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Preliminary Inventory of the Robert Ward Papers, 1950s-1998 and undated

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Descriptive Summary

Title
Robert Ward Papers, 1950s-1998 and undated
Creator
Ward, Robert, 1917-
Extent
33.1 Linear Feet
3349 Items
Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
However, some of the additions to this collection are not immediately accessible, because they require further processing before use.
In addition, patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.
Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Robert Ward Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Robert Ward Papers was received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a gift in 1998 and 2001.
Processing Information
Processed by Don Sechler, Arístides Llaneza, Eric Hanson, and other RBMSCL staff
Completed April 13, 1998, January 4, 1999, and August 3, 2001
Encoded by Arístides Llaneza, Eric Hanson, and Ruth E. Bryan
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note

Composer of operas and other works who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1962. Chancellor of the N. C. School of the Arts and a faculty member at Columbia and Duke Universities.

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Collection Overview

Scores and score sketches, correspondence, scrapbooks, research and information files, writings and speeches by Ward, as well as photographs and other materials documenting Robert Ward's life and work. Musical works covered include the operas Abelard and Heloise and The Crucible. (1998-0196: 2500 items, 8.0 lf. 1998-0564: 700 items, 22.6 lf, ca. 1950s-1980s)
The addition consists of primarily scores, program notes, libretti, sketches and other working papers for several of Ward's compositions, especially Roman Fever,Sacred Canticles,Appalachian Ditties and Dances,Sacred Songs for Pantheist, and Songs for Ravenscroft. Also includes several manuscript copies and seven audiocassette tapes of musical compositions by others, including Young Gil Blas by Ernesto Ferreri, Bellarocca by Melissa Malouf and James Legg, and America's Going to the Dickens! by Christopher Coleman. (2001-0105, 148 items, 2.6 linear feet, ca. 1980s-1998 and undated)
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Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
List of Series in Collection
Accession 1998-0196
Accession 1998-0564
Accession 2001-0105
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Preliminary Description of Unprocessed Collection

Accession 1998-0196

Box 1
Lady from Colorado, supplementary material
Lady from Colorado, former drafts
Abelard and Heloise, photographs of Charlotte Opera production
Crucible, photographs from Korean production
Carmen, miscellaneous materials from Durham production
Duke Archives
Winterfest
70th celebration
70th birthday letters, etc.
"Dialogue on the Tides of Time"
First Performance (various pieces ca. 1991); Recent Publicity and Programs
Crucible, 1985-1986
Opera, The Crucible
Opera, Claudia Legare
Chamber Works
Opera, He Who Gets Slapped (Pantaloon)
Crucible, 1st Performance 1961 Oct.-City Center; March 1962
List and bio of composers, 1983-1984
Durham Symphony programs and reviews
Miscellaneous-news items from Duke students, etc.
Opera, Abelard and Heloise
Orchestral Works (various)
70th Birthday Celebration
Birthday Celebration, address and letters
Winterfest, 1985-1986,and Encounters
Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
Untitled folders and unfoldered material (bulk of this box)
Includes various programs, photographs, clippings, and magazines, and journals.
Box 2
Duplicate guest appearances
Miscellaneous letters, 1976
Proofs (photographic)
Publicity, reviews (extra copies)
1950 (photographs)
Letters, 1977
Letters, 1975
Oakwood High Band
Seoul Opera Group
Letters to save
Peabody-doctorate
Mr. [Eugene] Ormandy (autographed photograph)
Untitled folders and unfoldered material (bulk of this box)
Includes various programs, photographs, clippings, and magazines and journals, scores, awards and certificates
Box 3
Untitled notebook of letters, 1940s
Speeches and articles
The Crucible in Korea, 1985
Abelard and Heloise
American Participant Program, USIA
Speeches-Articles-Ward
Guest appearances
Opera, Minutes Till Midnight
Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra
Sonic Structure
Sacred Songs for Pantheists
Organ, Celebration of God in Nature
Symphony #4
Sketch-libretto and vocal score; revision of Lady from Colorado
Michael Charry
Minutes Till Midnight   (2 folders)
Sets, pictures, Lady from Colorado
Crucible, Stambler/Ward
Crucible-Pennsylvania Opera Theatre
Sketch and copy of original MS, Images of God
Untitled folders and unfoldered material
Includes various programs, photographs, clippings, awards and certificates.
Box 4
Crucible Pictures
Lady from Colorado (libretto)
Bath County Rhapsody (score and parts, print copy, sketches and MS)
Appalachian Ditties and Dances (masters)
By the Way of Memories Full Score (original)
Serenade for Mallarmé MS, sketches, printing masters, score and parts
He Who Gets Slapped, NCSA Production (photograph)
Prairie Overture for Concert Band (score)
First String Quartet (score)
Lady From Colorado (libretto)
Sketch, Lady From Colorado
Untitled folders and unfoldered material
Includes various scores, photograph albums, and scrapbooks
Box 5
Sketches-original MS and copies, Second Sonata for Violin and Piano
Lady From Colorado (libretto)
Various print items, journals and books
Oversize materials
Box 6
Mainly scores but also a few performance posters and awards

Accession 1998-0564

Box 1
Symphonies 1-2
Box 2
Symphonies 3-4
Box 3
Symphonies 5-6
Box 4
First Symphonic Set- Four Abstractions
Box 5
Second Symphonic Set- Sorrow of Mydath
Box 6
Abelard and Heloise
Box 7
Abelard and Heloise-Sketches
Box 8
The Crucible-Full Score
Box 9
The Crucible-Scores, Prints, Set Drawings
Box 10
The Crucible-Sketches
Box 11
The Crucible-Clippings and programs
Box 12
Claudia Legare
Box 13
Claudia Legare - Sketches
Box 14
He Who Gets Slapped - Scores, Libretti
Box 15
He Who Gets Slapped-Sketches, etc.
Box 16
Lady Kate-Original Score, Revised Full Score
Box 17
Earth Shall Be Fair
Box 18
Minutes Till Midnight
Box 19
Minutes Till Midnight
Box 20
First Harvest-First String Quartet
Box 21
Images of God
Box 22
That Wondrous Night-Yankee Overture
Box 23
Hush'd be the Camps-Hymn to the Night
Box 24
The Promised Land-The Rolling 7th
Box 25
Sweet Freedom's Song
Box 26
Sacred Songs for P.-Scherzo
Box 27
Dialogue on the Tides of Time-Divertimento for Orchestra
Box 28
Just as You Were-Life of Riley
Box 29
Ode-Processional March
Box 30
Invocation and Tacotta-Jubilation
Box 31
Energetically- Fiesta Processional
Box 32
Adagio and Allegro- Celebrations of God in Nature
Box 33
Movements for String Quartet-Night Music
Box 34
Concerts for Saxophone-Concord Hymn
Box 35
Concert Music-Concerts for Piano
Box 36
Miscellaneous Scores- Songs for Ravenscroft,Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,Concert Music for Orchestra
Box 37
Early Works-Unpublished Writings
Box 38
Biographical Materials-Miscellaneous Programs, etc.
Box 39
Compact Discs-Miscellaneous
Box 40
Miscellaneous- Correspondence, Students Work, Lady from Colorado

Accession 2001-0105

Some of the materials in this collection (in boxes 1 and 3) are not immediately accessible, because they require further processing before use. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Box 1
Attention: Technical Services staff need to reformat newspaper clippings and make use copies of audio tapes before use.
Concert program and newspaper clippings   (3 folders)
[Folder 3 of 3 is located in box 3.]
Booklet, Opera Carolina, 50th Anniversary
Band Score, Concerto for Tenor Saxophone
Book, Jacob Avshalomov. Music is where you make it
Sketches, Love's Seasons and The Hill
Sketches, Trio for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano   (2 folders)
Sketches, Night Under the Big Sky and miscellaneous sketches
Piano Score, Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra
Sketches, Echoes of America
Program notes, Ravenscroft Cantata
Roman Fever, libretto   (2 folders)
Piano Score, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Original MS and Sketch, Sacred Canticles   (3 folders)
Working Papers, Roman Fever, libretto   (8 folders)
[folder 8 of 8 is located in box 3.]
Score and Parts, Appalachian Ditties and Dances, for Violin and Piano
Score, First String Quartet
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Ernesto Ferreri
Bellarocca, Libretto by Melissa Malouf, Music by James Legg
Young Gil Blas, Ernesto Ferreri
America's Going to the Dickens!, Christopher Coleman
The House of the Seven Gables, Scott Eyerly
Correspondence
Sacred Canticles
Loose Materials   (2 folders)
Audio Cassette Tapes
Everly: Prologue, House of 7 Gables
Fiddlers' Hall of Fame
Young Gil, etc.
Young Gil Blas
America's Going to the Dickens!, Coleman/Stambler
Stravinsky-Bloch-Dello Joio-Giannini
"Soft Sounds and Night Music," Joseph Leniado-Chira, 1993
Box 2
Score, Jonathan and the Gingery Snare; composer's MS, copy, First String Quartet
Score, Sacred Songs for Pantheist   (2 folders)
Score and parts, Appalachian Ditties and Dances, for Violin and Piano
Relations to Rigor, Scott Lindroth
Box 3
Attention: Technical Services staff need to reformat coated fax paper before use.
Full Score, Songs for Ravenscroft,1993
[Concert program and newspaper clippings, 1998]
[Folder 3 of 3 from box 1.]
Working papers, Roman Fever, libretto
[Folder 8 of 8 from box 1.]
Claudia Legare, Libretto by Bernard Stambler, Music by Robert Ward   (2 folders)
Unnamed Binder [ Minutes Till Midnight, libretto by Daniel Lang, music by Robert Ward]   (2 folders)