Skip to main content

Experimental music score

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:

Conlon Nancarrow / Nadau, Jean-Pierre., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-46751-49483
Scope and Contents

This article decribes the history and the musical inventions of Colon Nancarrow and his scores for his mechanical piano. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Definizione di Grid: Per Pianoforte / Castaldi, Paolo., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-18039-18409
Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Dieci Discanti / Castaldi, Paolo., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-16798-17153
Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Dizzy Spells / Sutherland, W. Mark., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-60517-10003428
Scope and Contents

Taken from Archive of O!!Zine 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Do Lado da Voz / Chico Mello., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-49376-70421
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Audiovisual Materials

Dramatika: Soundings. No.29 / Malcolm Goldstein., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-14462-14771
Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Drawing for Oscillator-Playing Tone-Tool 1st Experiment / Grainger, Percy., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-52770-73907
Scope and Contents The Sackner Archive holds Grainger's "Tips" a book that was published by Coracle press in 1981. George Percy Grainger (8 July 1882 "“ 20 February 1961), known as Percy Grainger, was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. He also made many adaptations of other composers' works. Although much of his work was experimental and unusual, the piece with which he is most generally associated is his piano arrangement of the folk-dance tune "Country Gardens." Grainger's attempts to produce "free music" by mechanical and later electronic means, which he considered his most important work, produced no follow-up; they were quickly overtaken and nullified by new technological advances. This card depicts one of those machines. Covell nevertheless remarks that in this endeavour, Grainger's dogged resourcefulness and ingenious...
Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Eight Songs for a Mad King / Davies, Peter Maxwell ; Stow R., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-52122-73241
Scope and Contents Wikepedia (abridged): Eight Songs for a Mad King is a monodrama by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with a libretto by Randolph Stow based on words of George III, written for the South-African actor Roy Hart and the composer's ensemble the Pierrot Players and premiered April 22, 1969.Lasting half an hour, it is scored for a baritone with an extraordinary command of extended techniques covering more than five octaves, and six players: flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet, percussion: railway whistle/Snare drum/ 2 susp.cymbals /foot cyms/ 2 wood blocks / Bass drum/chains/ratchet/tom-toms/tamtam/tambourine/rototoms/toy bird-calls/2tpl.bl/ wind chimes/crotales/sleigh bells/glockenspiel/steel bars/crow/ didgeridoo, piano (doubling harpsichord & dulcimer) and violin cello. The cover shows a famous excerpt in which the staves are arranged in the shape of a birdcage's bars. The eight songs are all based on the tunes played by an actual mechanical organ owned by George III which he used to try...
Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Elisa / Castaldi, Paolo., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-16823-17179
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Embarbussaments for Four Speaking Voices / Sublette, Ned., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-32457-34031
Scope and Contents

There are 29 different phonemes in this composition, drawn from three languages, Xhosa, Catalan, and English. Sublette presents written characters as notations for these phonemes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Epitaph For Moonlight / Schafer, R. Murray., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55866-9999352
Scope and Contents

The Sackners also hold the manuscripy of this score. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Festival of Fantastics Roskilde / MacLow J ; Ben ; Knowles A ; Noel A ; Williams E ; Andersen E ; Corner P ; Hendricks G ; Koepcke A ; Watts B ; Tardos A., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-11245-11460
Scope and Contents

The page by Ann Noel resembles the "I" painting held by the Sackner Archive. No two I's are typographically repeated in this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

fonergon 79-5: for one speaker / Monach, Greta., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-43993-46105
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a sound poem with directions from Monach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Four Pieces For John Tilbury / Phillips, Tom., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-30058-31453
Scope and Contents

This is Phillips' first musical score (Opus 1). The musical notations are composed of lines and rectangles presented as a constructivitic grid. One side of the print deals with Phillips' instructions for playing the piece. Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 248. The number is written in red ink adjacent to Phillips' signature on the envelope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Four Pieces For John Tilbury / Phillips, Tom., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-38196-40092
Scope and Contents

This is Phillips' first musical score (Opus 1). The musical notations are composed of lines and rectangles presented as a constructivitic grid. One side of the print deals with Phillips' instructions for playing the piece. Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 248. This copy is unnumbered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[Gap Map] / Phillips, Tom., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-60252-10003255
Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Golden Flower Piece for Keyboard / Phillips, Tom., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-30066-31461
Scope and Contents

This piece (Opus 5) was originally published by AIA gallery in 1966 in an edition of 100; the current copy was reprinted by Tetrad Press in 1972 in an undisclosed tirage. Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 250. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Green Sounds / Danon, Betty., 1978 - 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-60823-10003678
Scope and Contents

Taken frompete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Harmonia Praestabilita / Phillips, Tom., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-30065-31460
Scope and Contents

This work (Opus 7) was included in Exit Magazine issue No.5-6. It is also depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 252. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

ICA Bulletin. No.177/Jan / Themerson S ; Cage J ; Simonetti GE ; DeSa A., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-41856-43851
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Staff Interface | Visit ArchivesSpace.org | v3.5.1 | Send Feedback or Report a Problem