Gershwin, George AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF 'A WOMAN IS A SOMETIME THING' FROM THE OPERA "PORGY AND BESS", ACT ONE, SCENE ONE the first draft of the complete song in three verses, titled by Gershwin "Sometime thing" above the music, written in pencil for voice (treble clef) and piano on four systems, each of three-staves per page, the melodies and harmonies of the lullaby essentially complete, but without other the characters' interjections marking the ends of verses or the closing ensemble, the rhythms and the words diverging somewhat from the final version (beginning "listen to your daddy warn you"), comprising thirty-three bars of music in all, with a few alterations to the music and more to the words, marked by the composer on the second page "2nd verse" 3 pages, folio (33.5 x 25.5cm), a bifolio of 12-stave paper by Harms (No.2), Gershwin's signature clipped from a cheque and attached to the first page with a paper-clip, probably by Ira Gershwin, in an wrapper inscribed by Ira ("For Mr A. Smallens"), no time or place [probably New York, early 1934]
Gershwin, George AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF 'A WOMAN IS A SOMETIME THING' FROM THE OPERA "PORGY AND BESS", ACT ONE, SCENE ONE the first draft of the complete song in three verses, titled by Gershwin "Sometime thing" above the music, written in pencil for voice (treble clef) and piano on four systems, each of three-staves per page, the melodies and harmonies of the lullaby essentially complete, but without other the characters' interjections marking the ends of verses or the closing ensemble, the rhythms and the words diverging somewhat from the final version (beginning "listen to your daddy warn you"), comprising thirty-three bars of music in all, with a few alterations to the music and more to the words, marked by the composer on the second page "2nd verse" 3 pages, folio (33.5 x 25.5cm), a bifolio of 12-stave paper by Harms (No.2), Gershwin's signature clipped from a cheque and attached to the first page with a paper-clip, probably by Ira Gershwin, in an wrapper inscribed by Ira ("For Mr A. Smallens"), no time or place [probably New York, early 1934]
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