Maurice Peress papers, 1898-1923, 1950s-2017

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Series IX: Duke Ellington Files



Box 118 Are you Stickin'

Peress manuscript


Box 118 Bakiff

Peress manuscript



Box 45 Beggars Holiday Script



Box 118 Black Beauty

Peress manuscript


Box 118 Black Beauty, Big Piano Interlude

Peress manuscript


Box 118 Black Beauty

Photocopy of manuscript



Box 45 Black Brown and Beige, Original Ellington Orchestra Version



Box 49 Black, Brown and Beige--Black, Brown Parts--Jazz Band



Box 50 Black, Brown and Beige--Beige Parts--Jazz Band



Box 78 Black, Brown and Beige--Parts (Orchestral Arrangement by Peress)



Box 115 Black, Brown and Beige

Photocopy of pencil score with markings


Box 115 Black, Brown and Beige

Proof of engraved score



Box 117 1943 BLACK "Work Song", 1993

Reconstruction by Peress, "not proofed," 1993


Box 117 1943 BLACK "Work Song," "Come Sunday," "Light", 1993-1999

Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999, no markings


Box 117 1943 BLACK "Work Song," "Come Sunday," "Light", 1993-1999

Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999, with conducting markings


Box 117 1943 BROWN "West Indian Dance," "Emancipation Celebration," "The Blues", 1993-1999

Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999


Box 117 1943 BEIGE, 1993-1999

Reconstruction by Peress, "Corrected," 1993, Premiered Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, January 21, 1999


Box 117 1943 BEIGE, 1993-1999

Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999, no markings


Box 117 1943 BEIGE, 1993-1999

Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999, with conducting markings


Box 117 1943 BEIGE, 1993-1999

Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999, with conducting markings



Box 120 Black, Brown and Beige

Peress orchestration, original pencil full score; and copy of Schirmer published score



Box 45 Black and Tan Fantasy



Box 118 Blue Belles of Harlem

Peress manuscript



Box 76 The Blues

Peress' working sketches



Box 77 The Blues



Box 118 Bojangles

Peress manuscript, piano


Box 118 Boy Meets Horn

Photocopy of score and parts; engraved score with markings



Box 117 Celebration

Peress working score, "Last Orchestral Symphonic Work of D. K. Ellington unpublished;" photocopy of manuscript with pencil markings, with note "First performance 5/16/72 Jacksonville Symphony, Florida"



Box 76 Come Sunday



Box 118 Cotton Tail

Photocopy with markings


Box 118 Day Dream

Peress manuscript


Box 118 Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Peress manuscript


Box 118 Goin Up!

Peress manuscript



Box 115 The Golden Broom and The Green Apple

Full score


Box 115 Grand Slam Jam

Full score



Box 77 Harlem

[Orchestrated by Luther Henderson and Maurice Peress?]. Parts. Copyright 1952 by G. Schirmer, Inc. This arrangement copyright 1988 by G. Schirmer, Inc.



Box 58 Harlem--Parts--Symphonic Brass and Jazz Band Originals



Box 115 Harlem

Orchestrated by Luther Henderson and Maurice Peress. Full score, 2 different copies.



Box 102 Harlem

Photocopy, with markings.



Box 115 Harlem

Revised. Orchestrated by Luther Henderson and edited by John Mauceri.



Box 136 Harlem

Harlem – full score, revised



Box 118 Jack the Bear

Photocopy with markings


Box 118 Ko Ko

Photocopy with markings


Box 118 Mood Indigo

Score with markings; copy marked "corrected"


Box 118 Moon Mist

Peress manuscript; missing piano part



Box 76 New World A-Comin'



Box 116 New World A-Comin'

Piano Solo Part and 2 Piano Arrangement


Box 116 New World A-Comin'

Full Score - Peress arranged and edited



Box 118 Portrait of Bert Williams

Peress manuscript


Queenie Pie



Box 51 Production notes and Scripts



Box 52 Peress' Working Sketches



Box 53 Peress' Working Sketches



Box 54 Peress' Working Sketches



Box 55 Peress' Working Sketches



Box 74 Smile as You Go By



Box 56 Files, including contact



Box 102 Piano / Conductor Score



Box 103 Full Score--Numbers 1 - 14



Box 104 Full Score--Numbers 15 - 40



Box 116 The River

Full Score: Riba, Meander, Vortex, Spring, Giggling Rapids, Lake



Box 118 Rockin' in Rhythm

Peress manuscript


Box 118 Rose of the Rio Grande

Peress manuscript



Box 76 The Shepherd



Box 118 Star Spangled Banner

Photocopy of Peress manuscript



Box 116 Three Black Kings

Full score – Ellington and Mercer Ellington, Orchestrated by Peress, and the harp part (includes markings).



Box 137 Les Trois Rois Noirs

Full score – orchestrated by Luther Henderson



Box 116 Two Dancers In Love

Peress orchestration, notes and working manuscript of score, with parts


Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall 1943 Reconstruction by Peress



Box 46 Reconstruction

Includes an extra set of parts for Black, Brown and Beige



Box 47 Reconstruction A - D Parts



Box 48 Reconstruction G- R Parts



Box 115 Ellington Gems: A-Train, Don't Get Around Much, Prelude to a Kiss, Satin Doll, Mood Indigo, 1994-1995

Arranged for orchestra by Peress, 1994-1995



Box 77 Three Vocalises: The Mooch, Creole Love Call, Transbluency

Working manuscript and parts



Box 57 Photocopies from the Smithsonian

Includes Black, Brown and Beige poem, one page Queenie Pie sketch in Ellington's hand