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Orchestral Works Series 1. 1871-1937

Scope and Content

This series contains full scores and individual parts for orchestral pieces composed by Reiser. The scores bear annotations and corrections, though finished scores are included as well. All scores are manuscripts or manuscript facsimiles, unless otherwise noted.
box 1, folder 1

Concert for Cello and Orchestra in D, Op. 7, by Johan S. Svendsen (printed sheet music) 1871

box 1, folder 2-5

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in D, Op. 14 (full scores, short scores and parts) 1916, 1933

box 2, folder 1-5

Erewhon: A Symphonic Poem, Op. 19 (full scores and parts) circa 1931

box 3, folder 1-6

Slavic Rhapsody (full scores and parts) 1927-1937

box 4, folder 1

Summer Evening: A Symphonic Idyll, Op. 8 (full score and parts) circa 1907

box 4, folder 2-4

Symphony in 3 Parts: Fate, Unknown, Joy (full scores and parts) undated

box 4, folder 5-6

Symphony No. 1 (parts for violin) undated

 

Operas Series 2. 1912-1927

Scope and Content

This series contains full scores, vocal scores, and instrumental parts for various of Reiser's operas. Contents are manuscripts and manuscript facsimiles, unless otherwise noted. They include rough drafts, sketches, bear annotations and corrections but also include final scores.
box 5, folder 1-5

Daphne (sketches and finished scores) undated

box 6, folder 1-5, box 7, folder 1

Gobi and Prelude to Act III of Gobi (sketches, parts, and printed scores) 1912, 1927

box 7, folder 2-6

Prelude to Gobi (Iris) (full scores and parts) [circa 1912]

 

Songs for Voice and Piano Series 3. [circa 1910]-1942

Scope and Content

This series contains drafts, sketches, and finished copies of scores and lead sheets for songs composed by Reiser. All contents are manuscripts or manuscript facsimiles, unless otherwise noted.
Due to intermixing of titled and untitled manuscripts, no attempt to separate titles has been made for this series. Titles of works found in each folder have been included under the folder heading.
box 8, folder 1

Manuscripts (1 of 6) undated

Scope and Content

Includes: Love is All That Matters, When We Truly Love, and Youth.
box 8, folder 2

Manuscripts (2 of 6) circa 1942

Scope and Content

Includes: Down in the Canary Isles, I Found a Dream, Spanish Blues (Love Song), We're Gonna Collect (includes printed sheet music), Ye Beauty Shoppe, and various untitled manuscripts.
box 8, folder 3

Manuscripts (3 of 6) 1920s-1942

Scope and Content

Includes: Always Remember, Bersaglieri, Compensation, Don't Wait for Love, Down Where the Wild Desert Blooms, If, In the Garden At Dawning, It Is Not Always May, It Wasn't Any Business for a Lady, I've an Alibi, Love Can See, Love's Ecstasy, Musical Comedy, My Heart is Yours!, My Sweetheart, Nerida, Song of the Clock, Tapestry Symphony, Valse Concertante, Valse Romance, Valse Lente, Waltz With Me Tonight, When You Come Home, Who Do You Love?, and an untitled song typescript.
box 8, folder 4

Manuscripts (4 of 6) undated

Scope and Content

Includes: Blue Moon (Valsette), Dream, How Could I Know, Jeanette, The Lord is My Shepherd, Love Me Little, Love Me Long, Maureen, O Dream So Blissful, Something Tells Me, Two Songs (Op.6), Vola (Spanish Romance), Wondrous Ship, and various untitled manuscripts.
box 8, folder 5

Manuscripts (5 of 6) undated

Scope and Content

Includes largely untitled manuscripts in a folder titled "Sketches".
box 8, folder 6

Manuscripts (6 of 6) circa 1910

Scope and Content

Full score for Three Ballads of François Villon by Claude Debussy, arranged by Reiser.
 

Chamber Music Series 4. 1919-1930s

Scope and Content

This series contains scores for Reiser's chamber music compositions All contents are manuscripts or manuscript facsimiles, unless otherwise noted. They include rough drafts, sketches, bear annotations and corrections but also include final scores.
box 9, folder 1

Quartet for Strings in E Minor, Op. 16 (printed sheet music) 1919-1920

box 9, folder 2

Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 20 (bound manuscript facsim. with annotations) undated

box 9, folder 3-4

String Quartet in C, Op. 18 (scores, parts, and facsimiles) circa 1930

box 10, folder 1-2

String Quartet No.3 (score and parts) 1930s

box 10, folder 3

Trio in E Minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 12 (score and parts) undated

box 10, folder 4

Trio in F for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 17 (score and parts) circa 1931

 

Film Music Series 5. 1920s-1957

Scope and Content

This series includes manuscript scores for films that Reiser worked on, as well as scripts and treatments for later films, which may or may not have passed into production.
 

Film Scores Subseries 5.1. 1920s-1940s

Scope and Content

Drafts, sketches, full scores and parts for various films. Include transition and theme music, scene music, and orchestral works for film. Scores are manuscripts or manuscript facsimiles, unless otherwise noted. Most bear annotations and corrections.
box 11, folder 1

Bacchanale undated

box 11, folder 2

Bali film: compiled scenes and structure notes undated

Scope and Content

Includes scene lists and scores from a film set in Bali; possibly Man's Paradise, an ethnographic documentary about Bali shot in 1932 and released in 1938.
box 11, folder 3

Scene: Bali Dance undated

box 11, folder 4

Scene: Bali Idyll undated

box 11, folder 5

Scene: Bali Intermezzo undated

box 11, folder 6

Scene: Bali Temple undated

box 11, folder 7

Scene: Bali Theme undated

box 13, folder 1

Scene: The Cockfight undated

box 13, folder 2

Scene: Cocoanuts Intermezzo undated

box 13, folder 3

Scene: Dancing Girl undated

box 13, folder 4

Scene: Denaturing the Evil Spirits undated

box 13, folder 5

Scene: Dragon Fight and the Puppet Show undated

box 13, folder 6

Scene: Java Dance undated

box 13, folder 7

Scene: Market undated

box 13, folder 8

Scenes: Melody, Phili Dance, Pigs, Turtle Soup, and untitled manuscripts circa 1932

box 14, folder 1

Caravane/ Csardas circa 1934

box 14, folder 2

Chink Walk (includes printed sheet music) 1929

box 14, folder 3

Die Fledermaus (The Bat), operetta by J. Strauss (script for Reiser's adaptation) undated

box 14, folder 4

From Mount Rainier 1928

box 12, folder 1-2

The Magic Lamp undated

box 14, folder 5

Serenata and Spirit of Spring circa 1921

box 14, folder 6

Various circa 1928

Scope and Content

Includes: Love and Passion (Appassionata D'Amour) (printed sheet music), Entre Nous (parts), Six Czech Folk Songs. Manuscript scores for Careers (1929), The Millionaire (1931), Star Witness (1931), and other unspecified films.
 

Scripts and Treatments Subseries 5.2. 1930-1957

Scope and Content

Drafts, completed scripts, treatments, and synopses for various films.
box 18, folder 1

Bellevue Is My Home 1957 April 26

box 16, folder 1

The Black Forest undated

box 18, folder 2

By The Night Star 1947 April 16-May 8

box 17, folder 1-6

The Deserter 1950 April 6-1956 May 22

box 16, folder 2-7

Esther 1950-1951

box 18, folder 3-6

The Fatal Wedding 1930 October 20-1931 February 17

box 19, folder 1-2

Modesta 1949 February 22-1950 April 4

box 18, folder 7

That Night At Shepheard's 1945 January 4

 

Personal Materials Series 6. 1910- 1937

Scope and Content

This series largely includes newspaper clippings and magazine issues in which Reiser is mentioned, as well as a CV and three photographs.
box 15, folder 1-3

Newspaper clippings about Reiser 1910-1937

box 15, folder 4

Strand Theater program for screening of Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, orch. accompaniment conducted by Reiser 1928

box 15, folder 5

Issue of Musical America with article about Reiser's Quartet for Strings, Op. 16. 1920 November 13. 1920 November 13

box 15, folder 6

Issue of the Musical Observer, Vol. 20 1921 April

box 15, folder 7

Issue of The Brooklyn Standard Union featuring Reiser 1923 March 11

box 15, folder 8

CV and photographs circa 1936