Music 608

Contemporary Music Materials:  Sketches, Drafts, & Diaries

Selected Bibliography

 

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

http://www.bachdigital.org

 

•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

http://80-www.grovemusic.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/shared/views/article.html?from=search& ;session_search_id=378272935&hitnum=1&section=music.42828

 

•Michael Spencer, “Re-Placing the Dialectic: Notions of Compositional Procedure in James Dillon's German Tryptych” [link below, click on “BPM Volume 5”)

http://www.bpmonline.org.uk/

 

•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:

http://www.peterschat.com/

 

 

“Between categories”

 

•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.)

http://80-www.grovemusic.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/shared/views/article.html?section=music.06216#music.06216

 

•Stockhausen links

http://www.stockhausen.org

 

•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