Descriptive Summary
Kennan, Kent, 1913-2003
Kent Kennan Papers
undated
Manuscript Collection MS-02266
18 document boxes, 10 flat boxes, 1 oversize box (14.89 linear feet)
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Includes original musical compositions,
transcriptions, and manuscript works by Kent Kennan as well as correspondence, personal
papers including photographs, programs, and scrapbooks, and also works by others
English
Acquisition:
Gifts, 1995-2005 (95-05-007-G, 97-08-005-G, 98-11-002-G, 00-09-007-G, 02-07-007-G,
05-09-001-G)
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Kent Kennan Papers (Manuscript Collection MS-02266). Harry Ransom Center, The University of
Texas at Austin.
Processed by:
Kevin O'Sullivan, 2010
Container List
Series I. Works
Original compositions:
1.1
Air, for violin and piano
19 (osb)
Air de Ballet (later revised and published as Toe Dance)
1.2
All the Things You Are
1.3
Andante (later revised and retitled, Elegy), (oversize items moved to Box
19)
1.4-5
An Autumn Poem, for piano
1.6
The Aviation Engineer,
1.7-8
A Birthday Round for Paul A. Pisk
1.9-10
Blessed Are They That Mourn (oversize items moved to Box 19)
1.11
Il Campo Di Fiori (oversize items moved to Box 19)
1.12-16
A Clear Midnight, for voices and piano
1.17-18
The Clown, for piano
1.19-22
Concertino, for piano and orchestra (oversize items moved to Box
19)
1.23, 2.1
Concertino, for piano and wind ensemble (oversize items moved to Boxes
19-20)
2.2
Concerto for trumpet
2.3-4
Dance Divertimento, general:
2.5-6
Movement 1: Grand March
2.7
Movement 2: Toe Dance
2.8
Movement 3: Jig (oversize items moved to Box 20)
2.9
Requested Changes
2.10
Dance to an Ostinato
2.11-12
Debby's Dance
2.13
Dreamtigers
2.14
Duo for oboe and piano:
Movement 1: Scherzo
Movement 2: Air
Movement 3: Fugato
2.15
Early compositions
2.16
Elegy, for oboe and small orchestra
20 (osb)
Freshman Song
2.17
Fugato, for violin and piano
3.1-2
Fugue, for string quartet
3.3
Fugue in Classical Style
3.4-5
Honeymoon Suite
3.6-7
I Saw the White Daisies, for voice and piano
3.8-11
A John Donne Prayer, for voices and piano
20 (osb)
Lament
3.12
New Music for Piano, contains two Preludes
3.13-24
Night Soliloquy (oversize items moved to Box 20)
3.25
Nocturne, for viola and orchestra (oversize items moved to Box
20)
3.26
Piano Quintet
4.1
Piano Sonata
4.2
Prelude, for orchestra (oversize items moved to Box 20)
21 (osb)
Promenade, for orchestra
4.3
Quintet, for piano and strings
4.4-5
Retrospectives, a Set of 12 pieces for piano
4.6-7
Sail Forth
4.8-11
Scherzo
4.12-15
Scherzo, Aria, and Fugato, for oboe and piano
4.16-17
The Scissors Grinder, for piano
4.18
Sea Sonata, for violin and orchestra, with separate violin part (oversize
items moved to Box 21)
4.19-20
Second Sonata
21 (osb)
Second piano sonata
4.21
Service of Intercession for the War: A Wartime Litany
4.22
Short Sonata for trumpet and piano
4.23
Sonata
5.1-7
Sonata for trumpet and piano
5.8
Sonata for trumpet and wind ensemble
5.9
Sonatina I
5.10
Sonatina for piano
5.11
Sonnet for voice and piano
21-22 (osb)
Symphony
5.12-13
Symphony no. 2
6.1-2
Symphony no. 2 (continued)
6.3-6
Theme with Variations, for organ
6.7-8
Three City Sketches, for piano
6.9-10
Three Forest Pictures, for piano
6.11-12
Three Preludes for the piano
6.13-14
Threnody
7.1-5
Threnody (continued)
22 (osb)
Trumpet Sonata
7.6
The Unknown Warrior Speaks, for a capella men's chorus
7.7-8
Variations on a Quiet Theme
7.9-13
Unidentified, incomplete
Transcriptions:
Brahms, Johannes:
7.14-16
Capriccio; op. 76, No. 1, for cello and piano
7.17-18
Intermezzo; op. 118, No. 2, for cello and piano
7.19
Sonata; op. 100, in A-major, for clarinet and piano
Prokofiev, Sergei:
7.20-21
Sonata, op. 94, for B-flat clarinet and piano
8.1-9
Sonata, op. 94, for B-flat clarinet and piano (continued) (oversize items
moved to Box 22)
22 (osb)
Sonata, op. 94, for B-flat clarinet and small orchestra
8.10
Stravinsky, Igor, Firebird Suite,
Written Works:
8.11-12
Counterpoint
9.1-5
Counterpoint (continued)
9.6-9.7
The Technique of Orchestration
9.8-10
Various Essays and Reviews
9.11
Biographical Notes
9.12-14
Concert Notes
9.15-17
Academic materials
9.18
Publication materials
10.1
Publication materials (continued)
10.2-7
Miscellaneous
Series II. Correspondence
10.8
A-D
10.9
Austin American-Statesman
10.10
Brubeck, Dave
10.11
Chasins, Abram
10.12
Copland, Aaron
10.13
Dick, James
10.14
Dwyer, Doirot Anthony
10.15
E-H
10.16
Floyd, Carlisle
10.17
I-L
11.1
Johnson, Hunter
11.2
Kay, Ulysses
11.3
Kennan, George
11.4
Kennan Family
11.5
Klein, Lothar
11.6
KSM Publishing Co.
11.7
Kubik, Gail
11.8
Ludwig, Elizabeth
11.9
M-P
11.10
MacDowell, Mrs. Edward
11.11
MacNeil, Robert
11.12
McBeth, W. Francis
11.13
Moll, Phillip
11.14
Middleton, Thomas H.
11.15
Ormandy, Eugene
11.16
Pizzetti, Ildebrando
11.17
Pollack, Howard
11.18
R-T
11.19
Read, Gardner
11.20
Rodriguez, Robert
11.21
Rothgeb, John
11.22
Rorem, Ned
11.23
Rudin, Andrew
11.24
Schmidt, Harvey
12.1
Sclater, James
12.2
Stolzman, Richard
12.3
Theodore Presser Co.
12.4
Thomson, William
12.5
Toscanini, Walter
12.6
W-Z
12.7
Welcher, Dan and Ann
12.8
Whiteman, Paul
12.9
Miscellaneous and Unidentified
Series III. Personal
12.10-16
Juvenilia
12.17
Autographs
Scrapbooks:
23 (osb)
1927-1947
24 (osb)
1947-1951
25 (osb)
1951-1956
26 (osb)
1956-1984
27 (osb)
1984-1988
24-25, 28 (osb)
Assorted clippings
29 (osb)
Diplomas
12.18
Performance Programs
13.1-2
Program Notes
13.3-5
Performance Programs
14.1
Performance Programs (continued)
14.2-4
Awards
14.5
Materials re: George Kennan
14.6
Photographic materials
15.1-3
Photographic materials (continued)
15.4-10
Miscellaneous
Series IV. Materials by Others
15.11
Burkhart, Charles, Anthology for Musical Analysis
16.1
Fedak, Alfred V., Hymnary
16.2
Goodwin, Gordon, Paraph
16.3
Howard, Bertand, Music for Violoncello Alone and Girandole
16.4
Lane, Gardner, Sonatina for Flute and Piano
16.5
Mozart, Wolfgang, Symphony no. 41
16.6-7
Prokofiev, Sergei, Sonata op. 94
16.8
Pulkingham, Betty, Be Known to Us and God has Gone Up with a Shout!
16.9
Rimsky-Korsakoff, Nikolai, Cappriccio Espagnol
Rudin, Andrew:
16.10
Masha's Aria
16.11
Sour Lake
16.12
Schoenberg, Arnold, Fourth String Quartet
16.13
Sclater, James, [several partial works]
16.14
Stern, Robert, Adon Olam
16.15
Strauss, Richard, Der Rosenkavalier (partial photocopy)
16.16
White, David Ashley [several partial works]
17.1
Unknown, What About Jazz, Mr. Clementi?
Series V. Miscellaneous
17.2-4
Staff paper
18.1
Empty Envelopes
19-28
Oversize boxes
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