Box 20

Narrator, bass-baritone, SATB chorus, organ, piano, and carillon. Finished manuscript on vellum with performance copies, drafts, and sketches (box 12). Sketches and drafts (box 20).

To Max Pollikoff. Based on American Fiddle Tunes, includes pieces: Walk Around - "Brudder Bones"; Neumedia; Little Diamond / Bird On The Wing - Jigs; New Orleans - Clog; and "New Orleans" - Colg Blues. Finished manuscript on vellum with copies and sketch (box 12). Printed sheet music (box 20). Photocopy (box 16).

Improvisation for solo flute. Copies. Also filed with Blue-Silver under Two Improvisations for Solo Flute.

Musical play in two acts for youth chorus, adapted from an Afro-Hatian folktale. Full score and various parts represented in finished manuscripts on vellum and working copies (box 12). Anntated performance copies, disbound (box 17). Promotional materials, sketches, working copies, original costume designs (box 20).

SATB. Grenadian folksong researched by Lorna McDaniel, adapted for chorus by Da Costa. Copies of parts and program for the first performance by the Triad Chorale.

Organ. Includes correspondence regarding the publication and perfermance of Spiritual Set and copies of the published edition.

Solo trombone. 2 finished drafts on vellum, 1 handwritten, 1 engraved using a graphic transfer sheet, with copies, drafts, sketches, and poems (box 14). Copies (box 20).

SATB. Finished draft on vellum with copies (box 16). Copy (box 20).

Harpsichord and bassoon. To David Miller. Finished draft (box 14) and copies (boxes 17 and 20). Working copies and draft (box 18). Performance copy and photocopy (box 26).

After a series of chord changes - "Coltrane's" - used by T.J. Anderson. Finished draft on vellum, with corrections, copy, working copy, and sketches.

Incidental music by Da Costa for a short film of this title, by Peter Ketchum. Finished drafts of score and parts on vellum, with sketches, drafts, and copies (box 14). Sketches, notes, and screenplay (box 20).

Also Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello, Lines in Rythmic Motion. Includes sketches, drafts, finished manuscript with copies, performance notes by Da Costa, and program from the first performance.

A Triptych for the Theatre by George Houston Bass, music by Noel Da Costa with additional music by G. Bass. Finished manuscript on vellum with performance score in covers and copy (box 14). Two different copies of the play's text from the Yale School of Drama from 1966 and 1967 (box 20).

"Clave Tune" and "Blue Tune". Finished drafts on vellum and copies.

Based on Ewe Chant Rythms. Includes copies of the music, a letter regarding the composition by T.J. Anderson, and an essay by Gustava Tavares.

SATB. "Our Heavenly Father" and "Again, O Heavenly Father". Copy only (box 15). Manuscript copy master on vellum with copies (box 20).

Soprano, piano. Song by Da Costa for a poem by George Houston Bass. Working copies and copies of the published sheet music, copyright 1977.

S SATB and chamber orchestra. Second part of a longer work. Drafts and sketches (box 15).

Organ, percussion. Finished manuscript on vellum with drafts, sketches, working copies, and a full score as published by Atsoc Music (box 15). Correspondence and agreements regarding a 1997 performance of Ukom Memory Songs in Washington, DC, promotional materials from Atsoc Music, sketches, drafts, and copies of the reworked 1996 edition (box 20). Working copies (box 18).

S/B and organ. Title on music reads "Duo - Will You Spend". Musical setting to a work by George Bass. Finished manuscript on vellum and copy.