Biographical Sketch

Boris Kremenliev, Bulgarian-American composer and musicologist (Razlog, 23 May 1911 – Los Angeles, 25 April 1988). Kremenliev came to the United States in 1929 and received a BM and an MM from DePaul University in Chicago and a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music in 1942. (His doctoral thesis, titled Song Symphony, or Symphony No. 1, for contralto and orchestra was performed during the 11th Festival of American Music in 1941 by the Rochester Civic Orchestra, with Dr. Howard Hanson conducting.) During World War II, he served as a member of the Psychological Warfare Branch of the U. S. Army in Europe. From 1945-46 he conducted concerts as music director of the Frankfurt Radio. In 1947 he was appointed associate professor of music theory and composition at the University of California, Los Angeles, a position he held until 1978. In addition to writing music for orchestras, films, and chamber groups, Kremenliev did extensive research on the folk music of his native Bulgaria and on Slavic music in general. He published an important treatise, Bulgarian-Macedonian Folk Music (Los Angeles, 1952) and contributed articles on 20th-century music to various journals.

 

Provenance

The collection represents materials relating to the compositions of Boris Kremenliev received by the Sibley Music Library from the composer’s estate. This collection was separated from Kremenliev’s books and research notes relating to Balkan, slavic, and other Eastern European folk musics. These are inventoried separately as the Boris Kremenliev Folk Studies Collection.

 

Scope and Content

The collection represents a substantial portion of the compositions of Boris Kremenliev, most of them written in the United States between 1942 and 1985. The collection includes the composer’s sketches and original drafts for many of his works. Lists of Kremenliev’s compositions can be found in the New Grove and most other major research guides. Only a few of his compositions were published, however, although he was represented by several publishers (Leeds, Foster, Clayton F. Summy, Bruzzichelli). This collection is therefore all the more valuable for its breadth and inclusiveness. It contains the composer’s original sketches and drafts for many works, final transparencies and copies of scores and parts, as well as in some cases composer’s annotated rehearsal copies. The collection therefore affords an important overview of Kremenliev as an active 20th-century composer.

 

Restrictions and Use

There are no restrictions placed on the use of this collection except as regards copyright law.

 

Associations

The Watanabe Special Collections department holds collections of compositions of several twentieth-century American composers.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF SERIES

The sketches, manuscript scores, and printed scores have been inventoried in three series: vocal music, instrumental music, and miscellaneous assorted sketches. Sketches identified with a particular work have been inventoried with that work. Each series is divided into subseries that are usually defined by instrumention or vocal ensemble. A few subseries are delimited by genre (“Works for Film, Radio, and Theater” and “Pedagogical Works for Piano”). Works within each subseries are generally arranged alphabetically by title. One exception to this is series 2, subseries 5 (“Works for Keyboard”). In this subseries, pieces were grouped first according to instrumentation (unidentified keyboard instrument, harpsichord, organ, piano) and then alphabetically within that grouping.

 

Series 1: Vocal Music

Series One contains seven subseries:

Subseries 1: Works for Solo Voice(s) and Instruments
This series includes sketches, transparencies, and prints of works for voice with the accompaniment of multiple instruments.

Subseries 2: Works for Solo Voice(s) with Keyboard Accompaniment
This series includes sketches, transparencies, and published works for voice with the accompaniment of a single keyboard instrument.

Subseries 3: Works for Mixed Chorus Unaccompanied
This series includes transparencies and prints of two versions of a work for unaccompanied mixed chorus, Consolation (1954 and 1970).

Subseries 4: Works for Mixed Chorus with Instruments
This series includes sketches, transparencies, and prints of several works for chorus with various instruments.

Subseries 5: Works for Women’s Chorus and Instruments
This series includes multiple manuscript and printed versions of two large works for women’s chorus and various instruments, Song for Parting (1949) and Grapes (1951 and 1965).

Subseries 6: Works for Men’s Chorus
This series includes transparencies and printed copies of two short works for men’s chorus.

Subseries 7: Works for Children’s Chorus
This series includes manuscripts, transparencies, and prints of several short works for children’s chorus, most with piano accompaniment.

Series 2: Instrumental Music

Series Two contains seven subseries:

Subseries 1: Works for Orchestra
This series includes manuscript sketches, composer’s copies, transparencies of scores and parts, and professionally copied parts to several works for full orchestra.

Subseries 2: Works for Symphonic Band
This series includes manuscript sketches and transparencies and printed full scores of several works for concert band.

Subseries 3: Works for Film, Radio, and Theater
This series includes manuscripts, scores, and parts to dramatic music written for radio, film, and theater.

Subseries 4: Chamber and Instrumental Music
This series includes manuscript scores, transparencies of scores and parts, and printed scores and parts to several works for small instrumental ensembles as well as sonatas for various instruments and piano. It also includes copies of the String Quartet No. 2 (1965) published in Italy.

Subseries 5: Keyboard Works
This series includes sketches, transparencies, and prints of music for harpsichord, organ, and piano.

Subseries 6: Pedagogical Works for Piano
This series contains transparencies and prints of short, simple works for piano that were most likely written for very young or beginning pianists.

Subseries 7: Arrangements of Works by Other Composers
This series includes works by Lully, Machaut, and others arranged for various instruments, all in manuscript.

Series 3: Miscellaneous Assorted Sketches and Notes

Series Three contains folders of largely unidentifiable manuscript sketches, preserved in the order as received.

 

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INVENTORY

Series 1: Vocal Music

Subseries 1: Works for Solo Voice(s) and Instruments

Box 1

folder 1	The Bridge (opera, 1985), notes, plot sketch
folder 2	The Bridge, prose synopsis
folder 3	The Bridge, sketches
folder 4	The Bridge, Full score draft, mostly of Act I (transferred to Oversize Box A)
folder 5	Koan No. 77 for contralto and chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet, timpani, percussion, and piano) on a poem by Elva Kremenliev (1979), “Homage à mon cher ami Luigi Dallapiccola,” sketch
folder 6	Koan No. 77 (1979), full score transparency
folder 7	Koan No. 77, full score photocopy
folder 8	Koan No. 77, unbound copy
folder 9	Koan No. 77, bound copy 1
folder 10	Koan No. 77, bound copy 2
folder 11	Koan No. 77, bound copy 3
folder 12	Koan No. 77, bound copy 4
folder 13	Koan No. 77, voice part, transparency
folder 14	Koan No. 77, flute/piccolo part, transparency
folder 15	Koan No. 77, clarinet part, transparency
folder 16	Koan No. 77, percussion part, transparency
folder 17	Koan No. 77, voice part, copy
folder 18	Koan No. 77, flute/piccolo part, copy
folder 19	Koan No. 77, clarinet part, copy
folder 20	Koan No. 77, percussion parts, 3 copies
folder 21	Romantic Fragments, Four Songs for Soprano, Percussion, and Piano on various poets (1970), sketches

Subseries 2: Works for Solo Voice(s) with Keyboard Accompaniment

folder 22	The Children for soprano, piano, and mandolin/violin (1982), pencil draft and sketches
folder 23	The Children (“The Mary Josephine Dugaw Song”), draft manuscript, dated 8/24/83
folder 24	The Children, photocopy of vocal score
folder 25	Durge [sic] for Voice and Piano, pencil draft and sketches
folder 26	“The End of Love,” song for voice and piano, words by Elva Carson (Hollywood: Guild Publications of California, 1956), copy 1
folder 27	“The End of Love,” copy 2
folder 28	“The End of Love,” copy 3
folder 29	“For Alice Flowers,” voice and keyboard, pencil sketches
folder 30	“For Alice Flowers” (1985), words by Elva Kremenliev, composer’s holograph manuscript
folder 31	“For Alice Flowers,” bound photocopy
folder 32	“For Alice Flowers,” unbound photocopy 1
folder 33	“For Alice Flowers,” unbound photocopy 2
folder 34	“For Alice Flowers,” unbound photocopy 3

Box 2

folder 1	Four Macedonian Folksongs, for female voice and piano, translation by Elva and Boris Kremenliev (1985), composer’s sketches
folder 2	Four Macedonian Folksongs, for high voice and piano (1985), composer’s holograph manuscript
folder 3	Four Macedonian Folksongs, bound photocopy of composer’s manuscript, copy 1
folder 4	Four Macedonian Folksongs, bound photocopy of composer’s manuscript, copy 2
folder 5	Four Macedonian Folksongs, bound photocopy of composer’s manuscript, copy 3
folder 6	Four Macedonian Folksongs, bound photocopy of composer’s manuscript, copy 4
folder 7	Two Lithuanian Folksongs, manuscript (“Dec. 1952”)
folder 8	Leka Nosht, voice and piano with Bulgarian text (1955), transparency
folder 9	Leka Nosht, copy 1
folder 10	Leka Nosht, copy 2
folder 11	“Pretty Girl Makes Fun of Young Bachelor,” from Four Macedonian Folksongs, pencil draft
folder 12	“Pretty Girl Makes Fun of Young Bachelor,” from Four Macedonian Folksongs, photocopy (2 copies)
folder 13	“Kara Mustafa,” for voice and piano, composer’s holograph manuscript, “Easter eve 1954”
folder 14	“A Little Lullaby for Jimmy,” composer’s manuscript, “words by Elva, tune by Boris, L.A. 5/18/85”
folder 15	“A Little Lullaby for Jimmy,” manuscript
folder 16	“A Little Lullaby for Jimmy,” bound photocopy of above
folder 17	“A Little Lullaby for Jimmy,” unbound photocopy of above (4 copies)
folder 18	“Lullaby for Naiden,” for voice and keyboard, 1-page draft, dated “Aug. 5, 1971”
folder 19	“Spendthrift,” for voice and piano (1985), pencil sketches and draft
folder 20	“Spendthrift,” pencil draft (1985)
folder 21	“Spendthrift,” for high voice and piano (1985), bound photocopy, copy 1
folder 22	“Spendthrift,” bound photocopy, copy 2
folder 23	“Spendthrift,” bound photocopy, copy 3
folder 24	“Spendthrift,” unbound photocopies
folder 25	“Spendthrift,” pencil sketches for a version for voice and instruments (2 pages), includes an additional page of unidentified sketches (transferred to Oversize Box A)

Subseries 3: Works for Mixed Chorus Unaccompanied

folder 26	Consolation (after a Bulgarian folksong)(1954), score, transparencies
folder 27	Consolation, copy of score
folder 28	Consolation (after a Bulgarian folksong), later revised version (1970), score, transparencies
folder 29	Consolation (1970), copy 1
folder 30	Consolation (1970), copy 2
folder 31	Consolation (1970), copy 3
folder 32	Consolation (1970), copy 4

Subseries 4: Works for Mixed Chorus with Instruments

folder 33	Facing West from California Shores for Mixed Chorus and Symphonic Band on a Poem by Walt Whitman (1954), holograph full score (transferred to Oversize Box A)
folder 34	Facing West from California Shores, full score, transparencies (transferred to Oversize Box A)
folder 35	Facing West from California Shores, chorus parts, transparencies
folder 36	Facing West from California Shores, chorus parts, 2 copies (one says “for Mixed Voices and Orchestra”)
folder 37	Facing West from California Shores, pencil sketch (1984)
folder 38	Mass for Mixed Chorus and Organ, sketches
folder 39	Meditation for Mixed Choir and Organ on text by Ralph Emerson Davis (1958), score, transparencies
folder 40	Meditation for Mixed Choir and Organ, score (2 copies)
folder 41	Meditation for Mixed Choir and Organ, vocal score, transparencies
folder 42	Meditation for Mixed Choir and Organ, vocal score (3 copies)
folder 43	Meditation for Mixed Choir and Organ, vocal score (3 copies)
folder 44	Meditation for Mixed Choir and Organ, vocal score (3 copies)
folder 45	Meditation for Mixed Choir and Organ, vocal score (3 copies)
folder 46	Once to Every Man and Nation, cantata for Mixed Voices, Narrator, Soloists, Brass Quintet, and Organ adapted from poems by James Russel Lowell by Elva Kremenliev (1960), bound copy of full score, typed copy of narrator’s text inserted, (transferred to Oversize Box A)
folder 47	Once to Every Man and Nation, bound copy of full score, transferred to Oversize Box A
folder 48	Once to Every Man and Nation, copy of vocal score, with penciled corrections
folder 49	Once to Every Man and Nation, corrected choral part to No. 2 “Once to Every Man and Nation” (9 copies)
folder 50	“They Are Slaves,” from Once to Every Man and Nation, for mixed chorus and piano or organ (Fostco Music Press, 1968) (7 copies)
folder 51	“They Are Slaves,” from Once to Every Man and Nation, for mixed chorus and piano or organ (Fostco Music Press, 1968) (6 copies; reference copies)

Subseries 5: Works for Women’s Chorus and Instruments

Box 3

folder 1	Song for Parting for women’s voices, English horn, and strings on text by Elva Carson (1949), sketches
folder 2	Song for Parting, vocal score (early version), transparencies
folder 3	Song for Parting, vocal score (early version), 3 copies
folder 4	Song for Parting, vocal score (early version), 3 copies
folder 5	Song for Parting, vocal score (early version), 3 copies
folder 6	Song for Parting, vocal score (early version), 3 copies
folder 7	Song for Parting (1949), full score, composer’s holograph manuscript
folder 8	Song for Parting, full score, transparencies
folder 9	Song for Parting, full score, bound copy 1
folder 10	Song for Parting, full score, bound copy 2
folder 11	Song for Parting, full score, bound copy 3
folder 12	Song for Parting, vocal score, manuscript (revised version)
folder 13	Song for Parting, revised vocal score, transparencies
folder 14	Song for Parting, revised vocal score, copy 1
folder 15	Song for Parting, revised vocal score, copy 2
folder 16	Song for Parting, revised vocal score, copy 3
folder 17	Song for Parting, English Horn transparencies
folder 18	Song for Parting, Violin 1 part transparencies
folder 19	Song for Parting, Violin 2 part transparencies
folder 20	Song for Parting, Viola part transparencies
folder 21	Song for Parting, Cello part transparencies
folder 22	Song for Parting, Bass part transparencies
folder 23	Song for Parting, English Horn part
folder 24	Song for Parting, Violin 1 parts (3 copies)
folder 25	Song for Parting, Violin 2 parts (3 copies)
folder 26	Song for Parting, Viola parts (3 copies)
folder 27	Song for Parting, Cello parts (3 copies)
folder 28	Song for Parting, Bass parts (2 copies)

Box 4

folder 1	Grapes for Women’s Voices and String Quartet on a poem by Alexander Pushkin (1951), photocopy of full score
folder 2	Grapes for Women’s Voices and String Quartet (rev., 1965), full score transparencies
folder 3	Grapes (1965), photocopy of full score
folder 4	Grapes (1965), bound photocopy of full score
folder 5	Grapes (1965), full score, copy 1
folder 6	Grapes (1965), full score, copy 2
folder 7	Grapes (1965), vocal score transparencies
folder 8	Grapes (1965), vocal score, unbound (2 copies)
folder 9	Grapes (1965), vocal score, copies 1-12
folder 10	Grapes (1965), Violin 1 transparencies
folder 11	Grapes (1965), Violin 2 transparencies
folder 12	Grapes (1965), Viola transparencies
folder 13	Grapes (1965), Cello transparencies
folder 14	Grapes (1965), Violin 1 part (2 copies)
folder 15	Grapes (1965), Violin 2 part (2 copies)
folder 16	Grapes (1965), Viola part (2 copies)
folder 17	Grapes (1965), Cello part (2 copies)

Subseries 6: Works for Men’s Chorus

folder 18	Three Songs for Men’s Voices after Bulgarian Folksongs (1966), score transparencies
folder 19	Three Songs for Men’s Voices, score (2 corrected copies)
folder 20	Three Songs for Men’s Voices, score
folder 21	Three Songs for Men’s Voices, score
folder 22	Three Songs for Men’s Voices, score
folder 23	“UCLA Days” for Men’s Voices (1948), copy of score

Subseries 7: Works for Children’s Chorus

folder 24	Missa Juvenaliter (Mass for the Young) for Unison Voices, with Optional Percussion and Guitar (1969), manuscript
folder 25	Missa Juvenaliter (Mass for the Young), transparencies
folder 26	Missa Juvenaliter (Mass for the Young), copy 1
folder 27	Missa Juvenaliter (Mass for the Young), copy 2
folder 28	A Child’s Prayer for Children’s Voices and Piano on a text by Francis Thompson 1958), transparencies
folder 29	A Child’s Prayer for Children’s Voices and Piano, copy
folder 30	The Message of the Bells for Children’s Voices and Piano, manuscript (1967)
folder 31	The Message of the Bells, transparencies
folder 32	The Message of the Bells, copy 1
folder 33	The Message of the Bells, copy 2
folder 34	The Message of the Bells, copy 3
folder 35	“Why Do the Bells of Christmas Ring,” from Three Songs for Christmas (1958), copy

 

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Series 2: Instrumental Music

Subseries 1: Works for Orchestra

Box 5

folder 1	Balkan Rhapsody (also called “Bulgarian Rhapsody,” 1952), Full score, copyist’s copy, transparencies (separated to Box 9)
folder 2	Balkan Rhapsody, Full score, copyist’s copy, unbound print (separated to Box 9)
folder 3	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra scores (separated to Box 9)
folder 4	Balkan Rhapsody, Two pages of typed comments excerpted and translated from European reviews of Boris Kremenliev’s Balkan Rhapsody
folder 5	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, transparencies, Flute to French Horns
folder 6	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, transparencies, Trumpet to String Bass
folder 7	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 1 (Winds)
folder 8	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 1 (Perc., Harp)
folder 9	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 1 (Violin I, 9 parts)
folder 10	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 1 (Violin II, 8 parts)

Box 6

folder 1	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 1 (Viola, 6 parts)
folder 2	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 1 (Cello/Bass, 6 and 5 parts)
folder 3	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 2 (Winds)
folder 4	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 2 (Perc., Harp)
folder 5	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 2 (Violin I)
folder 6	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 2 (Violin II)
folder 7	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 2 (Viola)
folder 8	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra parts, Set 2 (Cello/Bass)

Box 7

folder 1	Crucifixion, on Paintings of Rico Lebrun (1952) for Wind Instruments, Organ, Piano, Basses, and Percussion. Suite adapted from the score to the film Crucifixion (separation sheet, transferred to box 10)
folder 2	Crucifixion, Orchestra parts, transparencies
folder 3	Crucifixion, Orchestra parts, Set 1 (with 4 perc., 4 string bass parts)
folder 4	Crucifixion, Orchestra parts, Set 2 (with 4 perc., 4 string bass parts)
folder 5	Crucifixion, Orchestra parts, Set 3 (with 4 perc., 4 string bass parts)
folder 6	Elegie: June 5, 1968, Orchestra full score, transparencies (separated to box 9)
folder 7	Elegie, Orchestra full scores, 10 copies, spiral separated to box 9)
folder 8	Elegie, Orchestra parts, transparencies (includes a letter of Kremenliev specifying the required number of parts, 4 percussion books, and strings: 16/14/12/10/8)

Box 8

folder 1	Elegie, Orchestra parts (Winds and Perc.)
folder 2	Elegie, Orchestra parts (Violin I)
folder 3	Elegie, Orchestra parts (Violin II)
folder 4	Elegie, Orchestra parts (Viola)
folder 5	Elegie, Orchestra parts (Cello/Bass)
folder 6	Overture (5’12”) for Orchestra, Composer’s autograph full score
folder 7	“Peasant Dance” from the opera The Bridge (1983), composer’s autograph manuscript (transferred to Oversize Box B)
folder 8	“Peasant Dance” from the opera The Bridge (1983), photocopy of above (transferred to Oversize Box B)
folder 9	Právo Horò (1940), Sketches (transferred to Oversize Box B)
folder 10	Právo Horò, Orchestra Score, transparencies
folder 11	Právo Horò, Orchestra Score, composer’s copy, many markings, some changes
folder 12	Právo Horò, Orchestra Score, composer’s copy?, some markings
folder 13	Právo Horò, Orchestra Score, composer’s copy?, a few markings
folder 14	Právo Horò, Orchestra Score, unmarked
folder 15	Právo Horò, Orchestra Parts (transparencies)
folder 16	Symphony No. 1 (Song Symphony) for Contralto and Orchestra (1941) (separated to Box 9
folder 17	Symphony No. 2 (unfinished) , Sketches

Box 9 (large)

folder 1	Balkan Rhapsody (sometimes also titled “Bulgarian Rhapsody,” 1952), Full score, copyist’s copy, transparencies
folder 2	Balkan Rhapsody, Full score, copyist’s copy, unbound print
folder 3	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra scores, bound copy
folder 4	Balkan Rhapsody, Orchestra scores, bound copy
folder 5	Symphony No. 1 (Song Symphony) for Contralto and Orchestra, Orchestra Score, transparencies
folder 6	Elegie, Orchestra Score, transparencies
folder 7	Elegie, Orchestra Score, 4 copies

Box 10 (large)

folder 1	Crucifixion, on Paintings of Rico Lebrun (1952) for Wind Instruments, Organ, Piano, Basses, and Percussion. Suite adapted from the score to the film. Orchestra Score, transparencies. Prologue 1. “Massacre of Innocents” 2. “Workmen of Death” 3. “Deposition”
folder 2	Crucifixion, Score, conductor’s copy, heavily marked, pp. 1-2 missing
folder 3	Crucifixion, Score, with 1 MS. page inserted at the beginning
folder 4	Crucifixion, Score, unmarked bound copy
folder 5	Crucifixion, Score, unmarked bound copy

Subseries 2: Works for Symphonic Band

Box 11 (large)

folder 1	Concerto for Piano and Symphonic Band (1949), holograph pencil sketch
folder 2	Concerto for Piano and Symphonic Band, piano part, manuscript
folder 3	Three Village Sketches (1949), full score, transparencies
folder 4	Three Village Sketches, 2 bound copies of full score
folder 5	Wilderness Road (1953), bound copy of full score 1. “The Great Smoky Mountains” 2. “Cherokee Fire Dance” 3. “Daniel Boone”

Box 11 (cont.)

Subseries 3: Works for Film, Radio, and Theater

folder 6	Crucifixion, pencil sketch (2 pages)
folder 7	The First Chance (1952), radio score, composer’s manuscript score and parts
folder 8	The Ghetto Story, film score (1958), composer’s autograph manuscript (transferred to Box 12)

Box 12

folder 1	The Ghetto Story, orchestra parts
folder 2	The Ghetto Story, chorus parts, transparencies
folder 3	The Ghetto Story, chorus parts, assorted cues
folder 4	The Ghetto Story, chorus parts, assorted cues
folder 5	Canned Magic, Music for a Training Film
folder 6	Incidental music to A Radio Production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband (1953), instrumental ensemble, full score, transparencies
folder 7	Music to An Ideal Husband, full score, bound copy of above
folder 8	Waltz from An Ideal Husband, arr. for full orchestra, composer’s autograph manuscript
folder 9	Waltz from An Ideal Husband, arr. for piano solo, 4 copies
folder 10	Music for Christmas, Radio Luxenbourg, 1944, holograph manuscipt
folder 11	Unidentified music for film, radio, or theater, orchestra parts
folder 12	Sketches, film- or theater-related
folder 13	Composer’s copy of a list of sequences and timings that relate to the film Crucifixion and the score written to accompany it. (See the three-movement symphonic suite that Kremenliev prepared from the film score. Crucifixion, box 10.)
folder 14	The Return of Ulysses, plot summary, notes, etc.
folder 15	Modern Music (TV program), idea and script, assorted cues for orchestra. Dated 1959.
folder 16	The Tell-Tale Heart, film score (1953), assorted cues

Subseries 4: Chamber and Instrumental Music

Box 13

folder 1	Adagio for Unaccompanied Flute (1950). Printed score.
folder 2	Chamber Piece for Flute and String Quartet. Ms.
folder 3	Divertimento for Violin and Cello. Bound print from transparencies. Dated 1965.
folder 4	Divertimento for Violin and Cello. Transparencies of score. 2 copies.
folder 5	Divertimento for Violin and Cello. Printed scores. Copies 1 and 2.
folder 6	Divertimento for Violin and Cello. Printed scores. Copies 3 and 4.
folder 7	Horo No. 3 for Violin and Piano. Ms. score and part.
folder 8	Horo No. 3 for Violin and Piano. Transparencies score and part.
folder 9	March for Flute and Drum (1953). 1-page ms.
folder 10	Poem for Unaccompanied Clarinet (1948). Transparency.
folder 11	Právo Horò for Violin and Piano. Ms. score.
folder 12	Quartet for Oboe Violin, Viola, and Cello (1950). Transparencies of score. 1. “The Green Hills” 2. “Children at Play” 3. “Tarantella”
folder 13	Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Cello. Printed score. Copy 1.
folder 14	Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Cello. Printed score. Copy 2.
folder 15	Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Cello. Printed score. Copy 3.
folder 16	Quartet for Saxophones, score, transparencies
folder 17	Quartet for Saxophones, copy of score
folder 18	Quartet for Saxophones, parts, transparencies
folder 19	Quartet for Saxophones, parts
folder 20	Romance (1956) for unidentified melodic instrument and piano, transparencies and copy of score
folder 21	Sonata for Flute and Piano. Copy 1 and 2 (2 printed sets of score and part). Folder includes an additional printed part.
folder 22	Sonata for Flute and Piano. Transparencies of score.
folder 23	Sonata for Horn and Piano. Transparencies of score and part.
folder 24	Sonata for Oboe. 1-page sketch.
folder 25	Sonata for String Bass and Piano (1966), photocopy of manuscript score and transparencies of score and part.
folder 26	Sonata for String Bass and Piano. Transparencies and copy of 1st mov.
folder 27	Sonata for String Bass and Piano. Transparencies of Bass part, movs. 1 and 2.
folder 28	Sonata for String Bass and Piano. Two incomplete scores.
folder 29	Sonata for String Bass and Piano. Score, copy 1 (ring-bound).
folder 30	Sonata for String Bass and Piano. Part, copy 1 (ring-bound).
folder 31	Sonata for String Bass and Piano. Score, copy 2 (ring-bound).
folder 32	Sonata for String Bass and Piano. Part, copy 2 (ring-bound).

Box 14

folder 1	Sonata for String Bass and Piano. Score, copy 3 (ring-bound).
folder 2	Sonata for String Bass and Piano. Part, copy 3 (ring-bound).
folder 3	Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Sketches
folder 4	Sonata for Trumpet and Piano. Sketches.
folder 5	Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1956). Printed score with corrections.
folder 6	Sonata for Viola and Piano. Sketches.
folder 7	Sonata for Viola and Piano. Draft.
folder 8	Sonata for Viola and Piano. Holograph of 1st mov. (rev. 1965)
folder 9	Sonata for Viola and Piano. Transparencies of score. Incomplete.
folder 10	String Quartet No. 1 (1934). Composer’s holograph ms. of first 3 movs.
folder 11	String Quartet No. 2 (1965). Printed score (Florence, Italy: Aldo Bruzzichelli, 1970). Composer’s “corrected copy.”
folder 12	String Quartet No. 2 (1965). Printed score (Florence, Italy: Aldo Bruzzichelli, 1970). 3 copies.
folder 13	String Quartet No. 2 (1965). Transparencies of parts.
folder 14	String Quartet No. 2 (1965). 1 complete set of parts, and 1 set of parts (mvts. 3 and 4 only).
folder 15	String Quartet No. 2 (1965). 2 complete sets of published parts (Florence, Italy: Aldo Bruzzichelli, 1970).
folder 16	String Quartet No. 2 (1965). 3 sets of parts.
folder 17	String Quartet No. 3 (“England, 1977”). 2-page sketch.
folder 18	Three Rhythmic Sketches for E-flat Alto Sax and Piano (1983). Sketches.
folder 19	Three Rhythmic Sketches for E-flat Alto Sax and Piano (1983). Composer’s holograph draft ms.
folder 20	Three Rhythmic Sketches for E-flat Alto Sax and Piano (1983). Composer’s pencil ms.
folder 21	Three Rhythmic Sketches for E-flat Alto Sax and Piano (1983). Transparencies of score.
folder 22	Three Rhythmic Sketches for E-flat Alto Sax and Piano (1983). Score and part.
folder 23	Trio for Flute, Clarinet, and Bassoon. Ms. and sketches.
folder 24	Trio for Flute, Clarinet, and Bassoon. Parts.
folder 25	Tune for Saxophone, Horn, and Strings, manuscript full score
folder 26	Tune for Saxophone, Horn, and Strings, parts (transparencies)
folder 27	Variations on a Greek Folksong. Brass Quartet. Sketches.
folder 28	Variations on a Macedonian Folksong for Cello and Piano. Pencil sketches.
folder 29	Variations on a Macedonian Folksong for Cello and Piano (first version, 1984). Holograph pencil score.
folder 30	Variations on a Macedonian Folksong for Cello and Piano (second version, 1985). Holograph pencil score.

Subseries 5: Works for Keyboard (unidentified, harpsichord, organ, and piano)

Box 15

folder 1	Sketches, mostly unidentified
folder 2	Sketches, mostly unidentified
folder 3	“Romance,” for unidentified keyboard instrument (1960), copy
folder 4	“Tango Pathetique,” sketch of a work for unidentified keyboard instrument
folder 5	Suite for Harpsichord: Prelude, Aria, Dance (1951), transparencies
folder 6	Suite for Harpsichord, III (rev. 1966), pencil draft of third movement
folder 7	Suite for Harpsichord: Prelude, Aria, Dance (rev. 1966), transparencies
folder 8	Suite for Harpsichord (rev. 1966), copy of above
folder 9	“Wedding March” for Organ, transparencies and copy
folder 10	“Wedding March” for Organ, transparencies
folder 11	Prelude and Toccata for Organ, transparencies and copy
folder 12	Six Organ Pieces, holograph manuscript
folder 13	Six Organ Pieces (1985), two bound copies
folder 14	Prelude No. 2 for Organ (1963), holograph pencil manuscript
folder 15	Sketches (for an organ work)
folder 16	Prelude for Piano, transparencies
folder 17	Piano Sonata (1962), reverse transparencies
folder 18	Piano Sonata (1962), 2 copies of the 2nd and 3rd movs. only, and 1 copy of the 3rd mov. with penciled corrections
folder 19	“Asymmetric III” for Piano, sketches
folder 20	“Asymmetric III” for Piano (1962), bound copy. On title page also called “Sonata.” See also 3rd mov. of Piano Sonata (1962).
folder 21	Five Piano Compositions in Asymmetric Meters, 1st Mov., transparencies
folder 22	Three Preludes for Piano, transparencies
folder 23	Little Etude for Piano (1954), transparencies
folder 24	Piano works, individual movements from untitled work, transparencies
folder 25	“Improvisation I” (1984), transcription for piano of the fourth of Six Organ Pieces, manuscript
folder 26	“Improvisation I,” photocopies of above

Subseries 6: Pedagogical Works for Piano

folder 27	Individually named character pieces (Prelude; Improvisation; Indian War Dance; Oriental Melody; Canon; Friends; Funny, Funny, Mr. Beethoven), pencil manuscripts
folder 28	Individually named character pieces (7), transparencies of above
folder 29	Individually named character pieces (7), copies
folder 30	Seven pedagogical pieces (1. After School; 2. Evening Song; 3. Holyday in Italy; 4. Dialogue; 5. Sunset; 6. Canon; 7. Irish Jig), pencil manuscripts and copies
folder 31	“Cherokee Fire Dance”
folder 32	Five Short Pieces for Young Pianists, 3 copies
folder 33	“Four Dances (I. Balkan Dance; II. Courante; III. Norwegian Dance; IV. Welsh Country Dance), Pencil manuscripts
folder 34	“Grandfather’s Dance”
folder 35	“Holiday in Naples”
folder 36	“In a Gypsy Camp”
folder 37	“Indian War Dance” (a different piece from that above)
folder 38	“Irish Dance”
folder 39	“Irish Jig”
folder 40	“Little Etudes”
folder 41	National Guild of Piano Teachers. Pages from Guild Repertoire: Piano Music Appropriate for the Auditions of the NGPT (Summy-Birchard, 1961). Four of the pieces “arranged by Boris Kremenliev.”
folder 42	“Polka: Bohemian Folk Dance”
folder 43	“Shadows on the River” for piano, transparencies and copy
folder 44	“Sierra Sunset”
folder 45	“Sunset: An Old French Folksong,” 2 copies
folder 46	Six Miniatures (Leeds Music Corp., 1955), 3 copies
folder 47	“Song of the Mountaineer”
folder 48	“Three Preludes,” No. 1
folder 49	“Two Folk Dances”
folder 50	“Two Folksongs for Evening”
folder 51	“Yugoslavian Dances”
folder 52	“Round and Round,” 3 copies
folder 53	[Two Bulgarian Dances] “Каква мома видeхь Mамо”; “Овчрь Македонецъ”

Subseries 7: Arrangements of Works by Other Composers

Box 16

folder 1	J. S. Bach, Inventio 1 from Inventionen und Sinfonien, arr. for keyboard
folder 2	Lully, Courante, transcribed for violin , cello, and piano (1956), transparencies of score and parts
folder 3	Lully, Courante, copy of score
folder 4	Machaut, La Messe de Nostre Dame
folder 5	Ravel, La Vallée des cloches from Miroirs Suite, adapted for orchestra, holograph pencil score
folder 6	Scriabine [sic], Prelude for the Left Hand, Op. 9, no. 1, transcribed for English Horn and String Orchestra (1948), holograph pencil score
folder 7	Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712), Chorale-Prelude, transcribed for Brass Quartet (1956), transparencies of score and parts
folder 8	Zachow, Chorale-Prelude, copy of score and parts

 

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Series 3: Miscellaneous Assorted Sketches and Notes

folder 9	unidentified ms.
folder 10	Sketches, unidentified
folder 11	Sketches, unidentified
folder 12	Sketches, unidentified
folder 13	Sketches, unidentified
folder 14	Sketches, unidentified
folder 15	Sketches, unidentified (large size, transferred to Oversize Box B)

OVERSIZE BOX A (Box 17)

folder 1	The Bridge (opera, 1983), draft full score (incomplete)
folder 2	“Spendthrift,” 2-page sketch for an orchestral version of the song “Spendthrift” for voice and piano, includes an additional page of unidentified sketches
folder 3	Facing West from California Shores, holograph full score
folder 4	Facing West from California Shores, Full score transparencies
folder 5	Once to Every Man and Nation, bound full score, copy 1
folder 6	Once to Every Man and Nation, bound full score, copy 2

OVERSIZE BOX B (Box 18)

folder 1	III. Húyilkum, unfinished orchestral draft
folder 2	“Peasant Dance” from The Bridge, orchestra, composer’s autograph full score
folder 3	“Peasant Dance” from The Bridge, photocopy of above
folder 4	Právo Horò, Sketches
folder 5	Sketches, unidentified