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Box 7

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Four Glimpses of Night, 1964

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1964

Four Haiku Settings, 1964-04

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1964-04

Four Preludes for Trombone and Piano, 1973

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1973

Generata, 1958-04

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1958-04

Generations, 1985

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1985

Go Down Death, undated

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

SATB with narrator. Sketches and drafts only.

Dates: undated

Gabriel's Trumpet (also Gabriel's Tune for Judgment Day, Gabriel's Call, Five Spirituals for Baritone and Piano), 1964 - 1991

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1964 - 1991