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Elizabeth Cowling Musical Score and Personal Papers Collection, 1937-1987

Dr. Cowling donated her music collection to Jackson Library in 1976 and 1977 and her collection of books in 1988. The standard cello repertoire is represented by more than 1000 publications and copies of manuscript music, including significant holdings of "teaching composers". The collection also features a large number of copies of manuscripts of seventeenth to nineteenth century Italian composers, collected in preparation for her 1967 dissertation, "The Italian Sonata Literature for the Violoncello in the Baroque Era."

Chanson grise : Mélodie for violoncello with piano accompaniment : op. 7
1 score (5 pages) + 1 part ([1] pages) ;31 cm. For violoncello and piano. Cover title. For violoncello and piano. Cover title.
Concert à deux violoncelles : (ou à deux bassons ou violoncelle et basson)
1 score (7 pages) +32 cm. Includes Le je-ne-scay-quoy from Concert no. 9. For two violoncellos, two bassoons or violoncello and bassoon. Originally for unspecified instruments. Includes Le je-ne-scay-quoy from Concert no. 9. Library has additional copy.
Intermezzo from the opera "Goyescas"
1 score (7 pages) + 1 part ;31 cm. Cover title. Original work for piano, then recreated as an opera; this version arranged for violoncello and piano from the opera. Cover title. SPECCOLL Cello book: score contains performance notes in the hand of Luigi Silva. SPECCOLL cello book: score is no. [4] in v. 2 of a bound set (3 v. + part (2 v. )) with title: Pezzi repertorio; the part is no. [10] of Parts, v. 1. SPECCOLL SCHOLZ: performance notes in the hand of János Scholz. SPECCOLL SCHOLZ has two copies. SPECCOLL COWLING: performance notes with changes and additions in the of Elizabeth Cowling; illustration (sepia) from the opera on cover of copy. SPECCOLL MAGG: performance notes in the hand of Fritz Magg. SPECCOLL VARGA: performance notes in the hand of Laszlo Varga. Publisher's no. : 31411c. Original work for piano, then recreated as an opera with Intermezzo added; this version arr. for violoncello and piano. Cover title. Library has additional copy of score. Publisher's no. : 5423.
Pur ti miro.
For soprano and tenor with piano accompaniment. Title from first line of text. Photocopy of manuscript in hand of Elizabeth Cowling. A recent discovery credits Benedetto Ferrari with this duet, written for his opera, "Il pastor regio". Cf. [SR] p. 2000. Accompanied by [2] p. of fragments from another part of opera with caption title, "Valletto-Daniziella scene." Fragments have annotations by Elizabeth Cowlling. Two copies of ms. fragments; one is Cowling original, the other is photocopy of p. [2] only. Title taken from first line of text. A recent discovery credits Benedetto Ferrari with this duet, written for his opera, "Il pastor regio". Cf. Il Sansone [SR] p. 2000 / B. Ferrari. Accompanied by [2] p. of fragments from another part of opera with caption title, "Valletto-Daniziella scene". 1 ms. score ([3] folded leaves) ; 29 cm
Six suites pour violoncelle
Marginalia in the hand of Luigi Silva. For violoncello alone. Cover title. Performance notes in the hand of Elizabeth Cowling. 1 score (41 pages) ; 30 cm.
Sonata, opus 25, no. 3 : violoncello solo
1 score (7 pages);31 cm.. Sole American issue of the original Schott edition. For violoncello alone. Sole American issue of the original Schott Edition. Copy in Special Collections Cowling: performance notes in the hand of Elizabeth Cowling. Copy in Special Collections Magg: original lacking; music is a photocopy; includes a second photocopy of music. Copy in Special Collections Magg: performance notes in the hand of Fritz Magg. Copy in Special Collections Greenhouse: p. 7 lacking; performance notes in the hand of Bernard Greenhouse.
Sonate en fa dièze mineur en une partie : pour violoncelle et piano, op. 46
1 score (30 pages) + 1 part (8 pages) ;35 cm. For violoncello and piano.

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