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Eda Rothstein Rapoport papers, 1915-1968

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Series II: Later Accession-Scores

This series is comprised of musical scores authored by Rapoport, and includes both manuscript and printed material.

Subseries II.1. Manuscript music

The bulk of the collection, this subseries contains manuscript musical scores, most of which are autographs. While most are not original manuscripts, the vast majority are engravings in Rapoport's own handwriting. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title.


Box 1 Folder 1 A December Day

Box 1 Folder 1 A Drinking Song

Box 1 Folder 1 A Moment

Box 1 Folder 1 A Study for unaccompanied violin

Box 1 Folder 1 The Acrobat for piano

Box 1 Folder 1 Adagietto for strings and flute

Box 1 Folder 2 Adagio

Box 1 Folder 2 Adventure, Plateaus

Box 1 Folder 2 Air de Ballet

Box 1 Folder 3 The Angel for voice and pianoforte

Box 1 Folder 3 Andate

Box 1 Folder 3 Arabesque for violin and pianoforte

Box 1 Folder 3 Arioso: Echo from the Canal

Box 1 Folder 3 Berceuse for violin and pianoforte

Box 1 Folder 4 The Broken Harp

Box 1 Folder 4 Butterfly for soprano

Box 1 Folder 4 Caprice for violin alone

Box 1 Folder 4 Chant

Box 1 Folder 4 Chant Hebraique for violoncello or viola and pianoforte

Box 1 Folder 4 Chinese Legend

Box 1 Folder 4 Classical Country Dance

Box 1 Folder 4 The Clown for violin and pianoforte

Box 1 Folder 4 Coastal Storm

Box 1 Folder 5 Concerto for violin and orchestra


Box 2 Folder 1 Concerto for violin and orchestra

Box 2 Folder 2 Concerto for violin and orchestra

Box 2 Folder 3 Concerto for violin and orchestra

Box 2 Folder 4 Conga for violin and pianoforte

Box 2 Folder 4 Dance of the Clowns

Box 2 Folder 4 Dance Eccentrique

Box 2 Folder 4 Dance Fantastique

Box 2 Folder 5 Dance Fantastique


Box 3 Folder 1 Dance Oriental

Box 3 Folder 2 Dance Oriental

Box 3 Folder 3 Dark Skins and Voodoo Magic

Box 3 Folder 3 Dawn

Box 3 Folder 3 Deep Night

Box 3 Folder 3 Der Klesmer (Die Fiedel)

Box 3 Folder 3 Do I Love Thee?

Box 3 Folder 3 Drift Wood

Box 3 Folder 3 Du Fregst Mich

Box 3 Folder 4 Duo I

Box 3 Folder 4 Duo II

Box 3 Folder 4 Duo Atmospheric

Box 3 Folder 4 Duo Episode

Box 3 Folder 4 Duo for Violin and Cello, Abstract and Non-Objective

Box 3 Folder 4 Duo-Image

Box 3 Folder 4 Duo-Legend

Box 3 Folder 5 Dusk

Box 3 Folder 5 Echoes from the Forest for violin and piano

Box 3 Folder 5 Eldorado

Box 3 Folder 5 Elegy for violoncello and piano

Box 3 Folder 5 Erinnerung

Box 3 Folder 5 Essay for flute and piano

Box 3 Folder 5 Etching for flute and piano

Box 3 Folder 5 Explorations for clarinet and piano

Box 3 Folder 5 Explorations

Box 3 Folder 5 Fallende Blatter

Box 3 Folder 5 Fantasia for saxophone and piano

Box 3 Folder 6 Five Songs

Box 3 Folder 6 A Little Madness

Box 3 Folder 6 Autumn Leaves

Box 3 Folder 6 Foolish Birds

Box 3 Folder 6 If Plot Is Not

Box 3 Folder 6 To An Air Cadet

Box 3 Folder 6 Foolish Birds

Box 3 Folder 6 Four Episodes from the Life of Moses for pianoforte

Four Songs

Box 3 Folder 6 If Plot Is Not

Box 3 Folder 6 A Little Madness

Box 3 Folder 6 Autumn Leaves

Box 3 Folder 6 Foolish Birds

Box 3 Folder 6 Hebrew Dance

Box 3 Folder 6 Hebrew Legend and Dance

Box 3 Folder 6 Hindu Dance


Box 4 Folder 1 The House on the Bay for pianoforte

Box 4 Folder 1 The House on the Hill

Box 4 Folder 1 Humoresque

Box 4 Folder 1 Imagination

Box 4 Folder 1 Impressions for solo flute

Box 4 Folder 1 Impressions for violin solo or violin and pianoforte

Box 4 Folder 1 Interlude

Box 4 Folder 1 Invocation and Caprice for cello and piano

Box 4 Folder 2 Israfel

Box 4 Folder 3 Israfel

Box 4 Folder 4 Israfel

Box 4 Folder 5 Israfel

Box 4 Folder 6 It is a Dream

Box 4 Folder 6 The Jeweled Tree

Box 4 Folder 6 The Kiss

Box 4 Folder 6 Kol Nidrei, for violin alone

Box 4 Folder 6 Konnt ich eine Blume sein

Box 4 Folder 6 Lake Louise, The Grand Canyon

Box 4 Folder 6 The Lamplighter

Box 4 Folder 6 Legend, for violin alone

Box 4 Folder 6 Liebe

Box 4 Folder 6 Little Mouse


Box 5 Folder 1 Looking Through My Window, for unaccompanied violin

Box 5 Folder 1 Lullaby

Box 5 Folder 1 Meditation, for violin alone

Box 5 Folder 1 Melodie, for violin and pianoforte

Box 5 Folder 1 Momentum I

Box 5 Folder 1 Momentum II

Box 5 Folder 1 Moods, for violoncello and piano

Box 5 Folder 2 Moods of the Past, for violin alone

Box 5 Folder 2 Mother and Child

Box 5 Folder 2 Mysterious Forest, for five strings and one flute

Box 5 Folder 2 Mystique, for flute alone

Box 5 Folder 2 Nei-Yor

Box 5 Folder 2 Night You Are a Gypsy, for soprano

Box 5 Folder 2 Nigun

Box 5 Folder 3 Nocturne in E, for violin and piano

Box 5 Folder 3 Nocturne No. 2

Box 5 Folder 3 Not Forgotten

Box 5 Folder 3 Nouvelle

Box 5 Folder 3 The Old Castle, Air de Ballet

Box 5 Folder 3 On the Azure Ocean

Box 5 Folder 3 On the Grand Canal

Box 5 Folder 4 Pastoral

Box 5 Folder 4 Perpetuum Mobile, for violin and pianoforte

Box 5 Folder 4 Petite Poem, for violin and piano

Box 5 Folder 4 Petite Suite for Strings

Box 5 Folder 5 Petite Valse

Box 5 Folder 5 Poem

Box 5 Folder 5 Prelude for Organ

Box 5 Folder 5 Pourquoi

Box 5 Folder 5 Quartet

Box 5 Folder 5 Quartet in G


Box 6 Folder 1 Quartet No. 3

Box 6 Folder 1 Rendezvous, for violin and piano

Box 6 Folder 2 Retort

Box 6 Folder 2 The River

Box 6 Folder 2 River Dree

Box 6 Folder 2 Rocks and Sea, for pianoforte solo

Box 6 Folder 2 Romanze, for violin and piano

Scenes of New York

Box 6 Folder 2 Melting Pot

Box 6 Folder 2 At Dusk on Brooklyn Bridge

Box 6 Folder 2 At the Playground

Box 6 Folder 2 Aeronautical Serenade

Box 6 Folder 3 Sea Fog, for violin and pianoforte

Box 6 Folder 3 Sea Song

Box 6 Folder 3 Second Violin Sonata

Box 6 Folder 3 Serenade to a Doll

Box 6 Folder 3 Shepherd Song

Box 6 Folder 3 Sholom Aleichem Suite, for violin and pianoforte

Box 6 Folder 3 Silhouette, for pianoforte solo

Box 6 Folder 4 Sonata, for cello and piano

Box 6 Folder 4 Sonata No. 1, for pianoforte

Box 6 Folder 5 Sonata No. 3, for pianoforte

Box 6 Folder 5 Sonatina, for pianoforte

Box 6 Folder 5 Sonatina No. 4, for pianoforte

Box 6 Folder 5 Song and Dance, for violin alone

Box 6 Folder 5 Song of the Gondolier, for violin alone

Box 6 Folder 5 Song of the River, for cello and piano


Box 7 Folder 1 The Song of Songs

Box 7 Folder 2 Souvenir

Box 7 Folder 2 Space

Box 7 Folder 2 Spanish Serenade

Box 7 Folder 2 Staccato

Box 7 Folder 2 Stars

Box 7 Folder 3 String Quartet No. 3

Box 7 Folder 3 Spring

Box 7 Folder 3 Student's Song

Box 7 Folder 4 Summer

Box 7 Folder 4 The Swallow

Box 7 Folder 4 Tango

Box 7 Folder 4 Tarantalla

Box 7 Folder 5 Tears in My Heart

Three Dances

Box 7 Folder 5 Air de Ballet

Box 7 Folder 5 Hindu Dance

Box 7 Folder 5 A La Valse

The Three Graces

Box 7 Folder 5 Sara

Box 7 Folder 5 Theresa

Box 7 Folder 5 Eda


Box 8 Folder 1 Three Little Songs

Box 8 Folder 1 A Moment

Box 8 Folder 1 Three Visitors

Box 8 Folder 1 I Only Laughed

Three Pastels

Box 8 Folder 1 A Weeping Willow

Box 8 Folder 1 In the Garden at Dawn

Box 8 Folder 1 Three Patriarchs

Box 8 Folder 2 Three Pieces

Box 8 Folder 2 Spanish Serenade

Box 8 Folder 2 Impromptu

Box 8 Folder 2 Recitativo

Box 8 Folder 2 Three Preludes

Three Sketches

Box 8 Folder 2 From the Terrace

Box 8 Folder 2 Shepherd Song

Box 8 Folder 2 Butterfly

Three Songs

Box 8 Folder 2 For a Friend

Box 8 Folder 2 For a Friend

Box 8 Folder 2 Moonrise over Charleston

Box 8 Folder 2 Through My Window

Box 8 Folder 2 To A Soldier Boy

Box 8 Folder 2 To An Air Cadet

Box 8 Folder 3 To Mrs. D

Box 8 Folder 3 Trio in A-minor

Box 8 Folder 4 Triple Play

Box 8 Folder 4 Two Small Pieces

Two Songs

Box 8 Folder 4 The Lark

Box 8 Folder 4 My Heart and Lute

Box 8 Folder 4 Valse

Box 8 Folder 5 Valse Pathetique


Box 9 Folder 1 Washerwoman's Song

Box 9 Folder 1 Welcome, Queen Sabbath

Box 9 Folder 2 Welcome, Queen Sabbath

Box 9 Folder 2 Wind and Sea

Box 9 Folder 2 Winter and April Woods

Box 9 Folder 2 Wieg-Lied

Box 9 Folder 2 You Do Not Care

Subseries II.2. Printed music

This subseries contains printed reproductions of Rapoport's works. Unlike Subseries I.1, they are not handwritten copies; rather, they are machine-produced and were intended for commercial distribution. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title.

Box 9 Folder 3 Agada, for violin or violoncello and piano

Box 9 Folder 3 Berceuse Perpetuum Mobile, for violin and pianoforte

Box 9 Folder 3 Drinking Song, words from the Russian, by Harry Fein


Box 13 Folder 7 Echoes from a Chinese Village

Box 13 Folder 5 Hebrew Dance

Box 13 Folder 1 Lament for String Orchestra (Revolt in the Warsaw Getto)


Box 9 Folder 3 Lamentations, based on Hebrew Themes, for violoncello and piano


Box 13 Folder 4 Lamentations for Violoncello & Orchestra


Box 9 Folder 3 Midrash, for violin and cello


Box 13 Folder 6 Miniature Symphony

Box 13 Folder 8 Mulberry Bend


Box 9 Folder 3 Nigun, for violin or violoncello and piano

Box 9 Folder 4 Quartet in G

Box 9 Folder 4 The River, poem by Paul Eisman

Box 9 Folder 4 Sleep, Little Baby, song by Eda Rapoport

Box 9 Folder 5 String Quartet, on Hebrew themes


Box 13 Folder 3 Suite for Orchestra (children's)


Box 9 Folder 5 Suite, for two pianos

Box 9 Folder 6 Thoughts in the Night, for violin or violoncello and piano

Box 9 Folder 6 Thoughts in the Night (Harhorey Lailah), poem by Ch. N. Bialik

Box 9 Folder 6 Three Etchings

Box 9 Folder 6 Three Impressions, for pianoforte

Box 9 Folder 6 Three Pastels, for piano

Box 9 Folder 6 To A Cactus

Box 9 Folder 6 Vacation

Works, Chorus:


Box 13 Folder 2 Borechu

Box 13 Folder 2 Comfort Ye My People

Box 13 Folder 2 Psalm 98 (for women's voices and piano)

Box 13 Folder 2 Psalm 121 (for chorus and organ or piano)

Box 13 Folder 2 Shema Yisroel

Box 13 Folder 2 V'Shomru

Box 13 Folder 2 Welcome Queen Sabbath