Box 5

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Incomplete piano score, 2pp.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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Original manuscript, 2 pp.

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

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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.

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Original manuscript, drafted at Howard University, 4 pp.

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Two pages removed from spiral manuscript book.

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Finished manuscript draft of three pieces: No. 1- Saint Martin's; No. 2- Crusader's Hymn; and No. 3- Saint Anne. 7 pp.

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Finished manuscript draft with pencil additions; first piece only, I. Prelude. 2 pp.

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,...

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Finished manuscript fragment, 4 pp.

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Fragment of finished manuscript with pencil revisions and additions. 5 pp.

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Finished manuscript with text notes on performance, 3 pp.

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Autograph draft in pencil, finished, 5 pp. An apparent early draft of "Peace, War, Peace", also found in this series.

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Autograph manuscript, complete, 3 pp., and various photocopies, some showing the piece was part of a group, and originally titled "2. Kremser".