{"value"=>"<p>Series I holds all scores in the collection, dating from 1944 to 2011. The majority of Turok's more than 100 published works are represented in this series. Scores for several unpublished works are also present.</p> <p>Types of scores for each composition are noted in the container list. Printed full scores are included for most compositions, while parts are often included for multi-instrument works. Piano reductions, handwritten drafts, and commercially published editions of scores are occasionally present. Dates of scores do not necessarily indicate the original year of publication, as some copies are revised editions or simply printed at a later date.</p> <p>The instrumentation for each composition is indicated in the container list, either in the title of the work or in a separate note. Opus numbers are also listed for each composition. When an opus number is not present, it is likely the composition was never commercially published.</p> <p>Series I holds scores for Turok's wide-ranging works, including those for orchestra, chamber, and band settings, as well as compositions for solo instruments. There are scores and parts for all ten of Turok's <span class=\"title\">Canzone Concertante</span> pieces. His opera adaptation of <span class=\"title\">Richard III</span> is represented by handwritten drafts, a full score, vocal score, and libretto. <span class=\"title\">Variations on an American Song: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty</span> contains handwritten and annotated versions of the score. The series also features scores for Turok's numerous sonatas for solo or duet instruments.</p> <p>Other compositions represented in the series include <span class=\"title\">Barbershop Variations</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Calendar</span>, <span class=\"title\">Charters West</span>, <span class=\"title\">Concerto for Piano and Orchestra</span>, <span class=\"title\">From Sholom Aleichem</span>, <span class=\"title\">Gypsy Airs</span>, <span class=\"title\">Lanier Songs</span>, <span class=\"title\">Scene: Domestic</span>, <span class=\"title\">Threnody</span>, <span class=\"title\">Tourist Music</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Youngest Brother</span>. Additionally, there are several scores for orchestra and string quartet works that date from the 1940s when Turok was a student at the High School of Music & Art. Some of these scores are written in notebooks, and at least one of them was submitted for a class assignment.</p> <p>The collection also holds notebooks with handwritten notation for multiple works. These are likely Turok's early drafts. Loose, untitled pages of notation (mostly handwritten) are filed with the notebooks as well.</p>"}