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BOX 1-630 MAPCASE-FOLDER 1-11 Music, 1615-2014 (bulk 1905-2010)
This series contains music that reflects Schuller's multifaceted work as a practicing musician—as composer, arranger, conductor, editor, French horn virtuoso, teacher, and student. The materials also reflect his other professional music endeavors, including music publisher, record company owner, arts administrator, scholar, writer, and jurist. Schuller prepared and copied much of his own work, taking pride in his legible hand.
Arranged in four subseries.
BOX 1-20, 22-35, 345, 393-425, 539-553, 579-590, 593-594, 601-602 MAPCASE FOLDER 1-3 Music by Gunther Schuller, 1940-2014
This subseries contains Schuller’s holograph manuscripts for his own compositions, original parts, ozalids (many prepared by him), and a range of printed materials, from proof copies to published editions, many with annotations. Materials span the course of Schuller’s creative life, from boyhood to 2014, the year before his death, and show the full spectrum of his composing styles. This series contains the score for his first publically performed work, a piece for string quartet dated 1939, composed while he was a student at the St. Thomas Choir School. Schuller’s father and three of the elder musician’s colleagues from the New York Philharmonic presented the work for an invited audience. Representing the other end of Schuller’s life are the manuscript and printed score of Dreamscape (2012), commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center; Four Chromatic Adventures and Four Chromatic Preludes (2014); and the holograph full score for Symphonic Triptych (2014), written for the Cincinnati Symphony, the orchestra Schuller joined as a 17-year-old horn player. Well known for his embrace of jazz idioms, this subseries also includes manuscripts of his "Third Stream" works, including the ensemble piece Transformation (1957), represented by an incomplete holograph score and a complete, annotated ozalid score; holograph full score and annotated ozalids and printed score of Concertino (1959), for jazz quartet and orchestra; and Variants on Thelonius Monk (1960), for thirteen instruments, represented by the holograph score, annotated ozalid score, and parts. Contained here are more than fifty sketch notebooks and other sketch manuscripts Schuller maintained from the 1940s through 2014. Earlier sketchbooks tend to contain transcriptions and arrangements of other composers’ works, presumably providing a window into the music that Schuller may have been studying at a given time.
Scores are holographs unless otherwise noted.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
BOX-FOLDER 1/1, 393/1 Abstraction for alto saxophone, guitar, percussion, and strings, 1961
Printed score with annotations; printed score; Ozalid of printed score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 393/1 Abstraction for alto saxophone, guitar, percussion, and strings, 1961
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 393/2 Adagio for flute and string trio, 1992
Score; Ozalid of score
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 Adagio for flute and string trio, 1992
Printed score with annotations; second proof score; parts
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Adagio for flute and string trio, 1992
Printed score; parts
BOX-FOLDER 393/2 Adagio for flute and string trio, 1992
Ozalid of flute part
BOX-FOLDER 393/3 Adagio for Strings (Ode to the Minor 2nd and Major 7th), 2007
Score (incomplete); two photocopies of score; parts
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 Adagio for Strings (Ode to the Minor 2nd and Major 7th), 2007
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Afterthought, undated
Score for two bass instruments
Includes: "Twelve-Tone Set for Two Tubas" by Richard Goldman (1948)
BOX-FOLDER 539/1 All About Kern, 1985, 1987
Full score; two photocopies of full score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 393/4 All About Kern, 1985, 1987
Vocal score for AATBBB chorus
BOX-FOLDER 2/1, 1/6 All About Kern, 1985, 1987
Orchestra parts
BOX-FOLDER 1/7-8 All About Kern for saxophone sextet, 1985
Photocopies of score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 539/2 American Triptych, 1965
Full score
BOX-FOLDER 539/3 American Triptych, 1965
Ozalid of full score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 American Triptych, 1966
Printed full score
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 Antiche Harmonien, 1959
Alternate title: Antique Harmonies
Full score
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Aphorisms for flute, violin, viola, and cello, undated
Ozalid of score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Aphorisms for flute, vioiln, viola, and cello, 1979
Four printed scores with annotations; two printed scores
BOX-FOLDER 539/4 An Arc Ascending, 1996
Full score; photocopy of full score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 393/5 Automation, 1962
Score; two photocopies of score; parts
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 Autumn, undated
Two scores for voice and piano
BOX-FOLDER 540/1 Bagatelle: With Swing, 1984
Full score
BOX-FOLDER 393/6 Bagatelle: With Swing, 1984
Photocopy of full score
BOX-FOLDER 393/7 Bagatelle: With Swing, Rev. 3, 2010
Printed full score
BOX-FOLDER 393/8 Bellmusic - A Celebration, undated
Photocopy of score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 35/1 Beschluss, undated
Score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 393/9 The Birth of the Cool Suite, 2001
Score; photocopy of score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 393/10-11 The Birth of the Cool Suite, 2001
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 540/2 The Black Warrior, 1998
Full score; photocopy of full score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 394/1 The Black Warrior, 1998
Photocopy of full score; photocopy of vocal score for SATB chorus
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 The Black Warrior, undated
Photocopy of vocal score for SATB chorus
BOX-FOLDER 394/2 The Black Warrior, 1998
Orchestra parts
BOX-FOLDER 540/3 Blue Dawn Into White Heat, 1996
Full score; photocopy of full score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 Blues for brass quintet, double bass, and drums, 1981
Score; parts
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 Blumenstrauss (The Bouquet), 1941
Ozalid of score for voice and piano
BOX-FOLDER 3/3 Blumenstrauss (The Bouquet), 1979
Printed score for voice and piano
BOX-FOLDER 394/3 A Bouquet for Collage, 1988
Photocopy of score
BOX-FOLDER 3/4 A Bouquet for Collage, undated
First page of printed score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 3/5, 394/4 A Bouquet for Collage, 1988
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 394/5 Brass Quintet no. 2, 1993
Three photocopies of score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 394/6 Bright and Sassy for brass quintet, 1997
Photocopy of score with annotations; parts
BOX-FOLDER 3/6 By the Waters of Babylon, undated
Photocopy of vocal score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 18/4 Canon a la Webern, undated
Sketch
BOX-FOLDER 3/7 Capriccio for tuba and small orchestra, undated
Ozalid of full score with annotations
Note: For Harvey Phillips
BOX-FOLDER 395/1 Capriccio for tuba and small orchestra, undated
Ozalid of full score with annotations; two Ozalids of full score (1st movement only)
BOX-FOLDER 540/4 Capriccio Stravagante, 1972
Ozalid of full score
BOX-FOLDER 540/5 Capriccio Stravagante, 1972
Ozalid of full score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 3/9 Centennial Piece - Harvard, undated
Full score; photocopy of full score
BOX-FOLDER 395/3 Chamber Symphony, 1989
Photocopy of full score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 3/10 Chanson (Hommage to Darius Milhaud), 1946
Score for two horns and piano
BOX-FOLDER 395/4 Chimeric Images for chamber ensemble, 1988
Ozalid of score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 541/1 Colloquy for two pianos and orchestra, 1968
Full score
BOX-FOLDER 541/2 Colloquy for two pianos and orchestra, 1968
Ozalid of full score with annotations
BOX-FOLDER 395/5 Colloquy for two pianos and orchestra, undated
Short score
BOX-FOLDER 3/11 Colloquy for two pianos and orchestra, undated
Part for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 3/12 Composition for Carillon, 1962
Score for harpsichord; photocopy of score for harpsichord
BOX-FOLDER 395/6 Composition for Carillon, 1962
Two photocopies of score for harpsichord
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