Box 6

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).

Orchestra. Full score, finished draft on vellum.

2 violins, viola, cello. Written at Yaddo; full score and parts in finished drafts on vellum with copies.

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).

For solo trumpet in C. For J.W. Finished draft, sketches and copies (box 6). Photocopies (box 26).

Photocopies of published "Fiddle Tunes" accompanying sketches, drafts, and notes of Da Costa's work from this, including drafts of "Brudder Bones" and "A Set of Dance Tunes for Solo Violin".

Incidental music composed for the short film "Francis Stelloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller". Notes, sketches, drafts, and finished score on vellum (box 6). Working copies, notes, and promotional material for the film (box 26).

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.

Drafts and sketches.

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

Orchestra. "Based on Spirituals". Full score, finished draft on vellum (box 6). Disbound conductor's copy (box 30).