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American Ballet Caravan music scores, 1935-1947
180 items . 8 containers. 3.75 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
The collection of American Ballet Caravan Music Scores consists of full scores, parts, piano rehearsal and vocal scores for six ballets, at least two of them unrealized, for Lincoln Kirstein's dance company, which he founded in 1936. Three of the six ballets were commissioned by Kirstein during the Caravan's tour to Latin America in 1941. The works are Pastorela (Paul Bowles); Soirées musicale (Benjamin Britten, arranged for two pianos by Brian Easdale); Estancia (Alberto E. Ginastera); Fantasias Brasileiras: no. 4, for piano and orchestra (Francisco Paulo Mignone); Cinco Piezas Brevas for string orchestra, op. 14 (Domingo Santa Cruz); Juke Box (Alec Wilder); and Concerto for two violins and orchestra (J. S. Bach, arranged for two pianos by Stefan Wolpe).
Alex North music for documentary film, theater, dance, and concert, 1910-1984
approximately 221 items. 28 containers. 13 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Alex North (1910-1991) was an American composer of music for feature films, dance, theater productions, and the concert hall. He brought a new and uniquely "American" sound to his works. The collection contains performance materials for dance works, incidental music for theater productions, songs, musical comedies and revues, and concert works. A small amount of scripts, promotional materials, and clippings are also included.
Elliott Carter music manuscripts and other papers, 1933-1971
approximately 18,900 items. 55 containers plus bound scores. 19 linear feet. 22 microfilm reels. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Among other accolades, American composer Elliott Carter was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his second and third string quartets. A student of Nadia Boulanger, his works combined American and European styles of modernism, and his compositional style, based around collections of pitches, was later described as musical set theory. Carter was also known for his use of proportional tempo changes, which is referred to by scholars as metric modulation. Carter composed in a wide variety of genres, including symphonies, concertos, chamber music, ballets, and choral music. This finding aid collates classed holograph scores, sketches, and parts by Carter that were donated to the Music Division beginning in the 1960s. Additional music materials, programs, and a small amount of photographs and other papers will be added to this document in the future.
Léo Delibes music manuscripts, 1857-1890
85 items. 6.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Léo Delibes was a French composer known primarily for his stage works, including operas, ballets, and incidental music. His compositions display the wit, lightness, and elegance characteristic of nineteenth century French music and were premiered at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Opéra-Comique, and Théâtre Lyrique, among others. His ballets Coppélia and Sylvia and opera Lakmé have remained standards of the repertoire. The collection includes holograph manuscripts and sketches for many of his operas, ballets, and vocal and piano music.
Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski papers, 1878-2000
approximately 65,509 items. 460 containers. 317.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Erick Hawkins (1909-1994) was an American choreographer and dancer and the founder of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company. Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925-2000) was an American avant-garde composer and a frequent collaborator with Hawkins. Hawkins and Dlugoszewski married in 1962. This collection includes choreographic notes and notation, musical scores by Dlugoszewski and others, writings, correspondence, photographs, performance programs, recordings, books, art catalogs, and papers pertaining to the Erick Hawkins Dance Company and Foundation.
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Alexander Zemlinsky music manuscripts and other papers, 1887-1939
approximately 350 items. 28 containers. 8 linear feet. 13 microfilm reels. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Alexander Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, pianist, and educator whose students included Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alma Mahler, and Anton Webern. The collection consists of holograph music manuscripts for nearly all of Zemlinsky’s repertoire, as well as some printed music. Other materials include manuscript and printed music by other composers, personal papers, correspondence, and writings by others.
Morton Gould performance library, 1920s-1996
approximately 35,500 items. 466 containers. 193 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Morton Gould was a composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist. The collection contains materials created by Gould or under his supervision for studio use as well as compositions and arrangements for concert performances, film and television scores, stage works, juvenilia, and sketches. These materials were stored for many years at his principle publisher, G. Schirmer.
José María Castro papers, 1907-2001
approximately 3,500 items. 46 containers. 18.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
José María Castro was an Argentine composer, conductor, and cellist. He was a member of the Sociedad del Cuarteto and a co-founder of Grupo Renovación, an avant-garde musical youth movement in Argentina that became the International Society for Contemporary Music’s Argentine Section in 1932. The collection includes musical compositions, arrangements, and transcriptions by Castro; music by others; correspondence; writings; programs; clippings; scrapbooks; personal papers; photographs; and business papers pertaining to Castro’s career, Grupo Renovación, and the Asociación del Profesorado Orquestal.
Bronislava Nijinska collection, circa 1740-1996
approximately 35,000 items. 165 containers. 27 mapcase folders. 11 microfilm reels. 88.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
The Bronislava Nijinska Collection documents the life and professional activities of Bronislava Nijinska, a choreographer, dancer, and teacher who lived and worked in Europe, Argentina, and the United States from 1911 until her death in 1972. The collection was created by Nijinska with additions by her daughter, Irina Nijinska, and Irina's husband Gibbs S. Raetz. Material types include business papers, choreographic notes, correspondence, personal papers, photographs, posters, programs, scrapbooks, theatrical designs, and writings. Subjects include Nijinska's extensive work as a choreographer and revivals of her work, her roles as a dancer, and her writings on dance. There is a significant amount of material on her brother, dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, as well as companies she worked with including the Ballets de Madame Ida Rubinstein, Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, and the companies founded by the Marquis de Cuevas.
William Schuman music manuscripts, 1897-1992
approximately 1,000 items. 19 containers plus bound items. 20 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Composer William Howard Schuman (1910–1992) taught at Sarah Lawrence College, was president of The Juilliard School and Lincoln Center, and served on several boards of directors. The collection contains holograph scores, sketches, copyist and printed scores, annotated copies, parts, and librettos for his operas; cantatas; film scores; ballets; works for orchestra, band, chorus, and chamber ensembles; and early popular songs. There is a small amount of correspondence and notes.