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Writings, 1915-1999 (continued)
George Antheil, 1915-1954 (continued)
Know thyself. Esquire (July 1936): 34, 192, 193-195 (continued)
GA annotations
BOX-FOLDER 14/7 The last year of the Great War. Esquire (April 1942): 27, 168-169
GA annotations
BOX-FOLDER 14/7 Lecture notes: 8 p.
Holograph manuscript
Topics include: Ballet Mécanique; origin of nickname "bad boy of music"; musical philosophies, et al.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Mama! (or The Americans don’t like me): [4] p.
GA annotations
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 The man I want my son to be (February 1940): 22
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Manifest of musico-mechanics: 3 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Martha Graham (1937): 71-77
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Miro: 3 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Modern music ... and how it gets that way. Panorama (June 1931): 12, 22
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 More melody, please!: 21-22
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Mother of the Earth. Musical supplement: 226-227
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Mozart could laugh. In this I Believe (1954): 6-7
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Music: 19 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 The music box. The Hollywood Tribune (July 1939): [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Music in 1955 (December 1936): 83-89
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Music in 2000 A.D.: 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Music in America: 9 p.
GA annotations
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Music in film: 14-15
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Musical neofism (1923): 3 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 The musical score to The pride and the passion. Film and TV Music, 16 (1957): 3-11
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 Musical theatre. Musical Theatre: 59-60
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 My Ballet Mécanique (June 1951): 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 My Ballet mécanique: what it means Der Querschnitt (September 1925): 3 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 My Ballet mécanique: what it means: 2 p.
GA annotations
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 My father (1945): 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 My fourth piano sonata: 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 My new violin concerto (1947): 6 p.
GA annotations
BOX-FOLDER 14/9 The Negro on the spiral or A method of Negro music. Negro Anthology (1934): 346-351
BOX-FOLDER 14/9 Neofism (1923): 3 p.
GA annotations
BOX-FOLDER 14/9 New directions in motion picture composing (June 1955): 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/9 Not even my dog would be satisfied: 12 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/9 Notes: [12] p.
Holograph manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 14/9 Notes for 5th Symphony(1948): 4 p.
Photocopied letter from GA to Donald Engle, 1948 Nov. 30
BOX-FOLDER 14/9 Notes on musical composition (1943-1944): [13] p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/9 Oaths: [1] p.
Holograph manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 14/10 Passing ideas that may some day help to make the art of music greater: [77] p.
Holograph manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 14/11 Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Bulletin of American Composers Alliance 4 (1954): 2-6
BOX-FOLDER 14/11 A physical possibility (1922): 3 p.
GA annotations
BOX-FOLDER 14/11 Präzisionsmusik. Melos, 28 (July-August 1961): 220-223
Laid in: English summary by BA
BOX-FOLDER 14/11 Program notes, biography, analysis, etc. for George Antheil’s Fourth symphony (1944): [14] p.
GA annotations
BOX-FOLDER 14/11 Program notes on Capitol of the world (1955): [1] p.
Laid in: letter from GA to Vladimir Golschmann, 1955 Nov. 4; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/11 Program notes for November 14 and 15, 1946: [12] p.
GA handwritten musical examples
BOX-FOLDER 14/12 Sample of American. Querschmitt (Summer 1924): [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/12 Second violin sonata: 2 p.
Laid in: letter from GA to Denny Watrous, 1949 Nov. 28; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/12 She's no longer faithful if—. Esquire (1936)
6 articles
Written under pseudonym Marcel Desage
BOX-FOLDER 14/12 So smells defeat. Esquire (November 1936): 52-53, 227-228
BOX-FOLDER 14/12 The solution of the fourth dimension: [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/12 The spectator, 1915-1917
Poems and articles; [13] p.
High school publication for which Antheil was associate editor
BOX-FOLDER 14/12 Stop looking—and listen: an interview with George Antheil. International Musician (November 1950): 24-25
BOX-FOLDER 14/12 Technical orchestration: 7 p.
Holograph manuscript
Notes for Cyclops, an opera to be based on text by James Joyce
BOX-FOLDER 14/12 To the editor. Transatlantic Review (November 1924): 558
BOX-FOLDER 14/13 Wanted—opera by and for Americans. Modern Music, 7 (June-July 1930): 11-16
BOX-FOLDER 14/13 Why a poet quit the muses. Chicago Tribune (September 1924): 9
Untitled articles, essays, and interviews
BOX-FOLDER 14/14 The background scores for Hollywood's films can be much better ...: [6] p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/14 The drawings of Miro have reassured me. I turn back to the pages of the Airplane sonata ...: [20] p.
Holograph manuscript
P. 19-20 are summer plans for 1934
BOX-FOLDER 14/14 From personal experience I know that there is no demand for contemporary opera in the United States ...: 3 p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/14 In 1922, as a young American composer ...: 5 p.
P. 4 is missing
BOX-FOLDER 14/14 In order to judge music, one must ...: 10 p.
GA annotations
BOX-FOLDER 14/14 In the beginning, music probably started with rhythm ...: 4 p.
GA annotations
BOX-FOLDER 14/14 Miscellaneous notes: [10] p.
GA annotations
Topics: futurism; modernism; Stravinsky; Bloch
BOX-FOLDER 14/14 Music must be hard as stone ...: [3] p.
Holograph manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 14/14 Paper about sonata form: 28 p.
P. 1-2 are missing
BOX-FOLDER 14/14 Radio transcription about Ballet mécanique, circa 1952-1953: [4] p.
BOX-FOLDER 14/14 Radio transcription about life experiences, 1948-1952?: [2] p.
About George Antheil by others, 1919-1999
BOX-FOLDER 15/1 Adams, Stephen J. Musical Neofism: Pound’s theory of harmony in context. Mosaic, 13 (Winter 1980): 49-69
BOX-FOLDER 15/2 Amirkhanian, Charles. Biographical information and work list for GA: [12] p.
Laid in: list of scores for CBS documentaries and cue libraries; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 15/2 Amirkhanian, Charles. An introduction to George Antheil. Soundings: 176-181
BOX-FOLDER 15/3 Bialosky, Marshall. A neglected six and a half minute American masterpiece: 21 p.
Laid in: letter from Bialosky to Amirkhanian, 1983 April 9; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 15/4 Chandler, Edna White. Sonata for trumpet: 79 p.
Unpublished book
Laid in: 3 letters from Chandler to Böske, 1960 June-July
BOX-FOLDER 15/5 Friede, Donald. Flop mecanique in The mechanical angel. New York : Knopf, 1948: 44-61
BOX-FOLDER 15/5 Friede, Donald. Floperoo mecanique. Esquire (April 1948): 58, 133-135
BOX-FOLDER 15/6 George Antheil in Composers on music: from Palestrina to Copland. Edited by Sam Morgenstern. New York : Pantheon Books, 1956
BOX-FOLDER 15/7-8 Henderson, Archibald. Pound and music: The Paris and early Rapallo years. UCLA, 1983
Excerpts from drafts
BOX-FOLDER 15/9 Lee, Margaret. George Antheil, Europe’s American composer. The Reviewer (1924): 267-275
BOX-FOLDER 15/10-24 Miscellaneous articles and reviews, 1919-1953
BOX-FOLDER 16/1-14 Miscellaneous articles and reviews, 1954-1991, undated
BOX-FOLDER 16/15 Pound, Ezra. Antheil and the treatise on harmony. Paris : Three Mountains Pres, 1924
On cover: holograph note from George to Böske
BOX-FOLDER 16/16 Pound, Ezra. George Antheil. The Criterion, 2 (April 1924): 321-331
BOX-FOLDER 16/16 Pound, Ezra. George Antheil. The Transatlantic Review: 110
BOX-FOLDER 16/17 Rothman, Tony. Plausibility: a constructivist comedy. Revised version, March 1999
Play in 2 acts
Alternate titles: Hedy and George; Ballet mécanique
BOX-FOLDER 16/18-21 Shirley, Wayne D. Another American in Paris: George Antheil’s correspondence with Mary Curtis Bok. Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 34 (January 1977): 2-22
Printed article, notebooks, and draft materials
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