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Series Location
Description
Scope and content
Collection Contents
Series 1: Music Manuscripts
Series
Series Location
Jess Meeker Collection, 1911-1997
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Series 1: Music Manuscripts
Description
11 boxes
Scope and content
Series contains the original and copied music manuscripts of Jess Meeker written while Music Director at Jacob's Pillow. Also includes published sheet music by other composers.
Collection Contents
16 Dances in 16 Rhythms by Ted Shawn, Music by Jess Meeker, 1956, Folder 9
"Adagio, Chopin Prelude" (choreography), , Folder 29
"Afro-Cubana - 2", , Folder 9
"Alice in Wonderland", 1964, Folder 4
"Alice in Wonderland", 1973, Folder 7
"Amethyst" (choreography), , Folder 2
"Andante" Reconstructed, 1993, Folder 9
"Arm and Body Movements" Movement by Ted Shawn, , Folder 12
"Arms" (choreography), , Folder 19
"Bach Invention - Two Voice" (choreography), , Folder 36
"Ballet Combinations" (see below), , Folder 23
Barton Mumaw Dances (Fetish, Pierrot, Banner Blarer, Where-er you walk), , Folder 10
"Blueness" and "Peter Pan Suite", 1975, Folder 5
"Cage of Innocence", , Folder 11
"Cage of Innocence" Piano II, , Folder 12
"Cage of Innocence" piano solo, , Folder 10
"Changes" "Walking - Running - Leaping", , Folder 24
"A classic adagio to 'Dithyrambe' by Josef Strauss (choreography), , Folder 27
Combinations 1938 & 1939 (Jess Meeker), Combinations 1938, 1939 (Mary Campbell), 1938, Folder 12
"Concert Waltz", 1960, Folder 13
"Constellar Disaster" Jess Meeker, 1978, Folder 4
Cover sheet for "Album of Standard Waltzes" and 1 sheet, , Folder 34
"Deductible", 1955, Folder 4
"Dithyrambe", , Folder 28
"Dithyrambe", , Folder 30
"Dithyrambe", , Folder 31
"Do Tigers Ever Bite Rings", , Folder 11
Edward MacDowell, "Polonaise", , Folder 7
"El Jaleo" (choreography), , Folder 26
"El Jaleo" "Spanish Dance by Fabian Rehfeld", , Folder 27
Erik Satie, "Gnossienne", , Folder 18
Ernest Alberti, "L'Extase", inscribed "Ballet Arms", , Folder 17
Eva Sikelianos pieces, , Folder 23
"The Evolution of Prayer" (choreography - Ted Shawn; music - Jess Meeker), , Folder 25
"Fairy Foot" Jr. Ballet, 1970, Folder 1
"Famous Women", 1960, Folder 1
"Fetish" and "Resilience", , Folder 5
"First Primer in Modern Dance" by Steffi Nossen, music composed by Jess Meeker (text only), 1961, Folder 9
"Foot at Knee", , Folder 15
"For children's stories" suite for piano, 1935, Folder 9
"For Nel Roos", 1963, Folder 6
"Four American Dances" (Sheep and Goat, Battle Hymn), , Folder 12
"Four Dances from 'O Libertad'" for piano, the music by Jess Meeker, , Folder 33
Frederic Chopin, "Preludes", , Folder 1
George Frederic Handel, "Sarabande", , Folder 18
"A Giddy Girl" (choreography), , Folder 23
"A Giddy Girl" Jacques Ibert, , Folder 23
"Gracious March" Franz Shubert Waltzes, , Folder 3
"Grand Port de Bras" (choreography), , Folder 22
"Grand Port de Bras" with photos pasted to the manuscript, , Folder 21
"The Great Blueness", , Folder 3
"Gypsy", , Folder 14
Hanon exercises, , Folder 4
Harvey Loomis, "Incense" and "Yogi", 1973, Folder 8
"High School Dream Ballet", 1958, Folder 8
"Indienne" Lily Strickland, , Folder 16
"Jacob's Ladder", , Folder 25
"Jacob's Ladder - A Negro Spiritual" (Narrative), , Folder 18
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival program, 14th Season- 1955 - Fourth Week, , Folder 11
"Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival program, Twelfth Season - 1953 - Eighth Week, , Folder 23
"Jazz Suite" (Remnants of Grand Central Ballet), 1986, Folder 2
"Jazz Suites", , Folder 8
Jess Meeker, "Contemplation", , Folder 8
Jess Meeker, "Dance of the Ages" (reconstructed 1987), 1938, Folder 22
Jess Meeker, "Dervish", , Folder 16
Jess Meeker, "Evolution of Prayer", , Folder 25
Jess Meeker, "For Dale", 1980, Folder 10
Jess Meeker, "Four Dances from 'O Libertad'", , Folder 3
Jess Meeker, "Ghosts" piano solo, , Folder 9
Jess Meeker, "Kinetic Molpai", , Folder 20
Jess Meeker, "Kinetic Molpai", 1935, Folder 21
Jess Meeker, "Kinetic Molpai" "Labor Symphony", , Folder 19
Jess Meeker, "Kinetic Molpai" piano II, , Folder 6
Jess Meeker, "Mother Goose" piano solo - 1976 version, 1976, Folder 13
Jess Meeker, "Mouvment Naif", , Folder 4
Jess Meeker, "Opening Piece" (Composed for Steffi Nossen), 1946, Folder 8
Jess Meeker, "Poet's Insert" "Dance Suite", , Folder 10
Jess Meeker, "Polonaise Suite", , Folder 12
Jess Meeker, "Polonaise Suite" 1st piano, , Folder 12
Jess Meeker, "Prayer" "I hear thy voice" "Twenty Fourth Psalm", , Folder 5
Jess Meeker, "Primitive Rhythms", , Folder 8
Jess Meeker, "Primitive Rhythms", , Folder 5
Jess Meeker, "Primitive Rhythms", , Folder 11
Jess Meeker, "Primitive Rhythms (piano and orch)", , Folder 8
Jess Meeker, "Sir Alva & Wicked Wizard", 1983, Folder 13
Jess Meeker, "Sixteen Rhythms", , Folder 3
Jess Meeker, "Ted Shawn Labor Symphony" revised and arranged for two pianos by composer in 1985, piano II, 1985, Folder 13
Jess Meeker, "What Ho, Fides Ballet", , Folder 1
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Arioso", , Folder 2
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Choral Prelude" Nun Danket alle Gott, Arr. for 2 Pianos, , Folder 8
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Eight Organ Choral-Preludes", , Folder 7
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (piano solo), , Folder 6
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Organ Works", , Folder 4
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Partiten" and "Praeludium III", , Folder 2
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Preludium VI", , Folder 3
Johann Sebastian Bach, "The Well-Tempered Clavier" Book I, , Folder 37
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ, , Folder 1
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" (for piano), , Folder 5
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Two-Part Inventions for Pianoforte", , Folder 35
Johann Sebastian Bach, "Two -part Inventions for the piano", Johann Sebastian Bach, "Eight Organ Chorale-Preludes", , Folder 14
"Kites", , Folder 11
"Kukulcan", circa 1968, Folder 6
"La Folletta" by Tommaso Marchesi (piano solo arrangement by George Bagrash), , Folder 23
"La Malaguena y el Torero (Spanish Duet)", , Folder 29
"La Telesita", 1958, Folder 6
"La Zingana" Carl Bohm, , Folder 5
"La Zingana" (choreography), , Folder 6
"Labor Symphony", , Folder 1
"Ladies in Waiting, 14th Century Court" piano solo, Jess Meeker, also "Kites" (unfinished) and "In the Park", , Folder 10
"LAL - A Stick Nautch" (choreography), , Folder 23
"Lal - A Stick Nautch" (choreography), , Folder 28
" Land unto my feet" with Walter Terry, 1980, Folder 9
"Leaping Study", , Folder 26
"Legend of Johnny Faa", 1961, Folder 11
Leo Delibes, "Radha" score and part, , Folder 11
Lily Strickland, "Cosmic Dance of Siva" (orchestration), , Folder 6
Lily Strickland, "Songs of India", , Folder 11
Lily Strickland, "Songs of India", , Folder 23
"The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", 1979, Folder 5
"The Little Witch", 1965, Folder 6
"Long Adagio", , Folder 30
"The Lorax" and "Horton Hears a Who", , Folder 8
Ludwig van Beethoven, "Moonlight Sonata", , Folder 3
"Madeline", 1977, Folder 12
"Magic Flower", 1962, Folder 10
"Mam'selle", , Folder 9
"Many Moons", 1958, Folder 2
Mario Tarenghi, "Serenata" orchestration for Serenata Morisca, 1918, Folder 1
"Mary Magdalene goes to the Tomb" lyrics, , Folder 8
Meeker, "Four Dances from 'O Libertad'", , Folder 1
Meeker, Four Dances from "O Libertad", 1938, Folder 4
"The Mighty Mikko" Act I, 1971, Folder 10
"Mighty Mikko" Act I, 1961, Folder 15
"Modern Dance Record", , Folder 10
"Mother Goose", , Folder 9
"Mother Goose" Two piano arrangement, 1980, Folder 2
"Motherless Child, Polka, Reunion Piece", 1955, Folder 5
"Mrs. Pigglewiggles Cures", 1976, Folder 7
"Muses" Season 1959, 1959, Folder 6
"Music for Dancing", , Folder 7
"Numbers, Shapes, Carousel", , Folder 3
"O Libertad - Act I" Choreography by Ted Shawn 1936, Music by Jess Meeker, reconstructed on an NEA grant, 1989-90, 1989 – 1990, Folder 16
"O Libertad - Act II" and "Molpai" piano solo, , Folder 3
"Old Viennese Waltz" by Franz Mittler (typed choreography taped to the back), , Folder 17
Ottorino Respighi, "Tre Preludi" [O Brother Sun and Sister Moon, A Study of St. Francis], 1921, Folder 9
Ottorino Respighi, "Tre Preludi" (St. Francis) [O Brother Sun and Sister Moon], , Folder 17
"Pas de Basque series", , Folder 32
"Pas de Basque series" (choreography), , Folder 31
Peter Illich Tchaikovsky "Walzer aus dem Ballet Dornroschen" [Sleeping Beauty], , Folder 14
"Plain Princess", 1959, Folder 2
"Plastique", , Folder 4
"Polonaise Suite" 2nd piano, , Folder 4
"Primitive Rhythms" (choreography), , Folder 25
R. Rigo, "Serenade", , Folder 5
"Racial Types of Walking", , Folder 16
"Racial Types of Walking" (Ted Shawn - Class Exercise), , Folder 13
"Record I", , Folder 4
"Record II", , Folder 6
"Record III", , Folder 7
"Record IV", , Folder 8
"Red Radiance" (choreoography), , Folder 15
"Red Radiance" waltz for piano by Jess Meeker, , Folder 14
"Releve Exercise" (choreography), , Folder 1
"Releve Series", , Folder 2
"Rhythms", , Folder 13
Robert Schumann, "Soaring" "Traumerei", , Folder 14
Robert Vollstedt "Jolly Fellows" Waltz (piano), , Folder 22
Roy Spaulding Stoughton, "Red and Gold Sari", , Folder 10
"Salud au monde" ballet, , Folder 5
"Scales of Lightness" (choreography), , Folder 19
"Scales of Lightness" (Forget Me Not by Allan MacBeth), , Folder 20
Selections from George Frederic Handel, Edvard Grieg, Pietro Mascagni, Jules Massenent, and Felix Mendelssohn, , Folder 15
"Serenade" Enrico Toselli, , Folder 10
"Shakespeare Ballet" (composed for Steffi 20th Anniversary at Stratford Theater), 1956, Folder 1
"Shawn Fundamental Books I & II" (see below), , Folder 25
"Shawn Men's Group Music" folder, , Folder 2
"Shawn's Swinging and Stretching Set", , Folder 25
"Sheep and Goat", , Folder 7
"Siddhas of the Upper Air" (for Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn's 50th Wedding Anniversary), , Folder 2
"Sir Alva & Wicked Wizard", 1962, Folder 11
Spanish Techniques, Development, Primitive Rhythms, Viennese Waltz" choreography - Ted Shawn, , Folder 22
"Spear Dance Japonesque" compiled by Louis Horst, , Folder 2
"Swinging and Stretching Set" (choreography), , Folder 25
"Tabor Rhythms", , Folder 7
Ted Shawn Dances (Bach "Ich Ruf Zu Dir", Sheep and Goat, Nobody Knows, Dervish, Divine Idiot, Gnossienne, St. Francis, Siva, , Folder 15
Ted Shawn, "Fundamental Training Exercises," Music supplement by Jess Meeker (music only), , Folder 10
Ted Shawn, "Fundamental Training Exercises," Music supplement by Jess Meeker (text only), , Folder 9
"Ted Shawn's Thirty New Ballet Technique Combinations - Notes - Page 2", , Folder 23
"Teen Age Record" "Record Music", , Folder 3
"Tension & Relation No. 3" Music by Jess Meeker, , Folder 25
"Three Prayers (in Labanotation)" Choreography by Ted Shawn, Music arranged by Jess Meeker, 1950, Folder 24
"Tillers of the Soil", , Folder 3
"To Jess: Thanks!!!! From Alonzo [Rivera]and the boys and girls" (handmade card/drawing with signatures), , Folder 5
"Trois Valses Brillantes", , Folder 7
"Turkey in the Straw", , Folder 21
"Turkey in the Straw" (choreography), , Folder 20
"Turkey in the Straw" "Jacob's Ladder" "Worker's Songs", , Folder 25
"Two Adagios & Scherzo" from Old W.T.B." "I Hear Thy Voice", , Folder 7
"Two Hearts", , Folder 33
"U.N. Ballet" November 1956, 1956, Folder 7
Untitled, , Folder 6
Untitled, , Folder 3
Untitled, , Folder 23
Untitled (andante), , Folder 23
"Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty" Peter Illich Tchaikovsky - Alexander Siloti, , Folder 4
"Wanderer's Lied" A study in the relation of body Rise and Fall to melody - by Ted Shawn (choreography), , Folder 12
"What Thomas An Buile Said In A Pub" Words - James Stephens, Music - Jess Meeker, , Folder 1
"The White Deer", 1961, Folder 11
"Wizard of Oz", 1975, Folder 14
"Yellow Ribbon", , Folder 15