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Portrait on a Plaintive Tune for Band; slowly ♩=88, faster ♩=120, broadly half note=69, broadly ♩=80
No full textOriginal manuscript for band along with the parts for each instrument. Score is on band staff paper with title, musical notes, and notations written in pen. Parts are on regular staff paper with musical notes written in pen. Some titles and notations are hand written and others are typed. Notation at the bottom of the title page says, "Copyright © 1990 by Carl Vollrath".Bandscore 65 pages, 11x17; parts 3-4 pages, 8 1/2 x 1
Brass Trio; alla march ♩=120, alla chorale half note=69, alla dance with rag ♩=120
No full textEngraved score on vellum music score paper for a Trumpet, French Horn, and Trombone trio. Includes music for each instrument.Trumpet, Horn in F, Trombonescore 28 pages, parts 8-9 pages; 11 x 13 1/
Gypsy Jazz for Cello and Piano (1980); allegro di bravura ♩=92, cantabile (free & moving) ♩=92
No full textOriginal manuscript for Cello and Piano on music staff paper. Musical notes, title, and notations are all written in black felt pen.Cello, Pianoscore 9 pages, part 4 pages; 8 1/2 x 1
Rosedale Historic District Survey
No full textThis document is the Rosedale Neighborhood Historic District survey done by the Alabama Historical Commison in February 2022. This document is for 17th place south and the buildings that are at this location
Soliloquy I, about ♪=116; Murmurs, murmurous ♩=84; Waltz, slowly ♩=56; Soliloquy II, about ♩=48; Air, gently ♩=56, animated ♩=76; Last Tango, alla tango ♩=96
No full textOriginal manuscript of 6 songs for piano. Musical notes in felt tip pen on music staff paper. Titles and some musical notations are typed. Notations on title pages say either, "Copyright © 1989 by Carl Vollrath" or "Copyright © 1991 by Carl Vollrath".Piano13 pages; 8 1/2 x 1
Trio for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano; slowly ♩=66, ad lib., fast ♩=92, relaxed, broadly
No full textOriginal manuscript on music staff paper for a flute, clarinet in b flat, and piano trio. Includes music for each instrument which begin with page 2. The musical notes are written in black felt pen and titles are typed. Notation at the bottom of score title pages says, "Copyright © 1988 by Carl Vollrath".Flute, Clarinet, Pianoscore 33 pages, each part 8 pages; 8 1/2 x 1
Prokofief's Polka; polka like ♩=84
No full textOriginal manuscript for Clarinet and Piano in pencil on music staff paper. This is only the score. The title page is typed.Clarinet, Piano9 pages; 8 1/2 x 1
6 Pieces for Trumpet Sextet: I. Processional; march ♩=120 – II. Impressionistic Tremors; alla chant ♩=58 – III. Parade Fugal; lively ♩=132 – IV. Waltz - Lullaby Remembrance; slowly ♩=80 – V. Cascade; flowingly ♩=126 – VI. Final; fast ♩=138, ad. lib.
No full textOriginal manuscript of six pieces for 6 trumpets on music staff paper. Includes music for each trumpet. Musical notes in black felt pen and title and notations are typed.Trumpetscore 72 pages, parts 1 page each; 8 1/2 x 1
Songs of Experience: The School Boy, lightly and crisp ♩.=76; My Pretty Rose Tree, lightly ♩=76, slightly slower; The Garden of Love, wistfully; The Little Vagabond, light and spirited, slow and laden; Ah! Sun-Flower, slowly
No full textEngraved score on vellum music score paper for medium voice. The words are from poems by William Blake.Vocal, Piano18 pages (each song paged separately); 11 x 13 1/2The Schoolboy:
I love to rise in a summer morn,
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me:
O what sweet company!
But to go to school in a summer morn, -
O it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day
In sighing and dismay.
Ah then at times I drooping sit,
And spend many an anxious hour;
Nor in my book can I take delight,
Nor sit in learning's bower,
Worn through with the dreary shower.
How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring!
O father and mother if buds are nipped,
And blossoms blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, -
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the mellowing year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
My Pretty Rose Tree:
A flower was offered to me,
Such a flower as May never bore;
But I said, 'I've a pretty rose tree,'
And I passed the sweet flower o'er.
Then I went to my pretty rose tree,
To tend her by day and by night;
But my rose turned away with jealousy,
And her thorns were my only delight.
The Garden of Love:
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
The Little Vagabond:
Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold,
But the Ale-house is healthy & pleasant & warm;
Besides I can tell where I am use'd well,
Such usage in heaven will never do well.
But if at the Church they would give us some Ale.
And a pleasant fire, our souls to regale;
We'd sing and we'd pray, all the live-long day;
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray,
Then the Parson might preach & drink & sing.
And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring:
And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church,
Would not have bandy children nor fasting nor birch.
And God like a father rejoicing to see,
His children as pleasant and happy as he:
Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the Barrel
But kiss him & give him both drink and apparel.
Ah! Sun-flower:
Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun:
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the travellers journey is done.
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow:
Arise from their graves and aspire,
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go
Theme of Theron Ware; no tempo markings given
No full textPrinted facsimile of a musical score for piano.Piano1 pages; 8 1/2 x 1