Alabaster Wool [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Ample Makes This Bed [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

As I Love Thee [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

At The Gate [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

A Cemetery [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

A Cemetery [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Ecclesiastes

The Song of the Preacher [full score]

Full score [photocopy of holograph transparencies]

Full score [photocopy of holograph transparencies]

Full score [ozalid copy of holograph]

Full score [engraver's first proof]

Full score [first proof]

Full score [supplemental reading of first proof]

Full score [photocopy of second proof]

Full score [third proof]

Vocal score [proofs]

Vocal score [uncorrected first proof]

Vocal score [ozalid copy of Bacon's arr.]

Vocal score [arr. Hans Leschke]

Vocal score [photocopy of 6:3]

Vocal score [photostat of ozalid copy]

Vocal score [Leschke arr.; ink Ms.?]

Choral tenor part [ozalid copy]

Choral soprano part [ozalid copy]

Solo bass part [photocopy of ozalid]

Solo bass part [pencil ms.; text in ink]

Orchestra parts [photocopies of 1936 set. Winds & percussion only; see 8:3 for remaining parts]

Orchestra parts [photocopies of 1936 set. Strings only; see 6:12 for remaining parts]

Eden [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Eternity [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Farewell [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Few Get Enough [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Foreign Laws [on a poem by A.E. Housman]

I'm Nobody [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

In the Silent Night [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

The Last Invocation

The Lasting Stone

Lingering Last Drops

Meeker Morn [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

The Morns Are Meeker [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

The Mountain [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Noah, for single voice or unison chorus

[for Dr. Franklin: see series 7, subseries A, folders 1-7]

Oh, Shadow [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Poor Little Heart [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Passage of Infinity [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Past Surmise [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

The Postponeless Creature [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Sailing Homeward

She Went [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

The Simple Days [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

The Starry Train [on a poem by A. E. Housman]

Summer's Lapse [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Sunset [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

The Swamp [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Sweet is the Swamp [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

There Is a Solitude of Space [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

There's This To Say [on a poem by A. E. Housman]

A Threadless Way [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

The Trade of Man [on a poem by A. E. Housman]

Treading [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Two Legacies [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Water [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

We Never Know [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Weeping and Sighing [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

With the First Arbutus [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

A Word [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Yellow [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

The Yellow Sea [on a poem by Emily Dickinson]

Honegger, King David; Ruth Slenczinski 1/26/34

N. Blinder concert; Elkus Beethoven lecture 2/2/34

Molinari leaving; Luening's coming 2/9/34

Modeste Alloo; government music 2/16/34

Opera; Horowitz 2/23/34

H. Cowell lectures 3/2/34

Charles Cooper; Joseph Butler exchange 3/9/34

"Ultra-modernist racketeers" 3/16/34

S.F. Chamber Symphony 3/23/34

Lawrence Strauss concert 3/30/34

Y. Menuhin; Reah Sadowiski 4/6/34

M. Hess; Y. Menuhin 4/13/34

Prospectus for a national non-partisan "Musicians' Society of America" 4/20/34

Molière play; S.F. Conservatory concert 4/27/34

Ernest Bloch; Emily Hardy 5/4/34

The teaching business 5/11/34

Age of insolence; SERA music; J. Butler exchange 5/18/34

Opera "Love in a Village;" S.F. Conservatory 5/25/34

Albert Barrows letter to editor; New Music Society 6/1/34

J. Butler letter to editor; E. Schneider 6/8/34

Herrick letter to editor 6/15/34

Herrick letter; Oscar Weil scholarship; Gorbacheff concert 6/22/34

Chamber music, J. Butler letter 6/29/34

Standard Oil Symphony broadcasts; Beethoven at Stanford 7/6/34

Summer music; Herrick letter 7/13/34

Pro Arte concerts; Argonaut, 1879, Oscar Weil 7/20/34

1934 operatic season; Oscar Weil; Tonality 7/27/34

J. Butler letter; Oscar Weil 8/3/34

Hillsborough concert; Oscar Weil; Tonality 8/10/34

Self-defense; Mr. Herrick 8/17/34

Jose Iturbi; Standard Oil broadcast 8/24/34

Naoum Blinder; Oscar Weil; Music Department; S.F. Public Library 8/31/34

SERA music; Joseph Marks recital; Oscar Weil 9/7/34

Barrows; Herrick letters to editor 9/21/34

Max Reinhardt; Berta Singerman; Society for the Publication of American Music 9/28/34

Are orchestras necessary; new local string quartet 10/5/34

Bay Area music; Sigrid Onegin 10/19/34

Fritz Kreisler; San Francisco String Quartet (debut); Sigrid Onegin 10/26/34

U.C. Berkeley Symphony Orchestra 11/2/34

Giulio Silva; San Francisco opera; Palace Hotel entertainment 11/9/34

The opera season; Gastone Usigli; Fritz Kreisler 11/16/34

The opera season; the American composer 11/23/34

Tannhauser; Rachmaninoff; Mr. Herrick 11/30/34

La Traviata; Faust; Otello 12/7/34

Towards better opera; Marjorie Edwards 12/14/34

The Aguilar Lute Quartet; SERA Program; Correspondence 12/21/34

Redfern Mason; Pine Street Revue 12/28/34

Fables : n.d.

Verses, mostly rhymed : Poems by Bacon, inscribed to John Edmunds. 1985

Boyden, David 1945

Edmunds, John

[also listed under series 7, subseries C] 1929-86

Elkus, Albert 1931-60

Emerson, Thomas 1985

Evans, Herbert 1938-61

Frankenstein, Albert 1938-62

Gossens, Eugene 1939

Hall, Jesse 1939-41

Lengyel, Cornel

[also listed under series 8, subseries B] 1939-87

Leschke, Hans 1941-43

Mallory, Charles n.d.

Raab, Alexander 1926-32

Search, Frederick Preston 1941-58

Shere, Charles 1985

Silvio, Giulio 1931-66

Stoll, Jeanie 1939-40

Stoll, Raisch 1935-45

Sullivan, Noel 1932-54

Usigli, Gastone 1931-40

Yagodka, Tomo 1938-48

Letters from Ernst Bacon to various people 1939

List of published works n.d.

List of unpublished works n.d.

Obituaries 3/18-19/90

"To Remember Ernst Bacon," by Paul Horgan 3/31/90

Three photographs of Ernst Bacon: one 11" x 14" B/W [accompanied by letters from John Emerson and Arthur Bacon]; one 5" x 7" B/W; one 5" x 7" color n.d.

Bacon, Ernst. Violin/Piano Sonata 1987

Bacon, Ernst. Oral history/-interview conducted by Keith Stetson 9/16-17/98

La Pierre Gerald. Horizons.

Performed by the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, conducted by Gerald La Pierre. 11/17/75

Reale, Paul. Late Telephone, recorded at Schoenberg Hall [UCLA] 2/8/72

[Ste...?], Frank. Humble Cake. n.d.

[unlabeled] n.d.

Geluckig Vaderland, from Valerius' Gedenck-clanck n.d.

In Praise of Polly ["to my very dear Peggy"] n.d.

Jehovah and the Ark. XXI: Paean (FL: All Creatures of our God and King) n.d.

Jesus Christ Was Born For Us ["For Peggy Bacon of Berkeley"] n.d.

A Parliament of Fowls n.d.

Putto Care, from an anonymous Venetian ballad realized by Edmunds n.d.

Songs from a Colonial Tavern 12/15/63

Voyage to Ararat: Pavan n.d.

Text for Music

Babel (Babylonian Inventions), a ballet in 3 Acts for solo dancers and corps de ballet with music for orchestra, baritone, and alto soloists, and chorus [scenario by Edmunds] 8/70

Fables, a Suite for Orchestra and Narrator [text by Edmunds and Bacon] n.d.

A Parliament of Fowls n.d.

A Parliament of Fowls. IV: The Amorosia (Wild Swans) n.d.

Jehovah and the Ark = Noah's Ark : a Children's Ballet for Jehovah (Narrator) and Orchestra. First version, libretto n.d.

Jehovah and the Ark, a Masque in five scenes for twenty-four children, eight adult solo dancers, and Jehovah (speaker), on a text by John Edmunds. Libretto. 1968

The Voyage to Ararat: Noah and the Animals, a Ballet to be danced by Children and Adults, with the Prophet Noah as Master of Ceremonies, text by Edmunds 1973

The Voyage to Ararat (Noah's Ark), a Ballet, with music for two pianos 1974

[untitled] n.d.

Essays

"A. E. Housman and the Composer" n.d.

"The Songs of Ernst Bacon" n.d.

"John Clare and the Songs of Ernst Bacon" n.d.

To Ernst Bacon 1929-49

To Ernst Bacon 1950-54

To Ernst Bacon 1955-59

To Ernst Bacon 1960-64

To Ernst Bacon 1965-69

To Ernst Bacon 1970-74

To Ernst Bacon 1975-79

To Ernst Bacon 1981-86

To Ernst Bacon n.d.

Guggenheim Foundation -- letters by other for Edmunds grant application 1938

Letters regarding the Edmunds Archive 1986-87

Biographical Pamphlet (1960s)

Compositions and Editions of XVIIth and XVIIIth Century English and Italian Solo Vocal Music, bound and printed 4/78

Obituaries 12/11/86

Three photographs: one 8" x 10" B/W; one 3 3/8" x 4 1/2" B/W; one 3" x 4 1/2" color n.d.

A Garland of Lyrics, taken mainly from mid-seventeenth century and mid-twentieth century sources, chosen by his friend John Edmunds. For Ernst Bacon on the publication of his volume of Fifty Songs. 1974

Poems [with a handwritten note to Bacon on the back pages concerning the first performance of Campion Bestiary] n.d.

Players: The Magazine of American Theatre 4-5/75

Bonhomme Richard [rough synopsis] n.d.

Bonhomme Richard, Opera in Three Acts by Ernst Bacon, Libretto by Cornel Lengyel [brief outline and rough synopsis] n.d.

Doctor Franklin, a Comedy-Drama of the American Revolution centering on major events in the life of Benjamin Franklin 1975

Doctor Franklin : a Music Play, text and lyrics by Cornel Lengyel, music by Ernst Bacon 1975

Doctor Franklin : a Music Play, text and lyrics by Cornel Lengyel, music by Ernst Bacon 1975

Doctor Franklin n.d.

Ben Franklin's French Affair [a play with incidental music] 1984

SOS From Easter Island, a play in three acts 1954

To Ernst Bacon

[also listed under SERIES 3] 1939-87

Montages of newspaper reviews and headlines, and other clippings n.d.