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Voice and piano, a piece of the larger work Cocktail Sip. Sketches, notes (with reference to Townsend Brewster) , and typed poem.

Produced for Rutgers Composers Series at the Mason Gross School of the Arts Music Department. A collaborative performance piece featuring original music by, and performed by, Robert Benford, Noel Da Costa, Daniel Goode, and Fred Simpson. Includes ads, program, annotated libretto, and sketches by Da Costa.

Organ and percussion, a sketch or fragment only, and working copy with marginalia.

Choral, dance. By George Houston Bass, music by Noel Da Costa. Includes drafts, master copies on vellum, and copies (box 1), with a letter from Bass dated 1974-03-01, typed annotated librettos by Bass, and sketches, working copies, and finished drafts of songs by Da Costa (box 19). Disbound performance copies (box 17).

Piece for violin, in memoriam of Bernie Charles, from a larger work. Finished draft and copies, working copies and sketches.

Soprano and organ. Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Music by Noel Da Costa, dedicated to Barbara Grant. Finished manuscript on vellum and copies (box 1). Master copy on vellum and copies (box 19).

Orchestral score for 58 minute film premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978. Notes, sketches, drafts, working copies.

Solo flute. Alternatively titled "Blue Miniatures". Sketches only (box 2); sketches, drafts, finished draft, copies, and working copies (box 19).

Tenor narrator, male chorus, organ and percussion. Notes, sketches, drafts, working copies, and research material.

Poem by Sheldon Harnick (1983), music by Noel Da Costa. Large copy (box 4). Sketches, drafts, and copies (box 19).

Dedicated to Lorna McDaniels. "A free transcription for Organ", after an East African lament found in Songs and Tales of the Dark Continent, by N. Curtis. Includes master draft on vellum and copies, working copies, research material, and letter from Lorna McDaniels dated Oct. 1972 regarding her improvisation for the song and a second version (box 19). Performance copies (box 4).

Solo French horn with vibs, bells, and chimes. To Clarence Cooper. Finished draft on vellum and copies (box 4). Reduced master-copy and copies (box 19).

Opera in one act. Soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, bass baritone, chorus. Libretto by Townsend Brewster. Sketches, notes, and drafts (box 26).

SATB chorus and SSATB solo quintet, organ and two pianos. Poem by Owen Dodson, music by Noel Da Costa.

Solo soprano, violin and piano. Poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, music by Noel Da Costa.

After a wood-burning by Benjamin Wigfall. Cello, viola, and violin parts. Original mss on vellum with multiple copies.

Sketches and drafts. Libretto drafts and notes by Patricia Da Costa (box 19). Sketches/drafts in pencil, titled The Dreamer was in the Garden (box 18).

Tenor, piano. To John Stenson, a composition in three parts: Dream Dust, Dreams, and The Dream Keeper (poems by Langston Hughes). Master copies and working copies, sketches and notes (box 19).

To Virgilio Valle, for ensemble of viola, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, vibraphone, and piano. Reduction for solo viola and piano (box 19).

Adaptation of ancient Greek epitaph for improvisation with clarinet and violin, performed by Da Costa at a Rutgers memorial event, "The Music of Nicolas Roussakis"; includes event program, transcription and notes.