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Twentieth Century [post 1945] Avant-garde Music at STL 

Why are these scores hard to find in the library?
· Music isn’t arranged by artistic period in our catalog.
· Many compositions are classified as “instrumental music” or “vocal music”etc.
· We have many anthologies, but because each “table of contents” isn’t added to our catalog, you might miss some important compositions.  So we’ve singled some out here in this guide.
 

Examples from the Collection

Scores

Chambers:Scores by Alvin Lucier.  Middletown, CT:Wesleyan, 1980. STACKS M1470.L72 S5

Benvenuti, Arrigo.Intermedi:a due Racconti:per due mimi-musicanti.Firenze:Aldo Bruzzichelli, 1962. OVR M25.B4 I5

Berio, Luciano. Circles:for female voice, harp [and] 2 percussion players.London:Universal, 1961. OVR M1613.3.B53 C6

Bussotti, Sylvano. Five piano pieces for David Tudor. : extraits de pieces de chair II. London:Universal, 1959. OVR M24.B8 P5

________. Fragmentations:pour un joueur de harpes.Firenze:Bruzzichelli,1963.  OVR M293.B8 F7

Cage, John. Cartridge music. New York:C.F. Peters,1960. OVR M1470.C3 C3

Cardew, Cornelius. February pieces for piano:Octet '61 for Jasper Johns. London:Hinrichsen Edition,1962. OVR M25.C35 F4

Crumb, George. Ancient voices of children:a cycle of songs on texts by Garcia Lorca. New York:C. F. Peters, 1970. OVR M1613.3.C92 A5

Gaburo, Kenneth. Privacy two:...my, my, my, what a wonderful fall: 5 dancers, text, tape, sculpted light. La Jolla, CA:Lingua Press, 1976. STACKS M1470.G3 P7

_______. Dwell:linguistic composition no. 15:a collection/collecting of generative grammars. La Jolla, CA:Lingua, 1976. STACKS M1470.G3 D8

Ichiyanagi, Toshi. Music for piano #7. CF Peters, 1961. OVR M25.I3 M8 no.7

Mayazumi, T. Metamusic:for violin, saxophone, and conductor. NY:CF Peters, 1964. OVR 1470 M39 M5

Nilsson, Bo. Reaktionen:fur 4 Schlagzeuger. London:Universal, 1961.  OVR M146.N5 R4

Schafer, R. Murray. Minimusic, for instruments or voices.London:Universal, 1972. STACKS M1470.S3 M5

Stockhausen,Karlheinz. Number 9:Zyklus.London:Universal, 1961.OVR M146.S8 Z8

________. Texte. Koln:M.D. Schauberg, 1963. STACKS ML3817.S83
 

Varese, Edgard.Ionisation.STACKS M146.V37 I 6

Wolff, Christian. In between pieces for three players. New York: C.F. Peters, 1963. OVR M385.W6 I5
 
 

Anthologies

Scores:an anthology of new music. Selected by Roger Johnson. NY:Schirmer, c1981. STACKS M1.S44

Pieces:an anthology. Edited by Michael Byron. Vancouver:Aesthetic Research Centre, 1976. OVR M1.P5 1976

Scratch music. Edited by Cornelius Cardew. Cambridge, Mass.:MIT, 1974. STACKS M1470.C37 S4 1974

Breaking the sound barrier:a critical anthology of the new music. Edited by Gregory Battcock. NY:Dutton, 1981. STACKS ML197.B75 Long Overdue

Wennerstrom, Mary H. Anthology of twentieth-century music.[Works by Bartok, Berg, Elliott Carter, Copland, Gaburo, Hindemith, Ives, Persichetti, Mel Powell, Schoenberg, Schuller, Stravinsky, and Webern.] NJ:Prentice-Hall, 1969. OVR MT6.W334 A6 1969.

Simms, Bryan R. Music of the twentieth century:an anthology. NY:Schirmer Books, 1986. STACKS MT6.5.M93 1986

Contemporary anthology of music by women. Edited by James R. Briscoe.  Bloomington:Indiana University Press, 1997. [Works by Emma Lou Diemer, Barbara Kolb, Libby Larsen, Alice Parker, Natalie Sleeth, Nancy Van de Vate, and others.] STACKS M2.C77 1997
 

Select Books about Musicians and Compositional Styles

Keane, David. Tape music composition. NY:Oxford University Press, 1980.  STACKS MT41.K4

Robson, Ernest et al. Phonetic music with electronic music.Parker Ford, PA:Primary Press, 1981.STACKS ML3805.R64

Holmes, Thomas B. Electronic and experimental music.NY:Scribner's, 1985. STACKS ML1380.H64 1985

Manning, Peter.Electronic and computer music. NY:Oxford, 1985. STACKS ML1092.M28 1985

The New York schools of music and visual arts:John Cage, Morton Feldman, Edgard Varese, Willem De Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg.Edited by Steven Johnson. NY:Routledge, 2002. STACKS ML3849.N49 2002.
 

Tips for searchers:

1. If you're going to use our library's catalog, library catalog, search use Advanced Search Subject Keyword. Use terms like

  • Chance compositions
  • electronic music
  • music -- 20th century
  • music -- 20th century--history and criticism
  • composition -- mechanical aids
  • minimal music

2. Just Browsing? You'll find books about twentieth century music under ML197. Books about computer music are found under ML1092.

 

Stephan J. Macaluso

Music Liaison

macaluss@newpaltz.edu, (845)257-2699