COMPLETE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SCORE FOR WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY WITH HANDWRITTEN DEDICATION BY CONDUCTOR AND MUSICA...

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COMPLETE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SCORE FOR WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY WITH HANDWRITTEN DEDICATION BY CONDUCTOR AND MUSICAL ARRANGER WALTER SCHARF TO DIRECTOR MEL STUART COMPLETE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SCORE FOR WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY WITH HANDWRITTEN DEDICATION BY CONDUCTOR AND MUSICAL ARRANGER WALTER SCHARF TO DIRECTOR MEL STUART - (Paramount, 1971) Complete 152 pg original manuscript score for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory by Walter Scharf (1910-2003). Accomplished in pencil, with corrections and revisions in colored pencil and ink, on the composer's personally monogrammed 22-stave 12 ½ in. x 15 ½ in. manuscript paper. Scored for flutes, clarinets, oboe, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, percussion, harp, guitar, violins, violas, celli, basses and voice, it includes the 7 pg Overture as well as the tunes Candy Man, Charlie's Paper Run, Buying Candy Montage, Augustus Meets Slugworth, Working Girl Finds Golden Ticket, Oompa Loompa, Bubble Machine, I Want It Now and many others. Housed in a spiral comb binding with printed cardboard covers, "Willy Wonka music by Walter Scharf. "Inscribed by Walter Scharf to director Mel Stuart on the first page, "Thanks Mel, very much. It was a ball, Walter." Scharf arranged music for Al Jolson and Bing Crosby and orchestrated the original version of Irving Berlin's White Christmas. A ten-time Oscar nominee, Scharf worked on more than 100 films, and won a Golden Globe for his original music for Ben (1972). From the collection of Mel Stuart.

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