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Valerie Bettis collection

Title
Valerie Bettis collection, ca. 1941-1967.
Author
Bettis, Valerie.

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Box 1Moving imageSupervised use JPB 86-7 Box 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Box 2Moving imageSupervised use JPB 86-7 Box 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Box 3Moving imageSupervised use JPB 86-7 Box 3Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Box 4Moving imageSupervised use JPB 86-7 Box 4Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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Additional Authors
Segáll, Bernardo.
Summary
Music by Bernardo Segall and other composers, some with annotations by Bettis. Includes manuscripts (chiefly photocopies and reproductions) and published scores.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Musical scores.
Biography (note)
  • American dancer and choreographer.
Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
  • Preliminary contents list in the repository.
Provenance (note)
  • Received by the Dance Collection, The New York Public Library, from the Valerie Bettis estate, March 17, 1983; transferred to the Music Division, April 21, 1983.
Processing Action (note)
  • Accessioned
Contents
And dreams intrude ; As I lay dying ; Caprice ; City Street suite ; Dance triptych ; The desperate heart ; Daisy Lee ; Domino furioso ; Dramatic incident ; Facts and figures ; The golden round ; It's worth a million dollars ; Lullabye ; Prairie born ; Salute ; Southern I and II ; Theatrics ; Virginia overture / Bernardo Segall. -- And the earth shall bear again / John Cage. -- Great little pal / Dolores Claman. -- Status quo / Jacques De Menasce. -- Directions '67 : Everyman absurd / John Duffy. -- When the sheets come back from the laundry / Abraham Ellestein. -- Blue Monday / George Gershwin. -- Cradle and all ; Piano sonata in two parts ; Ritual idea / Kenyon Hopkins. -- If you leave Paris / Bart Howard and Ian Grant. -- I never felt better / Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. -- Patterns / Irving Mopper. -- The last flower / Nicolas Nabokov. -- Dance for children ; Songs and processions / Theodore Newman. -- A streetcar named Desire / Alex North. -- In transit ; Madrigal for grandmother ; Suite of piano pieces ; Virginia sampler ; Yerma / Leo Smit. -- The Victoria waltz / Cy Walter. -- Everyman today / John Wilson. -- Paris in lovetime / George Wyle.
Call Number
JPB 86-7
OCLC
NYPW86-A35
Author
Bettis, Valerie.
Title
Valerie Bettis collection, ca. 1941-1967.
Description
5 boxes ; 53 x 43 x 8 cm. or smaller.
Biography
American dancer and choreographer.
Indexes
Preliminary contents list in the repository.
Provenance
Received by the Dance Collection, The New York Public Library, from the Valerie Bettis estate, March 17, 1983; transferred to the Music Division, April 21, 1983.
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Added Author
Segáll, Bernardo.
Research Call Number
JPB 86-7
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