Scope and Content Note
The Vivian Fine Music Manuscripts chiefly consist of holograph scores, sketches, and parts for works written between 1929 and 1993. Fine's compositions spanned a variety of musical genres: solo instrumental, chamber, orchestral, as well as accompanied vocal and choral pieces. Notable compositions include Capriccio for Oboe and String Trio (1946), The Great Wall of China (1946), Fine's collaboration with Martha Graham, Alcestis (1960), and chamber operas The Women in the Garden (1978) and Memoirs of Uliana Rooney (1994). A small quantity of correspondence, programs, and clippings supplement the music manuscripts. The correspondence captures Fine's years of compositional growth while studying with Ruth Crawford (Seeger) and making acquaintances with figures such as Henry Cowell, George Antheil, Dane Rudhyar, and Aaron Copland.