS Orga, elec. Pno, pno Elec. Pno. Is dubbed "phony pno")


Box 46 I Would in that Sweet Bosom Be (PS Voice and pno.)


Box 46 Incidental Music for Iphigenia in Aulis (PS fl and vla)


Box 46 Intermesso for Cello and Piano


Box 46 It Ain't Necessarily So (PS arr unidentified)


Box 46 Jukebox No. 1 (PS pencil sc plus engraved parts masters ‐ onion skins)


Box 46 Kat and Carla Wedding Song (PS)


Box 46 Many Happy Returns (PS Chorus and pno. Birthday song for unidentified recipient)


Box 46 Mary Queen of Scots 


Box 46 Minor Concern (PS sax trio ‐ alto ten bass parts)


Box 46 Moonwalk (PS pencil parts)


Box 46 Nellermojo (PS engraved score, pencil parts for jazz band)


Box 46 Night and Day (PS alto ten bass drums parts)


Box 46 Oedipus Tex "Howdy There" (PDQ pno part in PS hand)


Box 46 One For the Money (PS Orch Orig Pencil MS plus Photocopy Correction Pages)


Box 46 Only Piece Ever Written for Violin and Tuba (PDQ Parallel Orgasm)


Box 46 PS jazz ensemble (pencil parts Part‐Time Invention)


Box 46 PS pencil sc & pts


Box 46 Pastorale (PS Pno 4 hands)


Box 46 Peaslee Does It


Box 46 PS jazz ensemble (pencil parts)


Box 46 Potboiler (PS pno.?)


Box 46 Prairie Skies (PS Orch 1st Movement Only in Pencil)


Box 46 Prelude (PS pno.?)


Box 46 Quintet for Horn and Strings Requiem (PS String Quintet?)


Box 46 Rituals (PS ob, vla, African instruments)


Box 46 Roamin' Carnivore Overture (PS? PDQ? fl, ob, bsn)


Box 46 Sequiturs (PS)


Box 46 Seven Miniatures (PS)


Box 46 Solo (vln. Part)


Box 46 Shake Allegro (PDQ piano mvt from a larger work)


Box 46 Something for Everyone (PS winds, tbn, str, voices, gtr, pno, bass, drums)


Box 46 Sonata para Klavier (PS piano after D.)


Box 46 Scarlatti Sonatina for Piano (PS)


Box 46 South (PS 2 pno & vln pencil parts)


Box 46 Summertime (PS arr jazz ens, pencil sc & pts)


Box 46 Take Me Back to Funk Nebraska (PS jazz ens)


Box 46 This Song Wants Drink (PS male voice, bassoon, trombone)


Box 46 Three Canonic Pieces (PS piano also incl Ov Civ Barber, Election March from Civ Barber)


Box 46 Three Songs for a Wedding (PS Medium voice and pno.)


Box 46 Tutti Flutti 8 flutes?


Box 46 Undecided (PS pencil sc & pts)


Box 46 Untitled (PS bsn & tuba has 4 titles mvts)


Box 46 Untitled (PS pencil sc & pts incomplete?)


Box 46 Untitled (Piece PS vn, vla, cello, pno pencil sc & pts)


Box 46 Untitled piece for string quartet (PS pencil score and parts)


Box 46 Walled Stein? (PDQ pno, pencil sc )


Box 46 We'll Be Together (PS pencil parts)


Box 46 Where the Wild Things Are (PS score masters)


Box 46 Where the Wild Things Are (PS recording materials parts etc.)


Box 46 You Were Gone & Is That 12 Bars? (PS)


Box 46 You Were Gone ‐ organ; Is That 12 Bars ‐ bass cl & tbn



Box 47 Hudson Valley Mall, 19 September 2000


Box 47 Fantasy


Box 47 HBA


Box 47 Spring Ahead Sketches


Box 47 Sketchbooks by Category


Box 47 Sketchbook Indices


Box 47 "What a Grand Canyon, Sweet"


Box 47 "Hot & Cold Running Water"


Box 47 "The Fish"



Box 48 Air for G Strings (6 solo vlns, engraved score PDQ )


Box 48 Allegretto Gabinetto (pno & bass clef instr, copy of PS ms PDQ )


Box 48 Abduction of Figaro (excerpts PDQ )


Box 48 Birthday Ode to "Big Daddy" (Bach soloists, cho, orch PDQ spiral‐bd copy of PS ms )


Box 48 Breakfast Antiphonies (orch PDQ spiral‐bd copy of PS ms )


Box 48 Breakfast Antiphonies (deleted pages PDQ )


Box 48 Canine Cantata "Wachet Arf" (PDQ staple‐bd copy of PS ms )


Box 48 Concerto for Horn and Hardart (poorly‐bound faded print score PDQ )


Box 48 Concerto for Two Pianos vs Orchestra (score marked "partially corrected" PDQ )


Box 48 Dismissed by Conductor (6 violins PDQ bachelor conductor gag )


Box 48 Diverse Aires on Sundrie (Notions copy of PS ms score with some pencil markings PDQ )


Box 48 Eine Kleine Kiddiemusic (spiral‐bd scores with some PS markings PDQ )


Box 48 Fanfare for the Common Cold (xerox of PS ms PDQ )


Box 48 Four Curmudgeonly Canons (PDQ )


Box 48 Four Folk Song (Upsettings mezzo, devious instr, pno PDQ staple‐bd copy of PS ms )


Box 48 Fugue of the Volga (Boatmen copy of PS ms score with some pencil markings PDQ )


Box 48 Gott sei Dank, dass Heute Freitag ist (sop & instr ensemble PDQ marked "corrected")


Box 48 Gross Concerto (flutes, tpts, str PDQ )


Box 48 Hansel & Gretel & Ted & Alice (spiral‐bd scores with some PS markings PDQ )


Box 48 Here's to the OK Mozart Festival (staple‐bound copy of PS ms PDQ )


Box 48 Howdy Symphony (staple‐bound copy of PS ms PDQ )


Box 48 Iphigenia in Brooklyn (staple‐bound copy of PS ms PDQ )


Box 48 Little Nightmare Music (PDQ )


Box 48 Moonwalk (pencil parts in PS hand PS movie underscore?)


Box 48 Oedipus Tex (soloists & orch PDQ "Lurye reduction ‐ corr")


Box 48 Where the Wild Thing Are (PS recording materials)



Box 49 Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra (score used for recording with list of takes)


Box 49 Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (score)


Box 49 Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (score with corrections)


Box 49 Duo Sonata for basset cl & pno (pencil score & xerox copy)


Box 49 Folk Song Set (old ‐ has been revised)


Box 49 Jekyll & Hyde tour production file (large accordion file/envelope)


Box 49 Percussion Sonata No. 3 (pencil score)


Box 49 Spring Ahead (PS pencil score)


Box 49 Swing Sweet Low Chariot (formerly "PS corr")


Box 49 Twelve Quite Heavenly Songs (John Ferrante's score)


Box 49 Variations on an Unusually Simple‐Minded T (old version with some work papers)


Box 49 Year in the Catskills ‐‐ ww 5tet (pencil score & work papers)



Box 50 A minor sonata onion skins


Box 50 Answers to Questions We Are Often Asked


Box 50 Better Dead Than Red onion skins score & work mat'ls


Box 50 Canticle of the Sun


Box 50 Canzona for Organ score masters


Box 50 Ceremony


Box 50 Dream Dances ‐ score and parts masters


Box 50 Duo Caprice score masters


Box 50 Fanfare for a Happening


Box 50 Hoarse Trojan score masters


Box 50 Jukebox No 1 score masters


Box 50 Kyrie for mixed cho & brass quartet


Box 50 Magnificat


Box 50 Quodlibet


Box 50 Reflections for Flute and Oboe


Box 50 Symphony No 2 score copy ‐ not sure if it's the final version


Box 50 Third Piano Sonatina


Box 50 Unbegun Symphony


Box 50 Variations for Wind Sextet



Box 51 Prairie Skies score


Box 51 Prairie Skies score


Box 51 Prelude score


Box 51 Quintet for Horn ans Strings score


Box 51 Requim score


Box 51 Rituals (for Oboe, Viola and Africal Instruments)


Box 51 One for the Money score


Box 51 On the Strring score


Box 51 Posters, advertisements, etc.



Box 52 Concerto for Chamber Orchestra PS pencil score


Box 52 Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of InstOrch. PDQ


Box 52 Invention for Orchestra score mast from Peter's "To be finished" drawer


Box 52 Louise PS jazz band


Box 52 Concerto for Flute and Orchestra


Box 52 Lincoln at Ease 



Box 53 Fantastic Garden 2 scores


Box 53 March of the Cute Little Wood Sprites


Box 53 Peter's wall calendars, 1992‐2019



Box 54 A Year In the Catskills (some pencil scores, correction notes)


Box 54 Open Window ‐ (folder of misc mat'ls)



Box 55 Peter's wall calendars, 1978-1992



Box 68 PDQ Programs, 1982-1988


Scripts and librettos:



Box 72 "The Self-Deliverance of Walter Murphy" by Jon Cutler and Gary Lee Rapp


Box 72 "Laserblast II" by Jonathan Cutler


Box 72 "God Save Nell" by William M. Green and Dennis Turner


Box 72 "Bliss: An Opera in Three Acts" Libretto by Michael Levin


Box 72 "National Lampoon: Ahead of its Time" , March 1991


Box 72 "The Captain and Tennille" Shaw #6, 29 September 1976


Box 72 "And So To Bed . . ." Book by Bill Green


Box 72 "That Merry Gang" Book by William M. Green


Box 72 "Nell" Book by William M. Green and Dennis Turner


Box 72 "God Save Nell" Book by William M. Green and Dennis Turner


Box 72 "The Protestant Whore" Book by William M. Green and Dennis Turner


Box 72 "The London Gentleman" Adapted by Brooks Jones


Box 72 "A London Lord's Love or Not What He Intended" Adapted by Brooks Jones


Box 72 "L'Histoire du Soldat and The London Merchant" Adapted by Brooks Jones


Box 72 "Oh! Calcutta!" Devised by Kenneth Tynan, 17 June 1969


Box 72 "Moon Walk" by Betty Jean Liften



Box 73 "The Concierge" by Mark Rosenthal and Larry Konner, 6 January 1992


Box 73 "The Defectors" Book, Lyrics, and Music by Douglas Worth, 1982

(With audio cassette)


Box 73 "The Deal" by Claudia Orpin, Robert Dupree, and Stephen Schmidt, 1971


Box 73 "The Bishop of Mishigasi" by Thomas Buckwalter Sneed, 1977


Box 73 "The Star Strangled Banner" by Clare Woock


Box 73 "The Carrion Eaters" by Robert Weingarten, 1966


Box 73 "Too Late For Living" A Daniel Aubry Film Production, 3 February 1959


Box 73 "The Naturalists" by Kay Eldredge


Box 73 "Paradise Lost" Adapted from John Milton by Kenneth Cavander


Box 73 "Ulysses inNighttown" by Marjorie Markentin, 1958


Box 73 "The $ Value of Man" by Robert Wilson


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