Finding Aid

All music is printed from the computer application Finale unless otherwise noted

Box 1 

Compositions by David Earl Holt 

Big Band Arrangements

Spiral Notebooks

Four notebooks for trumpet, tenor, trombone, piano

• Love Is Just Around the Corner

• Blue Room

• Foggy Day

• Street of Dreams

• Sunday

• Button up Your Overcoat

• Anything Can Happen Mambo

• Heart of My Heart

• Sometimes I’m Happy

• Fascinatin’ Rhythm

• Rockin’ Chair

• Pick Yourself Up

• Give Me the Simple Life

• Sweet Sue

• I Got Rhythm

• Ja Da

Four notebooks for trumpet, tenor, trombone, piano (some with vocal line)

• White Christmas

• I’ll Be Home for Christmas

• Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer

• Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

• Jingle Bells

• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

• Silent Night

• Greensleeves (What Child Is This?)

• Christmas Song

• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

• Alexander’s Ragtime Band

• 12th Street Rag, Muskrat Ramble

• When the Saints Go Marching In

• Basin Street Blues

• Bill Bailey

• There Is a Tavern in the Town

• Pennsylvania Polka

• Beer Barrel Polka

• Cotton Eyed Joe

• How High the Moon (vocal)

• Jersey Bounce (vocal)

• Honeysuckle Rose (vocal)

• On the Sunny Side (vocal)

• Taking a Chance on Love (vocal)

• As Time Goes By (vocal)

• Take the “A” Train (vocal)

• Do Nothin’ ‘til You Hear (vocal)

• I’ve Got the World On (vocal)

• Body and Soul (vocal) 

Oversized

• How About You, by Ralph Freed and Burton Lane (arrangement): two scores and one set of parts

• Orange Colored Sky, by Milton de Lugg and Willie Stein (arrangement): score and parts

• Pecan Street Parade, by David Earl Holt (for wind band): parts

• Riverside Glide, by David Earl Holt (for big band): parts

• You Took Advantage of Me, by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart (arrangement): score and parts

Box 2

Papers

• Program for Austin Wind Ensemble concert on April 6, 1996, 8:00 p.m.; concert included David Earl Holt’s Pecan Street Parade, directed by him

• Two flyers advertising the Austin Wind Ensemble concert

• Letter to David Earl Holt, from Joan, dated May 20, 1986

• Letter to Galen Jeter, from David Earl Holt, dated May 1, 1992

• Blank book of manuscript paper

• Dream, by Johnny Mercer (not an arrangement)

Compositions by David Earl Holt

• April Eve (for big band): handwritten score; computer printed trombone parts Bobby’s Tune (for big band): score and parts

• Centex Suite (for string orchestra and piano): score and parts

• Happy Day Blues (for big band): computer printed parts, with handwritten expressive markings

• Hurly Burly (for big band): handwritten score

• Pecan Street Parade (for wind band): three scores and five sets of parts

Arrangements

Box 3

Compositions by David Earl Holt

• March with a Twist (for wind band): three scores and three sets of parts

Arrangements

• I’ll Never Smile Again, by Ruth Lowe (for big band): four scores and four sets of parts

• Long Ago and Far Away, by Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin (for big band): five scores and five sets of parts

• Sweet Lorraine, by Mitchell Parish and Cliff Burwell (for big band): five scores and one set of parts

Box 4

Compositions by David Earl Holt

• N. G. 23 Rock (for wind band): three scores and one set of parts

• Sabers and Sambas (for wind band): five scores and five sets of parts

Box 5

• Correspondence: 219 letters

Box 6

• Correspondence: 209 letters
  

Box 7

• Correspondence: 126 letters, and 93 additional letters to family members

Box 8

• 27 photographs and 4 photocopies of photographs

• 5 minidiscs with Holt’s oral history interview

• Dob kit (gift from Tommy Dorsey)  Addendum: "That is one of the names for that item, but David Earl and Dorsey referred to it by the more common name 'dop kit.'" - per e-mail from Stan Beard, 6/30/07

• Receipts from travel expenses