Sketch and draft materials 1: on paper, and available in the UB Music Library or from
instructor
•György
Ligeti, Notenbilder: Kunstmappe
mit sechs Faksimiles nach Musik- Autographen von Gyorgy Ligeti und mit dem Reprint eines
Ligeti-Portraits von Klaus Bottger [Treasure Room, M 04 L626]
•G. Nottebohm, Beethoveniana (Leipzig, 1872/R); and Zweite Beethoveniana: Nachgelassene Aufsätze, ed. E. Mandyczewski (Leipzig, 1887/R); along with many others
•Seymour
Shifrin, Responses for
solo piano: sketches and
manuscript [talk to Stadelman]
•Karlheinz Stockhausen, Werke I-VII: contains material corresponding to all categories of this bibliography
•Arnold
Schönberg, Sämtliche Werke
•Andrew
Rindfleisch, Tears for
solo flute: sketches and manuscript [talk to Stadelman]
•James
Gardner, sketches for uncompleted work, Shed for Adam [talk to Stadelman]
•Bela
Bartok, Musik fur Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta, Faksimile des Partiturautographs und der
Skizzen; herausgegeben und kommentiert von Felix Meyer; English translation by
J. Bradford Robinson
•Skizzen
und Manuskripte: 8 Skizzen von
Johnny Friedlaender und 4 Manuskripte von K. H. <sic> Stockhausen zu
Mikrophonie I [in special
collection]
•Donald Martino, Quodlibets II for solo
flute: sketches [talk to Stadelman]
• Klaus
Schoning, editor, Roaratorio : ein irischer Circus uber Finnegans wake (An Irish circus on Finnegans Wake);
materials relating to the composition of John Cage’s Roaratorio
•Felix
Meyer, editor, Settling New Scores : music manuscripts from the Paul Sacher
Foundation; with works by
Cage, Lutoslawski, Birtwistle, Bartok, many others
Sketch and draft materials 2: digitized manuscripts
available online
•The
University at Buffalo Music Library (click on “Special
Collections”): Center of the
Creative and Performing Arts; North American New Music Festival; June in
Buffalo; Morton Feldman; Yvar Mikhashoff; Allan Sapp; Lejaren Hiller; Leo Smit;
more
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/music/
•The Arnold
Schönberg Center (click on Archive & Library)
http://www.schoenberg.at/default_e.htm
•Yale
University, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library
http://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib/collections.htm
•The Aaron
Copland Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/achome.html
•The Irving
Fine Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ifhtml/ifhome.html
•Chopin
Early Editions
http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/
•Bartok
string quartet no. 3
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/music/19th.html
•Bach
Digital
http://bachdigital.uni-leipzig.de
•Ives
Thematic catalog at Yale
http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/music/ci-d.htm
•Digital
Music Collections
http://hcl.harvard.edu/loebmusic/online-ir-digital.html
Links to libraries and archives with significant holdings
relevant to this course, but without digitized manuscripts available online
•Archivio
Luigi Nono
http://www.provincia.venezia.it/alnono/wwwen/fprefaen.html
•Paul
Sacher Stiftung
http://www.paul-sacher-stiftung.ch/e/default.htm
Analytic and critical articles, and other texts 1: on paper
•Marino, Serra and
Raczinski, "The UPIC System:
Origins and Innovations," in Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 31, No. 1), 258-69
•Iannis Xenakis,
"Xenakis on Xenakis," in Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 25, Nos. 1& 2), 16-63
•Jean-Charles Francois,
"Writing without Representation, and Unreadable Notation," in Perspectives
of New Music (Vol. 30, No. 1), 6-20
•Rose-Marie Janzen,
"A Biographical Chronology of Jean Barraque," in Perspectives of
New Music (Vol. 27, No. 1), 234-45
•Alcedo Coenen,
"Stockhausen's Paradigm: A
Survey of His Theories," in Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 32, No. 2), 200-25
•John Pritchett,
"The Completion of John Cage's Freeman Etudes," in Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 32, No. 2), 264-71
•Peter Westergaard,
"On the Problems of "Reconstruction from a Sketch": Webern's Kunfttag III and Leise Düfte," in Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 11, No. 2), 104-21
•Hans Nathan, "On
Dallapiccola's Working Methods," in in Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 15, No. 2), 34-57
•P. S. Machlin,
“Fats Waller Composes: the Sketches, Drafts, and Lead Sheets in the
Institute of Jazz Studies Collection,” ARJS, vii (1994–5), 1
•Richard Toop,
"Prima le parole... (on the Sketches for Ferneyhough's Carceri
d'invenzione I-III)," in Perspectives
of New Music (Vol. 32, No. 1), 154-75
•John P. Welsh,
"Open Form and Earle Brown's Modules I and II (1967)," in Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 32, No. 1), 255-90
•Sharon Kanach,
"Xenakis’s Hand, or the Visualization of the Creative Process"
in Perspectives of New Music (Vol.
40, No. 1), 190-97
•Yo Tomita,
“Through a glass darkly” in The Musical Times (Winter 1998), 37-45
•Helmut Lachenmann,
“Klangtypen der neuen Musik, “ in Zeitschrift
für Musiktheorie, I/1 [talk to
Stadelman; possibly also in Musik als existentielle Erfahrung : Schriften
1966-1995]
•A.I.Klimovitsky
, Igor Stravinsky's Orchestrations of Beethoven's and Musorgsky's "Song
of The Flea"
•Richard Toop,
“Stockhausen's electronic works: sketches and work-sheets from
1952-1967” Interface
vol. 10 n3-4 1981 p. 149+ n3-4
•A. Iwaschkin, “Stereotypen des Lebens, in
Symbole verwandelt; Alfred Schnittke und sein Ballett Skizzen” Neue
Zeitschrift fuer Musik vol. n10 Oct
1985 p. 21-4
• R. E. McGregor,
“The Maxwell Davies sketch material in the British Library: an
appendix” Tempo vol.
n197 Jul 1996 p. 20-22
• N. P. Todd,
“Auditory models of music research (Part I): The auditory `primal
sketch': a multiscale model of rhythmic grouping” Journal of New
Music Research vol. 23 n1 1994 p.
25-70 n1
• D. Smyth,
“Stravinsky's second crisis: reading the early serial
sketches” Perspectives of New Music vol. 37 Summer 1999 p. 117-46
• E. B. Crist,
“Aaron Copland's Third Symphony from sketch to score” The
Journal of Musicology vol. 18 Summer
2001 p. 377-405
• G. Horlacher,
“Running in place: sketches and superimposition in Stravinsky's
music” Music Theory Spectrum vol. 23 Fall 2001 p. 196-216
• P. S. Machlin, “Fats
Waller composes: the sketches, drafts, and lead sheets in the Institute of Jazz
Studies collection” Annual Review of Jazz Studies vol. 7 1994-1995 p. 1-24
• T. Beimel,
“Dincolo de vise --Jenseits der Traeume Skizzen zu einem `Nichtwerk' von
Ulpiu Vlad” Bulgarsko Muzikoznanie vol. 22 n4 1998 p. 3-12 n4
• M. Homma,
“Witold Lutoslawski; Zwoelfton-Harmonik, Tonbildung, Aleatorischer
Kontrapunkt; Studien zum Gesamtwerk unter Einbeziehung der Skizzen” Ruch Muzyczny vol. 43 Aug 22 1999 p. 38-41
•Jeff Stadelman,
“Milton Babbitt’s My Ends are my Beginnings”
•
Ungeheuer, Elena, Wie die elektronische Musik "erfunden" wurde-- :
Quellenstudie zu Werner Meyer-Epplers musikalischem Entwurf zwischen 1949 und
1953
Analytic and critical articles, and other texts 2: online sources
•Nicholas Marston,
“Sketch” entry from Grove Music Online; also link, at bottom of entry, to bibliography [I
believe the link below will work; if it doesn’t, enter Grove’s through the UB Library website ( http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/
), click on “Databases,” and navigate as necessary
•Michael Spencer,
“Re-Placing the Dialectic: Notions of Compositional Procedure in James
Dillon's German Tryptych”
[link below, click on “BPM Volume 5”)
•Mauricio Kagel,
“Translation – Rotation”
http://www.geocities.com/bart527/kagel.html
Selected verbal diaries, journals, correspondence,
marginalia, disjecta, interviews, et cetera: paper and online
•John Rahn, "An
Interview with Ustad Imrat Khan," in Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 30, No. 2), 126-45
•Hans Werner Henze, Die englische Katze: ein Arbeitstagebuch, 1978-1982 [is English version available?]
•Solomon Volkov, Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich (New
York: Proscenium Publ., 1999)
•Paul Valery, Analects (New York:
Bollingen Press, 1962)
•Kurt Schwertsik,
“Looking Into the Mirror: Fragments from Diaries, Reports and
Manifestos” Tempo No.
161, Jan. 8, 2000
•Ludwig van Beethoven,
…
•H. Rye
and J. Beaton, “Fats Waller’s British Diary,” Sv, no.81 (1979), 85
•Felix
Bartholdy-Mendelssohn, …
•Various BBC and other
interviews taped for radio, featuring Anthony Braxton, Brian Ferneyhough,
Pierre Boulez, Harrison Birtwistle.
Comic material featuring Buddy Rich, Casey Casum and Barry White.
[Stadelman]
•Luigi Dallapiccola, “Meeting
with Webern (Pages from a Diary)” Tempo No. 99 May 1, 1972
•Toru Takemitsu,
…?
•Edison Denisov, Personal
Diaries (in Russian—ask Peter
Schmelz?)
•D.
Mitchell and P. Reed, eds., Letters from a Life. Selected Letters and
Diaries of Benjamin Britten
(London, 1991)
•Dika Newlin, Schoenberg
Remembered: Diaries and Recollections
•John Cage, Silence, A Year from Monday, etc, etc.
•Brian
Eno, A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary (London, 1996)
•Richard Wagner, The diary
of Richard Wagner 1865-1882
•Helmut Lachenmann,
"Open Letter to Hans Werner Henze," in Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 35, No. 2), 189-200
•O.
Prokofiev, ed., Soviet Diary 1927 and Other Writings (London, 1991)
•Michael Zaplitny,
"Conversation with Iannis Xenakis," in Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 14, No. 1), 86-103
•Vicki MacKenzie, Why
Buddhism?: Westerners in Search of
Wisdom includes interview with Philip
Glass
•Louise Varese, Varese: a Looking-Glass Diary, i: 1883--1928 (New York, 1972/R)
•Igor
Stravinsky and Robert Craft, Expositions and developments; and Igor Stravinsky, A Stravinsky
scrapbook: 1940-1971 with
captions by Robert Craft; and illustrations chosen by Patricia Schwark.
NB: there are many more Stravinsky
books of this sort (memoirs, scrapbooks, correspondence collections, etc.),
most collected, redacted, written in some way by Robert Craft.
•An Ensemble Sospeso
page of composers and other artists, with many links to interviews and other
material; e.g click on Harrison Birtwistle
http://www.sospeso.com/contents/composers_artists/
•Ian Pace in
Conversation with Marc Bridle
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/SandH/2001/Feb01/pace1.htm
•Ned Rorem,
diarist: his many volumes are
available in the Music Library
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/bison
•Jeff Stadelman,
translator: assorted materials by
Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, Robert Piencekowski, György Ligti, Bernd
Alois Zimmermann, György Kurtag
•Morton Feldman, Essays, edited by Walter Zimmermann
•The
Boulez-Cage correspondence / documents collected, edited, and introduced
by Jean-Jacques Nattiez; translated and edited by Robert Samuels
•R. Murray Schafer, European Sound Diary
Systematic (and unsystematic) theorizing and speculation of a general nature, along with Kompositionslehren
•Anthony Braxton, TriAxium
Writings
•Donald Martino,
“The Source Set and its Aggregate Formations,” Journal of Music
Theory
•George Perle, Twelve-Tone
Tonality
•Stephen Dembski, Discrete
Co-mingling
•Paul Lansky, Affine
Music
•Harry Partch, Genesis
of a Music
•Iannis Xenakis, Formalized
Music
•Elliott Carter, Harmony
Book, edited by Nicholas Hopkins and
John Link
•R. Murray Schafer, The
Tuning of the World
•Pierre Schaeffer, Traite des objets musicaux
•Andrew Mead, The
Music of Milton Babbitt
•Joseph Schillinger, The
Schillinger System of Musical Composition
•Mel Powell, various
articles by students in Aperiodical [talk to Stadelman]
•Robert
Morris, Composition with Pitch Classes
•Charles Wuorinen, Simple
Composition
•Henry Cowell, New
Musical Resources
•Derek Bailey, Improvisation: its nature and practice in music
•Olivier Messiaen, Technique
of my Music Language
•Roger Reynolds, Form
and Method: Composing Music
•Paul Hindemith, The
Craft of Music Composition
•Brian Eno and Peter
Schmidt, Oblique Strategies; see
http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Ed3.html
and http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Edition1-3.html
•Peter Schat,
précis of his “Tone Clock” harmonic system, along with
myriad biographical, professional, personal, spiritual content. To start, link to his site, then click
on the “aton” icon at right, then go to VIII o’clock on the
tone clock:
•Denis Mattews, Beethoven’s
Sketchbooks [Music Library LPs
#12642-69]
•Sam Mirelman, First
and Second Studies after Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 [music library treasure room]
•Leif Segerstam, Orchestral
Diary Sheet Nos. 1-25+; Episodes; etc.
•Woody Allen, extract
from “The Metterling Lists,” from Getting Even http://www.powells.com/features/metterling.html
•Grove Music Online
entry for “Composition”:
much useful information on compositional processes and technologies in
the West and elsewhere (including such “primal” technologies as
mnemonics, notation, performance manipulations of material, etc.)
•Stockhausen links
•Chris Cutler,
“On Scale”
http://www.ccutler.com/writing/scale.shtml
•José Oscar Marques, Bruckner symphony website
http://www.unicamp.br/~jmarques/mus/bruckner-e.htm
•Frank
Zappa, the complete recordings, as labyrinthine demonstration of
multitrack-tape-, synthesizer, live-performance- and score-based musical
recycling, sketching, revising, drafting, rescoring, and good old-fashioned conceptual
continuity. See the following websites for insights
(thanks to James Gardner):
http://www.arf.ru/Notes/index.html
http://members.shaw.ca/fz-pomd/links.html
http://www.arf.ru/Links/index.html
http://www.zappa-analysis.com/references-f.htm
http://www.crossfirepublications.com/zappa.html
•Dane Rudhyar, The
Magic of Tone and the Art of Music
•Pierre Boulez, various
works
Greg Russo, Cosmik Debris:
The Collected History and Improvisations of Frank Zappa
Theodor Adorno, “Vers
une musique informelle” in Quasi una fantasia, translated by Rodney Livingstone
•Donald Martino,
manuscript source index for “Das magische Kabarett…” [talk to Stadelman]
•John Cage,
Notations New York,
Something Else Press, 1969
•John Link,
Elliott Carter: A Guide to
Research
•Various, Wolfgang
Rihm, published by
Wolfgang Storch in cooperation with the Internationalen Heiner Muller
Gesellschaft
•Various, The
virtual score : representation, retrieval, restoration, edited by Walter B. Hewlett, Eleanor
Selfridge-Field
•Peter
Petersen, Alban Berg, Wozzeck : eine semantische Analyse unter Einbeziehung
der Skizzen und Dokumente aus dem Nachlass Bergs
•Schubert-Berio,
Rendering [from
preface: “with its dual
authorship is intended as a restoration of ... sketches <for Schubert's
Tenth symphony in D major, D. 936a>, it is not a completion nor a
reconstruction"]
•Thomas Bernhard, Correction; also Concrete, The Loser
• Gene Young , The trumpets of Varese : the complete trumpet parts of the works of Edgard Varese; with introduction and critical notes
•Edgard Varese, Nocturnal Edited and completed from the composer's notes and sketches by Chou Wen-Chung. Words and phrases from House of incest by Anais Nin
•Boguslaw Schaffer,
Introduction to composition
[Wstep do kompozycji; edited by Ludomira Stawowy]
•J.A.
Owens: Composers at Work: the Craft of Musical Composition 1450–1600 (New York, 1997) [incl. extensive bibliography]
•Helmut
Lachenmann, Musik als
existentielle Erfahrung : Schriften 1966-1995