Crescendo in blue [music]
odd: label: General
content: Part for tenor in Folder B, grouping i (photocopy) is originally noted on the bottom of the tenor part for Diminuendo in blue. 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.
label: General
content: Condition: fair, tape, torn.
label: General
content: Unsigned Ellington-Strayhorn composition.
name: label: Composer
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
topic: label: Topic
content: Music -- United States -- 20th century
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
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Folder A from the Presentation Album, vol. M, p. 15. Folder B, grouping iii from the Mercer Ellington Library. Statement of responsibility taken from Popular Music, 1920-1979, ed. Nat Shapiro. There appear to be numbers from the Duke Ellington Band Book: 108, 28.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (mixed score(s) and/or part(s) (holograph), 32 cm.)
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content: 18 Items (copy scores, 32 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 3 Items (parts (photocopies), 32 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 4 Items (parts (photocopies), 28 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 2 Items (manuscripts, 32 cm.)
container: label: Container
content: Box 87 (Series 1), Folder 10-11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Conductor scores
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content: Copy scores
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content: Holographs
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content: Manuscripts
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content: Music
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content: Parts (musical)
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content: Photocopies
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content: Short scores
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content: Conductor scores
label: Genre/Form
content: Copy scores
label: Genre/Form
content: Holographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
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content: Music
label: Genre/Form
content: Parts (musical)
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content: Photocopies
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content: Short scores
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: see also Dimuendo In Blue see also oversize, see also Subseries 1.3
label: Scope and Contents
content: 25 parts and an indefinite number of scores
label: Scope and Contents
content: Crescendo in blue is contained in two folders consisting of 1 eight page short score, 1 twenty-two page conductor score, 1 three page conductor score and 25 parts in Eb Major concert -- in ink, pencil and photocopy -- in unidentified hands (DE, Whaley?).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Folder A contains short score. Short score indicates parts for Ham, Sears, Otto, Rab, Carney, trumpets, trombones.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Folder B contains items in 6 groupings -- (i) Part for 1 reed - tenor. -- (ii) Parts for 4 reeds - Rab (2), Pro (2), Sears, Carney (2); trombone (2). -- (iii) Parts for 1 reed - tenor 2; trombone (2); 1 unidentified instrument. -- (iv) Parts for 4 trumpets - Rex, Taft, Cat, Ray; 1 trombone - Tricky; 1 unidentified instrument. -- (v) Parts for 4 reeds - Rab, Toby, Sears, Carney; 1 trombone - 2. -- (vi) 1 twenty-two page conductor score. Score indicates parts for 5 reeds - clarinet, alto 1, alto 2, tenor, bass clarinet; 3 trumpets - 1, 2, 3; 3 trombones - 1, 2, 3. Score appears incomplete. 1 three page conductor score. Score does not indicate instrumentation and appears incomplete. -- Many of the parts in Folder B appear to be incomplete.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Folder B, groupings i - ii & iv - vi from the Duke Ellington Library.