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Setting for baritone with brass quartet, drum set, vibraphone, and piano to the poem by Frank Marshall Davis. Sketches, drafts, finished drafts and copies on vellum including score, parts, and instrumental reductions (box 7). Copies (box 19).

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2 versions: soprano with piano, and soprano with xylophone and vibraphone(one player), celesta and piano (one player). Features haiku by Issa, Taiga, Ryota, and Chine-Jo. Finshed drafts and copies of both versions (box 7). Copies (box 19).

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Commissioned by Robert Gillespie. Sketches, drafts, working copies, and finished drafts on vellum (box 7). Copies only (box 19).

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Text of the play by George Houston Bass. Photocopy of Bass's typed draft with annotations and corrections, marginal notes by Da Costa as well. Includes typed lists of musical cues and revisions with page references, and autographed notes with a performance timeline by Da Costa.

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Sketches, drafts, working copies, and finished drafts on vellum (box 7). Copies, notes, and working copies (box 19). Photocopies (box 26). Copies, sketches, and drafts (box 29).

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Organ and String Orchestra. For Lorna. Written by Da Costa for his graduation recital at Juilliard School. Photocopies (box 19).

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Composition by Da Costa as epilogue to "A Play Called Music", featuring narrator, dancers, chorus, percussion. Notes, drafts, clippings and copies (box 19).

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Drafts, sketches, working copies, and finished drafts on vellum (box 8). Correspondence regarding permission to adapt the picture book "Harriet and the Promised Land" by artist Jacob Lawrence for a performance by the Boys Choir of Harlem (box 19).

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SATB. Finished draft on vellum and sketches (box 8). Sketches, drafts, notes, master copies and working copies (box 19).

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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).

Scope and Contents S, chorus, soprano and tenor saxophone, orchestra. Finished manuscripts on vellum (parts and full score), working copies and performance copies of parts (boxes 3 & 4). Finished manuscript of conductor's score on vellum, disbound conductor's performance copy, large format copies (box 28). Notes, sketches, drafts, finished, reduced score, choral master, and section copies. Includes planning correspondence with The New World Symphony (box 19). Sketches, drafts, and notes under the title...

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

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Soprano and string orchestra. Also titled "Five Epitaphs", poems by Countee Cullen to music by Noel Da Costa: For a Poet; For My Grandmother; For Paul Laurence Dunbar; For a Lady I know; and If You Should Go. Includes finished drafts on vellum, parts and full score, with copies (boxes 5 & 6). Bound copy and additional copies (boxes 17 & 19).

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4 trumpets or trumpet choir and percussion. To Lorna Daniels. Finished draft on vellum with drafts (box 6, foldered with other fanfares). Conductor's copies with annotations (box 17).

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Cello, piano. To Evalyn Steinbock. Sketches, drafts, finished draft on vellum, and copies (box 6). Performance copies with annotations (box 17). Photocopies (box 19).

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Orchestra. Master sheets on vellum with copies, working copies, and drafts for parts and full score (box 2). Disbound performance copies (box 17). Working copies (box 18). Reduced copies and working copies (box 19). Notes and sketch (box 26). Finished draft of the orchestral score in pencil on vellum (box 29).

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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).