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BOX 69-72 Teaching Materials, 1980-2015
This series documents Stucky’s work as music faculty and as a guest lecturer at various residencies, festivals, and universities. These items include oral and written exams he compiled as an advisor and committee panelist for graduate music students. They also include Stucky’s class notes and examples he used to teach music history and theory courses focusing mostly on twentieth and twenty-first century music. While there are several courses represented, there are no class notes for a complete semester.
Outside of his duties as a professor, Stucky was a frequent guest lecturer. The second file unit contains his lecture scripts and musical examples. Although the musical examples are brief excerpts from larger works, they are evidence of his deep familiarity with modern classical music. He gave four lectures as the recipient of the Ernest Bloch Professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003. These annotated scripts comprise the bulk of this file unit. Topics covered in these lectures were the current state of classical music and compositional process. Stucky also lectured on his own works. Of note is a lecture about his Second Concerto for Orchestra, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, and another on August 4, 1964, which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition in 2013.
Arranged alphabetically and chronologically therein.
Cornell University
BOX-FOLDER 69/8 to 70/2 Admission to candidacy examinations, 2004-2015
BOX-FOLDER 70/3 Miscellany, 2006-2007
DMA program, Bachelor's honors thesis
BOX-FOLDER 70/4 Music 351, 358, 453, 2001-2004 and undated
Stucky's preparatory notes; lectures; examples
BOX-FOLDER 70/5 Music 656, 2006 September
Activated Harmony lecture visual aids
BOX-FOLDER 70/6 Music 690, 1998-2006
BOX-FOLDER 70/7 Music 7121, 2006-2008
BOX-FOLDER 70/8 Music 7206, 2010
BOX-FOLDER 70/9-10 Unknown courses, circa 1980s-2000s
BOX-FOLDER 70/11 Voice leading examples, undated
Lectures by Stucky
BOX-FOLDER 71/1-2 1990-1999
BOX-FOLDER 71/3 2000-2002
BOX-FOLDER 71/4-7 2003
BOX-FOLDER 71/8 2004-2009
BOX-FOLDER 71/9 to 72/1 2010-2015
BOX-FOLDER 72/2 A-Z, undated
Note: Bloch lectures
Works
BOX-FOLDER 72/3 August 4, 1964. University of Southern California, 2010 December
BOX-FOLDER 72/4 Dreamwaltzes, undated
Handout examples; script
BOX-FOLDER 72/5 Four Poems of A. R. Ammons, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/6 Piano Quartet, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/7 Pinturas de Tamayo, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/8 Second Concerto. "Coming Home: On Writing a Second Concerto for Orchestra", undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/9 Spirit Voices, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/10 Unidentified lectures, undated
BOX 35, 45, 72-73 Clippings, 1960-2013
This series consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, the majority of which document Steven Stucky’s professional activities from the 1960s to 2013. Materials include concert and album reviews, interviews, and announcements for concerts and awards. A small number of clippings are about Esa-Pekka Salonen and Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX-FOLDER 72/11 1960s
BOX-FOLDER 72/12 1970s
BOX-FOLDER 72/13 1980
BOX-FOLDER 72/14 1985
BOX-FOLDER 72/15 1986
BOX-FOLDER 72/16 1987
BOX-FOLDER 21/6, 72/17 1988
BOX-FOLDER 72/18 1989
BOX-FOLDER 72/19 1990
BOX-FOLDER 45/4 1991
BOX-FOLDER 35/5, 72/20 1992
BOX-FOLDER 35/5 1993
BOX-FOLDER 72/21 1994
BOX-FOLDER 72/22 1995
BOX-FOLDER 72/23 1996
BOX-FOLDER 45/4, 72/24 1997
BOX-FOLDER 35/5 1998
BOX-FOLDER 72/25 1999
BOX-FOLDER 35/6, 72/26 2000
BOX-FOLDER 35/6, 72/27 2001
BOX-FOLDER 72/27 2002
BOX-FOLDER 72/28 2003
BOX-FOLDER 35/6, 73/1 2004
BOX-FOLDER 73/2 2005
BOX-FOLDER 45/5, 73/3 2006
BOX-FOLDER 35/7, 73/4 2007
BOX-FOLDER 45/6, 73/5 2008
BOX-FOLDER 35/8, 48/4, 73/6 2009
BOX-FOLDER 45/7, 73/7 2010
BOX-FOLDER 73/8 2011
BOX-FOLDER 73/9 2013
BOX-FOLDER 21/7, 48/4, 73/10 Undated
BOX 73-80 Programs, 1970-2015
This series contains programs for performances of Stucky’s works ranging from chamber ensemble to full orchestra, beginning in 1970 when he was an undergraduate student at Baylor University, through 2015. There are also programs from performances where he conducted pieces by other composers, such as the Green Umbrella series in Los Angeles and Ensemble X concerts in Ithaca, New York. Some contain program notes that Stucky wrote for his own works or those by Witold Lutosławski.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX-FOLDER 73/11 1970
BOX-FOLDER 73/12 1980
BOX-FOLDER 73/13-15 1987-1989
BOX-FOLDER 74/1-4 1990-1994
BOX-FOLDER 74/5-9 1995-1999
BOX-FOLDER 74/10 to 75/4 2000-2004
BOX-FOLDER 75/5-7, 78-4 2005-2009
BOX-FOLDER 78/5 to 80/7 2010-2015

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