Box 9

Spiritual, for string quartet. Includes finished drafts, copies, working copies, and sketch, and similar sketch titled "I Don't Feel No Ways Tired", possibly dated July, 1991.

Fragment of music from George Bass's play The Fun House for chamber orchestra, chess themed. Performance copies with some notes.

Theatrical song for children's chorus, flute, piano, and percussion. Based on an Afro-American folk tale adapted by George Bass. Finished draft and copies.

Sketches of songs collected by William Francis Allen in Slave Songs of the United States (1867). Includes "Wrestle On, Jacob", "Graveyard", "Hold Your Light", "Many Thousand Go", "Lay This Body Down", etc. Sketches and notes only.

SATBB. Poem by Emily Dickinson adapted to music by Da Costa. Finished draft and copy.

SATB. Adapted by Da Costa from the poem by William Blake. Finished draft and copy (box 9). Copies (box 20).

For 3 chanters with drum set and piano. To TJ Anderson. Maxims of Satchel Paige adapted to music by Da Costa. Finished draft, copies, and sketches (box 9). Photocopies and notes on the first performance and performing the piece (box 26).

Piano and voice. Poems by Mark Van Doren to music by Noel Da Costa; includes "I See the Moon". "Down Dip the Branches", "Chipmunk, Chipmunk", etc. Finished manuscript on vellum.

Guitar and double bass. To Ted Dunbar and Larry Ridley. Sketches, working copies, and copies of the finished work (box 9). Sketches (box 20).

Violin, piano. Finished manuscript on vellum, copies, and sketches (box 9). Master copies and working copies (box 20).

Sketches and fragments only of a work inspired by text by Dag Hammarskjold.

Organ. Finished draft, copies and working copies.

SATB and piano. Disbound performance copy.

Voice and piano. Poem by Theodore Roethke set to music by Da Costa. Finished draft on vellum with copies.

Finished draft on vellum with copies (box 9). Draft, copies, working copies (box 20).

SA. Hatian children's folksong, adapted by Noel Da Costa. Sketch and notes only.

"School Songs", as sung by Evelyn Richardson and transcribed by Noel Da Costa. Sketches, drafts, and a few finished drafts of songs "Before All Lands East or West", "The Distant Chimes", "The May Song", and "Isle of Beauty".

Various instrumentation, violin, trumpet in C, clarinet in A, glockenspeil, etc. Drafts, sketches, copies and working copies (box 9). Working copies, notes, drafts (box 20). Working/performance copy and sketch (box 18).