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Experimental music score

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:

MELIN Opus, 1999

 Item — Folder 32: [Barcode: 31858072459914]
Identifier: CC-31896-33420
Scope and Contents

This drawing depicts a three dimensional music score. Melin's music scores are conjectured and not intended to be played although in fact, a few have been performed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

MELIN Palimpseste, 1977

 Item — Folder 32: [Barcode: 31858072459914]
Identifier: CC-31893-33416
Scope and Contents

The background of this drawing is an unevenly painted, grey surface. The markings are drawn in columnar form. On the upper right corner, there is a drawing of an opened book with facing pages of micrography. Melin's music scores are conjectured and not intended to be played although in fact, a few have been performed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

MO-NO: Musik zum Lesen | MO-NO: Music To Read / Schnebel, Dieter ; Margaret Ruhle, translator., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-54960-65291
Scope and Contents Wikiipedia: Dieter Schnebel (born 14 March 1930 in Lahr/Baden) is a composer. From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, Schnebel served as professor of experimental music at the Berlin Hochschule der Kunste.Schnebel has become one of the many important postmodern composers through a unique craft, challenging our definitions of music, its limits, and even its unusual sound capabilities from humans themselves. But before developing into a professional expresser of music as an art form, Schnebel underwent vigorous studies in various fields.He began with a general private music study with Wilhelm Sibler from 1942 until 1945, when he started piano lessons with Wilhelm Resch, and continued study with him until 1949 at the age of 19. He continued then with music history through 1952, under Eric Doflein. Simultaneously he began composition (in 1950) under several musicians, including Ernst Krenek, Theodor W. Adorno, and Pierre Boulez. This led to his attendance at the University of Tubingen,...
Dates: 1969

Music For n Players , 1966

 Item — Folder 87: [Barcode: 31858072538444]
Identifier: CC-30059-31454
Scope and Contents

This print was silkscreened by Dave Pike at Ipswich. This score (Opus 2) consists of wavy black heavy curved lines with thinner red line intersections. Phillips provides directions on one side of the folded print in his own handwriting. The letter to John (Furnival?) describes a broadsheet/poster drawing for publication. He mentions that the musical print is "...something David Bedford asked me to do - an indeterminate piece for any number of people (to use where he teaches) -so, for interest, I enclose that too." Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 249. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Musica Senza Contrappunto / Chiari, Guiseppe ; Mussio M., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-16953-17309
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Magdalo Mussi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Musical Words / David Franks., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-38038-39924
Scope and Contents

The accompanying booklet provides the score and documentation of the musical pieces on this disc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Musical Words / David Franks., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-38038-39924
Scope and Contents

The accompanying booklet provides the score and documentation of the musical pieces on this disc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Mystical Composer in a Magical Forest: Canadian Idyll is the Stage for R. Murrray Schafer's Magical Forrest / Eatock, Colin; Schafer RM., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44078-46194
Scope and Contents

This article describes R. Murray Schafer's 12 music-theater works performed in a forest in Canada. The piece is called Patria and a signed copy of the score is held in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Open Letter: A Collection. No.4-5/Fall / R. Murray Schafer., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-41764-43759
Scope and Contents

This issue contains the first version of "Dicamus et Labyrinthes, a Philologist's Notebook." A subsequent version was published by Arcana Editions in 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Opus, 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-31895-33418
Scope and Contents

The main image is a linear music score with a 17 x 12.5 cm rectangle in its center. A vertical columnar music score is drawn its center. Three lines of micrographic text have been written between two rows of the music score. Melin's music scores are conjectured and not intended to be played although in fact, a few have been performed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Ornamentik: For One or More Performers / Phillips, Tom., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-46245-48966
Scope and Contents

Phillips comments about this work in Works and Texts 1992, " Although at its first performance in the Cheltenham Festival (1969) dedicated to Stuart Dempster, it was described by the critic of the Daily Telegraph as providing him with 'the most boring fifteen minutes of my life' (little did he know what the eighties would bring his way). I find it as tense to play in as it hopes to be soothing to hear. The first performance was sung by John Tilbury, Moray Walsh and Tom Phillips on BBC3 Music in Our Time in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Other Minds 14 / Mello C ; Amirkhanian C., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-49375-70420
Scope and Contents

This is a program for an avant garde music festival. In addition, a silent auction was held for music scores of the composers whose pieces were played in concert. The Sackners attended one concert and purchased Chico Mello's score at a silent auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009