Subseries 1b/Music Manuscript Sketchbooks

Scope and Content Note

The bulk of the material in Subseries 1B: Music Manuscript Sketchbooks consists of spiral-bound notebooks containing original scores, incomplete scores, sketches and lyrics by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Tom Whaley and Ellington band members Jimmy Hamilton and John Sanders.  There is one notebook created by Ann Michlau.  The material is very fragile and valuable.   

Titles or title fragments are listed in the order they appear.  In some notebooks, researchers’ notes identifying the material is included and special care is necessary to maintain this order.  Each folder contains one notebook or loose pages grouped for creation or copyright.  The creator of each notebook is identified by name at the beginning of the folder; change of creator within each folder is also designated. Most of the folders contain untitled works and several folders contain only untitled material.

                                                                                                         Container List

Box      Folder  Creator            Title

  447       1          Duke Ellington

Is God A Three Letter Word For Love ?

2          Duke Ellington

Black Beauty

Kuku

U.F.F.F.X. 2

QUEENIE PIE sketches

You’re Just Campin’ Out When You Leave N.Y.

Tram Blu aka Transblucency

3          Duke Ellington

Kuku

B.R.

4          Duke Ellington

Summer Festival (QUEENIE PIE)

NTSH

EULB

EULB-BGRN

Rock

METR

CARA

FMMN

Sigi

CDNZ

Harem Guard

5          Duke Ellington

Queenie Pie’s Soliloquoy

Ain’t Nobody Nowhere Nothing Without God

Blus

N.O. aka New Orleans

Blue

Stix

General

FM

447       5                      Ragtime

6          Duke Ellington

Soth Afrc Folk-Trad

MTRO

Fred

Didn-Endi

Blem-Endi

Trip

Check For Q

7          Duke Ellington

QUEENIE PIE sketches

NYNY

SNCH

Too Kee-Intro

Edis

SNEA-KEMP

UPON

Rock

Drum Endi

LCIL

Eyes

SNMP

Caravan

8          Duke Ellington

Blem

Klop

Care-tex

NTSH

Unidentified hand

Starting With You I’m Through

Duke Ellington

Leta

Gallop Intro

Man In Moon

Blues

Dev-MFI

Rusk

Salem

Enuf

OMTB

Pees

MTRO

Buss verso MTRO

Nadi

Fanf

Extr

Pre-Jax

Latin

  447       8                     MOKV

MTRO

                        Coot MTRO

Big Dik

JLEX

Coot MTRO

AFRC-Milano

AFRC

 

448       1          Duke Ellington

Vulu

Blem verso Vulu

SVNA

GNUJ

NVHO

TATR

TATA

IXAD

SP 76

GRND

Care-Tex verso GRND

TCHD

Kiss

Wack

Seaway

Agre

Hopp

LUUI

G.H. aka Girdle Hurdle

MUMU

HTGR

ILYS

LB verso ILYS

UPTN

MOTH

Grap verso Moth

QUQU

BACD

2          Duke Ellington

Occi

MTRO

Addi

ONCO

Bind

Song

3          Duke Ellington

Third Stanza

4          Duke Ellington

Ain’t Nobody Nowhere Nothin’ Without God

447       5          Duke Ellington

Y’Aught’A

How You Sound

TATTOOED BRIDE

448       5                      Kitchen Stove

Aberdeen

My Friend

Tom Whaley

Truckin’ Stevedore

Changed Everything But My Man

Sister Katie

Sing You Sinners

Substitution Duke Ellington

6-10      Duke Ellington

Untitled

 

449       1          Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

Without A Word Of Warning

A & P

Philly Strol

Billy Strayhorn

Green Fare

Duke Ellington

Lovie’s Place

2          Duke Ellington

Harm

MEKU

Billy Strayhorn

Diane

Duke Ellington

Mod-SNYC

TMIT

Rush Hour

Satin Doll

Billy Strayhorn

Satin Doll

3          Duke Ellington

Good Friday

Woods, The

Beautiful

Sketches for unidentified theatre work

King Pick Parade

Billy Strayhorn

Blues

Duke Ellington

Lullaby

I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart

Mood Indigo

449       3          Sof-Lay aka Sophisticated Lady

Do Nothing

Dido

St. Loo

Billy Strayhorn

What Color Is Virtue

            Unidentified hand

Amour, Amour

4          Duke Ellington

Shhhh! He’s On The Beat

Way-Back-Play

You Don’t

Hop-Skip-Jump

M.I.H.

Camp Grant Chant

Go Away Blues

Billy Strayhorn

Isle Of May aka On The Isle Of May

Duke Ellington

Ring Dem Bells

News

5          Billy Strayhorn

Croquinol

Fun

Moon Love

Fun

House On A Hill

Duke Ellington

Lamp Is Low

Billy Strayhorn

I May Be Wrong

Chelsea Bridge

Stairway To the Stars

Duke Ellington

Grievin’

Billy Strayhorn

Grievin’

Lilacs In The Rain

Jumpin’ Jive

6          Billy Strayhorn

Flower Is A Lovesome Thing

Dream

Tuxedo Junction

Duke Ellington

Auld Lang Syne

In A Mellotone

Billy Strayhorn

There Shall Be No Night

449       6          Slaves At Daves

Man I Love

Jennie Lou Stomp

7          Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn scores for small combo date

Billy Strayhorn

Flower

           Mighty Like The Blues

S.L.F.

Tonight

Duke Ellington

Don’t You Know I Care

Tom Whaley

Rod La Roque

Jump

Duke Ellington

Blues

Creole Rhapsody

All Too Soon

Black Beauty

Everything

8          Billy Strayhorn

                                    Brown Betty

Autumn In New York

Lush

NYC Blues

Clothed Woman

Tom Whaley

Ole Man River

Don’t Take Your Love

Hey Baby

I Got It Bad

Summertime

Trees

Don’t Be So Mean To Baby

My Little Brown Book

Night & Day

Lover Come Back

Sleepless Night

Flamingo

Solitude

Dedicated To You

Danny Boy

If I Knew You

That’s

Bewitched, Bewildered

S Of W

Tonight I Shall Sleep

S Of F

449       8                      You Left Me Standing

Teardrops In Your Eyes

Bleeding Moon

Lover Man

How Deep Is The Ocean

When You Wish Upon A Star

                        L’Apache

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

Wilhelmina

Be A Clown

I Didn’t Slip, I Fell

  450       1          Billy Strayhorn

Flamingo

BM

WOW ! aka Where Or When

People Will Say We’re In Love

Sacre Supreme, Le

People/Holiday

End on Raindrop aka Midriff

Dirge

Raindrop Stomp aka Midriff

Blue Heart

2          Billy Strayhorn

Untitled

3          Tom Whaley

Better Get It While You’re Able

Tell Me That You Love Me Too

And So It Ends

Doll Valley

Over The Rainbow

Books Of The Bible

4          Tom Whaley

Royal Garden Blues

April In Paris

Honey, I’m Yours

Cuban Episodes

Mambo Jumbo

Mardi Gras

Blues

I’m Slapping Seventh Avenue With the Soles Of My Shoe

Sleep

Jet

Yesterdays

All The Things You Are

Abstract

Rumbamba

5          Tom Whaley

450       5                      At Dawn

Come Sunday

JUMP FOR JOY

Raincheck

Heritage

SNVGL But Ugly

            6          Tom Whaley

Cry

Tell Me Why

September Song

Embraceable You

He’s My Guy

Let’s Get Lost

My Ideal

Paper Doll

People Will Say We’re In Love

Walk Alone aka I’ll Walk Alone

First Time I’ve Fallen In Love

How Deep Is The Ocean

Lover Man

Bewitched

Summertime

Body And Soul

Man I Love

She’s Funny That Way

Wheel Of Fortune

Star Dust

Sophisticated Lady

Danny Boy

All the Things You Are

Yesterdays

‘Long ‘Bout Midnight aka Along ‘Bout Midnight

Anytime

Laura

April In Paris

Autumn In New York

7          Tom Whaley

Don’t Be So Mean To Baby

My Little Brown Book

Don’t You Know I Care

National Anthem (Star-Spangled Banner)

March Of Time

Because Of You

Fat And Forty

8          Tom Whaley

Tierra

Solitude

What Is This Thing Called Love

450       8                      Them There Eyes

Pennies From Heaven

4 Stepbrothers

Waterfall

Soamako Dance Song-Uvea

9          Tom Whaley

                                    Danny Boy

Because

451       1          Tom Whaley

Embraceable You

September Song

Darktown Strutters’ Ball

New Low Down

Go Harlem

Everything But You

Duke Ellington

Unidentified

2          Tom Whaley

‘Spose

It Must Be True

Please

Hib’s Entrance

I Surrender Dear

No Greater Love

As Time Goes By

I’m Just A Lucky-So-And-So

It Shouldn’t Happen To A Dream

                        I Got The World On A String

Travelin’

Sing Unto The Lord

Praise The Lord

Deep River

Exhortation (Negro Sermon)

Soon Ah Will Be Done

My Home In The Sky

3          Tom Whaley

Paradise , Atlantic City

Blues

Royal Garden Blues

Back Home In Harlem

Opening Overture

Blues

Slaughter

18th Century

Fanfare

Basie Opening

Dance

4          Tom Whaley

451       4                      OMAHA

TATTTOED BRIDE

Salome

8th Veil

Happy Anatomy

Got To Go Blues

 

452       1          Jimmy Hamilton

Moonstone

2          Jimmy Hamilton

Central Park Swing

Dankworth’s Castle

3          Jimmy Hamilton

Theme No.1 aka Little John’s Tune

4          Jimmy Hamilton

Nearness

Te Quialla? aka Jamaica Tomboy

T.K.

5          John Sanders

Up And Down

All Heart

CONTROVERSIAL SUITE

Gotta Go

Don’t Ever Say Goodbye

Riding On A Blue Note

6          Ann Miclau

Journey To A Star

All Or Nothing At All

Always In My Heart

Comin’ In On A Wing And A Prayer

Dearly Beloved

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

He’s My GUy

Home

I Heard You Cried Last Night

Let’s Get Lost

It’s Love, Love, Love

Desert Song

Tea For Two                 

Music Stopped

My Ideal

Paper Doll

People Will Say We’re In Love

You And The Waltz And I

I’ll Walk Alone

Brazil

7          Unidentified copyist

Canadian Sunset

452       7                      Blues

Aloha

Cotton Tail

Tuxedo Junction

Daydream

Sheik Of Araby

                        Rose Of The Rio Grande

Tom Whaley

Up Dat Road