William Grant Still

List of Works in the Collection

Africa
Orchestra
Box 20, Orchestra

Africa, Land of Peace
Piano
Box 22, Piano

African Dancer
Violin & orchestra; violin part edited by Louis Kaufman
Box 20, Orchestra

String orchestra
Box 20, Orchestra

Afro-American Symphony
3rd movement, Band arr.
Program notes: Box 11, Symphonies

Complete, Orchestra
Box 24, Symphonies

Ah Got a Home in-a Dat Rock
Spirtual arrangement
Voice & piano
Box 11, Spirituals

All that I am
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Solo Voices (SATB) & orchestra
Box 22, Piano

Solo Voices (SATB), chorus & orchestra
Box 11, Songs

SATB and Organ
Box 11, Songs

America: a Vision
Text and music by Mabel Bean; orchestrated by William Grant Still
Orchestra
Box 20, Orchestra

The American Scene.
Suite 1: The East
Suite 3: The Old West
Suite 4: The Far West
Box 20, Orchestra

And They Lynched Him on a Tree
Cantata (Alto solo, chorus (SSAATTBB), narrator & orchestra)
Text: Katherine GarrisonChapin
Box 13, Cantatas

Voices & Piano (published by Fischer)
Box 10, Cantatas

Anda Buscando de Rosa en Rosa
Arranged by William Grant Still
String Quartet
Box 25, Miscellaneous

Animal Sketches (for children)
Piano
Box 11, Miscellaneous

Archaic Ritual
Orchestra
Box 21 Orchestra

Aria (published by Sam Fox)
Accordion
Box 10, Chamber Music

Arkansas
Songs, text: Verna Arvey
Voice & Piano
Box 22, Piano

Bayou Home
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Voice & Piano
Box 11, Songs

Organ arrangement
Box 11, Songs

A Bayou Legend
Opera, text: Verna Arvey
Voices & Orchestra
Libretto: Box 10, Operas
Full score: Box 14, Operas
Reduced score: Box 14, Operas

Bells (Phantom Chapel, Fairy Knoll)
Piano
Box 11, Piano

Orchestra
Box 10, Chamber Music

Berkshire Night from American Scene, Suite 1, The East
Woodwinds and Piano
Box 20, Orchestra

A Bit of Wit
Guitar
Arranged by T. Smith
Box 10, Chamber Music

Black Bottom (discarded)
Orchestra; Parts and Piano reduction
Box 21, Orchestra

The Black Man Dances (discarded)
Piano & Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

The Black Man Dances: Four Negro Dances
Orchestra, text by Bruce Forsythe
Box 21, Orchestra

The Blind Man
Spiritual
Tenor & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

SSA & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Blue Steel (discarded)
Opera, text by Bruce Forsythe
Voices & Orchestra
Box 15, Operas

Piano reduction
Box 14, Operas

Blues (from Lenox Ave.)
Violin & Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Piano
Box 10, Chamber Music

Piano/Conductor score
Box 13, Chamber Music

Boy's Dance (Miss Sally's Party)
Ballet
Flute, Oboe, Strings & Piano
Box 12, Ballets

Piano reduction
Box 13, Chamber Music

The Breath of a Rose
Song, text by Langston Hughes.
Voice & Piano
Box 22, Piano

Brown Baby(Willy M. Grant)
Song, text by Paul Henry
Voice & Piano
Box 22, Piano

Brown Girl
Harp
Arranged by M. Portanova
Box 25, Miscellaneous

Can't You Line 'Em
Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

Carmela
Violin & Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Orchestra (orchestrated & ed. by Marshall Fine, c1991)
Box 11, Orchestra

Viola & Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Flute & Guitar
Arranged by T. Smith
Box 10, Chamber Music

Carribbean Melodies (collected by Zora Neale Hurston, arr. by Still)
Songs
Solo voice and Chorus
Box 11, Songs

Carry Him Along (from Carribbean Melodies)
Chorus
Box 11, Songs

Choreographic Prelude
Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

Christmas in the Western World (Las Pascuas)
Songs, Chorus & Piano
Box 11, Songs

Acc. for orchestra
Box 11, Songs

Citadel
Song, text by Virginia Brasier
Voice, Piano & Strings
Box 22, Piano

Clouds by Arthur Lange (orchestrated by Still)
Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

Costaso
Opera
Box 15, Operas

Piano-vocal score
Box 16, Operas

Dance Barbare from Congo Sketches(W. Donaldson)
Orchestrated by W.G. Still
Piano/conductor score
Box 11, Orchestra

Dance from Costaso
Arranged for Piano
Box 15, Operas

Dance of the Porteuses (La Guiablesse)
Ballet
Piano
Box 10, Ballets

Danzas de Panama (Tamborito, Majorana y socavon, Punto, Cumbia y Congo)
String Quartet
Box 10, Chamber Music

The Dark Madonna (Will Donaldson)
Orchestrated by W.G. Still
Piano score & Parts
Box 21, Orchestra

Darker America
Symphonic Poem for Orchestra
Box 24, Symphonies

Deserted Plantation (Spiritual, Young Missy, Dance)
Piano
Box 11, Piano

Dismal Swamp
Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

Ebon Chronicle (discarded)
Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

Elegy (The California Organist, v. 7)
Organ
Box 11, Piano

Ennanga
Piano, Harp & Strings
Box 13, Chamber Music

En Roulant Ma Boule
Steel drums
Transcribed by A. Griggs
Box 10, Chamber Music

Entrance of Les Poreuses (La Guiablesse)
Orchestra
Box 10, Ballets

Ev'ry Time I feel the Spirit
Spiritual.
Voice & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Fanfare for American Heroes

Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra Fanfare for the 99th Fighter Squadron
Brass
Box 25, Miscellaneous Festive Overture
Orchestra
Box 25, Miscellaneous
Florida Blues by William King Phillips, arr. by Still
Piano
Box 11, Piano

Folk Suite for Band
Band
Box 25, Miscellaneous

Folk Suite No. 1
Piano, Flute, & String quartet
Box 13, Chamber Music

Folk Suite No. 2
Flute, Violoncello and Harp or Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Folk Suite No. 3
Flute/Piccolo, Bass Clarinet & Strings
Box 13, Chamber Music

Folk Suite No. 4
Flute, Clarinet, Violoncello, & Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Four Dances from the Ballet Sahdji
Ballet
Piano & Strings
Box 12, Ballets

Four Indigenous Portraits
Flute & String Quartet
Box 13, Chamber Music

From a Lost Continent
Chorus (Parts)
Box 11, Songs

Chorus & Orchestra
Box 22, Piano

From the Black Belt
Orchestra
Reduced score: Box 11, Orchestra
Full score: Box 21, Orchestra

From the Delta
Symphonic Band
Box 25, Miscellaneous

Parts (Incomplete set)
Box25, Miscellaneous

From the Furnace of the Sun
Opera, text by Sherwood Frank
Condensed score (with voices)
Box 16, Operas

From the Heart of the Believer
Chamber Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

From the Hearts of Women (Des Coeurs de Femmes)
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Soprano & Orchestra
Box 2 2, Piano

Soprano, alto flute or clarinet, 2 harps
Arranged by A. Griggs
Box 10, Chamber Music (parts for harps, only)

Voice & Piano (with Midtide)
Box 11, Miscellaneous

From the Journal of a Wanderer (discarded)
Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

Gamin
String Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

Get on Board
Spiritual
Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet, Bassoon, Strings & Piano
Box 24, Spirituals

Glory to That Newborn King
Spiritual
Chorus, Piano, Strings
Box 24, Spirituals

God's Goin' to Set This World on Fire
Spiritual
SAT & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Tenor & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Golden Days (from Costaso)
Aria
Voice, Harp & Strings
Box 16, Operas (Costaso)

Grand Teton (from The American Scene)
Condensed score
Box 21, Orchestra

Grief
Song
Soprano & Piano
Box 11, Songs

Organ
Transcribed by A. Griggs
Box 10, Chamber Music

La Guiablesse
Ballet
Scenario by Ruth Page: Box 10, Ballets
Orchestra
Box 12, Ballets

Piano
Box 12, Ballets

Gwinter Sing All Along de Way
Spiritual
Tenor solo, chorus (SATB) & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Hard Trails by D. McNair; arr. by Still
Spiritual
Voice & String Quartet
Box 11, Spirituals

Piano arrangement
Box 24, Spirituals

Here's One
Spiritual
Flute, Piano, & Strings
Box 24, Spirituals

Voice & Piano
Box 24, Spirituals

Soprano, chorus (SATB) & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Violin & Piano
Arranged by L. Kaufman
Box 11, Spirituals

Hesitating Blues (W.C. Handy)
Orchestrated by W.G. Still
Box 11, Orchestra

Highway 1 U.S.A.
Opera, text by Verna Arvey
Piano-vocal score
Box 16, Operas

Full score
Box 16, Operas

I'm Gonna Tell (from Lenox Ave.)
Ballet
SATB & Piano)
Box 10, Ballets

I'm Pickin' My Last Row of Cotton
Lead sheet only
Box 11, Miscellaneous

Incarnation and Dance (C. Fischer)
Oboe & Piano
Box 10, Chamber Music

In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy
Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

Is There Anybody Here?
Spiritual
SATB & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

I Feel Like My Time Ain't Long
Spiritual
SSATB & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Jungle Drums by William Grant Still and Phil Boutelse
Text, Red Koehler
Baritone & Orchestra
Box 25, Miscellaneous

Kaintuck
Piano & Orchestra
Box 24, Symphonies

2 Pianos
Box 13, Chamber Music & Box 24, Symphonies

Keep Me from Sinkin' Down
Spiritual
SATB & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Lament
Song, text by Verna Arvey
SSA & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Legend
Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

Lenox Avenue
Ballet; Scenario by Verna Arvey
Orchestra
Box 12, Ballets

Piano reduction
Box 12, Ballets

Levee Song (Levee Land)
Voice & Orchestra
Box 11, Songs

Lift Every Voice and Sing (J.R. Johnson)
Song arrangement, text by James Weldon Johnson
Voices, Flute, Strings & Piano
Box 23, Piano

Lilt
Accordion
Box 10, Chamber Music

Little David Play on Your Harp
Spiritual
SSATB & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Little Folk Suite for Brass
Brass instruments
Box 13, Chamber Music

Little Folk Suite No. 1
String orchestra
Box 13, Chamber Music

Little Folk Suite No. 2
String orchestra
Box 13, Chamber Music

Little Folk Suite No. 3
String orchestra
Box 13, Chamber Music

Little Folk Suite No. 4
String orchestra
Box 13, Chamber Music

Little Folk Suite No. 5
String orchestra
Box 13, Chamber Music

Little Red Schoolhouse (Suite for Orchestra)
Orchestra
Program notes: Box 11, Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

Little Song that Wanted to be a Symphony
Narrator, Singers, & Orchestra
Text by Verna Arvey
Box 21, Orchestra

A Look at Jazz
Piano
Box 25, Miscellaneous

Lyric Quartette (The Sentimental One, The Quiet One, The Jovial One)
String Quartet
Box 10, Chamber Music

Marionette
Piano
Box 10, Chamber Music

Memphis Man
Song for Voice & Piano
Box 23, Piano

Organ, transcribed by H. Bert Coleman
Box 10, Chamber Music

Men of the Army
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Voice & Piano
Box 23, Piano

Midtide (La Maree a Midi) (with From the Hearts of Women)
Soprano, alto flute & 2 harps
Box 22, Piano

Minette Fontaine
Opera
Piano-vocal score & Conductor score
Box 17, Operas

Miniature Overture
Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

Miniatures for Flute, Oboe, & Piano
Box 10, Chamber Music

Arranged for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon & Piano by Fred Thayer
Box 10, Chamber Music (Bassoon part only)

Minorities
Song, text by Verna Arvey
SATB and piano
Box 11, Songs

Miss Sally's Party
Ballet, scenario by Verna Arvey
Voices & Orchestra
Box 12, Ballets

Piano
Box 12, Ballets

Mississippi
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Box 23, Piano

Mizmor Ledovid (The Voice of the Lord)
Tenor, Chorus, & Orchestra
Box 11, Songs

Mota
Opera
Conductor score
Box 17, Operas

Vocal score
Box 18, Operas

Mother and Child
String orchestra
Box 13, Chamber Music

Violoncello, transcribed by T. Holley
Box 13, Chamber Music

My Brother American
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Box 11, Songs

A New Orleans Street
Orchestra
Box 11, Orchestra

A New Orleans Street (from American Scene, Suite 2, The South)
Orchestra
Box 20, Orchestra

Old California
Band
Box 24, Symphonies

Orchestra
Box 21, Orchestra

On the Village Green
Woodwinds & Piano (2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons & Piano)
Box 13, Chamber Music

Out of the Silence
Orchestra
Box 13, Chamber Music

Pages from a Mother's Diary (later the Little Red Schoolhouse)
Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Pages from Negro History from Music of Our Time (pub. Fischer, c1953)
Orchestra
Piano/conductor part
Box 11, Orchestra

Pastorela
Violin & Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Pastorela for Violin and Piano
Box 10, Chamber Music

The Path of Glory
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Bass/Baritone & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Piano reduction
Box 23, Piano

Patterns
Suite for Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

The Peaceful Land
Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Phantom Chapel (from Bells)
Strings & Piano
Box 22, Orchestra

Piano Music (without title)
2. For Josephine Harreld
Box 11, Miscellaneous

The Pillar (unfinished)
Opera, text by Verna Arvey
Conductor's score & Piano-vocal score
Box 18, Operas

Plainchant for America
Song, text by Katherine Garrison Chapin
Baritone & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Piano reduction
Box 11, Songs

Poem for Orchestra
Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Pompous March
Treble instruments & Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Prelude
Piano
Box 11, Piano (2 copies)

Preludes
Flute, Piano & String Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Preludes (Set of 4)
Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

The Prince and the Mermaid (Play for Children)
Text by Carol Stone
String orchestra
Box 10, Chamber Music

A Psalm for Living
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Chorus & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Piano reduction
Box 11, Song

Quit Dat Fool'nish
Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Flute & Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Orchestra
Box, 22, Orchestra

Saxophone & Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Violin & Piano
Ed. by L. Kaufman
Box 13, Chamber Music

Reverie
Organ
Box 10, Chamber Music

Rhapsody
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Voice & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Ring Play
Piano
Box 10, Chamber Music

Rising Tide
Song, text by Albert Stillman
SATB & Piano (Score & Piano/conductor part)
Box 11, Song

Song, Voice & Piano
Box 23, Piano

Romance
Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Saxophone & Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Sahdji
Ballet
Chorus & Orchestra
Box 12, Ballets

Piano reduction
Scenario by R. Bruce & A. Locke
Box 10, Ballets

Scherzo (Afro American Symphony)
2 pianos
Box 13, Chamber Music

Reduced Orchestra, Piano-conductor score & parts
Box 11, Orchestra

Sentimental Song for Orchestra
Chamber Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Serenade
Flute, Clarinet, Harp & Strings
Box 22, Orchestra

Treble instruments & Piano (Piano part only)
Box 13, Chamber Music

Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Seven Traceries
Piano
Box 10, Chamber Music

Sing! Shout! Tell the Story
Spiritual style, text by Verna Arvey
SATB, 2 violins & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Sinner, Please Don't
Spiritual
Chorus (SATB)
Box 11, Spirituals

Sipping Cider Through a Straw
Folk-song arrangement
SAT & Piano
Box 23, Piano

A Song at Dusk
Orchestra
Full Score
Box 24, Symphonies

Condensed Score
Box 24, Symphonies

Song for the Valiant
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Baritone & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Voice & Piano
Box 23, Piano

Song of a City
Box 23, Piano

Song of the Hunter
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Voice & Piano
Box 23, Piano

Song of the Sea (Excerpts from incidental music to Prince & the Mermaid)
String Quartet
Box 13, Chamber Music

Songs: A Medley
Popular song arrangements for orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Songs for the Lonely
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Soprano & Chamber Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Soprano & Piano
Box 23, Piano

Songs of Separation (Idolatry, Poeme, Parted, If You Should Go, A Black Pierrot)
Soprano & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Voice & Piano
Box 11, Songs

Songs of Separation no. 1: Idolatry
Text: Anna Bontemps
Soprano & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Songs of Separation no. 2: Poeme
Text: Phillipe Thoby-Marcelin
Soprano & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Songs of Separation no. 3: Parted
Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Soprano & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Songs of Separation no. 4: If You Should Go
Text: Counter Cullen
Soprano & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Songs of Separation no. 5: A Black Pierrot
Text: Langston Hughes
Soprano & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

The Sorcerer
Symbolic play with music
Libretto by Bruce Forsythe
Libretto: Box 10, Ballets
Piano score: Box 12, Ballets

Spirituals: A Medley
Voice & Piano
Box 24, Spirituals

Steal Away to Jesus
Spiritual
SSATB & Piano
Box 24, Spirituals

Stock Sketches (or Short Sketches) for Stormy Weather (Columbia Records)
Orchestra
Box 25, Miscellaneous

Suite for Violin and Piano
Box 10, Chamber Music

Summerland
String Quartet
Box 13, Chamber Music

Flute or Violin and Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Summerland (from Three Visions)
Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Piano & Orchestra
Box 13, Chamber Music

Piano part
Box 11, Piano

Flute, Harp, Violin, Viola, Violoncello & Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Violoncello
Transcribed by T. Holley
Box 10, Chamber Music

Swanee River
Piano
Box 10, Chamber Music

Symphony No. 2 in G Minor
Orchestra
Program notes: Box 10, Symphonies
Box 24, Symphonies

Symphony No. 3 (The Sunday Symphony)
Orchestra
Box 25, Symphonies

Symphony No. 4
Orchestra
Box 25, Symphonies

Symphony No. 5
Orchestra
Box 25, Symphonies

Terrible Trailer
Treble Instruments & Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Those Who Wait
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Mezzo-soprano, Bass, Chorus (SATB), Orchestra
Full score & Piano reduction
Box 23, Piano

Three Dances
Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Three Dances (La Guiablesse)
Ballet suite
Orchestra
Box 12, Ballets

Three Negro Songs for Orchestra (discarded)
Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Three Rhythmic Spirituals
Folk-song arrangement
Solo voice & Orchestra
Box 23, Piano

Piano reduction
Box 24, Spirituals

Three Visions
Piano
Box 10, Chamber Music

Threnody in Memory of Jean Sibelius
Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Band
Box 13, Chamber Music

Toward Distant Shores
Song, text by Judith Ann Headlee
SATB & Piano
Box 11, Songs

Tribal Dance (from American Scene, Suite 3, The Old West)
Orchestra
Box 20, Orchestra

Troubled Island
Opera, text by Langston Hughes
Recorded: audio tape of excerpts of a rehearsal with an interview with W.G. Still in Box 10, but should be in Box 26
Full score: Box 19-20

Piano-vocal score
Box 10, Operas

Troubled Island Aria: Now you lie still in death
Arranged for piano acc.
Box 13, Chamber Music

Twelve Negro Spirituals, v. 1-2
Voice & Piano
Illustrated by A. Barbelle
Box 24, Spirituals

Up There
Song, text by Verna Arvey
Box 11, Songs

Victory Tide
Song, text by Albert Still
Chorus (SATB) & Piano
Box 11, Songs

Condensed score
Box 23, Piano

Mens Chorus (TTBB) & Piano
Box 11, Songs

Vignettes
Oboe, Bassoon & Piano
Box 13, Chamber Music

Wailing Woman
Song, Soprano & Mixed Chorus
Box 23, Piano

Condensed score
Box 23, Piano

Were You There?
Spiritual arrangement
SATB & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

We Sang Our Songs
Song, text by Verna Arvey
SATB voices
Box 11, Songs

What Makes Me Believe You (C. Lawrence)
Orchestrated by W.G. Still
Box 22, Orchestra

Where Shall I Be
Spiritual
SATB & Piano
Box 11, Spirituals

Organ,trans. A. Griggs
Box 10, Chamber Music

Winter's approach
Song, text by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Voice & Piano
Box 11, Songs

Wood Notes
Tone poem for chamber orchestra
Scenario by J. Mitchell Pilcher
Box 22, Orchestra

Orchestra
Box 22, Orchestra

Yamekraw (James P. Johnson)
Orchestrated by W.G. Still
Violin/conductor part only
Box 22, Orchestra

Your World
Song, text by Georgia D. Johnson
Treble voices
Box 11, Songs


Items not found on June 16, but listed in Boyd Gibson's original list:

Ballet Music for Piano, Flute & Strings
Bambalele and Espin Garda for Viola and Piano
Summerland (from Three Visions)
To You America (Overture for Band)


Lois Schultz, June 16, 1995