What color is virtue? [music]
odd: label: General
content: Additional materials for this piece are contained with "My people scores." 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, worn, torn.
label: Other Title
content: Color.
label: Other Title
content: Colour.
name: label: Composer
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
title: label: Topic
content: My people
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 / 1.1.23: W
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (mixed score(s) and/or part(s) (holograph), 34 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (copy score, 32 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 36 Items (copy scores, 31 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (manuscript, 31 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (part (photocopy), 28 cm.)
container: label: Container
content: Box 405, Folder 13-15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
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content: Copy scores
label: Type
content: Holographs
label: Type
content: Lead sheet
label: Type
content: Music
label: Type
content: Parts (musical)
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content: Photocopies
label: Type
content: Piano vocal scores
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts -- Music -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Copy scores
label: Genre/Form
content: Copy scores
label: Genre/Form
content: Holographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Lead sheet
label: Genre/Form
content: Music
label: Genre/Form
content: Parts (musical)
label: Genre/Form
content: Photocopies
label: Genre/Form
content: Piano vocal scores
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: see MY PEOPLE
label: Scope and Contents
content: 38 parts and an indefinite number of scores
label: Scope and Contents
content: What color is virtue is contained in two of thirty four folders for "My people" consisting of 1 three page piano vocal score and 37 parts in F Major concert, and 1 two page piano vocal score and 1 lead sheet in Ab Major concert -- in ink and pencil -- in unidentified hands (BS, Whaley?).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Folder A contains items in 2 groupings -- (i) Piano vocal score and parts in F Major. Piano vocal score lyrics begin "What color is virtue, what color is love ...". Parts for bass; piano. -- (ii) Piano vocal score and lead sheet in Ab Major. Piano vocal score lyrics begin as above. Score appears incomplete. Lead sheet for voice. Lyrics begin as above.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Folder B contains parts in F Major in 3 groupings -- (i) Parts for 5 reeds - alto 1, alto 3, tenor 1, tenor 4, baritone; 4 trumpets - 1, 2, 3, 4; 3 trombones - 1, 2, 3. -- (ii) Parts for 4 reeds - alto, alto 3, tenor 1, baritone; 3 trumpets - 1, 2, 3; 3 trombones - 1, 2, 3. -- (iii) Parts for 5 reeds - alto 3, clarinet, tenor 2, tenor 4, baritone; 4 trumpets - 1, 2, 3, 4; 3 trombones - 1, 2, 3; bass. -- from the Duke Ellington Library.