Research Catalog

Title

Ted Royal scores, 1892-1975.

Author

Royal, Ted, 1904-1981.

Supplementary Content

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jones, Isham, 1894-1956.
• Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986.
• Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988.
• Schillinger, Joseph, 1895-1943.

Description

20 linear feet (40 boxes)

Summary

The Ted Royal scores consist mainly of scores for Royal's band and radio arrangements, as well as some Broadway arrangements and his own compositions.

Subjects

• Composers
• Arrangers (Musicians)
• Scores
• Silent film music > Scores
• Composers > United States > 20th century
• Arrangements (Popular music and jazz)
• Arrangement (Music)
• Motion picture music > Scores
• Royal, Ted, 1904-1981
• Arrangers (Musicians) > United States > 20th century

Genre/Form

Scores.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on microfilm as part of Ted Royal scores;

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Biography (note)

• Ted Royal (1904-1981) was an arranger, conductor, and composer for Broadway musicals, radio programs, big bands and film.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Processing Action (note)

• Microfilmed;

Call Number

JPB 06-4

OCLC

85031381

Author

Royal, Ted, 1904-1981.

Title

Ted Royal scores, 1892-1975.

Biography

Ted Royal (1904-1981) was an arranger, conductor, and composer for Broadway musicals, radio programs, big bands and film. Royal arrived in New York City in the fall of 1935, after stints as a silent movie accompanist, and in vaudeville and radio. He soon found work as an arranger for band leaders such as Al Katz and Isham Jones, creating new orchestrations for popular songs, including Jones' I'll see you in my dreams (1936) and Swingin' down the lane (1936). Royal also had his own radio program, "The Pompeiian Hour." Later, he worked as an arranger for the bandleader Paul Whiteman and for the Radio City Music Hall from 1943-1949. Royal's first Broadway credit was for additional arrangements for Cole Porter's DuBarry Was a Lady (1939), which led to orchestration assignments on other Cole Porter shows, such as Let's Face It (1941), Something for the Boys (1943), Mexican Hayride (1944) and Seven Lively Arts (1944). Other notable musicals for which Royal supplied the orchestrations include Leonard Bernstein's On the Town (1944), Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Harold Arlen's House of Flowers (1954), Frank Loesser's Where's Charley? (1948) and Guys and Dolls (1950), and Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon (1947) and Paint Your Wagon (1951). Royal studied with Joseph Schillinger from 1939-1943 and taught a course at Juilliard in Commercial Arranging from 1945-1947. He also wrote unproduced musicals, songs, and other compositions, including the music for the documentary, When Comedy Was King (1960).

Additional Formats

March Debonair, score and parts (Box 24, f. 12-24). Also available on microfilm as part of Ted Royal scores; service copy classmark: *ZB-4341.

Reproduction

March Debonair, score and parts (Box 24, f. 12-24). Microfilm. New York : New York Public Library, 2008. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-41192)

Indexes

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

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Finding Aid

Occupation

Arrangers (Musicians)

Composers.

Added Author

Jones, Isham, 1894-1956. I'll see you in my dreams.

Jones, Isham, 1894-1956. Swingin' down the lane.

Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986. Brigadoon.

Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986. Paint your wagon.

Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988. Brigadoon.

Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988. Paint your wagon.

Royal, Ted, 1904-1981. When comedy was king.

Schillinger, Joseph, 1895-1943.

Research Call Number

JPB 06-4

*ZB-4341 [Microfilm]