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Box 1

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra , undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Full score, approximately 45 pages, presumably incomplete.

Dates: undated

Elegy to the Memory of R. Nathaniel Dett , undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Music manuscripts of the composer Mark Fax, including choral arrangements and vocal solos, chamber music, piano and organ pieces, operas, orchestral works, studies and sketches. Fax composed music in many genres, classical, popular, and sacred; all are represented in the collection. Of note are Fax's regular collaborations with poet Owen Dodson and composer Hall Johnson. A small file containing miscellaneous papers related to his music (copyright filings and posthumous notes by his wife,...
Dates: undated

Festival Piece, 1949

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Music manuscripts of the composer Mark Fax, including choral arrangements and vocal solos, chamber music, piano and organ pieces, operas, orchestral works, studies and sketches. Fax composed music in many genres, classical, popular, and sacred; all are represented in the collection. Of note are Fax's regular collaborations with poet Owen Dodson and composer Hall Johnson. A small file containing miscellaneous papers related to his music (copyright filings and posthumous notes by his wife,...
Dates: 1949

Little Music Making for Woodwind Quartette , 1961

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Music manuscripts of the composer Mark Fax, including choral arrangements and vocal solos, chamber music, piano and organ pieces, operas, orchestral works, studies and sketches. Fax composed music in many genres, classical, popular, and sacred; all are represented in the collection. Of note are Fax's regular collaborations with poet Owen Dodson and composer Hall Johnson. A small file containing miscellaneous papers related to his music (copyright filings and posthumous notes by his wife,...
Dates: 1961

Motet for Orchestra, 1947

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Draft and finished copy of the score.

Dates: 1947

The Gettysburg Address, 1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Large file of original and copied, finished and draft scores inxcluding instrumental parts.

Dates: 1965

The Lost Zoo , 1945

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Submitted to fulfill the dissertation requirement for the Master of Music degree, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. A large file of three folders containing manuscript drafts, finished copies, and photocopies. Includes a fair copy of the full score (61 pp.) and various copies of the instrumental parts for string, woodwind, brass, and percussion. A comb-bound copy of the full score can be found in box 6. Additional oversized photocopies are found in Manuscripts Shared Box...
Dates: 1945

Concerto (for violin), by Carlos Chávez, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Manuscript in Mark Fax's hand.

Dates: undated