Box 9

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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Prologue To A Christmas Miracle: An Opera in One Act; full score for voice and piano, comb-bound, 91 pp. Libretto by Owen Dodson. A reduced copy of the Prologue (91 pp.) and the full score for orchestra (191 pp.), comb-bound, can be found in box 9.

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Comb-bound libretto with score for two parts and choir, 42 pp. Dorothy Fax's personal copy.

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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.