If I can't have you [music]
odd: label: General
content: Handwriting and other details have been reported based on the notes of David Berger, Andrew Homzy, Dr. Theodore Hudson, Walter van de Leur, and Dr. Mark Tucker.
name: label: Composer
content: Strayhorn, Billy (William Thomas), 1915-1967
label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
topic: label: Topic
content: Music -- United States -- 20th century
creator: label: Composer
content: Strayhorn, Billy (William Thomas), 1915-1967
setName: label: See more items in
content: Duke Ellington Collection
label: See more items in
content: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 1: Music Manuscripts / 1.1: Music Manuscripts / 1.1.10: I
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (mixed score(s) and/or part(s) (holograph), 32 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 3 Items (manuscripts, 32 cm.)
phystech: label: Condition
content: Fair.
container: label: Container
content: Box 163, Folder 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Holographs
label: Type
content: Music
label: Type
content: Parts (musical)
label: Type
content: Piano vocal scores
label: Type
content: Short scores
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Holographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Music
label: Genre/Form
content: Parts (musical)
label: Genre/Form
content: Piano vocal scores
label: Genre/Form
content: Short scores
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts -- Music -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 2 parts and an indefinite number of scores.
label: Scope and Contents
content: If I can't have you is contained in one folder consisting of 1 three page piano vocal score, 1 four page short score and 2 parts in F Major concert -- in pencil -- in unidentified hands (BS, other?).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Piano vocal score lyrics begin "If I can't have you I don't want to live ...". Short score indicates parts for Ben, sax, trumpets. Parts for 1 trumpet - Rex; bass. -- from the Duke Ellington Library.