JAMES P. JOHNSON COLLECTION
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Draft Container List
**Note to Researchers:
The Music Manuscripts in the James P. Johnson Collection are valuable and fragile. For these reasons, some manuscripts may not be photocopied
until properly preserved or a preservation copy supplied. Due to Johnson’s re-use of titles and themes and the complicated musical theatre
works, the manuscripts are listed as received. Finer arrangement will be completed in the future. Any observations by James P. Johnson scholars
are welcome; however they may only be added by notations in pencil on an acid-free piece of paper and then wrapped around the manuscript.
Only archivist Annie Kuebler can relocate the manuscripts. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Box
1
Folder
Title
After Tonight
Composer
Date
Ain’t Cha Got Music
Always At Your
Service
AMERICAN
BEAUTY
American Moods
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
Music by
JPJ; Lyrics
by J.C.
Johnson &
Andy Razaf
“March
1942”
Score
Yes
Orchestration
Small group
Incomplete
score
Small band
No
Big Band
Incomplete
“Concerto for
clarinet and
orchestra”
Piano
reduction
score (5
“Pianoforte
concerto”
Parts
Tenor, Trumpet, Bone, GBD,
Lyrics
Notes
AAT (Greely) Bing; 3
Trumpets, 1 Bone;
P, Banjo, BD
“Dedicated to
Benny
Goodman”
–
1
leaves)
2
1-6
AMERICAN
SYMPHONIC
SUITE – SAINT
LOUIS BLUES
1
American
Symphonic Suite
Incomplete sets of parts for
2nd & 3rd movements
2
American
Symphonic Suite
Assorted parts for 1st & 3rd
movements
3
American
Symphonic Suite
String parts for 1st
movement
4
American
Symphonic Suite
Assorted parts for 1st
movement
5
American
Symphonic Suite
Miscellaneous parts,
sketches, reductions. Parts
for 2nd movement
6
American
Symphonic Suite
Anima Anceps
XOS
April in Harlem
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
Three Movement
symphonic suite
Published
score
JPJ; Razaf;
1 39 page complete score;
copies of miscellaneous
pages
Piano/Voice
Score
Choral work
Symphonic
score (15
leaves)
Symphony
Piano; lyric; four voices –
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
Choral
arrangement by
Steve Stevens
See Harlem
Symphony
2
2
Balmora
Negro Dance
JPJ
9 page score
with
sketches;
Fragmentary
symphonic
score
Form to be
determined:
Symphony
Folder also contains Vocal
scores for Realistic, Parts I &
IV
Baptist Mission –
4th Movement sa
1 conductor’s
score
Symphony
Full set of parts
Baptist Mission
1 symphonic
score (22
leaves)
Symphony
See Harlem
Symphony
Piano/lead
Copyist Michael
Edwards
XOS
XOS
See Harlem
Symphony
Beethoven see
Concerto III
2
Can’t You Hear
Those Drums?
JPJ; Lyrics
by Hughes
2
Carolina Shout –
Symphonic Dance
JPJ
2
Carolina Shout –
1943
Score
Symphonic Dance
Incomplete Parts: 1st
Alto/clarinet; 1st & 3rd
trumpet; bass in copyist
hand; Cornet A; sketches,
Copyist on
Studio Brand
Belwin paper;
JPJ cornet on
Ditson Brand;
JPJ sketches on
Irving Berlin
paper
Charleston
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
3
Chivaree aka
Shivaree saA
Sugar Hill
2
City of Steel
OS
Comic Opera –
Phone Scene
Concerto III, “IInd”
Movement
OS
11
3
CONCERTO
JAZZAMINE
JPJ
Ludwig Von
Beethoven
Introduction,
Transition; 2
movement
short score
Complete
Score
Symphony
One page
incomplete
piano
Piano Concerto
Sketches
Movement II:
Love Under The
Stars
Flute; (Oboe, Clarinet Alto
Sax), (Clarinet, Tenor Sax),
B flat bass clarinet; French
Horn, Trumpets I – II;
Trombone; Violins A – D,
Viola, Cello, Bass, Piano,
Bass, Drums, Voices
Dapogney note:
“Is this part of
‘Meet Miss
Jones’”?
2 sets of symphonic scores
(first two movements),
sketches for third movement
1-5
CONCERTO
JAZZAMINE
1
Concerto Jazzamine
Piano parts, mvmts 1-2.
2
Concerto Jazzamine
Reeds, brass, rhythm parts,
mvmt. 1
3
Concerto Jazzamine
Reeds, brass, rhythm parts,
mvmt. 2
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
4
4
Concerto Jazzamine
String parts, mvmts. 1-3
5
Concerto Jazzamine
Third movement sketches
CREOLE FOLLIES
Titles from original program
in the Collection
Dancing Fools
Don’t Lose Your
Head (And Lose
Your Gal)
Down Home Blues
3
Sheet Music
Voice score;
solo,
soprano, alto,
tenor, bass
1-5
DREAMY KID
1
Dreamy Kid
Vocal and instrumental
sketches (31 leaves)
2
Dreamy Kid
Piano and vocal reduction
score
3
Dreamy Kid
Reduction scores –
“Prelude”, “Ceely-Ann’sSong” and “Love Duet.”
Sketches and stage
directions
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
Opera in One Act
From play by
Eugene O’Neil.
Lyrics by
Mercer Cook
5
4
4
Dreamy Kid –
Partial full score, “Prelude.”
(19 leaves)
4
5
Dreamy Kid –
Parts for “Cradle Song.”
Strings, bsn, ob, cl, fr. hn
1-2
DRUMS
4
Drums – Concert
Overture
4
Drums
ECCENTRICITY
OS
11
Eccentricity
5
Eccentricity for
Orchestra
Echoes of Ole Dixie
Land
Symphony
String parts
Parts – strings, woodwinds,
brass, drums
JPJ
Symphonic
score (51
leaves)
Symphony
From
production
“Waltz”
Two sets of orch. parts, first
incomplete (cl, bsn,
trb,drms, vln, bass). Second
complete
Jimmie
Johnson &
Perry
Bradford
1928
See
Mississippi
Moan
JPJ front page
note: “Mound
Bayou Negro
Rhapsody”
Eliza
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
6
Far Away Love
5
Farewell Blues
Fireworks
1935
Igor
Stravinsky
Fugue With Special
Design
TBI
GEECHIE
Jimmy
Johnson
and Henry
Creamer
Wandering
Sketches
Yes
Symphony
Complete
piano
Piano solo
Complete 16
page Score
Musical R
(Opening on
score title
page)
on Monarch
Brand paper
and Shapiro,
Bernstein & Co.
paper
Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet I & II,
Horn; Violins I & II; Viola
AKK: for further
study and
comparison
with script
Flute, 1st – 3rd Clarinet,
Basson; Horn I; Violin I – II,
Xylophone, Tympani, Viola,
Cello, Bass (Viol?); Short
score with melody/lyrics and
JPJ notations
JPJ note
“Glockenspiel
Melody”
George Pasha
Gingerbrown
TBI
Go Harlem
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
1930
Yes
Instrumental
score
JD note:
“(Shuffle Along
1930, Kitchen
7
Mechanics
Review, 1930;
partial score)
5
Good For Nothin’
Big Band score only: AAT, 2
Trumpets, 1 Bone, PGBD
5
Happy – Go –
Lucky
OS Big Band Score, sketch;
Parts – 3 Sax 3 Trumpets, 1
Bone, BD
5
Harlem Love
Song – 2nd
Movement
HARLEM
SYMPHONY
1932
Reduction score, three
movements.
Fragile!
Harlem Topsies
Harper & Blanks
5
Havin’ A Ball
Small group parts: Tenor,
Trumpet, Bone, BD
Heart Breakin’
Joe
5
Heart Throbs Suite
for Strings in E
Major
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
Sketches and incomplete
score
For 3 violins,
viola, cello, &
bass. Third
movement
based on
“Nobody Knows
the Troubles
I’ve Seen”
8
Henry’s Dream see
Sugar Hill
He’s A Nightmare
TBI
How Long Has That
Train Been Gone
John Henry
& Will
Wright
Melody/lyric
in JPJ hand
TBI
HUSBAND, THE
JPJ; Lyrics
by Flournoy
E. Miller
Yes
Older intro
Page 1;
pages 130 –
177 complete
movement
“Comic Opera In
One Act”; Note by
JPJ
I Don’t Want Any
Labor in My Job
5
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet I – III,
Bassoon; Horns, Trumpet I –
III, Trombone; Violin I – II,
Viola, Cello, Bass; Piano,
Bass, Drums, Voice
See Sugar Hill sa Published
Sheet Music
It Takes Love To
Cure Heart Disease
1921
Clar. 2 Cornets, 1 Trombone,
Tuba, Cello
I’ve Got To Be
Lovely to Harry
Sheet Music
TBI
If You Don’t Believe
I Love You Look
What A Fool I’ve
Been
5
Ivy
3 Violins only
5
Jazz Cocktail
Big Band Parts: 4 Sax; 3
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
AK note:
Probably
adapted from
earlier Musical
Revue
Clarence
Williams
Undated
None
Uncertain;
“Orchestration by
Dave Peyton. Jr. –
Chicago” stamped
9
Trumpets; 2 Bones; Piano,
Banjo, BD
Jazzamine – A
Piano Concerto
SEE Concerto
Jazzamine
Two pianos
Jerry
Jubilee Singing
5
Just You, Just Me
Big band parts: AATT, 3
Trumpets, 3 Bones, GBD
Keep ‘Em
Guessin’
TBI
Klavier Concert
Major No. 503
TBI
Lessons In Rhythm
6
1-5
LIBERTY
1
Liberty
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
Mozart
Piano Solo; two
page
Incomplete
parts
Uncertain
(B Flat Clarinet & Tenor); 1st
& 2nd B Flat Trumpet; Violins
1st Stand; Piano, Guitar
JD note:” from
a stage work?”
Complete score
“Dedicated to
the 369th
Infantry.
Composed in
1917 –
orchestrated in
1941”
“A March Fantasia”
JPJ
1917
10
6
2
Liberty
Piano reduction
6
3
Liberty
Reed parts
6
4
Liberty
String parts
6
5
Liberty
Brass & percussion parts
Liza
Big Band
AAT; 3 Trumpet, 2 Bones;
PGBD (Yank)
Love & Venable
Love Bug
Title from sheet music
Love Don’t Need
A Referee
2nd Movement
of City of Steel
Love Under The
Stars see City of
Steel
TBI
6
Love’s Done
Something To Me
Lovin’ Ain’t My
Aim
Manhattan Street
Scene – Ballet
Sketches on
Maury
Deutsch
paper
Sketches
AKK note from
larger work
Miscellaneous/orph
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
11
an parts
OS
11
Overture Manhattan Street
Scene?
Symphonic score (14 leaves)
MEET MISS
JONES
7
OS
Complete
score for
Opening
Chorus
(“Allo”)
Introduction,
Opening,
Meet Miss
Jones
Musical Revue
Flute, Oboe B flat clarinet
and bass clarinet; Horn,
Trumpet I – II, Trombone I
– II, Violin A – D, Viola,
Cello; Piano, Bass, Drums,
Voices (“Betty”)
MEET MISS
JONES
Titles from sheet music in
Collection
Memories Of You
Small Group parts: Tenor,
Trumpet, Bone, GBD
Memphis “LowDown”
Mississippi Moan
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
JPJ
Complete
score
56 pages
“Symphonic Tone
Poem”
Originally
located after
Manhattan
Street Scene
(You Took)
Advantage of
Me verso
Trumpet part
Piccolos, Flutes, English
Horn, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet,
Bassoons, Alto Sax I – II,
Tenor, Baritone; Horns I –
IV, Trumpets I – III,
Trombones I – II, Bass
Trombone; Harp, Violins I _
II, Viola, Cello; Piano, Tuba,
Bass, Tympani, Drums
12
Mississippi Moan
JPJ; Lyric
Adaptation
of Echoes
of Ole Dixie
Land” by
Perry
Bradford
1928
(Publishe
d)
Prologue;
Published
Bradford with
JPJ notations
and additions
“Symphonic Tone
Poem
Mister Dumbell
and Mister Tough
7
MONEYMOON
JPJ; Lyrics
by Flournoy
E. Miller
Titles from Synopsis in the
Collection. Full piano
reduction score.
My Hunk of Blues
My Sweet Hunk
O’ Trash S.A.
Sugar Hill
7
New Orleans
Sketches for “Congo
Square,” “Dance Calinda,”
“Mardi Gras,” and “Blue’s”
Night Club – 3rd
Movement
Old Fashion Love
Open Your Heart
Pat Your Feet
Peace, Sister,
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
13
Peace S.A. Sugar
Hill
Piano Movers
TBI
Rose, The Maid
and The Butler
7
Piano Solos
7
PLANTATION
DAYS
JPJ; Lyrics
by Flournoy
E. Miller
Many pages
with lyrics
1922
JPJ note:
“Moneymoon,
Sugar Hill”
AKK further
study
Titles from program in the
Collection
Red Cap Capers
Please Don’t Swing
That Song
Realistic
8
Jimmy
Davis
Undated
Handwritten
piano/lyric
sheet
Originally with
Joe Davis
envelope; au
verso Whaley’s
phone number
and members
of JPJ small
group
Vocal scores,
Parts I & IV
See Balmoral
RUNNIN’ WILD
Titles from original program
in Collection
Scrappy’s Dance
Woodwind, brass, and string
parts
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
14
Send Her
8
Sefronia’s Dream –
Negro Ballet
Fantasy
Plot summary and sketches
Sepia Fashion Show
Shuffle Along
TBI
Kitchen
Mechanic’s
Review
8
Shuffle Along
Hits
1930
Simon Legree
Simply Full of
Jazz
Sippi
Vocal score
Sit Still If You
Can
Smiling Through
My Tears
Snowtime
Sun Kist Rose
XOS
Sometimes I Feel
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
1 conductor’s score (3
Possibly not
15
8
Like A Motherless
Child
leaves)
Sonatine
Woodwind, brass, and string
parts
JPJ.
Southern
Wedding
Specialty
SPIRIT OF
AMERICA, THE
Score for
Movements 1
– 2, 4
“Allegro for Strings
– Quartet A flat
major for Strings”
8
1-6
Spirit of America,
The
Score, mvmts. 1-2
8
2
Spirit of America,
The
Score, mvmt. 4
8
3
Spirit of America,
The
Parts, mvmt. 1
8
4
Spirit of America,
The
Parts, mvmt. 2
8
5
Spirit of America,
The
Parts, mvmt. 3
8
6
Spirit of America,
The
Reduction score and parts,
mvmt. 4
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
2nd Movement
based upon
Negro Spiritual
‘Nobody Knows
The Trouble
I’ve Seen’”
16
Stay Out of the
Kitchen
Stop and Rest A
While
8
Strutter’s Ball
Score
Big Band
Parts for big band with oboe,
plus choir arrangement
(score only)
Strutting
Flappers
A Subway
Journey from
Penn Station to
Harlem - 1ST
Movement
9
SUGAR HILL
Folder 1
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
(1931?)
copyright
1949
Full set of symphonic parts
Harlem
Symphony
Overture (parts for tpt, trb,
vln). Sender, Sugar Hill or
Negliges (sketches), Hot
Harlem (lead sheet, alto sax,
vln, and tenor voice parts),
unidentified piano & clarinet
parts, You Can’t Lose A
Broken Heart (lead sheet
with lyric), Mama’s Got to
See You Tonight (Piano
reduction), unidentified
arrangement (“You Can’t
Stop Em Now”???)
Titles from
sheet music in
the Collection:
My Sweet
Hunk O’
Trash; I Don’t
Want Any
Labor In My
Job; Stay Out
Of The
Kitchen; You
Can’t Lose A
Broken Heart
(Sugar Hill
Theme?);
17
Keep ‘Em
Guessing;
Far Away
Love; Peace,
Sister, Peace;
That Was
Then;
Chivaree.
“Mama’s Got To
See You” cowritten w/Andy
Razaf, probably
not from Sugar
Hill?
9
Sugar Hill
Folder 2
9
Sugar Hill
Folder 3
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
Unidentified tune (brass
parts), unidentified piano
part, Happen To Me (sax,
tpt, vln parts), Boston (sax,
tpt, vln parts), Noisy
Neighbors (sax, brass, vln,
bass &banjo parts), Henry’s
Dance (sax, vln, tpt parts),
unidentified string parts.
Introduction to Spiritual
(trpt, pno, vln parts),
Hannah The Cook (partial
reduction score w/vocal),
Peace Sister Peace
(reduction score), Shivaree
(reduction score), I Don’t
Want Any Labor In My
Job (reduction score), That
Was Then (reduction
score), Moving Day (tpt,
Titles from
Sugar Hill
(according to
published sheet
music) are in
bold.
18
pno, vln parts), Yes I Love
You Honey (choral score,
vln, pno parts), Rumbola
(sax, tpt, vln parts, and
partial reduction
score/sketch?)
TBI
Sugar Hill
1931
Musical Revue
B Flat Trumpet I – III,
Trombone, Violin 1st stand;
Piano
JPJ note on
Violin;
“Rumbola –
Chorus, Hot
Harlem Last 4
Bars 1 Cho
(sic)”
JP & JH contra
scholar notes
Hangin’ Around
Your Door
9
JPJ
1931
None
Musical Revue
Sun Will Be Shining
by James P.
Johnson
Flute, Oboe, 3 Clarinets,
Bassoon; 1 Horn; Violins,
Violas, Cello, B, Drums,
Tympani
9
Swinging At The
Lido
Score, small group parts:
Tenor, Trumpet (2 Pianos)
TBI
Swooning Again
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
Maceo
Jefferson
1946
Handwritten
piano solo
Piano Solo
“J.P. Johnson +
Willie Smith at
a Social Dance
with a graceful
Prance”
“E Flat Swing”
In MJ hand
19
9
Symphony in
Brown
Sketches for 5 movements
That’s Why They
Call Me Shine
That Was Then
TBI
Thema Con
Variazioni
9
Tiger Rag
Two 1st Violins parts
None
Not in JPJ
hand; in regular
copyist from
Moneymoon
Choral arrangement (score
only)
Topsy
Transportation
9
Treemonisha
10
Twiddlin’ My
Thumbs
Scott Joplin
Published
score
Score only
Big Band
Score only for big band:
AAT, 3 Tpt, 1 Bone; PGBD
Two Fast
Steppers
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
20
Ukelele Blues
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
1926
Uncle Toms
Unknown
Insurance
Vampire Babe
XOS
VICTORY STRIDE
1944
21 page
score
10
Victory Stride
Piano part and conductor’s
score (16 leaves)
10
Violin Concerto in G
Major
Sketches only
10
Way Down Yonder
In New Orleans
Score only (4 Horns and
rhythm)
What Kind O’ Tune
Did Nero Play
TBI
What’s Your
Squawk?
10
Who
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
Bud Allen
Handwritten
piano/lyric
JPJ unrelated
(?) notes inside
Big Band parts: AAT, 3 Tpts,
1 Bone; PG, Tuba, D; Melody
line
“Who ala Teddy
WIlson” on
melody
21
Why?
You’re My Rose
Sheet Music
10
You’re The Reason
A, E flat Alto, B Flat tenor –
all switch to clarinet; 3
Trumpets; 2 Bones; 3
Violins; P,Banjo, BD
Typed lyric on
separate paper
10
You Always Can
Come Back To Me
Parts for big band with
violins.
Fragile
condition, some
water damage.
You Can’t Lose A
Broken Heart
You Took
Advantage Of Me
Small group score: Clar, T,
Tpt, Bone
Trpt part verso
Memories of
You
“Entr Act”
10
OS
You, You, You
OS Score; Parts AT, 2 Tpts,
GB
Zamboola
135th Street
Bloodhounds
10
Untitled (2 folders)
James P. Johnson Collection
Series 1A: Music Manuscripts
Annie Kuebler and Matt Snyder
22