Box 8

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).

Solo flute and piano. Sketch only.

Contralto and organ. Poem by Owen Dodson to music by Da Costa. Vellum master and large copies.

SATB, orchestra or organ; includes a fanfare and a postlude. Finished draft of chorale and organ part on vellum, finished drafts of fanfare and postlude on green staff paper, and working copies (box 8). Sheet music published by Hinshaw Music, Inc., including Da Costa's copy with attached sketch for solo improvisation (box 20).

Poem by Emily Dickinson set to music by Da Costa. Finished draft on vellum and copies.

SAATBB. From Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro, edited by R. Nathaniel Dett; arranged by Noel Da Costa.

For voice and orchestra, sketches only. Arrangement of "I'm Troubled In Mind", from Religious Folk Songs of the Negro, edited by R. Nathaniel Dett.

For chamber orchestra, after a poem by Theodore Rothke. Sketches and drafts only.

SATB. To Vincent Sperando (in memoriam). Copy only.

Composition in four parts (Take Off Vibrations, Earth Song, Space Walking, and Changes) written for double bassist Ron Carter. Finished draft on vellum and copy (box 8). photocopy (box 20). Photocopy (box 26).

Mezzo soprano, 12 instrument ensemble. To Mary B. Rucker. (box 8). Photocopy (box 20, box 26).

Vocalise, Soprano, viola, vibraphone.

Voice with brass accompaniment. Sketch only, adapted from Werner A. Jaegerhuber's collection of Hatian folk music.

SA and piano. Finished draft on vellum.

2 bass drums. In memoriam T.R. Hakim. Sketches and finished draft on vellum.

Solo violin, electric piano. Copies, notes, and a copy of a letter to Lisa Tipton regarding the playing of the piece.

Interpolation on a Hatian folk tale, for four electric guitars, fender bass, and percussionist. To Richie Resnicoff. Finished drafts of full score and parts on vellum, copies, and working copies (box 8). Annotated conductor's copy (box 17).