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Title

  • Eric Dolphy collection,

Summary

  • The collection is comprised of approximately 250 lead sheets, scores, sketches, and exercises for works composed by Dolphy and others. The collection includes holograph scores, sketches, and parts for Outward bound, Out there, and Out to lunch, the latter widely considered to be Dolphy's magnum opus. There are also three sketchbooks in Dolphy's hand filled with lead sheets, sketches, and studies. The collection also contains printed and manuscript works by Gunther Schuller, Charles Mingus, Jaki Byard, and other composers, and a promotional program chronicling a concert, "Concert Four" (1962), with Gunther Schuller and featuring Dolphy.

Names

  • Dolphy, Eric
  • Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979
  • Schuller, Gunther

Headings

  • -  Dolphy, Eric--Manuscripts
  • -  Dolphy, Eric
  • -  Composers--United States
  • -  Jazz musicians--United States
  • -  Jazz
  • -  Music--Manuscripts--United States
  • -  Saxophonists--United States

Genre

  • Lead sheets
  • Scores

Notes

  • -  Organized into the following series: I. Music, II. Miscellany, 1962.
  • -  Eric Dolphy Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.
  • -  Gift; James Newton; 2014.
  • -  Eric Dolphy (b. June 20, 1928, in Los Angeles, Calif.; d. June 29, 1964, in Berlin) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist.
  • -  Collection material in English.
  • -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu014006

Medium

  • around 250 items (6 boxes, 5.0 linear feet)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ML31 .D67

Repository

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2014565637

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Chicago citation style:

Dolphy, Eric, Charles Mingus, and Gunther Schuller. Eric Dolphy collection. 1939.

APA citation style:

Dolphy, E., Mingus, C. & Schuller, G. (1939) Eric Dolphy collection.

MLA citation style:

Dolphy, Eric, Charles Mingus, and Gunther Schuller. Eric Dolphy collection. 1939.