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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.

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).

Solo piano. Finished manuscript with working copies and sketches (box 6) and copies (box 19).

Solo trumpet with street noises. Performed at the Arts Booth, Broadway Mall. Draft and sketches.

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).

SSA, organ. Music by Da Costa for three voices for women, with music for organ or "2 instruments in range", e.g., viola or cello. Copies.

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

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).

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).

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

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.

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).

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

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

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).

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