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Box 5

 Container

Contains 36 Results:

Christmas Miracle, Opera in One Act (fragment for piano), undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Incomplete piano score, 2pp.

Dates: undated

Go Tell It On the Mountain (organ part), undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Photocopy, 1 p.

Dates: undated

Three Cries - for Dance (solo piano), 1972-12-30

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Various fragments and sketches from a work in three parts: No. I, Overture, Strong Men; No. II, Lullaby from Three Pieces; No. III, To Be Free. Includes photocopies of No. I (5 pp. complete) and No. III (7 pp. complete), 2 manuscript drafts or sketches of No. II, and the first draft of No. III, incomplete, 3 pp.

Dates: 1972-12-30

Three Pieces for Piano, 1945, 1971

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Photocopy drafts with autograph corrections and notes. The dates noted are: 1945; March 31, 1945; June 1; June 6, 194-; and lastly, Revision of December 19, 1971.

Dates: 1945; Modified: 1971

Variations on a Hymn Tune , undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Draft music in pencil and ball-point pen with corrections and notes, 4 pp.

Dates: undated

And Peace Come to All Men (piano, for ballet), 1957

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

For Rona Sande and her Dance Group at Howard University. Photocopies taken from a spiral manuscript book, 4 pp.

Dates: 1957

Peace, War, Peace (ballet, for 2 pianos), 1947-04-30

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Two sets of photocopies, one clean set taken from master sheets, and one set on thermal paper backed with heavier scrap paper.

Dates: 1947-04-30

Untitled fragments, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

One penciled manuscript marked "Song", 4 pp.; one incomplete inked copy labeled "383" in pencil and beginning with the notation "Largo", 3 pp.; and one inked manuscript with a hymn arrangement by Fax for voice and piano, lacking lyrics and with erased title, appearing to have been "Precious Lord, Take My Hand", 1 p.

Dates: undated

Clair De Lune (solo piano), 1959

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Claude Debussy. Arranged for the composer's son, Jesse Fax. 4 pp.

Dates: 1959

Heritage March: A Procession of Spirituals, 1971

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Three sets of photocopies on thermal paper of the finished manuscript, 3 pp.

Dates: 1971

Piano Pieces (solo piano), undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Large photocopy on thermal paper, 1 p.; movements: 1 (Untitled); 2 (Untitled).

Dates: undated

Prelude No. 2 (solo piano), undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Original manuscript, 2 pp.

Dates: undated

Theme and Variations (solo piano), undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Photocopy on large paper, 3 pp.

Dates: undated

Thirty Measures for Your Birthday (solo piano), undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

2 photocopies, 1 p.

Dates: undated

Three Night Pieces (solo piano), undated

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Fragment comprising only piece 2. Shadows, 5 pp. 2 photocopies, 1 set large.

Dates: undated

Three Piano Pieces (solo piano), 1968-01, 1969-01

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Photocopies with autographed corrections and notes. Solo piano in three movements: Prelude, Fugue, and Toccata. Manuscript draft fragments only, 10 pp., from revisions dated January, 1969, and January, 1968. One complete set of reduced copies, comb-bound, dated January, 1969, is in box 9.

Dates: Modified: 1968-01; Modified: 1969-01

Two Piano Pieces (solo piano), 1945

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Movements: 1. Con moto; 2. Vivo. Three sets of photocopies: xerographic, gelatin silver print, and cyanotype. Xerographic copy of first page only, others complete, 5 pp.

Dates: 1945

Vegetable Man--Dance Novelty (solo piano), undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

One photocopy, complete, 3 pp.

Dates: undated

Postlude On I'll Never Turn back (spiritual, solo organ), 1972-06-21

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Original manuscript, drafted at Howard University, 4 pp.

Dates: 1972-06-21

Prelude in E (organ with strings and choir), 1957-10-28 - 1957-10-30

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Two pages removed from spiral manuscript book.

Dates: 1957-10-28 - 1957-10-30