Box 7

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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Photocopy of finished music manuscript, 4 pp., with additional notes on composition and performance, 2 pp.

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Small, cord-bound manuscript of six movements based on poem by Joyce Kilmer.

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Two mimeographed copies of the text by Mark Fax, without score, 7 pp.

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Music by Bach, written in the hand of Mark Fax, 2 pp.

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Published copy (from Paine College). Located with other printed/published music in box 7, folder 3.

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

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Suite for piano in three movements, 8 pp.

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

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From Three Pieces for Piano, photocopies, 3 pp.

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Written by Fax at Black Mountain, North Carolina, 2 pp. Performance note on last page.

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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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Multiple photocopies of a one page fragment with notes for orchestra and choir.

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Incomplete finished draft, with pencilled corrections/additions, and two complete sets of photocopies, including master sheets, with text notes on performance.

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One page mimeograph, two copies. Music shows the melodies of 4 songs: 1. "There's A Star In The East"; 2. "Go Tell It On The Mountain"; 3. "Round The Glory Manger"; 4. "O Po' Lil' Jesus".

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Various printed music, mostly by others. Includes staple-bound music by Mark Fax, "Whatsoever a Man Soweth" (1958), published in the Augsburg Choral Library, "Paine Hymn" (1937), by Frank Yerby and Mark Fax, and "Where Shall My Wandering Soul Begin" (1937), by Charles Wesley and Mark Fax. Also includes a printed sheet with the Howard University Alma Mater (1919), by J.H. Brooks and F.D. Malone, and a full copy of the music book "Panorama" found in box 5.

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Musical sketches and notes with accompanying lyrics or hymns. Includes "CANCION DE OTONO EN PRIMAVERA" by Ruben Dario.

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Pencil draft, 5 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,...