Frederick Slee Collection of Manuscript Scores

Brief biographical information about Frederick Slee.

Air and Variations for string quartet

• 1 pencil score
• 2 sets of pencil parts
• 1 set of parts marked "Last"
• 1 set of parts marked "original"
• 1 set of pencil parts
• 1 pencil score in sketch form

Air varié for cello

• 1 ink score
• 1 ink score marked "Revised Nov. 10, 1935"
• 2 ink parts

Bagatelle for violin and piano

• 1 ink score
• 1 ink part (violin)

Bravery for voice and piano
Text by Robert Frost: first line - "Have I not walked without an upward look of caution"

• 2 ink scores (1 score is the original, with revisions marked)
• 2 photostatic copies of score
• 1 vocal part

Chorale for string quartet SEE Sarabande for string quartet

Cocoon for voice and piano

• 2 ink scores with slightly different markings
• 2 photocopies of score
• 1 ink part

Dialogue for soprano, mezzo-soprano, violin and viola
Words from the Russian; music adapted from Grieg's orchestral version of a folk-song.
First line of text: "Come out of doors, oh Mother"
Original title of poem: "Glamour"

• 1 ink score
• 1 pencil score
• 1 set of ink parts, including both voice parts
• ink violin and viola parts

Eclogue for violin and piano

• 2 ink scores in different hands
• 2 ink violin parts

Facets : trio for piano, violin and violoncello
Title on folder: Fantasia for piano, violin and cello

• 1 ink score
• 1 ink score titled Fantasia, with numerous pencil revisions
• 2 photostatic copies of score
• 1 ink violin part
• 1 ink violoncello part
• 3 photostatic copies of violin part
• 3 photostatic copies of violoncello part

Fantasia for solo violin

• 1 ink score

Fête galante : Garden Party for voice and piano
English text and setting by Cal de Cott (Slee)

• 1 ink score
• 1 photostatic copy of score
• 1 photostatic copy of score, with mss. inserts

Gavotte for string quartet

• 1 pencil score
• 1 pencil piano score
• 4 ink parts

Golden Myth for voice and piano
Text by Eugene Ginsberg
First line of text: "I found a country long ago"

• 1 ink score
• 3 photostatic copies of score

Gulf Stream for voice and piano
Text by Walter W. Stephen
First line of text: "Warm wind, and bird fish darting"

• 1 ink score, with changes
• 2 photostatic copies of score

Five Idylls for piano

• 2 ink scores, in different states

Last Night I Stole Away Alone for voice and piano
Text by Celia Thaxter

• 1 ink score
• 1 ink score, with manuscript inserts and pencil changes; marked "Revised Aug. 1943"
• 1 ink vocal part

Last Night I Stole Away Alone for voice and orchestra
Text by Celia Thaxter
Orchestration by Frederick W. Kraft

• 1 ink score, marked "3/28/19??"
• 23 ink orchestral parts
• 2 ink scores of the version with piano accompaniment

Lay of the Fascinating Midget for voice and piano
"Her beau August ? 1898"

• 1 pencil piano score

Litany for voice and piano
First line of text: "The hours I spent with thee, dear heart"

• 1 ink score
• 2 photostatic copies of score

Love Ye the Lord for tenor, organ, and SATB chorus
Text: Psalm 31

• 1 ink score
• 5 photostatic copies of score, with manuscript inserts

Madrigal for two voices
Text by Austin Dobson

• 2 ink scores, with pencil revisions
• 1 ink score, originally titled "Phillis", dated Sept. 1941

Metaphor for voice and piano
Text "after Shakespeare"

• 1 ink score dated Aug. 1942 in colophon, 1944 on title page
• 1 ink score dated Aug. 1944

Monody for voice and piano
Text by Jose Villa Garcia. First line of text: "I can no more hear love's voice"

• 1 ink score
• 4 photostatic copies of score
• 3 photostatic copies of voice part, with manuscript inserts

Music for Tenor Voice and Strings (Dein Bildniss wunderselig=Thine image pure and smiling) for tenor voice and string quartet
Text by Eichendorff

• 1 pencil score marked "first draft"
• 1 ink set of parts, including voice part
• 1 incomplete pencil score

• 1 ink score
• 1 ink set of parts, including vocal part
• 1 ink vocal part with revisions

Navarro's Danse Espagnole for orchestra
Other title: Spanish dances

• 1 ink score
• 1 incomplete ink score
• 9 ink parts

• 1 pencil score of related work(?) "Two Spanish Dances by Navarro"

The Night Light for voice and piano
Text by Robert Frost.
"Limonsin folk-song, harmonised by Ravel, adapted by Cal de Cott".

• 1 ink score, with repeat written out
• 1 ink using repeat signs
• 1 ink voice part

Pastoral for voice and piano
Text by François Coppée; English translation by Cal de Cott.

• 1 ink score
• 2 photostatic copies of score, with manuscript inserts

Phantoms for voice and piano

• 1 ink score
• 4 photostatic copies of score

Piano Trio in A

• 1 ink score, marked "Nov. 1939"
• 2 ink parts (violin and violoncello)

Poet for voice and piano
Text by Gustav Davidson.

• 1 ink score, marked "Revised April 1949"

Prelude and Fugue [in F major] for string quartet

• 1 ink score
• 4 ink parts

Quartette in C [spine title] for string quartet

• 1 bound ink score

Reminiscence for organ
"Adagio from Suite in F"

• 1 photostatic copy of score
• 1 negative photostatic copy in different state from above positive copy

Reminiscence for violin and piano
Same work as above title.

• 1 ink score
• 1 ink part

Romance in G for piano and violin

• "First draft" "May 1943"
  • 1 ink score
  • 1 ink part
• "Second draft" "Jan 1940 [sic]"
  • 1 ink score
  • 1 ink part
• "July 1946"
  • 1 ink score
  • 1 ink part

Ritournelle for voice and piano

• 1 negative photostatic copy of score

Sarabande for string quartet

• "Feb. 1944"
  • 1 ink score
  • 4 ink parts
• "Nov. 1943" (viola part marked "April 1941")
  • 1 ink score, with numerous pencil revisions
  • 4 ink parts, with manuscript inserts

Scherzo for string quartet

• 1 pencil score
• 4 pencil parts

The Sea for voice and piano
Text by Theodore Gianakoulis.

• 1 pencil score
• 1 ink score, marked "Franck-Slee" in caption
• 2 photostatic copies of score with "Franck-Slee" marking

Six Songs by Alexnader von Fielitz (?) , op. 26 for voice and piano. No. 6: Auf dunken Wogen weil 'ich allein
Not by Slee?

• 1 ink score

Sun of the Sleepless for voice and piano
Text by Lord Byron.

• 1 ink score
• 2 photostatic copies of score

Variations on a Hymn Tune for solo viola

• 3 ink scores in different states

Variations on an Old Dutch Melody (1626) for string quartet

• 1 ink score, marked "Sept. 1943"
• 1 pencil score of alternate version of variation 6
• 4 ink parts

Envelope of miscellaneous material:

• 4 manuscript violin parts of works by Haydn, Mozart, and Bach
• 1 unidentified piano score excerpt
• 1 manuscript recorder lesson

Typescript essay titled From Wagner to Schoenberg.

July 1999 Music Library Staff musique@acsu.buffalo.edu http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/music/spcoll/sleeinv.html