Music Manuscripts
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Boatwright, Ruth Ellington, 1914-2004
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content: Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials
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content: Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials / Series 1: Music Manuscripts, Scripts, and Compositional Materials
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0415, Subseries 1.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of the bulk of material in series 1 comprising of scores and parts composed and arranged by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and others for performance by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra. Scattered throughout this subseries are arrangements for the Ellington Orchestra by Mary Lou Williams, Tadley Dameron and Buck Clayton among others. The titles range from short songs to large-scale, extended or multi movement works and are arranged alphabetically. The fifty-nine extended works by Ellington and other collaborators--most notably Billy Strayhorn--and two suites by Mercer Ellington are interfiled alphabetically and distinguished in the finding aid by capital letters and bold text. Please note permission to perform or publish must be obtained from the copyright holders.