Chau-go-ga-gog man chau-ga-gog chau buna-gung a maug [music]
odd: label: General
content: Short score is originally noted on the verso of "I've got to be a rug cutter." Handwriting and other details have been reported based on the notes of David Berger, Andrew Homzy, Dr. Theodore Hudson, Walter van de Leur, and Mark Tucker.
label: General
content: Condition: fair. Folder A -- 4p.
name: label: Composer
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
title: label: Topic
content: Beautiful indians, The
topic: label: Topic
content: Music -- United States -- 20th century
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content: Suites (Jazz ensemble)
creator: label: Composer
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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content: Duke Ellington Collection
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content: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 1: Music Manuscripts / 1.1: Music Manuscripts / 1.1.4: C / Chaugogagog Maushaugagog Chaubunagungamaug
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Piano vocal score from the Presentation Album, vol. B. -- According to Mark Tucker's "The Duke Ellington Reader," this piece is part of an Ellington "tone-parallel" ("Beautiful Indians").
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (part (photocopy), 32 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (part (photocopy), 28 cm.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Manuscripts
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content: Music
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content: Photocopies
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content: Piano vocal scores
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content: Short scores
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
label: Genre/Form
content: Music
label: Genre/Form
content: Photocopies
label: Genre/Form
content: Piano vocal scores
label: Genre/Form
content: Short scores
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 2 scores
label: Scope and Contents
content: Chau-go-ga-gog man chau-ga-gog chau buna-gung a maug is contained in one of six folders for "The beautiful indians" consisting of 1 one page short score in Gb Major concert, and 1 three page piano vocal score in G Major concert -- in photocopy -- in unidentified hands (DE, Sanders?).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Short score does not indicate instrumentation and appears incomplete. Piano vocal score lyrics begin "On lake Chau-go-ga-gog ... you fish on your side ...". -- Short score from the Duke Ellington Library.