INVENTORY OF THE DAVID TUDOR PAPERS, 1800-1998, bulk 1940-1996
Finding aid prepared by Lynda Bunting and Mary K Woods
Descriptive Summary
Title: David Tudor papers
Date (inclusive): 1800-1998, bulk 1940-1996
Number: 980039
Creator/Collector:
Tudor, David, 1926-1996
Physical Description:
177.5 linear feet
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Papers of the avant-garde pianist and electronic music composer, David Tudor, comprehensively document his participation in
post-World War II experimental music. Scores by other composers, notably John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, Christian
Wolff, Sylvano Bussotti, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tudor's realizations of their scores, and his own electronic compositional
materials form the bulk of the collection. Archive includes correspondence, financial papers, programs and announcements,
specifications and documentation for electronic equipment, and audio and video recordings.
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Biographical/Historical Note
Born in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1926, David Tudor studied composition and analysis with Stefan Wolpe, organ and theory with H.
William Hawke, and piano with Irma Wolpe Rademacher. He began his professional work at 17 as an organist, and in 1950 established
himself as a formidable talent in avant-garde music when he gave the American premiere of the Second Piano Sonata by Pierre
Boulez. Until the late 1960s, Tudor gave first or early performances of works by Earle Brown, Sylvano Bussotti, Morton Feldman,
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, Stefan Wolpe, and La Monte Young. His virtuosity and imagination inspired many of
these composers to write pieces for him, involving complex graphic notations and performance problems which they felt only
Tudor could solve.
During the 1950s, David Tudor held positions as Instructor and Pianist-in-Residence at Black Mountain College, North Carolina,
and at the Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik, Darmstadt. He expanded his performance activity to include the Merce
Cunningham Dance Company and John Cage's "Project of Music for Magnetic Tape."
In the late '60s, Tudor gradually ended his active career as a pianist. He had begun to experiment with the electronic modification
of sound sources in the late 1950s, departing from the then common practice of fixing music on magnetic tape beforehand. By
the end of the '60s, Tudor became fully involved in "live electronic music," producing his own compositions which introduced
a new form of "sound art." Many of Tudor's electronic works were associated with collaborative visual forces: light systems,
dance, television, theater, film or four-color laser projections. For example, Bandoneon!, composed in 1966 for the E.A.T.
performance series 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, called for lighting and audio circuitry, moving loudspeaker sculptures,
and projected video images, all actuated by the bandoneon. As a core artist invited to collaborate on the design of the Pepsi-Cola
Pavilion for Expo' 70 in Osaka, Tudor worked with two sculptors and an environmental artist, and conceived and performed new
electronic pieces for the pavilion space. Tudor's sound installation Rainforest IV (1973) involved collaboration with the
video artist Bill Viola, who credits Tudor with helping him develop his approach to sound in video.
Tudor had been affiliated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company since its inception in the summer of 1953. When John Cage
died in August 1992, Tudor succeeded him as Music Director. The company commissioned many works from Tudor, including Rainforest
I (1968), Toneburst (1975), Forest Speech (1976), Weatherings (1978), Phonemes (1981), Sextet for Seven (1982), Fragments
(1984), Webwork (1987), and Virtual Focus (1990). Tudor's electronic piece Soundings: Ocean Diary (1994) comprised the electronic
portion of Cage's last composition, Ocean, a work for dancers and large orchestral forces positioned around the audience.
List of Compositions
| 1964 |
Fluorescent sound (for Robert Rauschenberg piece
Elgin Tie), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, September 13
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| 1966 |
Bandoneon! (with projected video images by Lowell Cross), 9 evenings: Theater &; Engineering, New York, October 14 and 18
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| 1968 |
Reunion (with David Behrman, John Cage, Lowell Cross, Marcel Duchamp, Teeny Duchamp, and Gordon Mumma), Ryerson Polytechnical Institute,
Toronto, March 5
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Rainforest (for Merce Cunningham:
RainForest, 2nd Buffalo Festival of the Arts Today, March 9
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Video III (with Lowell Cross), University of California, San Diego, May 10
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Assemblage (with John Cage and Gordon Mumma), a production of KQED-TV film group, San Francisco, October-November
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| 1969 |
Video/Laser I (with Lowell Cross), Mills College Tape Music Center, Oakland, California, May 9
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| 1970 |
Video/Laser II; (with Lowell Cross, Carson Jeffries), University of California, Berkeley, January-February; installed at the Pepsi Pavilion,
Expo '70, Osaka, Japan
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4 Pepsi Pieces:
Pepsibird,
Anima Pepsi,
Pepscillator,
Microphone (for the Pepsi Pavilion), Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, March/April
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First week of June (John Cage and Gordon Mumma), Paris, France, June 5
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| 1972 |
Melodics for Amplified Bandoneon (for Merce Cunningham:
Events), February
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Rainforest 3 (with John Cage:
Mureau), Radio Bremen, Pro Musica Nova, Bremen, May 5
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Untitled (with John Cage:
Mesostics re merce Cunningham), Radio Bremen, Pro Musica Nova, May 8
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Monobird (with John Cage:
Birdcage), Musik/Film/Dia/Licht Festival, Munich, August 30
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| 1973 |
Free Spectral Range I; (with Lowell Cross), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio, February 16
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Free Spectral Range II (with Lowell Cross), University of Iowa, Iowa City, June
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Microphone (1 to 9), research project in multitrack recording, Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, May
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Laser Bird Center for new Performing Arts, University of Iowa, Iowa City, June 12-14
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Laser Rock Center for new Performing Arts, University of Iowa, Iowa City, June 12-14
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Rainforest IV (group composition), New Music in New Hampshire, Chocorua, New Hampshire, July
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| 1974 |
Photocell Action with light composition by Anthony Martin (for Merce Cunningham:
Event)
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| 1975 |
Toneburst (commission for Merce Cunningham:
Sounddance), Detroit, Michigan, March 8
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| 1976 |
Free Spectral Range III (with Lowell Cross), 4th Cervantino Festival, Mexico City
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Pulsers, Festival d'Automne, Paris
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Forest Speech (for Merce Cunningham:
Event)
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| 1977 |
Free Spectral Range IV (with Lowell Cross), World Music Days, Bonn
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Video Pulsers (collaboration with Viola Farber and Robert Rauschenberg:
Brazos River), a production of KERA-TV, Dallas, Texas
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| 1978 |
Pulsers 2, New York University, New York City
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Forest Speech 2 (group work), The Kitchen, New York City
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Weatherings (commission for Merce Cunningham:
Exchange), New York City, September 27
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| 1979 |
Laser Concert (with Lowell Cross), Xenon, New York City (This work evolved from Video/Laser III, first performed by Cross, William Hibbard
and Carson Jeffries at Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa, November 29, 1972)
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Audio Laser (with Lowell Cross), videotape produced by Composers' Forum, New York City
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| 1981 |
Phonemes (commission for Merce Cunningham:
Channels/Inserts), New York City, January
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| 1982 |
Likeness to Voices/Dialectics (commissioned by the Gulbenkian Foundation and realized at the Metz Centre Europeen pour la Recherche Musicale) IRCAM, Paris
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Sextet for Seven (commission for Merce Cunningham:
Sextet), Paris, France, October 27 (N.B. in Cunningham chronology as Quartet)
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| 1983 |
Sea Tails (collaboration with Jackie Monnier and Molly Davies), three-channel video installation produced with a grant from the French
government, June
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| 1984 |
Dialects, Mills College Concert Hall, October 5
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Fragments (for Merce Cunningham: Phrases), Angers, December 7
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| 1985 |
Hedgehog, Mobius, Boston, September 28 & 29
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Web, for John Cage, WDR, Cologne, April
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| 1986 |
Electronics with talking shrimp, Clocktower, New York City, April 25
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Sea tails (sound totem version), Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York City, September 17
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9 lines reflected (with Jackie Monnier), Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York City, September 17
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Line & cluster, Munich, November 17
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| 1987 |
Web for John Cage II, Munich, October 17
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Webwork (for Merce Cunningham), New York, March 4
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Five stone (with John Cage), Berlin, June 16
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| 1990 |
Virtual focus (for Merce Cunningham:
Polarity), New York City, March 20
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| 1991 |
Coefficient I
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Coefficient: frictional percussion and electronics, S.E.M. Ensemble, Paula Cooper Gallery, February 26
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| 1992 |
Neural network plus (for Merce Cunningham), November
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| 1992-1994 |
Neural Synthesis nos. 1-9
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| 1994 |
Untitled (1975/1994) (for Merce Cunningham, based on
Toneburst, Lyons, France, November
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Soundings: ocean diary (for Merce Cunningham), Bruxelles, Belgium, May 17
|
| 1996 |
Toneburst: maps and fragments (with Sophia Ogielska), Wesleyan University, September
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Administrative Information
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Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
David Tudor papers, 1800-1998 (bulk 1940-1996), The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 980039.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1994 (Accn. no. 940073), 1998 (Accn. no. 980039, 980045), and 2001 (2001.A.132, 2001.A.182, 2001.A.183, 2001.A.184).
Processing History
The David Tudor papers were received in two large separate acquisitions between 1994 and 1998. Additions to the collection
were received in 2001 from John Holzaepfel, Joy Nemiroff, Julie Martin and Billy Klüver, and Earle Brown. The first shipment
arrived in 1994. It consisted of 9 linear feet of papers, mostly dating from the 1950s and 1960s and related to Tudor's piano
performances. Gale Cohen and John Holzaepfel inventoried and organized this group of material prior to its acquisition. Philip
Curtis processed and cataloged the collection in 1995.
The second shipment, which arrived in 1998, comprised 180 linear feet, covering nearly all aspects of Tudor's life and work.
The supplement required extensive organization. Lynda Bunting began this work in June 1998. Farris Wahbeh organized series
into chronological order as Bunting identified them. Kelly Nipper conducted final processing on many of the series. Nancy
Perloff processed and cataloged small parts of the collection and wrote the Biographical Note. Joy Refuerzo numbered the folders.
Cataloging and processing of Series I-IX was completed in October 1999. Additions to the collection received in 2001 were
processed and integrated in 2001 and 2002 by J. Gibbs: 7 audio tapes of Tudor performing in Darmstadt, donated by John Holzaepfel;
personal papers and photographs of Tudor donated by Joy Nemiroff; a drawing for Island Eye Island Ear, donated by Julie Martin
and Billy Klüver; and photographs of Tudor donated by Earle Brown.
From the summer of 1999 to early 2002, John D.S. Adams and Tom Erbe reformatted the audio tapes, except for a few that were
damaged and a few blank and duplicate tapes. In 2011 Mary K Woods migrated the digital masters of the audio recordings and
made them available online.
Connect to digitized audio recordings. Access to audio recordings of Tudor composisitions is provided for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only.
Access to other audio recordings is available only to on-site readers and Getty staff.
Digitized Audio Recordings
The audio tapes in Series X were reformatted by John D.S. Adams and Tom Erbe from the summer of 1999 to early 2002. In 2011
Mary K Woods migrated the masters to digital audio files.
Connect to digitized audio recordings. Access is provided for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only. Audio recordings of Tudor composisitions are
available online. Access to other audio recordings is available only to on-site Readers and Getty staff.
Separated Material
620 published scores, books and periodicals were transferred to the Getty Research Library in 7 separate actions. These items
may be accessed by searching the Library's catalog. Search by Provenance: "David Tudor" to see a list of these materials.
3 linear feet (6 boxes) of maps, travel brochures, junk mail, catalogs and advertisements, all non-music related, were deaccessioned
March 1999. 3 linear feet (5 boxes) of travel brochures, junk mail, catalogs, out of scope clippings and newspapers, and objects
were deaccessioned August 1999. 4.5 linear feet (9 boxes, 1 oversize folder) of recipe clippings, ephemera related to food,
health and gardening, and unused postcards were deaccessioned September 1999.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprehensively depicts David Tudor's participation in post-World War II experimental and avant-garde music.
Scores by other composers, notably John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Sylvano Bussotti and Karlheinz
Stockhausen, Tudor's realizations of their scores, and his electronic compositional materials, form the most significant part
of the collection. Extensive project files concern the scheduling and development of his piano concerts and electronic compositions.
Electronic research files with equipment catalogs and notes show how Tudor taught himself complicated mathmatics, equipment
systems, and circuitry in order to gain the requisite technical knowledge to compose his electronic work. Articles and reviews,
a nearly complete set of Tudor's programs, a large collection of audio tapes, videotapes, and photographs augment the documentation
of his performing and composing activities.
Letters from colleagues and friends, dating from 1938-1996, exhibit the respect and devotion Tudor commanded as a serious
interpreter and creator of avant-garde music. The collection also contains personal effects, including recipes, notes, and
various materials concerning his spiritual beliefs, and his financial records.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Tudor, David, 1926-1996
Subjects - Topics
Aleatory music
Avant-garde (Music)
Composers
Electronic music
Music--Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
Musical sketches
Genres and Forms of Material
Audiocassettes
Audiotapes
Photographs--20th Century
Recipes
Scores--20th century
Videotapes
Contributors
Biel, Michael von
Boulez, Pierre, 1925-
Brecht, George
Brown, Earle, 1926-2002
Bussotti, Sylvano
Cage, John
Cardew, Cornelius
Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965
Cross, Lowell M.
Cunningham, Merce
Experiments in Art and Technology (Organization)
Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987
Fine, Albert
Ichiyanagi, Toshi, 1933-
Jennings, Terry
Kagel, Mauricio
Lucier, Alvin
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Nilsson, Bo
Oliveros, Pauline, 1932-
Ono, Yōko
Richards, Mary Caroline
Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-2007
Viola, Bill, 1951-
Wolff, Christian, 1934-
Wolpe, Stefan
Young, La Monte
Container List
Series I.
Scores and realizations,
1800-1995, undated, bulk 1941-1977
Physical Description:
47.0 boxes
Scope and Content Note
A large collection of scores and performance realizations spans Tudor's entire professional life, from his early student and
organ work, throughout his career as the premier avant-garde pianist, to his own later electronic compositions. It includes
scores and performance instructions by other composers, Tudor's handwritten worksheets and realizations created in the course
of preparing for his piano concerts, electronic compositional materials, early transcriptions of scores, and notes.
Arrangement
Arranged in two subseries: Series I.A.Tudor's early years; Series I.B. works by others.
Series I.A.
Tudor, early,
1940s-1994, undated
Physical Description:
4.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
This subseries contains Tudor's early piano and organ work, and scores for his electronic compositions. His early work consists
of handcopied scores for piano and organ music, and notes taken when he was Stefan Wolpe's student. Tudor's electronic compositions
are represented with handwritten flow diagrams (i.e., schematics of his tabletop instrument set-ups, which in effect display
how the instrument is to be constructed) and lists of inputs/outputs for different performance instantiations, many of which
are unidentified. There are also miscellaneous notes for his electronic music.
Arrangement
Arranged topically.
Box 1
Manuscript copies of scores and early work,
undated
Box 1, Folder 1
Piano compositions
Scope and Content Note
Includes Bach, Couperin, Liszt, Wagner, Stravinsky, Wolpe.
Box 1, Folder 2
Compositions
Scope and Content Note
Mostly Schönberg.
Box 1, Folder 3
Compositions
Scope and Content Note
Includes Beethoven, Bach, Walther.
Box 1, Folder 4
"orn[a]mentation"
Scope and Content Note
Includes compositions by Bach and Couperin.
Box 1, Folder 5
Compositions and notes
Scope and Content Note
Solo piano music by Bartok, Busoni, Liszt, Hauer and unidentified. Includes transcriptions, performance notes, worksheets,
and technical exercises with fingerings.
Box 2, Folder 1
Lectures and texts by Wolpe
Scope and Content Note
Tudor handwritten and typed versions of Wolpe lectures and texts.
Box 2, Folder 3
"My work to 1942"
Scope and Content Note
Notes and musical writings, and 3 pages from Associateship Examination (1942) with record of marks.
Box 2, Folder 4
Music notes
Scope and Content Note
Musical form, practice and techniques; transcribed texts by Frescobaldi, Schönberg, Kandinsky and others.
Box 2, Folder 5
Music notes
Scope and Content Note
Transcribed texts by Kandinsky, Charles Tournemire, and others.
Box 2, Folder 6
Music relating to Sigurd Rascher
Box 2, Folder 7
Ferruccio Busoni
Scope and Content Note
List of programs and pianoforte repertory compositions copied by Tudor.
Box 2, Folder 10
Notes - tempo, dynamics, touch
Box 2, Folder 11-12
Notes - list of piano compositions by others
Box 3-4
Electronic work,
1966-1994, undated
Box 3, Folder 7
Electronics with talking shrimp,
1986
Box 3, Folder 8
Event (title of Merce Cunningham work),
1987-1990
Box 3, Folder 11
Free spectral range IV,
1977
Box 3, Folder 15
Likeness to voices/Dialectics,
1982
Box 3, Folder 17
Lines and reflections,
undated
Box 3, Folder 18
Microphone,
1973
Scope and Content Note
See oversize box 167, folder 1, for record cover.
Box 3, Folder 20
Neural network plus,
1992
Box 3, Folder 23-24
Phonemes,
1981-1986, 1992-1993
Scope and Content Note
For Cunningham dance "Channels/Inserts."
Box 3, Folder 26
Pulsers,
1976-1978
Scope and Content Note
See also: box 167*, folder 1, for record cover.
Box 3, Folder 30
Rotating loudspeakers,
1977
Box 3, Folder 32
Sextet for seven (Quartet?),
1985
Box 3, Folder 33
Soundings: ocean diary,
1994
Box 3, Folder 35
Untitled (Homage to Toshi Ichiyanagi),
1972
Box 3, Folder 39
Web for John Cage II,
1988
Scope and Content Note
Performed at the Alternative Museum, 1989
Box 3, Folder 40
Webwork,
1987
Scope and Content Note
For Cunningham dance "Shards."
Box 4, Folder 1-2
Unidentified flow diagrams,
undated
Box 4, Folder 3
Unidentified worksheets,
undated
Box 4, Folder 4-15
Unidentified inputs/outputs,
undated
Box 4, Folder 16-21
Miscellaneous electronic music notes,
undated
Box *167, Folder 1
Record covers,
undated
Scope and Content Note
One paper record cover for Tudor's Microphone, 1973 and one cardboard record cover for Tudor's "Pulsers/Untitled," 1984. With
a mailing envelope. [Folders 2-4 in this box relate to Series I.B.].
Series I.B.
Other composers,
1800-1995, undated, bulk 1941-1977
Physical Description:
43.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
This subseries consists of printed and manuscript scores, sketches, drafts and performance instructions by prominent avant-garde
composers in the United States and Europe, organized alphabetically by composer. Tudor's annotations on the scores, along
with his worksheets and realizations, show something of the history of the compositions and of Tudor's working relationship
with the composers. The range of music, from composers who Tudor knew well and whose music he frequently played to composers
who sent unsolicited music he never performed, gives an overview of the major stylistic trends in new music piano repertoire
of the 1950s and 1960s. Items of particular interest include Cage's
Concert for piano and orchestra,
Concerto for prepared piano and chamber orchestra,
4'33",
Music of changes,
Theatre piece,
Variations II, and
Winter music; Brown's
Folio: December 1952,
Four systems, and
25 pages; Bussotti's
Pièces de chair II; Feldman's
Intersection II and
Ixion; Stockhausen's
Nr. 7 Klavierstück XI; and Wolff's
Duo for pianists I,
For pianist,
For 6 or 7 players (music for Merce Cunningham), which includes Cage's realizations, and
Suite II. Other composers represented by scores include Michael von Biel, Pierre Boulez, Henry Cowell, Albert Fine, Toshi Ichiyanagi,Terry
Jennings, Mauricio Kagel, Alvin Lucier, Bo Nilsson, Pauline Oliveros, Stefan Wolpe, and La Monte Young.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically with unidentified materials at the end.
Printed and manuscripts,
1893-1995, undated, bulk 1950-1977
Anderson, Eric,
1964-1966, undated
Box 5, Folder 1
Opus 48,
1964
Scope and Content Note
On same sheet as
Opus 46. (See Fluxus codex, p. 172.)
Applebaum, Mark,
1991-1995
Box 5, Folder 2
Mt. Moriah: a string quartet in 4 movements,
1992
Box 5, Folder 5
Arma, Paul (aka Imre Weisshaus),
Sketches for male choir,
1929
Box 5, Folder 6
Ashley, Robert,
Maneuvers for small hands,
1961
Box 5, Folder 7
Baldwin, Bertram,
III 58 Piano,
undated
Box 5, Folder 8
Bartlett, Martin,
Cité libre,
1966
Box 5, Folder 9
Beethoven, Ludwig, Tempi,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Tudor worksheets.
Behrman, David,
1966-1968
Scope and Content Note
See also: box 168*, box 183*, and Roll 1**.
Box 5, Folder 10
Litanies of the glider,
1968
Scope and Content Note
Used for Cunningham's "Walkaround time."
Bekaert, Jacques,
1968-1971
Biel, Michael von,
1960-1965
Scope and Content Note
See also box 169*.
Box 5, Folder 15
For two pianos # I, II and III,
1960 or 1961
Box 5, Folder 16
Für Klavier nr. 2,
1964 or 1965
Box 5, Folder 18
Two-piano piece I,
1960 or 1961
Box 5, Folder 19
Boelzner, Gordon,
Intimate music - for piano,
undated
Boulez, Pierre,
1946-1958
Scope and Content Note
See also box 169*.
Box 5, Folder 22
Troisième sonate pour piano,
1958
Box 5, Folder 23
Brecht, George, Various works,
1959-1963
Scope and Content Note
Includes
Candle-piece for radios, 1959;
Card-piece for voice, 1959;
Eight piano transcriptions, 1963, and many "events."
Box 6, Folder 1
Brooks, M. Steven,
Dimorphism (1),
1973
Brown, Earle,
1952-1959
Scope and Content Note
See also box 170*-173*.
Box 6, Folder 2
Folio: November 1952 (Synergy),
1952
Box 6, Folder 4
Music for cello and piano,
1957
Box 6, Folder 6
Buel, Charles,
Thirteen fragments for piano,
1967
Box 6, Folder 7
Byrd, Joseph Hunter,
Sonata for piano keyboard,
undated
Cage, John,
1951-1993, undated
Scope and Content Note
See also Rolls 2**-7**.
Box 6, Folder 9-13
Concert for piano and orchestra,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
circa 10 pages missing. See box 7 and box 175*-183* for related materials. Used for Cunningham's "Antic Meet" and Cage's "Indeterminacy"
lecture and recording. The piano part for this piece may be presented by itself as
Solo for piano.
Box 7, Folder 1-8
Concert for piano and orchestra,
1957-1958
Box 7, Folder 11a
[Second version], dedicated to Irwin Kremen,
1953
Scope and Content Note
Photostat.
Box 7, Folder 11b
[Third version], dedicated to Irwin Kremen,
195?
Scope and Content Note
Date on piece in question. Composers Facsimile Edition.
Box 7B
David Tudor, first reconstruction of the original [first version] 1952 4'33" score by John Cage,
circa 1989
Box 7, Folder 11c
David Tudor, second reconstruction of the original [first version] 1952 4'33" score by John Cage,
circa 1989
Box 7, Folder 11d
John Cage, 4'33" [second version], dedicated to Irwin Kremen [1953],
1993
Scope and Content Note
Henmar Press, 1993.
Box 7, Folder 11e
David Tudor timing and measurement notes,
undated
Box 7, Folder 11e
Letter from Irwin Kremen to David Tudor,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy.
Box 7, Folder 12
Haiku,
1958
Scope and Content Note
Found by Tudor in a cookbook and premiered in the Los Angeles Festival, September 1987.
Box 7, Folder 13
Music for amplified toy pianos,
1960
Box 7, Folder 14
Music for carillon,
1952-1958
Scope and Content Note
Two separate scores for 3 octave and 2 octave versions (1952/1958).
Box 7, Folder 15
Music for carillon (2 octaves) no. 2,
1958
Box 7, Folder 15
Music for carillon (2 octaves) no. 3,
1961
Box 7, Folder 16-20
Music of changes,
1951
Scope and Content Note
See also oversize.
Box 7, Folder 23
Seven haiku,
1952-1957
Scope and Content Note
7 worksheets for a performance at the Nonagon Gallery, NYC, Nov. 17, 1957.
Box 8, Folder 2
Telephones and birds,
1977
Box 8, Folder 7
Variations II,
1961
Scope and Content Note
James Pritchett speculates there are at least three different realizations within the file.
Box 8, Folder 9
Water music,
1952
Scope and Content Note
See also oversize for score.
Box 8, Folder 10
WBAI,
1960
Scope and Content Note
Included are two sheets of timings which may be a realization by Cage of Brown's
Folio: December 1952 performed with Tudor as accompaniment for Cunningham's dance "Hands birds" (1960).
Box 8, Folder 11
Winter music,
1957
Scope and Content Note
Used for Cunningham's "Aeon." See also oversize for score.
Box 9, Folder 1-4
Unidentified organ piece,
1983
Box 9, Folder 5
Calonne, Jacques,
Quadrangles,
1959
Box 9, Folder 6
Carisi, John,
Allegro for piano,
undated
Box 9, Folder 7
Cerha, Friedrich,
Klavierstücke,
1958
Chiari, Giuseppe,
1964-1965
Box 9, Folder 8
La Strada,
1964
Scope and Content Note
see also Fluxkit, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections accn. no. 890164.
Box 9, Folder 9
Various text pieces,
1964-1965
Box 9, Folder 10
Corner, Philip, Untitled,
undated
Cowell, Henry,
1922-1925, undated
Box 9, Folder 16
Czerny, Carl,
The school of velocity (op. 299),
1893
Box 9, Folder 17
Di Domenica, Robert,
Sonatina for piano,
1958
Box 9, Folder 18
Dinwiddie, John,
Pinole,
1968
Driscoll, John,
1977, undated
Box 9, Folder 19
Listening out loud,
undated
Box 9, Folder 20
Evangelisti, Franco,
4!,
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 184*.
Box 9, Folder 21
Feinberg, Samuel,
Concerto (op. 20),
1935
Feldman, Morton,
1950-1961, undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 186*-187*.
Box 9, Folder 23
Illusions for piano,
1950
Box 9, Folder 25
Intersection + ,
circa 1952
Scope and Content Note
Tudor realization and chart.
Box 9, Folder 26
Intersection #2(?),
1951
Scope and Content Note
Tudor's realization on staff paper, working notes(?) in small notebook, and annotated envelope.
Box 9, Folder 26B
Intersection #3 for David Tudor,
1953
Scope and Content Note
Feldman's manuscript score, 1 sheet, ink and pencil on paper, April 1953. Tudor's transcription of score, 2 sheets, ink on
paper. Tudor's realization, pencil on staff paper.
Box 9, Folder 27
Piano (three hands),
1957
Box 9, Folder 29
The Straits of Magellan,
1961
Box 9, Folder 30
Sheet of graphic notation,
undated
Box 9, Folder 31
Ferrell-Hero, Barbara, Music graph painting,
1970
Box 9, Folder 32
Fine, Albert M.,
Fantasia,
1966
Scope and Content Note
See also box 185*.
Gnazzo, Anthony,
1966-1969
Box 9, Folder 33
"...but don't step on my blue suede bandoneon," a contest for two (or more, if there were) ,
1966
Box 9, Folder 33
Divisi est in 3 parts,
1969
Box 9, Folder 33
Theme (and other things),
1969
Box 9, Folder 34
Grosskopf, Erhard,
Drei stücke für Klavier,
1978
Box 9, Folder 35
Halffter, Ernesto,
Marche joyeuse,
1925
Box 10, Folder 1
A letter for David Tudor,
1961
Box 10, Folder 1
Wuppertal two pianos,
1959
Higgins, Dick,
1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
See the Dick Higgins papers, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections accn. no. 870613) for related materials.
Box 10, Folder 2
Constellations and contributions,
1961
Box 10, Folder 2
In the context of shoes...,
1960
Box 10, Folder 2
Three landscapes decorated with witches,
1960
Box 10, Folder 2
What the theater can be,
1961
Box 10, Folder 3
Hoffman, Richard, Transcription of Wagner's
Parsifal, Song of the flower maidens (op. 130),
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 188*.
Ichiyanagi, Toshi,
1959-1967
Scope and Content Note
See also box 189*.
Box 10, Folder 4
Activities for Orchestra,
1967
Scope and Content Note
For Merce Cunningham dance "Scramble."
Box 10, Folder 5
Duet for piano and string instrument,
1961
Jennings, Terry,
1960-1963
Scope and Content Note
See also box 189*.
Box 10, Folder 9
Piano piece,
1960 November
Box 10, Folder 9
Piece for violins, violas and sopranino saxaphone,
1963
Box 10, Folder 10
Johnston, Ben,
4 do-it-yourself pieces,
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 189*.
Jones, Joe,
1961-1962
Scope and Content Note
See also box 189*.
Box 10, Folder 11
Solo for multi-attack instrument,
1962
Kagel, Mauricio,
1961-1967
Scope and Content Note
See also box 191*-192* and FF. 2**.
Box 10, Folder 12
Improvisation ajoutée,
1961-1962
Box 10, Folder 13
Metapiece (mimetics) für Klavier,
1961
Box 10, Folder 15
Kalve, Martin,
All happy workers babies & dogs,
1981
Box 10, Folder 16
Kasemets, Udo,
Calceolaria,
1966
Box 10, Folder 17
Kemler, Alan,
Designs I,
undated
Kosugi, Takehisa,
1963, 1991
Box 10, Folder 19
Krenek, Ernst,
12 short piano pieces,
1939
Krumm, Philip,
1961-1962
Scope and Content Note
See also box 190*.
Box 10, Folder 21
Three geometric transformations,
1961-1962
Lerman, Richard,
1979, 1991-1992
Box 10, Folder 22
Accretion disk, event horizon, sigularity,
1979
Box 10, Folder 22
Changing states 3: Duo version,
1992
Box 10, Folder 22
Ten anniversary piece,
1991
Box 10, Folder 23
Levine, Bruce,
Piano piece,
1971
Box 10, Folder 24
Liszt, Franz,
Etüde nr. 5, Irrlichter/Feux follets,
undated
Box 10, Folder 25
Lombardi, Daniele,
To gather together,
1971
Lucier, Alvin,
1962-1971, undated
Box 11, Folder 1
Action music for piano, book I,
1962
Box 11, Folder 1
Organ music for David Tudor,
1966
Mac Low, Jackson,
1960-1961
Box 11, Folder 3
A piece for Sari Dienes,
1960
Box 11, Folder 3
"Earl E.T. Smith, the palm bitch (er) feanancier,...",
1961
Box 11, Folder 3
First asymmetry for Iris,
1960
Marchetti, Walter,
1959-1961
Box 11, Folder 4
...per una cerimonia,
1960
Box 11, Folder 5
Mestres i Quadreny, Josep,
Interpolaciones,
1960
Scope and Content Note
See also box 193*.
Box 11, Folder 6
Mizelle, Dary John,
Photo oscillations,
1968
Mumma, Gordon,
1966, 1976
Box 11, Folder 8
Nancarrow, Colon,
Studies for player piano,
undated
Oliveros, Pauline,
1963-1971, undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 195*.
Box 11, Folder 9
Duo for accordian and bandoneon with possible mynah bird obligato,
1963
Box 11, Folder 9
George Washington slept here too,
1965
Box 11, Folder 9
In memorium Nikola Tesla, cosmic engineer,
1969
Box 11, Folder 10
Ornstein, Leo,
Danse sauvage,
1915
Box 11, Folder 11
Orton, Richard,
Pièce de résistance,
1969
Box 11, Folder 12
Pablo, Luis de,
Libro para el pianista (op. 11, no. IV),
undated
Box 11, Folder 13-14
Patterson, Ben,
1960, undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 195*.
Box 11, Folder 13
Methods and processes,
undated
Pimenta, Emanuel Dimas de Melo,
1990-1993
Box 11, Folder 15
Gravitational sounds,
1990
Box 11, Folder 15
Various pieces,
1992-1993
Scope and Content Note
Includes
Ware,
Specular,
Pulsar,
Array,
Mantra,
Drag,
Limits and
Writings one.
Box 11, Folder 16
Pollock, Joe,
Sonate,
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 195*.
Pousseur, Henri,
1956-1962, undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 195*.
Box 11, Folder 17
Agregats, conduit, cassation,
undated
Box 11, Folder 19
Exercises de piano: impromptu,
undated
Box 11, Folder 19
Exercises de piano: variations I,
1956
Box 11, Folder 20
Racot, Gilles,
Hic & nunc,
undated
Box 11, Folder 21
Ravel, Maurice,
Gaspard de la nuit - Ondine,
1962
Box 11, Folder 22
Riley, Terry, In C,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes typed letter on the reverse, signed "Warner," from Warner Jepson. See also box 197*.
Rose, Griffith,
1962, undated
Box 11, Folder 23
For David Tudor #1-9,
undated
Box 11, Folder 23
Second ennead of piano pieces,
1962
Box 11, Folder 23
A square for any solo instrument,
1962
Rzewski, Frederic,
1964-1969, undated
Box 12, Folder 1
Composition for two players,
1964
Box 12, Folder 2
Les moutons de panurge,
1969
Sahl, Michael,
1960-1965, undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 198*.
Box 12, Folder 3
Piece for piano and cat,
1960-1961
Box 12, Folder 3
A piece for David,
undated
Box 12, Folder 3
Theatre organ piece,
1964
Satie, Erik,
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 198*.
Box 12, Folder 5
Carrelage phonique,
undated
Box 12, Folder 5
Le fils des étoiles,
undated
Box 12, Folder 5
Tapisserie en fer forgé,
undated
Box 12, Folder 6
Schiemer, Gary,
Body sonata,
1974
Box 12, Folder 7
Schoenberg, Arnold,
Klavierstück,
1932
Scope and Content Note
Hand copied by Tudor. See also box 198*.
Simons, Netty,
1950-1953
Scope and Content Note
See also box 198*.
Box 12, Folder 8
Four little pieces for piano,
1953
Box 12, Folder 8
Unidentified,
1952 November
Box 12, Folder 9
Sommaruga, Renzo,
2 pianoforti e 2 voci,
1958
Box 12, Folder 10
Sørensen, William Louis, Various works,
1969, 1974-1976
Stockhausen, Karlheinz,
1954-1963
Scope and Content Note
See also boxes 200*-202* and FF.5**.
Box 12, Folder 11
Nr. 2 Klavierstücke I-IV,
1954
Scope and Content Note
See oversize for parts V-VIII
Box 12, Folder 15
Sutcliffe, Alan,
Piano game,
1961
Tagliapietra, Gino,
1956-1958
Box 12, Folder 16
40 studi di perfezionamento, vol. I (nos. 1-20),
1956
Box 12, Folder 16
40 studi di perfezionamento, vol. II (nos. 21-40),
1958
Takemitsu, Toru,
1952-1962
Box 12, Folder 17
Corona for pianists,
1962
Box 12, Folder 19
Tone, Yasunao,
(Deosidy) piano music #4,
1962
Box 12, Folder 20
Webern, Anton,
Op. 27,
undated
Box 12, Folder 21
Wilding-White, Ray,
5 indeterminate pieces in classic forms,
undated
Box 12, Folder 22
Williams, Rom,
Antihistamine,
undated
Wolff, Christian,
1952-1982, undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 204*.
Box 12, Folder 28
Duo for pianists II,
1958
Box 12, Folder 29
Duo for violins,
circa 1963
Box 13, Folder 3
For 1, 2 or 3 people,
1964
Box 13, Folder 5
For piano I,
1952
Scope and Content Note
Used for Cunningham's "Untitled solo."
Box 13, Folder 6
For 6 or 7 players (music for Merce Cunningham),
1959
Box 13, Folder 7
Groundspace or large groundspace,
1969
Box 13, Folder 9
Prose collection,
1968-1969
Box 13, Folder 12
Unidentified worksheets,
undated
Wolpe, Stefan,
1910-1959, undated
Scope and Content Note
see also box 205*-207*.
Box 13, Folder 13
Displaced spaces, shocks, negations...,
1946-1948
Box 13, Folder 14
The good spirit of a great cause,
1942
Scope and Content Note
The title reads
Encouragements for piano, first piece. The good spirit of a great cause.
Encouragements for piano was a larger piece, of which
The good spirit of a right cause and
Battle piece were both part.
Battle piece was later made the first piece of
Encouragements.
Box 13, Folder 16
Music for any instruments,
1948
Box 13, Folder 18
Third piece: battles, hopes, difficulties; new battles, new hopes, no difficulties,
undated
Box 13, Folder 19
Two studies for piano pt. 2,
1948
Box 13, Folder 21
Wolpe's copy of Debussy's Preludes,
1910
Box 13, Folder 22
Wolpe's copy of Schoenberg's Concerto for violin and orchestra,
1939
Box 13, Folder 23
Woodruff, Julian,
Subjects of the sun,
1967
Young, La Monte,
1958-1961
Box 14, Folder 3
Piano piece for Terry Riley,
1960
Box 14, Folder 3
Piano piece for David Tudor #1, #2, #3,
1960
Box 14, Folder 4
Poem for chairs, tables, benches, etc. (or other sound sources),
1960
Box 14, Folder 7
Study III for piano,
1959
Box 14, Folder 9
Variably titled piece (to Henry Flynt),
1960
Scope and Content Note
The title for each performance is determined by the number of bangs in that particular performance.
Box 14, Folder 10
Zimmermann, Walter,
Selbstvergessen,
1975-1985
Box 14, Folder 11-17
Unidentified scores,
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also FF.6**.
Box 14, Folder 18-20
Unidentified performance instructions,
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also FF.6**.
Box 14, Folder 21
Unidentified realizations,
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also FF.6**.
Box 14, Folder 22-37
Unidentified work sheets,
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also FF.6**.
Box 14, Folder 38
Lists of compositions,
undated
Oversize materials,
1800-1971, undated, bulk 1941-1965
Scope and Content Note
For Ernest-Albrecht Stiebler, see FF.5**.
Box 167*, Folder 2
Ammann, Benno,
3 pieces for piano,
undated
Arma, Paul (aka Imre Weisshaus),
1930-1935
Box 167*, Folder 3
Burlesque for piano,
1930
Box 167*, Folder 3
Second sonatina for children,
1935
Flatfile 1**
Austin, Larry,
Accidents,
1967
Box 167*, Folder 4
Baker, Lawrence Scott, "Unfinished to be added to keyboard music & extra materials,"
circa 1968
Box 168*, Folder 1
Baldwin, Bertram,
Nursery tale with exigesis,
1961-1962
Box 168*, Folder 2
Ballif, Claude,
3rd. sonate für klavier (op. 29),
undated
Behrman, David,
1959-1960, undated
Scope and Content Note
See also oversize box 183*.
Box 168*, Folder 3
Canons for piano and percussion,
1959-1960
Box 168*, Folder 3
Players with circuits,
undated
Box 168*, Folder 4
Notations for unidentified piece,
undated
Roll 1**
Behrman, David,
Ricercar,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 small roll.
Box 168*, Folder 5
Berg, Gunnar,
Gaffky's assortiment 1-10,
1959
Biel, Michael von,
1961-1964
Box 169*, Folder 3
Boucourechliev, André, Unidentified,
1959
Boulez, Pierre,
1950, 1961
Box 169*, Folder 4
2ème sonate pour piano,
1950
Box 169*, Folder 5
Troisième sonate pour piano - formant 2-trope,
1961
Box 169*, Folder 6
Braun, Peter Michael,
Mutationen für klavier,
1959
Box 169*, Folder 7
Busoni, Ferruccio,
Indianische fantasie für klavier und orchester (op. 44),
1915
Brown, Earle,
1952-1956, undated
Box 170*, Folder 1
Folio: December 1952,
1952
Scope and Content Note
Includes realizations which were most likely used for the 1974 recording of
December 1952 that appears on the album
Times five. See also Cage score
WBAI.
Box 170*, Folder 2
For David Tudor,
1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
Four scores bound together, all titled "For David Tudor" but with different dates: May 28, 1953; March 1953; April 1953; Nov.
1952.
Box 170*, Folder 4
Four systems, scores ,
1954
Scope and Content Note
Two different manuscript scores by Feldman, both dated Jan 20, 1954. One ink and pencil on cardboard, the other ink and pencil
on paper. The paper version includes directions which begin, "may be played in any sequence..." Both are dedicated to Tudor
for his birthday. Included is one photographic copy of the paper score. 3 items.
Box 170*, Folder 5
Four systems, realizations,
1954
Scope and Content Note
Tudor's realization and working notes for Four Systems. For more information, see research file in repository for inventory
notes by Gale Cohen with annotations by Tudor.
Box 172*, Folder 1
Music for cello and piano,
1955
Box 172*, Folder 2
Music for "Trio for 5 dancers",
1953
Scope and Content Note
Based on floor plan of dance by Carolyn Brown.
Box 172*, Folder 2
Music for violin, cello and piano,
1952
Box 172*, Folder 4
Three pieces for piano,
undated
Box 173*, Folder 4
"Folio,"
1953
Scope and Content Note
David Magnus speculates this one-page-score as having been composed for "Folio," but was not included in the final edition.
3 sheets dated 3/53
Bussotti, Sylvano,
1959-1961, undated
Box 174*, Folder 1
Couple pour flauto et piano,
1959
Box 174*, Folder 2
Five pieces for David Tudor (extraits de pièces de chair II),
1959
Box 174*, Folder 4
Pour clavier (après Pièces de chair II),
1961
Box 174*, Folder 4
Couple pour flute et piano (from
sette fogli),
undated
Box 174*, Folder 4
per tre sul piano (from
sette fogli),
undated
Box 174*, Folder 4
Small pieces of ephemera,
undated
Cage, John,
1936-1968, undated
Box 175*, Folder 3
A book of music for 2 pianos,
1944
Box 176*, Folder 1-2
Concert for piano and orchestra,
1957-1958
Box 177*, Folder 1-3
Concerto for prepared piano and chamber orchestra,
1950-1951
Box 178*, Folder 1
Electronic music for piano,
1965
Box 178*, Folder 1
For Paul Taylor and Anita Dencks,
1957
Box 178*, Folder 3
Music for carillon nos. 2 and 3 (graph),
1954
Box 178*, Folder 3
Music for carillon no. 4,
1966
Box 178*, Folder 4
Music for piano 1-20,
1953
Box 178*, Folder 4
Music for piano 21-36,
1955
Box 179*, Folder 3-4
Music walk,
1959-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes Italian publication "La musica moderna" (1969) with recording of
Music walk.
Box 180*, Folder 1
Six melodies for violin and keyboard,
1950
Box 180*, Folder 2-3
34' 46.76" for a pianist,
1954
Scope and Content Note
See also Rolls 5A**-7**.
Roll 5A**-7**
34' 46.76" for a pianist,
1954
Scope and Content Note
4 small rolls of graph paper with pencil annotations. Each roll is marked: Piano I, Roll 1; Piano I, Roll 2; Piano I, Roll
4; End of Piano I, Roll 6. Apparently Roll 3 and Roll 5 are missing. See also Box 180*, f. 2 for preparatory material, sketches,
and graph marking tool.
Box 181*, Folder 1
31' 57.5864" for a pianist,
1954
Scope and Content Note
See also Rolls 2**-4**.
Roll 2**-4**
31'57.5864" for a pianist,
1954
Scope and Content Note
In 3 small rolls.
Box 181*, Folder 2
Three dances for two prepared pianos,
1945
Box 182*, Folder 4
Schoenberg counterpoint exercises,
1936
Box 183*, Folder 2
Untitled composition in the "The ten thousand things" series,
1953-1956
Scope and Content Note
This is an unfinished piece for magnetic tape which was to have used sound sources similar to those used in
Williams mix. It is a part of the series referred to by Cage as "The ten thousand things," which includes
34'46.76" for a pianist and
31'57.9864" for a pianist. Additional material for this piece may be found at the New York Public Library.
Box *183, Folder 1
Behrman, David,
Ricercar,
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also Roll 1**.
Box *183, Folder 3
Cross, Lowell,
Musica Instrumentalis,
1969
Cardew, Cornelius,
1951-1961, undated
Box 184*, Folder 1
February pieces for piano and Octet '61 for Jasper Johns,
1961
Box 184*, Folder 1
Piano piece February 1959,
1959
Scope and Content Note
See also February piece I in February pieces.
Box 184*, Folder 1
Piano sonata no. 2,
1955-1956
Box 184*, Folder 1
Unidentified,
1957
Scope and Content Note
See also Cardew's
Study for Pianists: Instructions for Book I and II, October 1958, in FF.1**.
Flatfile 1**
Study for Pianists: Instructions for Book I & II,
1958 October
Scope and Content Note
Includes worksheets, notes.
Box 184*, Folder 2
Coppola, Carmen,
Phantom cavalry,
1948
Box 184*, Folder 2
Four declamations with return,
1949
Box 184*, Folder 2
Hymn and fuguing tune no. 9,
1950
Box 184*, Folder 2
De Jong, Conrad,
Etenraku (the upper cloud music),
1971
Box 184*, Folder 2
Dinwiddie, John,
Paper clip,
1971
Box 184*, Folder 3
Englert, Giuseppe Giorgio,
Palaestra 64 pro organo,
1959-1964
Box 184*, Folder 3
Evangelisti, Franco,
Proiezioni sonore,
1955-1956
Box 185*, Folder 1
Fabiansson, Erik,
Toccata for piano,
undated
Box 185*, Folder 1
Ferrari, Luc,
Visage I,
1956
Finck, Mildred,
1957-1960, undated
Fine, Albert M.,
1964-1965
Box 185*, Folder 3
Portfolio of copied scores and drawings,
1965
Box 185*, Folder 3
"Peblum" for solo guitar,
1965
Box 185*, Folder 3
Simple song for Eric,
1965
Box 185*, Folder 3
"Solo for" clarinet in Bb,
1965
Box 185*, Folder 3
Sonatinina for flute & piano,
1964
Box 185*, Folder 3
Song for Christopher,
1965
Box 185*, Folder 3
Song for George Brecht,
1965
Box 185*, Folder 3
Sumphonic sketch for piano,
1965
Box 185*, Folder 3
Three movements for piano,
1965
Box 185*, Folder 3
Two free part invention,
1964
Box 185*, Folder 4
Gilpin, George Jr.,
Memories of a vine covered privy,
1933
Scope and Content Note
Piano arrangement dated 1933.
Box 185*, Folder 5
Gladdys, Gylmer,
Elixir 8,
1952-1961
Feldman, Morton,
1948-1970, undated
Box 186*, Folder 1
Composition for 14 instruments,
1953
Box 186*, Folder 2
Extensions for violin and piano,
1951
Box 186*, Folder 3
Extensions #4 for three pianos,
1953
Box 186*, Folder 4
Journey to the end of night,
1948
Box 186*, Folder 5
Nature pieces for piano,
1951
Box 186*, Folder 5
...Out of "last pieces,"
1961
Box 186*, Folder 6
Piece for cello and piano,
1960
Box 187*, Folder 1
The swallows of Salangan,
1960
Box 187*, Folder 2
Two pieces for two pianos,
1954
Box 187*, Folder 3
Vertical thoughts nos. 1-5,
1963
Box 187*, Folder 4
The viola in my life,
1970
Box 187*, Folder 4
The viola in my life (III),
1970
Box 187*, Folder 5
Triadic memoriesand unidentified,
1953
Scope and Content Note
Two scores, one of which is dated 1953. Perhaps score for music for film about Jackson Pollack.
Hambraeus, Bengt,
1955-1966
Box 188*, Folder 1
Konstellationer I-III,
1958
Box 188*, Folder 1
Movimenti per organo,
1966
Harrison, Lou,
1947-1964, undated
Box 188*, Folder 2
Serenade for guitar,
undated
Hauer, Josef Matthias,
1952, undated
Box 188*, Folder 3
Kitchen performance,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes many photocopied scores for a performance with Kubera.
Box 188*, Folder 4
Praeludium für celesta,
undated
Box 188*, Folder 4
Zwölftonspiel,
1952
Scope and Content Note
Used for Cunningham's "Labyrinthian dances."
Box 188*, Folder 4
Unidentified,
1952
Scope and Content Note
Three scores, one of which is dated 1952.
Box 188*, Folder 4
Heller, Stephen,
Impromptu etude,
1800s
Hobbs, Christopher,
1966-1968, undated
Box 188*, Folder 5
Composition, February 10 1968
1968
Box 188*, Folder 5
Music for Harpsichord,
1968
Box 188*, Folder 5
Second piece for organ,
1968
Box 188*, Folder 5
Shortly before midnight,
1968
Hoffman, Richard,
1888-1893
Hovhaness, Alan,
1946-1957
Box 188*, Folder 7
Do you remember the last silence (opus 152 no.3),
1957
Box 188*, Folder 8
Stable w/continuous plane,
1964
Ichiyanagi, Toshi,
1959-1961, undated
Box 189*, Folder 2
Concert music for strings,
1960
Box 189*, Folder 2
Music for electric metronom,
undated
Box 189*, Folder 3
Music for piano #7,
undated
Jennings, Terry,
1958-1960, undated
Box 189*, Folder 4
Flux and form, #2, 7, 8-9, 10, 16,
undated
Box 189*, Folder 6
Johnston, Ben,
Sonata for microtonal piano,
1965
Box 189*, Folder 7
Jones, Joe,
Mechanical score I,
undated
Kagel, Mauricio,
1956-1967
Box 191*, Folder 1
Improvisation ajoutée,
1962
Box 192*, Folder 1
Phantasie für orgel mit obbligati,
1967
Flatfile 2**
Alle rechte vorbahalten,
1966
Box 190*, Folder 1
Karkoff, Maurice,
Pianosonat no. 1 (op.19),
1956
Box 190*, Folder 2
Kayn, Roland,
Quanten für klavier,
1958
Box 190*, Folder 3
King, Alvin,
Thirteen acts for adult and consenting piano,
undated
Box 190*, Folder 4
Krumm, Philip,
Electrical graph #1,
1961
Box 190*, Folder 5
Kupferman, David,
Identity,
1963
Box 190*, Folder 6
Labunski, Wiktor,
Patterns for piano solo,
1952
Box 190*, Folder 7
Leedy, Doug,
Usable music I,
1967
Box 190*, Folder 8
Ligeti, György,
Trois bagatelles,
1961-1962
Lunetta, Stanley,
1967, undated
Flatfile 3**
A piece for bandoneon and strings,
undated
Matsudaira, Yoriaki,
1931, undated
Box 193*, Folder 1
Coaction I for 'celle and piano,
undated
Box 193*, Folder 1
Coaction II for 'celle and piano,
undated
Box 193*, Folder 1
Instruction for piano,
1931
Mestres i Quadreny, Josep,
1961, undated
Box 193*, Folder 2
Tres canons en homenatje a Galileu,
undated
Box 193*, Folder 3
Miroglio, Francis,
Soleils,
circa 1964
Box 193*, Folder 3
Moore, Frank L.,
Sweet dance,
1955
Flatfile 4**
Moran, Robert,
Der Augenblick momentaner Illumination,
1963
Nilsson, Bo,
1956, undated
Box 194*, Folder 2
Otte, Hans,
Tropismen,
undated
Oliveros, Pauline,
1960-1961
Box 195*, Folder 1
Sound patterns for mixed chorus,
1961
Box 195*, Folder 1
Trio for accordion, trumpet and string bass,
1960
Box 195*, Folder 2
Tropismen für klavier,
1960
Box 195*, Folder 3
Patterson, Benjamin,
Ants,
1960
Box 195*, Folder 4
Pleskow, Raoul,
Dedication to Stefan Wolpe,
1961
Box 195*, Folder 5
Pollock, Joe, Unidentified,
1946
Pousseur, Henri,
1967, undated
Box 195*, Folder 6
Miroir de votre Faust (charactères II),
1967
Box 195*, Folder 6
Exercices de piano, variations II,
undated
Ravel, Maurice,
1911-1925
Box 197*, Folder 1
L'enfant et les sortilèges,
1925
Box 197*, Folder
Prélude pour le piano,
1913
Box 197*, Folder
Valses nobles et sentimentales,
1911
Box 197*, Folder 6
Rosenthal, Moriz,
Studie über den Walzer, op. 64, no. 1, von F. Chopin,
1884
Box 197*, Folder 7
Roslavets, Nikolai,
Trois études pour piano,
1914
Rothstein (?), Murray,
1946-1947
Box 197*, Folder 8
Variations for piano,
1947
Box 197*, Folder 9
Rush, Loren,
Mandala music,
undated
Sahl, Michael,
1966-1967, undated
Box 198*, Folder 1
Fantasy music for organ,
1966-1967
Satie, Erik,
1911-1920, undated
Box 198*, Folder 2
Trois nocturnes pour le piano,
1919
Flatfile 4**
Schnebel, Dieter,
Abfälle nr. 2: visible music,
1960-1962
Box 198*, Folder 3
Schoenberg, Arnold,
Suite for klavier,
1925
Box 198*, Folder 4
Schwertsik, Kurt,
Klavierstück,
undated
Box 198*, Folder 5
Seeger, Ruth Crawford,
Four preludes for piano,
1928
Box 198*, Folder 6
Shifrin, Seymour,
Composition for piano,
1950
Box 198*, Folder 7
Simons, Netty,
The sea darkens,
1976
Box 199*, Folder 3
Piece in the form of sonate-variations for piano,
1954
Flatfile 5**
Stiebler, Ernst-Albrecht,
Klavierstück,
undated
Box 201*, Folder 1-5
Nr. 4 Klavierstück V-VIII,
1954-1955
Scope and Content Note
2 photocopied versions, 1 folder of handwritten and typed performance notes, 1 published version (in 2 folders)
Box 202*, Folder 1
Nr. 7 Klavierstück XI,
1956
Scope and Content Note
See also oversize flat file folder 5 for instructions
Flatfile 5**
Elecktronishce studie I,
1953
Flatfile 5**
Nr. 7 Klavierstuck XI: instructions,
1956
Flatfile 5**
Nr. 7 Klavierstuck XI: instructions, London: Universal Edition,
1957
Box 203*, Folder 1
Takahashi, Yuki,
Ekstasis,
1962
Timmens, James,
1946-1947
Box 203*, Folder 2
Two studies for two pianos,
1947
Tremblay, Gilles,
1955-1958
Box 203*, Folder 3
Pièce pour piano (phases),
1955-1956
Box 203*, Folder 3
Pièce pour piano (réseaux),
1958
Tzeng, Shing-Kwei,
1982-1984
Wolff, Christian,
1951-1971, undated
Box 204*, Folder 1-2
Burdocks,
1970-1971
Scope and Content Note
Original and photocopy.
Box 204*, Folder 3
Duo for violinist and pianist,
1961
Box 204*, Folder 5
For piano with preparations,
1957
Wolpe, Stefan,
1935-1953, undated
Box 205*, Folder 1-2
Battle piece,
1943-1947
Scope and Content Note
Part of Encouragements for piano. See also projects series for 1990 Tudor edited version.
Box 206*, Folder 1
For flute and piano in two parts no. 1,
undated
Box 206*, Folder 2
Four studies on basic rows (op. 23),
1935-1936
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Studies on tritones" and "Passacaglia."
Box 207*, Folder 1
Sonate für hoboe und klavier,
1938-1941
Box 207*, Folder 2
Two pieces for piano 2 hds.,
1941
Box 207*, Folder 3
Two studies (part two) for piano,
1948
Box 207*, Folder 4
Unidentified,
1950
Scope and Content Note
Partial score for unidentified piece, "Third part" and "last part" written in ink, with date, Spring 1950. Damaged and conserved.
Box 208*, Folder 1
Watt, Jay,
Music for a dance,
1952
Box 208*, Folder 2
Piano suite (op. 8),
1940-1941
Box 208*, Folder 2
Piano pieces (op. 23),
1946-1947
Box 208*, Folder 3
Piano suite (op. 27),
1948
Box 208*, Folder 4-5
Projection esemplastic for piano - 1,
1961
Box 208*, Folder 4-5
Projection topologie for piano,
1959
Box 209A*, Folder 1
Unidentified,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Circa 30 sheets by different hands. See also FF.6**.
Box 209A*, Folder 2
Unidentified, "Columns," and "Chart,"
undated
Scope and Content Note
4 sheets of typed performance instructions with the title, "Columns", with circa 20 sheets of a folded score which has annotations
in German. Also, 2 small bound scores circa 3" high by 15" long, one of which has title "Chart."
Box 209A*, Folder 3
Unidentified, part 1 of 2,
undated
Scope and Content Note
27 photocopied sheets of a score, begins at bar 53. Annotated. Damaged, treated and conserved. See box 209B for second half.
Box 209B*, Folder 1
Unidentified, part 2 of 2,
undated
Scope and Content Note
38 sheets of photocopied score, with annotations in ink and pencil. Left margin damaged. Treated and conserved. Continuation
of item in box 209A, folder 3.
Series II.
Projects,
1949-1996
Physical Description:
21.0 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Projects includes various materials concerning Tudor's performance and other work related activities. Files contain correspondence
with collaborators and staffs of various performance spaces, notes, project proposals, grant applications, budgets, itineraries,
equipment lists and contracts. There is substantial documentation concerning his work with the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.).
Arrangement
The series is arranged to two subseries: Series II.A. General projects; Series II.B. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation.
Series II.A.
General projects,
1949-1996
Physical Description:
14.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
This subseries contains all project materials except those concerning the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, organized chronologically.
The early files from the 1950s consist almost exclusively of correspondence and contracts for piano concerts, while later
files include a range of materials which record more fully the development of his electronic compositions. Especially well
documented are the Pepsi Pavilion at the Osaka World's Fair and "Island Eye, Island Ear," both E.A.T. projects;
Rainforest IV; and Tudor's editorial work on scores by Henry Cowell and Stefan Wolpe, in particular
Battle piece.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically; materials relating to E.A.T and Cowell editing project are arranged topically.
Box 15, Folder 1
Various projects,
1949-1954
Scope and Content Note
Includes 1 letter each from Lionel Nowak of Bennington College (1953), Peggy Glanville-Hicks of Composer's Forum (1954?) and
Gino Negri (1954); 12 items.
Box 15, Folder 2
Darmstadt,
1956-1961
Scope and Content Note
List of Tudor's performances, lists of students and correspondence with Wolfgang Steinecke, circa 40 items.
Box 15, Folder 3
Institute National Belge de Radiodiffusion,
1956
Scope and Content Note
10 letters and contracts.
Box 15, Folder 4
Norddeutscher Rundfunk,
1956
Scope and Content Note
6 letters and contracts.
Box 15, Folder 5
Südwestfunk,
1956
Scope and Content Note
9 letters and contracts.
Box 15, Folder 6
Universal Edition,
1956
Scope and Content Note
9 letters and contracts.
Box 15, Folder 7
Westdeutscher Rundfunk,
1956
Scope and Content Note
9 letters and contracts.
Box 15, Folder 8
Various projects,
1956
Scope and Content Note
Includes 6 letters from Wolfgang Steinecke (Darmstadt), 7 items with William Glock of the International Music Association
and a telegram and letter from Bengt Hambraeus; 46 items.
Box 15, Folder 9
Radiotjänst,
1957
Scope and Content Note
15 letters and contracts from Bengt Hambraeus.
Box 15, Folder 10
Westdeutscher Rundfunk,
1957
Scope and Content Note
10 letters and contracts.
Box 15, Folder 11
Various projects,
1957
Scope and Content Note
Includes 1 letter each from William Glock of the International Music Association, Gunnar Larsson (+ copy) and Lionel Nowak
of Bennington College; 20 items.
Box 15, Folder 12
Norddeutscher Rundfunk,
1958
Scope and Content Note
7 letters and contracts
Box 15, Folder 13
Radiotjänst and Sveriges Radio,
1958
Scope and Content Note
8 letters and cards from Bengt Hambraeus.
Box 15, Folder 14
Westdeutscher Rundfunk,
1958
Scope and Content Note
14 letters and contracts.
Box 15, Folder 15
Various projects,
1958
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3 letters from Gunnar Bucht of Fylkingen; letter, contracts and payment receipts from Institut National Belge de
Radiodiffusion; 4 letters and contracts from Hessischer Rundfunk; and correspondence between Cage and Wilfred Mellers of Univ.
of Birmingham, William Glock and Han Fischli from Kunstgewerbe museum Zürich; circa 50 items.
Box 15, Folder 16
Hessischer Rundfunk,
1959
Scope and Content Note
6 letters and contracts.
Box 15, Folder 17
Westdeutscher Rundfunk,
1959
Scope and Content Note
10 letters and contracts.
Box 15, Folder 18
Various projects,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Includes 5 letters and contracts from Radio Bremen, 1 letter from Bengt Hambraeus, and 4 letters and contracts from Vega,
Paris; 26 items.
Box 15, Folder 19
Various projects,
1960
Scope and Content Note
Includes 2 letters from and 1 letter to Wolfgang Steinecke, 3 letters and contracts from Westdeutscher Rundfunk, 5 letters
and contracts from Universal Edition, 1 letter from Bengt Hambraeus; 32 items.
Box 15, Folder 20
Various projects,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Includes 4 letters from the Montreal Festivals Society, 3 letters from Cercle d'Art Contemporain, 5 letters from I Semana
de Música de Vanguarda, Rio, 4 letters from Westdeutscher Rundfunk and 1 letter from Heinz-Klaus Metzger of Ring also signed
by Bussotti; circa 40 items.
Box 15, Folder 21
Various projects,
1962
Scope and Content Note
14 items.
Box 15, Folder 22
Anthroposophical Society performance, NY,
1963
Scope and Content Note
2 letters and 2 typed programs.
Box 15, Folder 23
Various projects,
1963
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3 letters from the New York Philharmonic and 3 letters from Wergo, Köln; 23 items.
Box 15, Folder 24
East-West Festival, San Francisco Tape Music Center,
1964
Scope and Content Note
8 sheets of notes.
Box 15, Folder 25
KPFA/San Francisco Tape Music Center,
1964
Scope and Content Note
12 sheets of notes.
Box 15, Folder 26
Various projects,
1964
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3 letters from the New York Philharmonic; 7 items.
Box 15, Folder 27
Various projects,
1965
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3 letters, a telegram and a contract from WGBH; 11 items.
Box 15, Folder 28
SUNY, Buffalo,
1965-1966
Scope and Content Note
Large folder of material generated when Tudor was hired as Creative Associate. Includes medical insurance information, 4 cards
and 1 sheet of notes by John Cage, and programs and other printed matter.
Box 16, Folder 1
Stockholm Festival,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Unrealized Billy Klüver project, which was reorganized a few months later as 9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering. Includes
Fylkingen contracts, correspondence, description of wireless system, 30 sheets of notes, list of proposals, address lists;
circa 50 items.
Box 16, Folder 2
E.A.T. - 9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, Armory schematics, documents concerning the formation of E.A.T., announcements and programs (see
also accn. no. 940003 for much more material on this project); circa 25 items.
Box 16, Folder 3
Various projects,
1966
Scope and Content Note
9 items.
Box 16, Folder 4
CBS Records,
1967
Scope and Content Note
3 contracts, note and letter.
Box 16, Folder 5
UC Davis appointment,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, programs, notes; 21 items.
Box 16, Folder 6
E.A.T.,
1967-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes E.A.T. news, E.A.T. proceedings, Techne; circa 20 items.
Box 16, Folder 7
Various projects,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3 letters from Sveriges Radio; 11 items.
Box 16, Folder 8
CBS Records,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 contract (+2 copies).
Box 16, Folder 9
A second wind for organ (recording),
1968
Scope and Content Note
Mostly worksheets for performing organ works by Kagel, Wolff and Mumma, circa 30 items.
Box 16, Folder 10
Various projects,
1968
Scope and Content Note
Includes 7 letters and a contract regarding Sveriges Radio performance; 18 items.
Box 16, Folder 11
Various projects,
1969
Scope and Content Note
9 items.
Box 17, Folder 1-12
E.A.T. - Pepsi Pavilion,
1970
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence from Lowell Cross, Billy Klüver, Fujiko Nakaya and others concerning dome construction, laser system,
live programming and logistics; notes, articles on electronics, schematics and diagrams pertaining to the laser sound system;
equipment and technical notes; proposals, lists of sounds, sample worksheets and many notes concerning live programming; dome
design drawings (photocopies); CBS/SONY Records correspondence and contracts; file of materials concerning logistics and schedules
which includes itineraries, lists of responsibilities and phone numbers; and articles on the Pavilion. (See FF.7** for related
materials.)
Box 18, Folder 1-4
E.A.T. - Pepsi Pavilion,
1970
Scope and Content Note
Includes Expo ephemera, E.A.T. ephemera and miscellaneous notes, circa 2 inches.
Box 18, Folder 5
Cultural Council Foundation grant application,
1970
Scope and Content Note
9 items.
Box 18, Folder 6
Various projects,
1970
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter from Joel Chadabe of SUNY, Albany; 8 items.
Box 18, Folder 7
E.A.T.,
1970-1972
Scope and Content Note
Thick folder with many reports and proposals pertaining to Artists in India, U.S.A. Presents, Children and Communication and
other E.A.T. projects. Also includes reports on activities and income, and an issue of Techne.
Box 18, Folder 8
E.A.T. ephemera,
1970-1972
Scope and Content Note
Printed announcements, booklets, circa 15 items.
Box 18, Folder 9
E.A.T. - Artists and Television,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Grant proposals, letters from Klüver and printed matter; 11 items.
Box 18, Folder 10
Various projects,
1971
Scope and Content Note
circa 20 items.
Box 18, Folder 11
Radio Bremen,
1972
Scope and Content Note
Some notes on equipment and correspondence pertaining to European tour (
Rainforest?); 14 items.
Box 18, Folder 12
Various projects,
1972
Scope and Content Note
Most pertaining to the North Carolina Museum's Black Mountain College Research Project (see also M.C. Richards papers); 20
items.
Box 18, Folder 13
Rainforest IV - Chocorua,
1973
Scope and Content Note
New Music in New Hampshire workshops; circa 30 items.
Box 19, Folder 1
Composers Inside Electronics,
1973
Scope and Content Note
Photocopied correspondence about the group's formation just after Chocorua, 15 sheets.
Box 19, Folder 2
"David Tudor: 10 selected realizations of graphic scores and related performances,"
1973
Scope and Content Note
Article written by Ray Wilding-White based on an interview with Tudor, who analyzes a number of works he has performed. Contains
a letter, photocopied typescript and notes; 41 sheets.
Box 19, Folder 3
Various projects,
1973
Scope and Content Note
Includes menu from E.A.T.'s New York Collection for Stockholm charter flight signed by Red Grooms, 8 items.
Box 19, Folder 4
Viola Farber Dance Co.,
1974
Scope and Content Note
Includes 4 sheets of notes and itineraries; 14 items.
Box 19, Folder 5
Video/Laser III,
1974-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes documents pertaining to production and funding, research articles and project description; circa 1 inch.
Box 19, Folder 6
Various projects,
1974
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter from Alvin Lucier, 11 items.
Box 19, Folder 7
Rainforest IV,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence from Lawrence Morton of LACMA and Suzanne Weil, and photocopied article by Chadabe; circa 30 items.
Box 19, Folder 8
Rainforest IV - Fort Worth Art Museum,
1975
Scope and Content Note
14 items.
Box 19, Folder 9
Various projects,
1975
Scope and Content Note
25 items.
Box 19, Folder 10
Australia,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes contract and programs; 8 items.
Box 19, Folder 11
Festival d'Automne Paris,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, photocopies of equipment, notes; circa 45 items.
Box 19, Folder 12
Rainforest IV - Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Thick folder containing correspondence, contract, programs, fliers, note on performance set-up, technical information and
press.
Box 19, Folder 13
Various projects,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes itineraries, notes for programs, correspondence, some handwritten notes, most of which pertains to
Rainforest; circa 50 items.
Box 20, Folder 1
Brazos river - Fort Worth Art Museum,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Tudor scored
Video pulsers to Viola Farber's dance. Contains 14 pages project description, notes, letters from Anne Livet, photocopies of press clippings,
schedule, KERA-TV production facilities specs. with annotations; circa 25 items.
Box 20, Folder 2
Creative Artists Public Services,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Tudor served on the multi-media panel. Includes notes, correspondence, lists of applicants and some applications; circa 30
items.
Box 20, Folder 3
Microphone recording,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Letter to Cramps Records, biographical information, description of piece, description of multitrack recording project at Mills
College, notes; 17 items.
Box 20, Folder 4
Rainforest IV,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, budget proposal, and photocopies of articles; circa 40 items.
Box 20, Folder 5-7
Rotating loudspeaker,
1977-1978
Scope and Content Note
Includes project history, test graphs, proposal, notes, copies of support letters, budgets and NEA grant application; 1.5
inches.
Box 20, Folder 8
Various projects,
1977
Scope and Content Note
circa 20 items.
Box 20, Folder 9
Various projects,
1978
Scope and Content Note
circa 20 items.
Box 20, Folder 10
Proposed archival project,
circa 1979
Scope and Content Note
Grant application to organize his archive of performance materials from 1950-1970. Includes much biographical information.
Box 20, Folder 11
Rainforest IV,
1979
Scope and Content Note
Includes description of Composers Inside Electronics, form letters to drum up concerts and expenses; circa 40 items.
Box 20, Folder 12
Various projects,
1979
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter from Joel Chadabe, Tudor notes and proposals for Lowell Cross' "Prometheus" and Laser Concert (see 1980 files
for more); circa 25 items. See also Box 210* for Sonavera recording project.
Box 21, Folder 1-11
E.A.T. - "Island Eye, Island Ear,"
1974-1984
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes, reports, proposals, technical information, drawings, and letters and kites by Jackie Monnier; organized in
rough chronological order (see also accn. no. 940003 for much more material). Includes color photocopy of a drawing of Knavelskar
Island by Fujiko Nakaya, from Julie Martin and Billy Klüver (folder 11).
Box 22, Folder 1-6
Cowell editing project,
1978-1992
Scope and Content Note
Large quantity of correspondence with Sidney Cowell starting in 1978 regarding her husband's music, mostly finding scores
and editing them for publication. Also Tudor notes, typed notes regarding scores, list of works at the Library of Congress,
and miscellaneous.
Box 23, Folder 1-11
Cowell editing project,
1978-1992
Scope and Content Note
Mostly photocopies of scores, but also includes a list of Tudor's edits and scores handcopied by Tudor. See also Box 210*,
folder 2 for more copied scores.
Box 24, Folder 1-5
Cowell editing project,
1978-1992
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of scores.
Box 24, Folder 6-8
Wolpe editing project,
1989-1994
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies and mechanicals of
Battle piece.
Box 25, Folder 1
HPSCHD, SUNY Buffalo,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Letter, memo, description by Kathleen Law and announcement.
Box 25, Folder 2
Laser Concert - Ars Electronica, Linz,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, contracts, programs and notes, circa 25 items.
Box 25, Folder 3-4
Laser Concert - Venice Biennale,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, notes, program, contracts and itinerary, circa 50 items.
Box 25, Folder 5
Rainforest IV - Berlin and Stockholm,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Thick folder with correspondence, description, notes, itineraries, biographical information, press release and budgets.
Box 25, Folder 6
Rainforest IV - Berlin recording,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Mostly contracts and correspondence, 16 items.
Box 25, Folder 7
Various projects,
circa 1980
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3 letters and a floor plan from Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, circa 20 items.
Box 25, Folder 8
Rainforest IV - Neuberger Museum,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, notes, budget and announcements, circa 30 items.
Box 25, Folder 9
Various projects,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Includes Gramavision recording contract for Rainforest IV, circa 20 items.
Box 25, Folder 10
Holland Festival,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and itineraries, 8 items.
Box 25, Folder 11
Rockefeller grant,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and application concerning a grant to record
Pulsers and
Forest Speech, 9 items.
Box 25, Folder 12
Solo for piano - Walker Art Center,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of letters to the Walker, itinerary, schedule and announcement, 6 items.
Box 25, Folder 13
Various projects,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, program and handwritten equipment list for Cage program at the American Center, Paris, circa 25 items.
Box 25, Folder 14
Sea tails,
1983
Scope and Content Note
Mostly notes and 2 letters from Jackie Monnier, circa 20 items.
Box 25, Folder 15
Various projects,
1983
Scope and Content Note
Includes 2 letters concerning Rainforest video tape, 18 items.
Box 25, Folder 16
Japan,
1984
Scope and Content Note
Address lists, notes and photocopies of form letters sent in order to perform Rainforest in Japan in 1985.
Box 25, Folder 17
Pulsers and
Untitled recording,
1984
Scope and Content Note
Galley proofs, 3 sheets of notes/corrections, list of Lovely Music distributors, cost and royalty calculations, and 2 reviews.
Box 25, Folder 18
Various projects,
1984
Scope and Content Note
5 items.
Box 25, Folder 19
Mobius,
1985
Scope and Content Note
Tudor received a grant to create and perform a new work. Includes correspondence, press release and contract, 11 items.
Box 25, Folder 20
Centre Georges Pompidou,
1985
Scope and Content Note
Collaboration with Jackie Monnier. Correspondence and contracts, circa 15 items.
Box 25, Folder 21
Various projects,
1985
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with René Block and a list of scores on consignment at Margarete Roeder Fine Arts, 9 items.
Box 26, Folder 1
Bye Bye Kipling,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Includes program rundown, rehersal schedule, correspondence and contract, 12 items.
Box 26, Folder 2
Sea tails (sound totem version),
1986
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with the Whitney Museum and Jackie Monnier and photocopied descriptions, 17 items.
Box 26, Folder 3
Various projects,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Includes equipment lists, 6 items.
Box 26, Folder 4
Los Angeles Festival,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, contract, program notes, 8 items.
Box 26, Folder 5
9 lines, reflected,
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
Thick folder with descriptions, technical information, budgets, photographs of Monnier's kites, photocopied drawings, Westdeutscher
Rundfunk Köln correspondence and contracts, and Guggenheim grant application. See also
Sea tails (sound totem version).
Box 26, Folder 6
Various projects,
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes budget and 4 letters concerning Japan Rainforest tour, two letters and 3 loan forms from the Edith C. Blum Art Institute
for the Black Mountain College exhibition, Robert Ashley description of "The Butterfly Connection" (13 programs for television),
and broadcast plan for an unknown venue, circa 45 items.
Box 26, Folder 7
Heidelberger Festival,
1988
Scope and Content Note
Includes letter and many photocopies of abstract flow/neural patterns for the "Festival for Experimental Music and Text,"
Heidelberg, 13 items.
Box 26, Folder 8
Real Art Ways,
1988
Scope and Content Note
Photocopied floor plans, some with Tudor annotations, letters from Brian Johnson, contract, program, Real Art Ways calendar
for fall 1987 and performance rights waiver, 13 items.
Box 26, Folder 9
Recording projects,
1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters from Collegno, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln and Mode about recording
Dialectics and a number of Tudor's piano realizations, and notes by Tudor, circa 20 items.
Box 26, Folder 10
Various projects,
1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes NEA grant application and 2 letters and a contract from the Alternative Museum, circa 20 items.
Box 26, Folder 11-17
Inventory project,
1989
Scope and Content Note
Initially proposed as part of documenting the Cunningham archive. Contains project proposals by Holzaepfel, correspondence
Holzaepfel, with Christian Wolff with annotated lists of his works, handwritten or annotated lists of works by Earle Brown,
Cage, Feldman, Ichiyanagi, Wolpe and others, large quantity of catalog notes (printouts and photocopies), index of first performances
through 1960, Tudor bibliography, and list of works by other composers which Tudor performed, .25 linear feet.
Box 27, Folder 1-4
Wolpe editing project,
1989-1994
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Austin Clarkson, photocopies of scores with corrections, corrected proofs and printout of Clarkson introduction
for
Battle piece, and photocopies of
Tango d'Apaches and
Movements 2 and 3.
Box 27, Folder 5-7
Neural network research and development,
1989-1991
Scope and Content Note
Letters, reports and articles from Forrest Warthman concerning the development of equipment later used in
Neural network plus (see next box).
Box 27, Folder 8
Various projects,
1990
Scope and Content Note
4 items.
Box 27, Folder 9
Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln,
1991
Scope and Content Note
letter enclosing 12 black-and-white photographs and a map of possible sites for the potential realization of an outdoor piece
in Witten.
Box 27, Folder 10
Various projects,
1991
Scope and Content Note
4 items.
Box 27, Folder 11
Various projects,
1992
Scope and Content Note
circa 20 items.
Box 27, Folder 12
John Cage tribute (Koch),
1993
Scope and Content Note
Letters, contracts and published version of
4'33" with a letter written inside, 8 items.
Box 28, Folder 1
Variations II- Rolywholyover A Circus, MOCA,
1993
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, project description and press releases, 9 items.
Box 28, Folder 2
Neural network plus - Banff Festival,
1993-1994
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, equipment list, project proposal, payment statements, recording contracts, copies of Warthman's liner
notes and charts. The recording derived from the Banff session is titled
Neural synthesis nos. 6-9, circa 35 items.
Box 28, Folder 3
Various projects,
1993
Scope and Content Note
Includes press releases and itineraries for S.E.M. Ensemble concerts, recording contract from Hat Hut to publish WDR performances
and letter and description of the Lyons Biennale from Marc Dachy, circa 35 items.
Box 28, Folder 4
Ocean,
1994
Scope and Content Note
Includes sound research, drawing of speakers, description, copy of input output configuration and correspondence; circa 20
items.
Box 28, Folder 5
The poetry of abstraction - music beyond language - Donaueschingen Music Festival,
1994
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Südwestfunk and description; circa 10 items.
Box 28, Folder 6
Various projects,
1994
Scope and Content Note
Includes 4 letters from Steim, Amsterdam; 15 items.
Box 28, Folder 7
Bard College,
1995
Scope and Content Note
Includes contract, correspondence and program; 8 items.
Box 28, Folder 8
London Musicians Collective,
1995
Scope and Content Note
6 letters and duplicates.
Box 28, Folder 9
Ocean,
1995
Scope and Content Note
8 letters and 2 schedules.
Box 28, Folder 10
S.E.M. Ensemble, Prague,
1995
Scope and Content Note
Mostly programs and a doctor's note excusing Tudor from performing; 7 items.
Box 28, Folder 11-14
Toneburst: maps and fragments,
1995-1996
Scope and Content Note
Corresp., press release, transparencies of
Untitled and
Toneburst, ideograms, and photographs.
Box 28, Folder 15
Various projects,
1995
Scope and Content Note
7 items.
Box 28, Folder 16
Various projects,
1996
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters concerning the consignment of scores to the Margarete Roeder Gallery; 12 items.
Box 28, Folder 17-19
Unidentified projects,
undated
Miscellaneous oversize,
1978-1992
Scope and Content Note
Only folders 1-2 relate to Series II.A, Projects; folders 3-13 in this box relate to Series III.
Box 210*, Folder 1
Sonavera International Tape Competition,
1979
Scope and Content Note
Relates to box 20; 4 sheets.
Box 210*, Folder 2
Cowell editing project,
1978-1992
Scope and Content Note
Relates to boxes 22-24. 10 large photocopies of scores.
Flatfile 7**
E.A.T. Pepsi Pavilion,
1970
Scope and Content Note
Includes photocopied drawings, notes, computer print-out and other papers. Relates to Pepsi Pavilion material in Boxes 17
and 18.
Series II.B.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation,
1953-1996, undated
Physical Description:
7.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
Papers pertain to Tudor's involvement with the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation and include materials about tours and commissions,
performances, and travel. Includes lists of electronic equipment for customs; questionnaires and travel forms; technical and
travel notes; production and travel costs; meeting minutes; lists of basic requirements for stage, storage and dressing; repertory
sheets; and clippings. Some notes in Tudor's hand pertain to the performances. Correspondence regards tours and commissions.
Some papers document Tudor's own lectures and performances that occurred separately but while he was touring with the Cunningham
Dance Foundation.
Arrangement
Organized chronologically.
Series III.
Electronics,
1950s-1990s
Physical Description:
16.0 boxes
Scope and Content Note
These files contain electronic equipment catalogs, technical articles, circuit drawings, flow diagrams by Tudor, and his notes.
The catalogs and articles were used for research for his electronic compositions and projects. It is unclear for which projects
most of these materials were used.
Arrangement
Materials are organized in rough chronological order.
Box 36, Folder 1-6
1950-1972
Scope and Content Note
Includes 9 evenings: theatre and engineering material. See also box 210* for oversized material.
Box 37, Folder 1-9
1959-1970
Scope and Content Note
See also box 210* for oversize material.
Box 39, Folder 1-8
1965-1979
Scope and Content Note
Includes Rotating loudspeakers and Laser concert materials. See also box 210* for oversized material.
Box 40, Folder 1-11
1967-1978
Scope and Content Note
Includes some E.A.T. material. See also box 210* for oversized material.
Box 42, Folder 1-8
1969-early 1970s
Scope and Content Note
See also box 210* for oversized material.
Box 43, Folder 1-6
1970-1984
Scope and Content Note
Includes Laser rock transducer material. See also box 210* for oversized material.
Box 45, Folder 1-9
1973-1988
Scope and Content Note
See also box 210* for oversized material.
Box 46, Folder 1-11
1976-1987
Scope and Content Note
See also box 210* for oversized material.
Box 49, Folder 1-11
1986-1991
Scope and Content Note
Includes Virtual focus and Coefficient material.
Box 50, Folder 1-9
undated
Scope and Content Note
See also box 210* for oversized material.
Oversize Electronics material,
1950-1991
Scope and Content Note
Material pulled from a number of boxes in this series. Note: folders 1-2 in this box relate to Series II.A, above.
Box 210*, Folder 5
Relates to box 37, folder 9
Box 210*, Folder 6
Relates to box 39, folder 4
Box 210*, Folder 7
Relates to box 40, folder 6
Box 210*, Folder 8
Relates to box 42, folder 5
Box 210*, Folder 9
Relates to box 43, folders 1, 3, 6
Box 210*, Folder 10
Relates to box 45, folders 3-4
Box 210*, Folder 11
Relates to box 46, folder 9
Box 210*, Folder 13
Publications
Scope and Content Note
2 Publications (1966/1976).
Series IV.
Correspondence,
1938-1996
Physical Description:
11.0 boxes
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of letters from composers, performers, concert organizers, friends, family and admirers spanning nearly
Tudor's entire life. The letters are organized alphabetically. Many of the composers enclose scores (generally not filed in
this series), and in some cases include extensive performance instructions. Some of the letters concern concert plans and
schedules. Friends send news of themselves, concerts they have seen, and request letters from Tudor, who was notorious for
not answering his mail. Tudor's close friends John Cage and Jacqueline Monnier, and his onetime lover M.C. Richards, write
extensively regarding their personal lives and collaborations with Tudor. (See also Mary Caroline Richards papers, held by
the Getty Research Institute). Young performers and composers ask for advice on their careers. Other correspondents include
George Brecht, Sylvano Bussotti, Pierre Boulez, Earle Brown, Cornelius Cardew, Lowell Cross, Morton Feldman, Albert M. Fine,
William H. Hawke, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Maurizio Kagel, Bo Nilsson, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Jean
Rigg, Karlheinz Stockhausen (see also copies of Tudor letters to Stockhausen in the repository, Accession no. 2001.M.26),
Bill Viola, Christian Wolff, Stefan and Irma Wolpe, and La Monte Young.
Arrangement
This series is arranged alphabetically with unidentified and miscellaneous at the end.
Box 51, Folder 1
Adams, John D.S.,
1994-1996
Scope and Content Note
2 faxes.
Box 51, Folder 1
Amirkhanian, Charles,
1967-1968, undated
Scope and Content Note
Letter and 2 greeting cards.
Box 51, Folder 2
Andersen, Eric,
1984
Scope and Content Note
A letter enclosing the following: Exophylia Katalog,
The untactics of music, and other works, circa 25 items.
Box 51, Folder 1
Anderson, Beth,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard.
Box 51, Folder 1
Ashley, Mary (wife of Robert),
circa 1974, undated
Scope and Content Note
1 postcards and 1 letter
Box 51, Folder 1
Alexander, Leni,
1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
2 letters.
Box 51, Folder 1
Amey, Frank and Libby,
1959, undated
Scope and Content Note
7 letters regarding potential concerts in Venice and personal matters, and an invitation.
Box 51, Folder 3
ASCAP,
1982-1985, 1993
Scope and Content Note
Mostly letters and forms regarding awards and requests for title confirmation to give proper credit, circa 40 items (see also
financial correspondence from the 1980s-1990s for more).
Box 51, Folder 4
Austin, Larry,
1967-1981, 1990-1994
Scope and Content Note
Letters regarding publishing of Ichiyanagi's
Appearance in
Source, concert dates and invitations to perform; announcements; and permision requests to publish recordings, 17 items.
Box 51, Folder 5
Bach, Michael,
1993
Scope and Content Note
Letter regarding performance of "One" and "Ryoanji" at Donaueschinger Musiktage with artist's design of string installation
and two photos.
Box 51, Folder 5
Ballif, Claude,
1961-1962
Scope and Content Note
2 letters.
Box 51, Folder 5
Bartlett, Martin,
1977, undated
Scope and Content Note
4 letters regarding his scholastic activities, electronics and a potential performance for Tudor in Vancouver.
Box 51, Folder 5
Bartosik, Kimberly (dancer),
1988, 1993-1995, undated
Scope and Content Note
4 postcards, 4 greeting cards, 1 note written on an article and 1 letter regarding personal matters, and Cunningham Dance
Company tours and performances of
Ocean (music by Tudor).
Box 51, Folder 5
Bauermeister, Mary,
1960
Scope and Content Note
Letter describing performances at her studio.
Box 51, Folder 6
Barraqué, Jean,
1956-1957
Scope and Content Note
9 letters regard recording his sonata for Vega.
Box 51, Folder 7
Behrendsen, Peter,
1987-1994, undated
Scope and Content Note
3 letters and 2 notes on photocopied texts.
Box 51, Folder 7
Behrman, David,
1959, 1974, undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, note, card and forwarded letter from Behrman to Allen Sapp.
Box 51, Folder 7
Bekaert, Jacques,
1987, 1992, undated
Scope and Content Note
1 postcard and 2 greeting cards.
Box 51, Folder 7
Bergé, Carol,
circa 1965
Scope and Content Note
Letter regarding leasing his place.
Box 51, Folder 7
Berio, Luciano,
1959
Scope and Content Note
9 letters, one of which is typed on a program, and 1 postcard mostly regarding concert dates in Italy, 1956-1957, undated.
The folder also includes drafts of letters from Tudor to Berio, Luigi Nono and Hermann Scherchen on one sheet, and two letters
from Cathy Berio regarding Berio's health and the cancellation of a concert.
Box 51, Folder 7
Biel, Michael von,
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 51, Folder 7
Birmann de Relles, Dominique (of Radiojänst),
1956, undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters regarding Tudor's performance in Stockholm, 3 greeting cards, and a list of contact numbers and rehearsal times.
Box 51, Folder 7
Bischoff, John,
1996-1997
Scope and Content Note
Letter and note with diskette.
Box 51, Folder 8
Borden, David,
1970
Scope and Content Note
Letter regarding Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company performing
Rainforest.
Box 51, Folder 8
Boucourechiev, André,
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 letter sending a score.
Box 51, Folder 8
Brakhage, Stan,
1962
Scope and Content Note
Film collage.
Box 51, Folder 8
Brecht, George,
1961-1963
Scope and Content Note
4 letters sending works and asking Tudor what he would play at the Yam Festival, 1 announcement and 1 postcard.
Box 51, Folder 8
Brown, Jean,
1984
Scope and Content Note
1 letter regards acquisition of his archive and programs.
Box 51, Folder 8
Burchfield, Ritty,
1971-1976, undated
Scope and Content Note
4 postcards, 4 letters, 2 letters to Burchfield (copies), note from Burchfield's brother regarding personal matters with descriptions
of her work and of Bill Viola who just visited her.
Box 51, Folder 8
Bussotti, Sylvano,
1959-1967, undated
Scope and Content Note
6 letters and 1 postcard regarding concert dates and progress of works he is sending.
Box 51, Folder 9
Boulez, Pierre,
1950-1960, undated
Scope and Content Note
10 letters which include many requests by Boulez for a response about Tudor's participation in a Paris concert. Also 5 sheets
of a letter from Boulez to Cage (December 1950) copied by Tudor and 25 sheets of a letter from Boulez to Cage (undated, circa
December 1951, see Box 211*, folder 1), both of which were published in The Boulez-Cage Correspondence (edited by Jean-Jacques
Nattiez, Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Box 51, Folder 10
Brown, Earle,
1952-1957
Scope and Content Note
3 postcards and 2 letters, which include a response to Tudor's statement that
4 more is impossible to play and regarding Tudor quotes in Peyser's book on Boulez.
Box 52, Folder 1
Brush, Leif,
1974-1982, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3 letters, photocopied descriptions of his work, a photocopied Christmas letter, photograph of an event and curriculum
vitae, circa 25 items.
Box 52, Folder 2
Cardew, Cornelius,
undated
Scope and Content Note
8 letters and 1 Christmas card requesting Tudor to play Cardew's pieces, to send Cardew scores of other composers' work, and
describing performances in which he participated.
Box 52, Folder 2
Cerha, Friedrich,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 52, Folder 2
Chadabe, Joel,
1970-1981, 1993-1996
Scope and Content Note
5 letters, one of which encloses a technical report and photo of the SUNY studio, and other with excerpts from an interview
with Tudor.
Box 52, Folder 2
Chandralekha,
1971, 1994, undated
Scope and Content Note
3 letters and 1 poem.
Box 52, Folder 2
Charlip, Remy,
circa 1969, undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter and 1 postcard.
Box 52, Folder 2
Chiari, Giuseppe,
1963
Scope and Content Note
1 note with a program.
Box 52, Folder 3
Cage, John,
1950s-1989, undated
Scope and Content Note
A rich collection of letters written by Cage mostly in the 1950s and 1960s. Includes remarkable descriptions of his work (especially
Music of changes), personal life, interactions with other composers (especially Morton Feldman), concert dates and logistics, and performances
he attended. Also includes a carbon copy of a 4 page-letter to the editor of
Musical America regarding a letter Skulsky wrote on Cage's letter about Satie, a mesostic on the name James Joyce for those who helped with
Roaratorio,
25 mesostics re and not re Mark Tobey and 3 letters from Cage (Crete) to Tudor, circa 60 items.
Box 52, Folder 4
Clarkson, Austin,
1980-1982, undated
Scope and Content Note
4 letters, 1 greeting card, photocopy of Wolpe's
Seven pieces for three pianos, and a catalog of Wolpe's published works.
Box 52, Folder 5
Cohen, Gabby,
1990-1991, undated
Scope and Content Note
11 personal letters and cards.
Box 52, Folder 5
Collins, Nicolas,
circa 1976, 1983
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, bio and Tudor draft of a recommendation letter.
Box 52, Folder 5
Corner, Philip,
1958, undated
Scope and Content Note
Note and 2 letters.
Box 52, Folder 5
Cunningham, Merce (and Dance Company),
1961, undated
Scope and Content Note
4 letters and a card from Cunningham mostly regarding tour logistics, and 3 postcards, 1 greeting card and 2 faxes signed
communally by the company, undated.
Box 52, Folder 5
Curran, Alvin,
1979
Scope and Content Note
Letter.
Box 52, Folder 5A
Composer in Performance,
1970 February
Scope and Content Note
Letter asking Tudor to apply for a grant, with brochure of past grantees.
Box 52, Folder 6
Cowell, Henry,
1953-1963
Scope and Content Note
1 note, 1 postcard and 2 letters.
For correspondence with Sidney Cowell regarding Tudor editing her husband's scores, see Series II, Projects.
Box 52, Folder 7
Cross, Lowell,
1964-1989, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters regarding personal matters, finding a position, Tudor's bio for publication and logistics for Laser Concert;
and 5 pages ts. "Audio/Video/Laser" for
Source, circa 30 items.
Box 53, Folder 1
Davies, Hugh,
1982, undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, one of which regards
Rainforest.
Box 53, Folder 1
Delaplaine family,
circa 1952
Scope and Content Note
3 letters from different family members.
Box 53, Folder 1
Dehner, Dorothy,
1957
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 53, Folder 2
Deighton, Hilda,
1960-1968, undated
Scope and Content Note
11 letters all pertaining to concerts by Tudor and to the Anthroposophical Society.
Box 53, Folder 3
Dienes, Sari,
1969, 1975, undated
Scope and Content Note
Handmade Christmas card, letter regarding her will, and bio.
Box 53, Folder 3
Dorn, Ken,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Fan letter.
Box 53, Folder 3
Duncan, Robert,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Handmade Christmas card.
Box 53, Folder 4
Driscoll, John,
1975-1991, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes a letter regarding contacts for Tudor installations, 2 photocopied letters written to others regarding
Rainforest at LACMA and Composers Inside Electronics, 2 photocopied letters from Lawrence Morton sent to Driscoll aboutevent at LACMA
with a mushroom theme, announcement, bio and postcard from his wife Lynwa, circa 15 items.
Box 53, Folder 5
Eimert, Herbert,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Postcard.
Box 53, Folder 5
Espinosa, Pedro (pianist),
1958-circa 1960
Scope and Content Note
2 letters asking for recommendations to enter music school and a Christmas card.
Box 53, Folder 6
Ferrell-Hero, Barbara (painter),
1970
Scope and Content Note
Letter sending work and announcement.
Box 53, Folder 6
Finck, Mildred,
1965-1966
Scope and Content Note
2 letters in which she describes her scores, her exhibits, her interest in Tudor's electronics.
Box 53, Folder 6
Flynt, Henry,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Postcard regarding his theory.
Box 53, Folder 6
Fontana, Bill,
1982, undated
Scope and Content Note
Letter about Tudor's possible interest in his new work, "Standing wave sculpture with mobile loudspeakers" and his meeting
with Viola, program and memo.
Box 53, Folder 6
Foss, Lucas,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Letter inviting Tudor to participate in Ojai Festival.
Box 53, Folder 6
Freeman, Betty,
1986-1987
Scope and Content Note
3 letters regard address for Gerd Stein and Tudor's participation in her monthly salon.
Box 53, Folder 6
Frehling, Russell,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Invitation to participate in Meet the Composer.
Box 53, Folder 7
Feldman, Morton,
1953, 1965-1966, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes 5 letters regarding Tudor's importance to Feldman's music, asking Tudor to help him get lecture gigs at Mills and
asking advice concerning his jobless situation. One of the letters has a notation (a correction?).
Box 53, Folder 8
Fetterman, William,
1986-1993
Scope and Content Note
Thick folder with letters enclosing texts and his dissertation (published as
John Cage's theatre pieces, and also regarding the interview he did with Tudor, interpreting Cage's symbols for
Music walk and permissions.
Box 53, Folder 9
Fine, Albert,
1965-1975, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes 22 postcards with drawings and stamps, an announcement, 4 letters regard money, how to obtain a copy of Busoni concerto
and sending work, with 3 pages of text "A John Cage story about lampshades for David Tudor."
Box 53, Folder 10
Fisher, Linda,
1974-1980, 1990, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes 14 letters and 1 postcard regard her work (especially "Median Strip," personal matters and possible performances
of
Rainforest; letter from the Guggenheim foundation requesting a recommendation.
Box 54, Folder 1
Garland, Peter (Soundings),
1980
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 54, Folder 1
Gazzelloni, Severino,
1956
Scope and Content Note
2 letters regard playing Boulez together.
Box 54, Folder 1
Gibson, Elizabeth Jane,
1944
Scope and Content Note
1 letter breaking their friendship because of conflicting philosophies and a draft of Tudor's long response.
Box 54, Folder 1
Ginsberg, Allen,
1993
Scope and Content Note
1 letter enclosing a presentation on
4' 33".
Box 54, Folder 1
Gradstein, Léonie (Polish composer),
1958-1959, undated
Scope and Content Note
3 letters and 2 postcards with pleasantries from Poland.
Box 54, Folder 1
Gromada, John (composer),
1987
Scope and Content Note
1 letter describing his career and asking advice.
Box 54, Folder 1
Guthrie, Hammond,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Electron Arabic.
Box 54, Folder 1
Guzzetta, James (accordianist),
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter asking for
Bandoneon! score.
Box 54, Folder 2
Haase, Erika (pianist who took lessons from Tudor),
1959-1960
Scope and Content Note
2 letters and Christmas wishes.
Box 54, Folder 2
Hahn, Gladys,
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 letters regard a concert program.
Box 54, Folder 2
Harmonic, Phil,
1970s
Scope and Content Note
Mail art postcard.
Box 54, Folder 2
Harrison, Lou,
1965
Scope and Content Note
Thank you note.
Box 54, Folder 2
Hauer, Anne (Tudor's personal assistant),
1994-1995
Scope and Content Note
6 postcards and 1 letter regard personal and vein research.
Box 54, Folder 2
Hay, Deborah,
1996
Scope and Content Note
1 letter asking for a contribution to her book
my body, the buddhist.
Box 54, Folder 2
Helms, Hans G.,
1958, 1972
Scope and Content Note
2 letters regard a film and a recording.
Box 54, Folder 3
Hawke, H. William (Tudor's teacher),
1938-1963, undated
Scope and Content Note
21 letters mostly written during summer vacation regarding organ performances he has been to, his own performances, descriptions
of organs he has seen, and personal matters such as his mail which Tudor sends to him while away. Also 4 postcards, telegram,
2 programs, photo of Hawke and a letter from Hawke's wife with two photos.
Box 54, Folder 4
Higgins, Dick,
1958-1963, 1982
Scope and Content Note
2 letters regard Tudor's biography; information he needs on Nilsson, Hambraeus, and Pousseur, who he has never heard of; tapes
he is sending; the lost score of
Stacked Deck; 1 score on a postcard, and "The tart, or Miss America."
Box 54, Folder 4
Hodeir, André,
1957
Scope and Content Note
5 letters regard the recording and playing of Barraqué and Tudor's eventual decision not to.
Box 54, Folder 4
Houédard, Dom Silvester,
1971
Scope and Content Note
"Poemcard 1."
Box 54, Folder 4
Hughes, David,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Letter enclosing 13 photos of installation by Tudor and Monnier.
Box 54, Folder 4
Hunt, Jerry,
1987, undated
Scope and Content Note
5 letters regard studying with Tudor; compositions he sent; playing with Cunningham; and Guggenheim grant proposal.
Box 54, Folder 5
Hildalgo, Juan and Walter,
1960-1966
Scope and Content Note
Letters regard concert dates; postcards, handwritten poems, announcement and concrete poetry card; 18 items.
Box 54, Folder 6
Jacobs, George,
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter enclosing a Bussotti work.
Box 54, Folder 6
Jenks, Alden (composer),
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 letter asking Tudor if he could perform with Jenks' students.
Box 54, Folder 6
Jansen, Pierre (composer),
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 letter.
Box 54, Folder 6
Jess (artist),
undated
Scope and Content Note
1 letter about his opening and illustrations for
A book of resemblances, and poster.
Box 54, Folder 6
Johnson, Ray,
1965, undated
Scope and Content Note
Announcement and collage.
Box 54, Folder 6
Jones, Ralph,
1980
Scope and Content Note
3 letters regard
Rainforest performances; his progress in ultrasonics and equipment building; and 1 postcard with a photo of a sculpture he made for
Rainforest.
Box 54, Folder 6
Joshipura, Jinraj (Indian student),
1971, 1974
Scope and Content Note
4 letters.
Box 54, Folder 7
Ichiyanagi, Toshi,
1961-1967, undated
Scope and Content Note
13 letters, 4 of which are addressed to Cage, regard reception of avant-garde music in Japan; answers to Tudor's question
on how to play his duet; dates and logistics for Japanese performances; request to record some of Tudor's performances; and
a business card.
Box 54, Folder 8
Jepson, Warner,
1963-1967, 1993-1994, undated
Scope and Content Note
11 letters regard personal matters; 1 card with two computer graphic images of Cage and Tudor; 2 cards with photos.
Box 55, Folder 1
Kasemets, Udo,
1965-1967
Scope and Content Note
2 letters and a telegram regard Tudor performing in Toronto, and a bio.
Box 55, Folder 1
Kerr, Cathy and Joshua Ginsberg,
1988-1994, undated
Scope and Content Note
2 postcards, 3 letters and 2 invitations, all personal.
Box 55, Folder 2
Kagel, Maurizio,
1959-1975
Scope and Content Note
Mostly letters about concert dates, touring together, instructions for scores, his impressions of hearing Tudor play one of
this pieces, performance of
Transicion II at the Venice Biennale and performance of
Pandorasbox. Also includes an ink drawing; 23 items.
Box 55, Folder 3
Kalve, Martin,
1977-1985, 1995, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes 2 Christmas cards, 1 handmade card, 3 letters, and 3 photos.
Box 55, Folder 4
Klosty, Jim,
1971, undated
Scope and Content Note
Letter asking for Tudor notes to include in a book and a note written on a photocopied realization asking for information.
Box 55, Folder 4
Klucevsek, Guy,
1972-1973
Scope and Content Note
2 letters regard copy of Kagel's
Pandorasbox.
Box 55, Folder 4
Klüver, Billy,
1987, 1994, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes photocopy of a letter send to Bob (Rauschenberg?) about Laser Concert at Xenon and birthday and Christmas greetings;
6 items.
Box 55, Folder 4
Kobayashi, Kenji,
1961-1968, undated
Scope and Content Note
4 letters regard performing together, asking for advice on programs and how to play one of Cage's works, with a wedding invitation.
Box 55, Folder 4
Koike, Ryo and Hiroko,
1972
Scope and Content Note
One mstake, no. 3/150, Beau Geste Press.
Box 55, Folder 4
Køpcke, Arthur,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Collage "Fill with own imagination."
Box 55, Folder 4
Kostelanetz, Richard,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Postcard.
Box 55, Folder 4
Kosugi, Takehisa,
1972, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Postcard and fax regard performing
Ocean.
Box 55, Folder 5
Kotik, Petr (S.E.M. Ensemble),
1971-1972, 1990-1994
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters regarding concert dates, organization of Stafford's-in-the-field (Chocorua,
1972) with a copy of Mumma's lesson plan and copies of letters from Mumma and Ben Patterson, and an essay titled "A visit with
David Tudor" by Kotik, circa 20 items.
Box 55, Folder 6
Krauze, Zygmunt,
1965
Scope and Content Note
Letter enclosing music.
Box 55, Folder 6
Krumm, Philip,
1961-1967, undated
Scope and Content Note
3 letters and 1 note enclosing scores, regarding the situation at UC Davis, Stockhausen's effect on him and his current work.
Also 2 programs.
Box 55, Folder 6
Kubota, Shigeko,
1970-1975, undated
Scope and Content Note
Telegram, 2 postcards, letter to Cage regarding poems for her book, announcement, and handmade Christmas card.
Box 55, Folder 6
Kurtz, Michael,
1987-1992
Scope and Content Note
3 letters regarding his interview with Tudor for a Stockhausen biography, 6 photos.
Box 55, Folder 7
Kremen, Irwin,
1957-1995, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters regarding publishing his copy of
4'33" in
Source with description of layout; catalog of his works, postcard and 2 handmade greeting cards; 14 items.
Box 55, Folder 8
La Brecque, Rebecca (pianist),
1988
Scope and Content Note
Letter with reviews.
Box 55, Folder 8
Lennon, John,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Note sending Yoko's love.
Box 55, Folder 8
Leroi, Vera,
1960-1963
Scope and Content Note
3 letters regard concert dates, 1 postcard.
Box 55, Folder 8
Lewin Richter, Andrés (Spanish electronic music composer),
1962-1963
Scope and Content Note
2 letters.
Box 55, Folder 8
Litz, Katherine,
1960-1982
Scope and Content Note
3 letters regard performing together; 1 form letter from the Katy Litz Dance Foundation.
Box 55, Folder 9
Lerman, Richard,
1982-1993, undated
Scope and Content Note
Postcard, 2 letters enclosing scores, cassette tape (cold storage), cv, reviews and New Year's card.
Box 55, Folder 10
Loarie, Philip,
1985-1986
Scope and Content Note
Handmade card with letter written inside and a slide, Christmas form letter and a handmade Christmas card.
Box 55, Folder 10
Lockwood, Anna,
1974, 1995
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, one of which is written on an announcement, and a postcard.
Box 55, Folder 10
Lohmeyer, Paul and Martha,
1984, 1994-1996, undated
Scope and Content Note
Christmas form letters, Christmas cards and a letter, 8 items.
Box 55, Folder 10
Lowry, Bob (clarinetist),
1959
Scope and Content Note
Letter asking Tudor to accompany him on a recording.
Box 55, Folder 10
Lucier, Alvin,
1963-1967
Scope and Content Note
3 letters, two of which enclose a score and describe "Organ Music for David Tudor," and a postcard.
Box 55, Folder 10
Lunetta, Stanley,
1967, 1977, undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters asking for advice on electronics and a subscription form from
Source with a note.
Box 56, Folder 1
MacDermott, David,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Letter and "A proposal for a drawing machine."
Box 56, Folder 1
Mac Low, Jackson,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Letter presenting
A piece for Sari Dienes and a number of
Asymmetries; (see Series I).
Box 56, Folder 1
Maderna, Bruno,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Letter regarding performance of his
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra at Darmstadt.
Box 56, Folder 1
Madge, Geoffrey Douglas (pianist),
1978
Scope and Content Note
Letter asking for information regarding
Music of changes, which he is going to record.
Box 56, Folder 1
Maneri, Joseph,
1960
Scope and Content Note
Letter enclosing scores.
Box 56, Folder 1
Mangaldas, Anjali and Kamal,
1964-1967, undated
Scope and Content Note
Mostly holiday greetings, 5 items.
Box 56, Folder 1
Martin, Anthony,
1971, 1982, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Postcard, letter and draft of a letter from Tudor recommending Martin.
Box 56, Folder 1
Martin, Julie,
1972, 1983, 1996, undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, 2 invitations and a Valentine's Day fax.
Box 56, Folder 1
Marx, Josef (of McGinnis & Marx),
1959, 1965-1966
Scope and Content Note
3 letters regarding performing together, borrowing a score, thank you for pieces sent, and a form letter.
Box 56, Folder 2
Maxfield, Richard,
1961-1969, undated
Scope and Content Note
Invitation to a "musicale-party," 3 letters, one sent by Composers Forum asking Tudor to perform his works, and a New Year's
card.
Box 56, Folder 2
Maurer, Elfriede,
1960 August 30
Scope and Content Note
1 letter, 2 pp.
Box 56, Folder 2
Mayor, Geeta,
1960-1962, undated
Scope and Content Note
3 letters regarding performing in India and personal matters and 2 Christmas cards.
Box 56, Folder 2
Mee, Charles,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Note asking Tudor to have a friend compose music for the accompanying "I've got a pain in my sawdust."
Box 56, Folder 2
Mestres i Quadreny, Josep,
1961-1968
Scope and Content Note
Letter sending a score and 2 notes, one of which contains instructions for
Three canonos in homage to Galileus.
Box 56, Folder 2
Metzger, Heinz-Klaus,
1960
Scope and Content Note
Letter about concert dates.
Box 56, Folder 2
Meyer-Denkmann, Gertrud (student in Darmstadt),
1960-1967, 1992
Scope and Content Note
9 letters and 1 postcard asking advice on the type of music she should play and for a book she is writing on pedagogy and
new music, and questions on how to play
Variations.
Box 56, Folder 3
Mizelle, Dary John,
1969, 1975, undated
Scope and Content Note
Letter, postcard, and birth announcement.
Box 56, Folder 3
Monahan, Gordon,
1993
Scope and Content Note
Letter and brochure of his sound sculptures.
Box 56, Folder 3
Moore, Frank L.,
1958
Scope and Content Note
Letter.
Box 56, Folder 3
Moran, Robert Leonard,
1961-1963
Scope and Content Note
2 letters asking advice and enclosing a work.
Box 56, Folder 3
Müller, Ursula (?),
1960
Scope and Content Note
Letter about their conversation with Kagel.
Box 56, Folder 4
Miller, Robert (Merce Cunningham Dance Co. sound engineer),
1989-1994, undated
Scope and Content Note
12 letters and cards mostly regard personal matters, but also some on the recording of
Rainforest, and 5 photos.
Monnier, Jacqueline,
1973-1995, undated
Box 56, Folder 5-9
1973-1995
Scope and Content Note
Substantial quantity of letters from Tudor's very dear friend and colleague regard personal matters (especially her garden,
cooking, trips taken together and Teeny Duchamp), kites for "Island Eye, Island Ear,"
Sea tails, music for her video, exhibitions of her work,
9 lines, reflected, and bottles for Niki de Saint-Phalle. Also includes a collage, artists' book
9 kite tails and 29 photos, ca. .33 linear ft. (see next box for more).
Box 57, Folder 2
Moorman, Charlotte,
1963-1980, undated
Scope and Content Note
Thick folder with letters regarding the first Avant-Garde Festival; playing Cage's "Piece for string player;" performing together;
her other performance work; and announcements for the Avant-Garde Festival.
Box 57, Folder 3
Mumma, Gordon,
1965-1975, 1995, undated
Scope and Content Note
15 letters regard electronic equipment,
Mesa, programming for Merce Cunningham Dance Co. and
Commodius means; 2 postcards; typescript titled "Electronic music for the Merce Cunningham Dance Co;" and 2 pages of equipment notes (1 page
missing).
Box 57, Folder 4
Nemiroff, Joy (sister), Cathy (niece) and Isaac (composer and brother-in-law),
circa 1948-1980, undated
Scope and Content Note
9 personal letters and cards mostly from Joy and 3 drafts from Tudor.
Box 57, Folder 4
Nono, Luigi,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
2 postcards and 1 letter about Venice Biennale concert.
Box 57, Folder 4
O'Brien, Kathleen,
1982-1983, undated
Scope and Content Note
2 letters and 2 postcards with drawings.
Box 57, Folder 4
Otte, Hans,
1958-1961, 1973
Scope and Content Note
8 letters arranging concerts and sending score for
Tropisman.
Box 57, Folder 5
Nakaya, Fujiko,
1973-1986, 1994
Scope and Content Note
8 letters and postcards regard personal and various projects, 6 photos taken by Kira Perov of fog scuplture she did with Viola,
set of postcards of same fog sculpture and 2 photos of Tudor.
Box 57, Folder 6
Nee, Thomas,
1979, 1990-1995, undated
Scope and Content Note
Latitudes, no. 1 with printed Christmas card, 2 other homemade Christmas cards and 2 letters regarding concerts at the new Hampshire
Music Festival.
Box 57, Folder 7
Nilsson, Bo,
1956-1958, undated
Scope and Content Note
8 letters regard his work and potential concerts; also 6 unsent postcards written by Nilsson to others with his text crossed
out.
Box 57, Folder 8
Oliveros, Pauline,
1963-1994, undated
Scope and Content Note
37 items, mostly letters, regard her scores and performance work, concert dates, how they should perform together, and a description
of "In memorium Elena Moneak-Snite." Also includes a pencil drawing of feet (1 sheet, verso and recto).
Box 57, Folder 9
Ono, Yoko,
1962-1971, undated
Scope and Content Note
5 page-letter defending Toshi Ichiyanagi with respect to a cancelled concert tour in Japan (1962); "Selfportrait" (envelope
with mirror); "Part painting series #5," no. 9874; sales list; New Year's card; "Draw Circle;" invitation to participate in
This is Not Here; and
Grapefruit announcements.
Box 57, Folder 10
Page, Frederick (piano student of Tudor's),
1960
Scope and Content Note
Letter.
Box 57, Folder 10
Pablo, Luis de,
1962
Scope and Content Note
Letter sending part of a score.
Box 57, Folder 10
Patterson, Ben,
1960
Scope and Content Note
Letter sending a score.
Box 57, Folder 10
Pellizzi, Francesco (collector and writer),
1968
Scope and Content Note
2 postcards.
Box 57, Folder 10
Pesic, Peter D.,
1963
Scope and Content Note
Letter asking how to play Cage's
Music of changes, Boulez's
Deuxieme sonate and Bussotti's
Five piano pieces for David Tudor.
Box 57, Folder 10
Pesle, Benedicte,
1959-1964, circa 1992, undated
Scope and Content Note
4 letters, mostly regarding personal matters.
Box 57, Folder 10
Phillips, Ardison,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Letter mostly about E.A.T. and a Guggenheim proposal.
Box 57, Folder 10
Pimenta, Emanuel Dimas de Melo (composer),
1990-1996
Scope and Content Note
Long fax written to Cage about his work and 3 photographs sent as New Year's cards.
Box 57, Folder 10
Puglisse, Michael,
1988-1992
Scope and Content Note
3 postcards and a letter.
Box 57, Folder 11
Paik, Nam June,
1964-1970
Scope and Content Note
Handmade Christmas card, "Robot Opera," Easter greeting, 3 postcards, letter asking Tudor to give Kosugi money and telegram
requesting Tudor to send a letter supporting Moorman/Paik performances.
Box 57, Folder 12
Pedersen, Knud,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Form letter asking for submissions to a radio programm, "World Line" by William Vazan, 9 sheets of concrete poetry, 8 project
posters by Pedersen and others.
Box 57, Folder 13
Plantamura, Carol (singer),
1966-1970, undated
Scope and Content Note
12 letters, postcards and cards regard her concerts and personal.
Box 58, Folder 1
Poole, Peter and Carla,
1971-1972, undated
Scope and Content Note
12 letters and postcards about travel and finding employment.
Box 58, Folder 2
Pousseur, Henri,
1954-1961, undated
Scope and Content Note
10 letters, 1 card and draft of a letter from Tudor about concert programs and dates, sending works,
Variations II,
Impromptu and corrections for
Variations I.
Box 58, Folder 3
Rainier, Priaulx (composer),
1956-1958, 1972
Scope and Content Note
4 letters sending keyboard pieces and where they have been played, why he likes Cage's music.
Box 58, Folder 3
Rampazzi, Teresa (pianist and Darmstadt student),
1956-1963, undated
Scope and Content Note
5 letters and 3 postcards mostly regarding her playing.
Box 58, Folder 3
Rauschenberg, Robert,
1978
Scope and Content Note
Postcard and lid from a mailed box containing something perishable.
Box 58, Folder 3
Reis, Becky and Bernard,
circa 1958
Scope and Content Note
Christmas card.
Box 58, Folder 3
Riehn, Rainer,
1971, undated
Scope and Content Note
Letter regards concert of Ichiyanagi's music enclosing list of questions about three of his pieces.
Box 58, Folder 3
Riley, Terry,
1961-1967
Scope and Content Note
3 letters regard
Envelope with a long description of it, performing
Concert for 2 pianists and a reference letter, and 1 invitation.
Box 58, Folder 4
Rascher, Sigurd M. (saxophonist),
1953-1978, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters regarding tours and performances and a draft of a letter to Rascher's wife, 12 items.
Box 58, Folder 5-10
Richards, Mary Caroline,
1951-1996, undated
Scope and Content Note
Personal and intimate correspondence from Tudor's friend and lover. The letters begin with an invitation to perform at Black
Mountain College, where they quickly developed a personal relationship, and later, detail her personal and professional life
while Tudor was on tour. There is much about domestic matters (e.g., gardening, their cats); news of friends, family and events;
and her pottery. Poems are scattered throughout, including a 7-page typescript "Recovery of the child in manhood" (1960),
and poems in issues of
Penn State papers in art education,
The Cresset and
Inward light. Also included is a monograph on her pottery, titled
Toward M.C. and a copy of her translation of Satie's
The ruse of Medusa: Lyric comedy in one act, circa .25 linear ft.
Box 58, Folder 11
Rigg, Jean (with Merce Cunningham Dance Co.),
1968-1975, 1991-1994, undated
Scope and Content Note
Mostly letters about performance schedules, logistics, Dance Co. gossip and personal matters. Also includes mention of
Rainforest productions and Cage proposal for a book on Tudor, circa 50 items.
Box 59, Folder 1
Rosselli, Amelia,
1960-1969, undated
Scope and Content Note
7 letters and 2 postcards regard her health, publication of her poetry, Darmstadt and her music.
Box 59, Folder 1
Rzewski, Frederic,
1969-1979
Scope and Content Note
2 letters, 3 postcards and description of the MEV Group of Rome.
Box 59, Folder 2
Scherchen, Hermann,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
2 letters and 1 postcard regard meeting each other.
Box 59, Folder 2
Schonberg, Harold,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Thank you note.
Box 59, Folder 2
Schwertsik, Kurt,
1967, undated
Scope and Content Note
Birth announcement, postcard and note with sequence from
Duet 2, which Wolff asked Schwertsik to send Tudor to show him the sources of the horn part.
Box 59, Folder 3
Sarabhai, Manorama,
1959-1975, undated
Scope and Content Note
Letters and postcards regard personal matters and 6 photographs of Tudor, circa 40 items.
Box 59, Folder 4
Schonfield, Victor,
1970-1972, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Letter about concert dates; letter with annotated interview by Schonfield; issue of
Music and musicians (Aug. 1972), which published the interview; program notes, schedules and bio for a concert; photocopied article; and Christmas
card.
Box 59, Folder 5
Smith, Barbara,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Letter regards a possible collaboration.
Box 59, Folder 5
Snyder, Ellsworth (Newcomb College, Tulane),
1963-1966, undated
Scope and Content Note
3 letters and a program.
Box 59, Folder 5
Sociedad Uruguaya de Musica Contemporanea,
1968-1970
Scope and Content Note
Letter, enclosing 10 programs, 1968-1969.
Box 59, Folder 5
Sottsass, Ettore,
undated
Scope and Content Note
3 cards.
Box 59, Folder 5
Stevenson, Louis A.,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Letter about his new Intersonor studio.
Box 59, Folder 5
Sutcliffe, Alan,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Letter enclosing a score.
Box 59, Folder 6-7
Stockhausen, Karlheinz,
1954-1965, undated
Scope and Content Note
Very affectionate letters relating to Stockhausen compositions, European concerts and recordings, Darmstadt teaching posts
and tours that Stockhausen made with Tudor of South America and the United States. Among the highlights are the letter of
January 16, 1955, in which Stockhausen says that his thinking has changed since meeting Cage and Tudor; the letter of March
13, 1955, in which he discusses Klavierstücke III, IV, VI and VIII, including a particularly detailed discussion of compositional
and performance aspects of VI; the letter of May 20, 1956, in which he appears to criticize Tudor's collaboration with Stefan
Wolpe; the letter of March 24, 1957 in which he likens the Darmstadt programming of Klavierstück XI before Boulez' 3rd Sonata
to a bullfight; the postcard of 1957 in which he criticizes the Darmstadt premiere of Klavierstück XI by Paul Jacobs; and
the letter of September 20, 1957 which gives performance instructions and clarifications for Klavierstücke XI, circa 60 items.
Box 59, Folder 8
Tcherepnin, Ivan,
1973-1976, undated
Scope and Content Note
3 letters, 2 of which regard performing
Rainforest at Harvard and 2 cards.
Box 59, Folder 8
Teitelbaum, Richard,
1974, 1995
Scope and Content Note
Letter from and letter to.
Box 59, Folder 8
Tenney, James,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Postcard.
Box 59, Folder 8
Teshigahara, Hiroshi (filmmaker),
undated
Scope and Content Note
2 holiday cards designed by Teshigahara.
Box 59, Folder 8
Titone, Antonino,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Letter regards concert date in Palermo.
Box 59, Folder 8
Tone, Yasunao,
1979, 1992-circa 1995
Scope and Content Note
Announcement, note and postcard.
Box 59, Folder 8
Tudor, Mr. (Tudor's father),
1948
Scope and Content Note
4 letters.
Box 59, Folder 8
Tufty, Barbara,
1979, 1989-1990
Scope and Content Note
Greeting card, 2 letters, and clippings about Cunningham and Cage.
Box 59, Folder 9
Tenten, Niko,
1988-1989, 1994
Scope and Content Note
Includes 5 letters regard his radio projects and photocopies of his artwork.
Box 60, Folder 1
Vigeland, Nils Anton (pianist),
1991
Scope and Content Note
Note about a Cage piece.
Box 60, Folder 2
Viola, Bill,
1973-1994, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters regarding
Rainforest and how it has changed his video work, and about personal matters; with 6 photographs of Viola and his family and an altered
Polaroid, circa 20 items.
Box 60, Folder 3
Waring, James,
1959-1963
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters about concert dates and a letter to an editor extolling Tudor, 10 items.
Box 60, Folder 3
Warthman, Forrest (engineer who helped with
Neural network),
1989-1993
Scope and Content Note
4 letters.
Box 60, Folder 3
Werner, Vibeke,
1995
Scope and Content Note
Letter with issue of
Dansk musik tidskrift (June 1994/95) and
Neue zeitschrift für musik (Sept. 1994), both of which have articles on Tudor.
Box 60, Folder 4
Waldhauer, Fred (E.A.T. founder) and Ruth,
1987-1996, undated
Scope and Content Note
Mostly letters from Ruth regarding personal matters, but also 3 letters from Fred, circa 20 items.
Box 60, Folder 5
Wilding-White, Ray,
1966-1975, undated
Scope and Content Note
9 letters regarding Tudor's contribution to a proposed book, material for an article and equipment setup for a Tudor concert;
a card and a chain letter.
Box 60, Folder 6
Wolff, Christian,
1959-1967, undated
Scope and Content Note
12 letters, 3 of which are addressed to Cage, presenting a score and parts, and sending performance instructions for
Duet I,
For 6 or 7 players,
For magnetic tape and others.
Box 60, Folder 7
Wolpe; Stefan, Irma and Hilda,
1945-1963, 1982, undated
Scope and Content Note
Fond letters regarding Stefan's compositions and performances, personal matters and other piano students. Scattered throughout,
the Wolpes provide encouragement and praise concerning Tudor's burgeoning career. Also includes a small photo album, circa
50 items.
Box 61, Folder 1
Zaccagnini, Guido,
1981-1987, 1996, undated
Scope and Content Note
3 letters, 5 postcards and 3 cards offering news of Italian friends.
Box 61, Folder 2
Young, La Monte,
1960-1969, 1989, undated
Scope and Content Note
12 letters presenting different compositions, making corrections to pieces, giving performance instructions and suggestions,
and describing past performances of the pieces. Also includes 2 versions of his curriculum vitae, project description for
a grant proposal (circa 1963), Guggenheim grant proposal (1969) and an announcement.
Box 61, Folder 3
Group postcards,
1957-1967, undated
Scope and Content Note
5 postcards signed by multiple composers and/or performers: Stockhausen, Wolpe, Nilsson, Bussotti, Boulez, Cardew, Kotik,
Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann, Schwertsik, Carolee Schneemann, Monnier, Moorman and others.
Box 61, Folder 4
Tudor drafts to unidentified correspondents,
circa 1950-1969
Scope and Content Note
18 drafts, probably from the 1950s and 1960s, regarding tours and personal matters. One 4 pp. draft describes his transition
from organist to pianist. One has been identified as a draft of Tudor's letter of 18 May 1959 to Stockhausen. One ms. is about
the Barraqué Sonata for piano. "Mr. B." appears to be Barraqué. "Mr. H." may be André Hodeir.
Box 61, Folder 5
Unidentified,
undated
Scope and Content Note
circa .33 linear ft.
Miscellaneous oversize
Scope and Content Note
Oversize materials relating to Correspondence (folder 1), and Ephemera (folder 2)
Box 211*, Folder 1
Boulez correspondence to Cage relates to Series IV
Scope and Content Note
From box 51, folder 9.
Series V.
Articles and reviews,
1937-1995, undated
Physical Description:
9.0 boxes
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, with some full journal issues and typescripts (7 linear ft., 9 boxes),
and pertains to performances given by Tudor, Cage and Cunningham, arranged chronologically. There are also general articles
on music, interviews, a 1941 translation of Luigi Russolo's
The art of noise and typescripts of Cage's "4 musicians at work" (1952) and his "Changes" lecture at Darmstadt (1958). Also contains two boxes
of articles unrelated to music.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged chronologically.
Music related,
1941-1995, undated
Non-music,
1942-1995, undated
Oversize articles and reviews,
1937, 1952-1992
Box 212*, Folder 1-8
Music related articles and reviews,
1937, 1952-1992
Box 212*, Folder 9
Non-music articles, clippings,
1951-1964
Series VI.
Ephemera,
1920s-1996, undated
Physical Description:
29.0 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Printed ephemera includes a substantial quantity of concert programs, music catalogs, newsletters, announcements, press releases
and images of organs and cathedrals.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in two subseries: Series VI.A. Programs and announcements; Series VI. B. Other ephemera.
Series VI.A.
Programs and announcements,
1938-1996, undated
Physical Description:
17.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
Series contains a nearly complete set of programs for all of Tudor's performances, including his organ and piano work, his
electronic compositions, and Cunningham dance performances, arranged chronologically. Also included are programs and announcements
for other composers, performers (music, dance, performance art, happenings, and fluxus) and visual artists.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged chronologically.
David Tudor,
1938-1996, undated
Box 81, Folder 1-15
1989-1996, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes two folders of typed and handwritten program notes and biographies (see also Box 211* for a handwritten Cage program
note).
Others' performances and events,
1938-1996, undated
Box 211*, Folder 2
Cage program notes, relates to Series VI.A.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten on reverse of program poster.
Series VI.B.
Other ephemera,
1920s-1995
Physical Description:
12.0 box(es)
Scope and Content Note
This subseries consists of sheet music catalogs; book catalogs relating to Tudor's personal interests (e.g., botany and the
East); music ephemera in the form of newsletters, press releases, concert announcements; art ephemera including exhibition
announcements, Yam festival announcement, Something Else newsletters, press releases and a small Robert Rauschenberg print;
and pictures of organs and cathedrals with a scrapbook and notes.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged chronologically.
Music catalogs,
1920s-1990s, undated
Miscellaneous music ephemera,
1947-1990s, undated
Flatfile 8**
1980
Scope and Content Note
John Cage poster "Mushrooms."
Art related ephemera,
1952-1995, undated
Box 95, Folder 1-11
1990-1995, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes two folders of blank postcards and cards mostly with images of artworks and architecture.
Oversize **21
1965
Scope and Content Note
A.M. Fine drawing "Spoon discipline for Dorothy de Borchgrane."
Oversize **23
1979
Scope and Content Note
Niki de Saint Phalle poster.
Box 96, Folder 1-6
Organs and cathedrals
Scope and Content Note
Collection of images of organs and cathedrals, primarily located in Europe.
Box 97, Folder 1-3
Organs and cathedrals
Scope and Content Note
Images of organs and cathedrals, primarily located in Europe.
Box 98
Organs and cathedrals
Scope and Content Note
A scrapbook, with images.
Series VII.
Personal,
1940-1994
Physical Description:
19.0 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Personal materials are those concerning Tudor's personal life and interests: handwritten recipes; personal documents such
as driver's licenses, passports, and birth cirtificates; notes and typed excerpts on spiritualism; newsletters and catalogs
from the Anthroposophical Society; notes with addresses, phone numbers and lists, but also some material which relates to
personal research, mathematics and his work; and personal objects. Some materials in this series were donated by Tudor's sister,
Joy Nemiroff.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged topically.
Box 99, Folder 1-13
Recipes,
undated
Scope and Content Note
A large quantity of handwritten recipes and some clippings. Includes a notebook of Tudor's favorite recipes.
Flatfile 28**
Pasta posters,
1981, undated
Box 100, Folder 1-18
Health and personal documents,
1944-1945, 1974
Scope and Content Note
Includes notes on herbal remedies, a book on herbs, Tudor's x-rays (1974), draft rejection notices (1944-1945), driver's licenses,
social security card, passports, and birth certificates. 1 folder of 15 personal documents and notes (related to Tudor health
and vital statistics), from Tudor's sister, Joy Nemiroff (folder 18).
Box 101, Folder 1-11
Spiritual,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes typed and handwritten excerpts and notes concerning Buddism, astrology, tarot and philosophy, and a typescript portion
of G. Wachsmuth's "The etheric in science, art and religion" (see also Notes, boxes 106-107).
Anthroposophical Society,
1940-1994, undated
Scope and Content Note
Mostly newsletters and catalogs.
Notes,
1950s-1990s, undated
Scope and Content Note
This and the following five boxes contain mostly handwritten, and occassionally typed, notes by Tudor, most of which consist
of addresses, phone numbers and lists. Some of the notes from the 1950s are especially interesting: library checkout slips
for books pertaining to India, cooking, and spiritualism (see also box 101); two thick folders with algebraic equations; lists
of compositions and programs; and some working notes for performances. Other noteworthy materials are excerpts from spiritual
texts (1960s) and preparations for a course (1970s). From the 1960s onward there are lists of expenses, food and equipment;
travel itineraries; and drawings and notes for his electronic work. Some letters included.
Box 112-115
Personal objects,
1983, undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes small wind instruments, an abacus, playing cards (probably used for performances), glasses, rulers, and a banner
that reads "David Tudor - Electronic Music" (1983).
Box 213*-214*
Personal objects,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Place mats and flute.
Series VIII.
Financial,
1944-1998
Physical Description:
42.0 boxes
Scope and Content Note
A complete record of Tudor's finances, which includes bills, receipts (including those for concert tours), bank statements
and cancelled checks, credit card statements, income and royalty statements, taxes, and contracts, filed chronologically.
Five boxes of material dated 1994-1997 (bulk 1995-1996) were organized and filed by Tudor's assistant. The last box of the
series contains correspondence, documents and photocopied meeting minutes concerning Gate Hill Co-operative, where Tudor resided
after 1957.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged chronologically with grouping pertaining to Gate Hill Co-operative, 1957-1998, at the end.
Box 157, Folder 1-5
Gate Hill Co-operative,
1957-1998
Series IX.
Photographs,
1930s-1990s, undated
Physical Description:
9.0 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Primarily black and white prints of Tudor performing, but some portray him in social situations. Many images show Tudor and
Cage together, especially during their 1962 Japan tour, when Yoko One performed with them. Other images capture Tudor performing
34' 46.776',
Music for amplified toy pianos and
Solo for piano. There are at least five different performances of
Rainforest IV represented. Also included are photographs of Tudor's table top set-ups, and him relaxing with M.C. Richards, Monnier, Stockhausen
and Cage. Some images of Tudor were donated by Earle Brown. Childhood photographs date to the 1930s and were donated by Tudor's
sister, Joy Nemiroff.
Arrangement
These photographs are arranged in rough chonological order.
Tudor performing,
1950s-1990s
Box 158
1950s
Scope and Content Note
Includes Tudor as a young man at the piano; 34' 46.776', London, 1954; Tudor performing and dining in Spain; Music for amplified
toy pianos and Solo for piano taken by Ferdinand Boesch.
Box 159
1950s-1960s
Scope and Content Note
Images of one performance (Water music?) taken by Manfred Leve, Dusseldorf (many duplicates, see also box 164).
Box 160
1960s
Scope and Content Note
Includes Japan 1962 performing with Cage and Ono and sight-seeing with Cage (see also albums in box 162); Japan 1962 performing
and sight-seeing with Cage; 2 images of Rauschenberg creating a work; 2 with Rauschenberg and others dining (Merce Cunningham
Dance Co. on tour?); San Francisco Museum of Art, 1965; 9 evenings: Theatre & engineering, 1966 (see E.A.T. archive for much
more); UC Davis 1967 taken by David Freund.
Box 161
1960s-1980
Scope and Content Note
Includes table top setups; Pepsi Pavilion 1970 preparations taken by Shunk-Kender; color slides of Laser concert dated 1970
and 1980; color slides of Rainforest IV, Chocorua, 1973; Rainforest IV at Purchase (undated) and L'espace Cardin, Paris, 1976
with Viola.
Box 162
1970s-1990s
Scope and Content Note
Includes Rainforest IV, ICA Philadelphia, 1979 taken by Kira Perov (Viola's wife); Rainforest IV taken by Stan Ries (undated);
Composers Inside Electronics, Scan Forum party taken by Fujiko Nakaya; table top setups at Jack Tilton Gallery, NY, 1990 (collaboration
with Monnier); 9 lines, reflected, Whitney 1986; and Tudor's memorial at Judson + Rainforest.
Box 163
Images of Tudor, friends and others,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes passport photos, M.C. Richards, Cage, Monnier, Stockhausen, Tudor on tour.
Box 164
Tudor performing (enlargements),
circa 1980s, 1994
Scope and Content Note
Early performance taken by Leve, Festival d'Automne, Cage and Tudor circa 1980s, and May 1994 performance taken by Leve.
Box 165
Tudor performing,
1962
Scope and Content Note
2 albums of photos with Tudor, Cage and Ono performing in Japan.
Box 166
Images of Tudor, friends and others (enlargements),
circa 1950s, 1980s-1990s
Scope and Content Note
Tudor and Richards 1950s, and late images of Tudor. Also 5 photographs (1 is a duplicate) of Tudor, from Earle Brown. All
the images were taken at the Capital Records building, New York when Brown was producing TIME-MAINSTREAM. 3 are portraits
of Tudor taken by Earle Brown, one is a group portrait of Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, John Cage, David Tudor and Morton
Feldman, taken by Bob Arnold. Credits for all 5 images: Courtesy, the Earle Brown Music Foundation.
Box 215
Childhood photographs,
circa 1930s
Scope and Content Note
15 photographs (and 9 negatives) of Tudor, his sister Joy and their mother [donated by Joy Nemiroff].
Flatfile 29**
Photo of a woman,
undated
Box 1, Folder 1
Series X.
Audio recordings,
circa 1952-1992, undated
Physical Description:
614.0 items
Scope and Content Note
Approximately 600 audio tapes include performances of Tudor's compositions and of others, Tudor's found sounds, other musical
works and spoken-word recordings. The times below are approximate and are stated in (HH:MM:SS) format.
Recordings have been transferred from audio cassette tapes, digital audio tapes (DAT), and reel-to-reel tapes. All tapes have
been reformatted, except for a few that were damaged and a few blank and duplicate tapes. Several notes and letters found
with the original tapes have also been digitized.
The audio recordings were digitized in 2011.
Connect to digitized audio recordings. Access is provided for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only. Audio recordings of Tudor composisitions are
available online. Access to recordings of Non-David Tudor compositions, Source sounds, David Tudor performances, Other musical
works, and Spoken word recordings is available only to on-site Readers and Getty staff.
Arrangement
These recordings are divided into seven topical groupings. Each grouping is further arranged alphabetically.
David Tudor compositions,
1970-1994, undated
Scope and Content Note
This group of audio recordings consists of compositions by David Tudor.
Box 2A, Item C91, side A
Bandoneon!
undated
Bandoneon!, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (21:38). EAT 9E A: David Tudor, Bandoneon! Side B of this cassette contained: "EAT Pav
B: David Tudor at Pepsi Pavilion (possibly Pepsibird?)."
Dialects,
1983-1989, undated
Box 7A, Item CU6
Dialects,
undated
Dialects, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (29:51).
Box 1A, Item C48
Dialects,
1984
Dialects, 1984 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (57:49). Side A (32:04) -- Side B (25:46).
Box 1A, Item C51
Dialects,
1984
Dialects, 1984 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (1:01:22). Four channel. Use copy is stereo remix.
Box 1A, Item C49
Dialects,
1984 February
Dialects, 1984 February (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (28:33). Stereo binaural, 30 minutes, Dolby B.
Box 1A, Item C52, side A
Dialects,
1984 March 15
Dialects, 1984 March 15 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (29:44). March 15, 1984, 4.30 pm [Live mix of six line channels and a Neumann binaural
head. Dolby B, CrO2. Recorded by David E. Meschter.] Side B of this cassette contained: "David Tudor, Sextet for Seven, March
17, 1984, 2.55 pm."
Box 2A, Item C53
Dialects,
1984 March
Dialects, 1984 March (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (10:20). Stereo, binaural, 10 minutes (excerpt from 30 minutes).
Box 2A, Item C54
Dialects,
1984 March 14
Dialects, 1984 March 14 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (32:52). [Rehearsal tape?]
Dialects. 8 Track Source Tape,
1983 December 16
Box 28A, Item R254
[Channels 1 and 2],
1983 December 16
Dialects. 8 Track Source Tape [channels 1 and 2], 1983 December 16 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (48:46). Channels 1 and 2. Electronic sounds.
Box 28A, Item R254
[Channels 3 and 4],
1983 December 16
Dialects. 8 Track Source Tape [channels 3 and 4], 1983 December 16 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (48:46). Channels 3 and 4. Electronic sounds.
Box 28A, Item R254
[Channels 5 and 6],
1983 December 16
Dialects. 8 Track Source Tape [channels 5 and 6], 1983 December 16 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (48:46). Channels 5 and 6. Electronic sounds. [Near silence for the first 24 minutes.]
Box 28A, Item R254
[Channels 7 and 8],
1983 December 16
Dialects. 8 Track Source Tape [channels 7 and 8], 1983 December 16 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (48:46). Channels 7 and 8 on. Electronic sounds. [Near silence for the first 24 minutes.]
Dialects excerpts from Imaginary Landscape,
1989 August 7
Box 2A, Item C70
[Excerpt],
1989 August 7
Dialects excerpts from Imaginary Landscape [excerpt], 1989 Augutst 7 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (4:02). Recorded at The Kitchen, New York; excerpt made August 7, 1989.
Box 2A, Item C71
[Excerpt],
1989 August 7
Dialects excerpts from Imaginary Landscape [excerpt], 1989 August 7 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (5:44). Recorded at The Kitchen, New York; excerpt made August 7, 1989.
Box 2A, Item C72
[Excerpt],
1989 August 7
Dialects excerpts from Imaginary Landscape [excerpt], 1989 August 7 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (4:06). Recorded at The Kitchen, New York; excerpt made August 7, 1989.
Box 2A, Item C77
[Excerpt],
1989 August 7
Dialects excerpts from Imaginary Landscape [Excerpt], 1989 August 7 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (5:35). Recorded at The Kitchen, New York; excerpt made August 7, 1989.
Dialects material,
undated
Box 14A, Item R59
[channels 1 and 2],
undated
Dialects material [channels 1 and 2], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (25:25). Channels 1 and 2. 4 channel.
Box 14A, Item R59
[channels 3 and 4],
undated
Dialects material [channels 3 and 4],, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (25:25). Channels 3 and 4. 4 channel.
Box 1A, Item C50
Dialects, Miami,
1984 February
Dialects, Miami,, 1984 February (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (01:04:00). Side A (46:24) -- Side B (17:33). Performance in Miami, February, 1984 [binaural
recording?].
Forestspeech Dub,
undated
Box 36A, Item RU5
Forestspeech Dub,
undated
Forestspeech Dub, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (46:14).
Box 2A, Item C95, side A
Forestspeech - Dub,
undated
Forestspeech - Dub, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (44:56). Side B of this cassette contained: "Unidentified recording of outdoor ambiance
and footsteps."
Box 3A, Item C150
Forestspeech, Dub #2,
undated
Forestspeech, Dub #2, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (31:03). Dolby NR.
Box 3A, Item C151
Forestspeech, Dub #2, from Dub #1 cassette,
undated
Forestspeech, Dub #2, from Dub #1 cassette, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (30:56). Incomplete Dolby NR.
Box 2A, Item C73
Hedgehog,
1985 September 28
Hedgehog, 1985 September 28 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (01:32:00). Side A (46:07) -- Side B (46:05).
Box 2A, Item C74
Hedgehog,
1985 September 29
Hedgehog, 1985 September 29 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (01:32:00). Side A (46:02) -- Side B (45:55).
Box 2A, Item C75
Hedgehog,
1985 September 29
Hedgehog, 1985 September 29 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (01:30:00). Side A (45:41) -- Side B (44:39). Workshop with students at Mobius, Boston,
September 29, 1985.
Box 5A, Item C245, side A
Island,
undated
Island, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (13:51). Side B of this cassette contained: "John Cage, Telephones and Birds #2."
Box 5A, Item C247
Island '74,
1974
Island '74, 1974 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (23:19). Water sounds, outdoor ambiance; some spoken words at the end.
Box 6A, Item C279
Island Eye, Island Ear,
undated
Island Eye, Island Ear, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (2:23).
Kite works,
1983-1988, undated
Box 10A, Item R12
["1", "2", "3", "4"],
undated
["1", "2", "3", "4], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (30:00). "1" (8:22) -- "2" (6:12) -- "3" (8:36) -- "4" (6:34). Mono.
Box 10A, Item R13
["5", "6", "7", "8"],
undated
["5", "6", "7", "8"], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (20:00). "5" (2:59) -- "6" (5:15) -- "7" (7:24) -- "8" (5:55). Mono.
Box 10A, Item R14
["9", "10", "11", "12"],
undated
["9", "10", "11", "12"], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (28:00). "9" (3:50) -- "10" (7:46) -- "11" (8:33) -- "12" (8:36). Mono.
Kite String,
1985, undated
Box 6A, Item C263, side B
Kite String, C/F, lo's,
undated
Kite String, C/F, lo's, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (8:40).
Box 1A, Item C0
Kite String', Coney Island,
1985 March
Kite String', Coney Island, 1985 March (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (30:30). Side A (15:33) -- Side B (14:56).
Box 6A, Item C283, side B
Kite String - dd,
undated
Kite String - dd, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (9:47). Side A of this cassette contained: "Rhythm orig."
Box 6A, Item C263, side A
Kite String: fp,
undated
Kite String: fp, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (13:13).
Lines and Reflections,
1987-1988
Box 2A, Item C101
Lines & Reflections, 5/88, 4 CH, A,
1988
Lines & Reflections, 5/88, 4 CH, A, 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (46:21). 5/88, 4CH, A.
Box 2A, Item C103
Lines & Reflections, 5/88, 4 CH, B,
1988
Lines & Reflections, 5/88, 4 CH, B, 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (46:16). 5/88, 4 CH, B.
Box 2A, Item C102
Lines & Reflections, 5/88, 4 CH, C,
1988
Lines & Reflections, 5/88, 4 CH, C, 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (46:21). 5/88, 4 CH, C.
Box 2A, Item C104
Lines & Reflections, 5/88, 4 CH, D,
1988
Lines & Reflections, 5/88, 4 CH, D, 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (46:18). 5/88, 4 CH, D.
Box 3A, Item C105
Lines & Reflections 5/88, 4 CH, E,
1988
Lines & Reflections 5/88, 4 CH, E, 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (46:23). 5/88, 4 CH, E.
Box 3A, Item C106
Lines & Reflections, 4 CH, F,
1988
Lines & Reflections, 4 CH, F, 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (01:01:01). 4 CH, F.
Lines and Reflections [performance],
1988
Box 2A, Item C82, side A
[part 1],
1988
Lines and Reflections [performance, part 1], 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (45:09). Performance at Akademie der Kunste, Dusseldorf. Part 1 of 6.
Box 2A, Item C82, side B
[part 2],
1988
Lines and Reflections [performance, part 2], 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (45:54). Performance at Akademie der Kunste, Dusseldorf. Part 2 of 6.
Box 2A, Item C83, side A
[part 3],
1988
Lines and Reflections [performance, part 3], 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (38:44). Performance at Akademie der Kunste, Dusseldorf. Part 3 of 6.
Box 2A, Item C83, side B
[part 4],
1988
Lines and Reflections [performance, part 4], 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (43:41). Performance at Akademie der Kunste, Dusseldorf. Part 4 of 6.
Box 2A, Item C84
[part 5],
1988
Lines and Reflections [performance, part 5], 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (29:12). Performance at Akademie der Kunste, Dusseldorf. Part 5 of 6.
Box 2A, Item C85
[part 6],
1988
Lines and Reflections [performance, part 6], 1988 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (41:47). Performance at Akademie der Kunste, Dusseldorf. Part 6 of 6.
Box 2A, Item C81, side B
Lines and Reflections [source material - Line],
1987
Lines and Reflections [source material - Line], 1987 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (30:47). Line.
Box 2A, Item C81, side A
Lines and Reflections [source material - Radarmania],
1987
Lines and Reflections [source material - Radarmania], 1987 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (30:45). Radarmania.
Box 2A, Item C78
Lines and Reflections, source material,
1987
Lines and Reflections, source material, 1987 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (19:45).
Box 2A, Item C79
Lines and Reflections, source material [K?],
1987
Lines and Reflections, source material [K?], 1987 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (40:50). K? Line with multigate.
Box 2A, Item C80, side A
Lines and Reflections, source material [second recording],
1987
Lines and Reflections, source material [second recording], 1987 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (46:28). Line [second recording].
Box 2A, Item C80, side B
Lines and Reflections, source material [with multigate],
1987
Lines and Reflections, source material [with multigate], 1987 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (44:19). Line with multigate.
Box 4A, Item C204, side B
[ST 2 HG],
undated
[ST 2 HG], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (22:35).
Box 4A, Item C204, side A
[ST 2],
undated
[ST 2], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (22:44).
Box 4A, Item C203, side B
[ST 3 HG],
undated
[ST 3 HG], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (22:39).
Box 4A, Item C203, side A
[ST 3],
undated
[ST 3], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (22:32).
Box 4A, Item C180
Sea Tails (L) invert,
undated
Sea Tails (L) invert, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (31:06). Sea Tails (L) invert, Pulsers (R) invert.
Box 1A, Item C18, side B
Sea Tails [8 minute version],
1983
Sea Tails [8 minute version], 1983 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (8:18). Produced for Molly Davies.
Box 1A, Item C18, side A
Sea Tails [Process Transfer],
1983
Sea Tails [Process Transfer], 1983 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (11:01). Process Transfer (used in recording).
Box 1A, Item C19
Sea Tails [Tape 1],
1983
Sea Tails [Tape 1], 1983 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Side A (45:50) -- Side B (45:27). Recording of underwater sounds.
Box 1A, Item C20
Sea Tails [Tape 2],
1983
Sea Tails [Tape 2], 1983 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Side A (46:44) -- Side B (46:28).
Box 1A, Item C21
Sea Tails [Tape 3],
1983
Sea Tails [Tape 3], 1983 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (01:28:35). Side A (45:00) -- Side B (43:35). Tape 3.
Box 1A, Item C22
Sea Tails [Tape 4],
1983
Sea Tails [Tape 4], 1983 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (30:48). Tape 4.
Box 1A, Item C38
Sea Tails [Tape One, Original],
1983
Sea Tails [Tape One, Original], 1983 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (22:33). Sea Tails, Tape One, Original.
Box 1A, Item C39, side B
Sea Tails [Tape Two, Original],
undated
Sea Tails [Tape Two, Original], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (22:12).
Box 1A, Item C39, side A
Sea Tails [Tape Two, recorded with EQ],
undated
Sea Tails [Tape Two, recorded with EQ], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (22:40).
Box 1A, Item C24
Sea Tails Musique 1,
1983 February
Sea Tails Musique 1, 1983 February (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (44:00). Side A (22:44) -- Side B (21:49). Tape 1.
Box 1A, Item C40, side A
Sea Tails, [Tape One, with EQ],
undated
Sea Tails, [Tape One, with EQ], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (22:26).
Box 1A, Item C40, side B
Sea Tails, [Tape Three, Original],
undated
Sea Tails, [Tape Three, Original], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (22:18).
Box 4A, Item C187
ST 1 [Sea Tails],
undated
ST 1 [Sea Tails], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (22:25).
Box 1A, Item C23
Material for the production of Tailing a Dream,
undated
Material for the production of Tailing a Dream, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (26:24). Material for the production of Tailing a Dream [Soundtrack for film by Jackie
Monnier].
Likeness to Voices,
undated
Box 2A, Item C68, side B
[Likeness to Voices 1],
undated
[Likeness to Voices 1], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (41:30). David Tudor, Concert of October 19, 1983, Oggi Musica, Lugano. David Tudor, Likeness
to Voices. [Original inventory also included Dialects, but only audience ambiance follows Likeness to Voices.] Side A of this
cassette contained: "David Tudor, Concert of October 19, 1983, Oggi Musica, Lugano. Side A, John Cage, Variations II."
Box 13A, Item R58
Likeness to Voices [4 channel],
undated
Likeness to Voices [4 channel], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (01:06:20). Channels 1 and 2 (33:10) -- Channels 3 and 4 (33:10). 4 channel. [Mistakenly
identified in original inventory as, David Tudor Listens to Voices].
Box 4A, Item C181
A Monobird N, B Monobird S,
undated
A Monobird N, B Monobird S, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (44:45).
Box 10A, Item R9
Monobird,
undated
Monobird, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (47:42).
Box 23A, Item R196
Monobird,
undated
Monobird, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (01:06:35). Track 1 (33:18) -- Track 2 (33:17).
Box 35A, Item R335
Mono-Bird,
undated
Mono-Bird, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (32:23).
Box 3A, Item C148
Monobird N,
undated
Monobird N, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (28:03).
Box 3A, Item C147, side A
Monobird NX,
undated
Monobird NX, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (30:20).
Box 4A, Item C182
Monobird Slo,
undated
Monobird Slo, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (01:30:30). Side A (44:49) -- Side B (45:47).
Box 4A, Item C147, side B
Monobird SX,
undated
Monobird SX, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (30:28).
Box 3A, Item C119
Neural Network Plus, Tape 1,
1993
Neural Network Plus, Tape 1, 1993 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (48:55). Side A (29:25) -- Side B (19:30). Subtropic New Music Festival 5, 1993, Gustavo
Matamoros.
Box 3A, Item C120
Neural Network Plus, Tape 2,
1993
Neural Network Plus, Tape 2, 1993 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (59:35). Side A (29:35) -- Side B (30:00). Subtropic New Music Festival 5, 1993, Gustavo
Matamoros.
Box 9A, Item DAT2
Neural Synthesis No. 3,
1994 May 3
Neural Synthesis No. 3, 1994 May 3 (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Digital audio tape. Total running time: (57:42). CPE/Tudor at Mills, 5/3/94. This reel also contained: Bouquet I, II, III,
IV by Steed Cowart; Chromatic Canon by James Tenney; Harmonium by James Tenney.
Pepsi works,
1971-1973, undated
Miscellaneous Pepsi tapes,
undated
Box 25A, Item R230
Effects for Pepsi [?],
undated
Effects for Pepsi [?], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (9:27).
Box 25A, Item R229
Effects for Pepsi, Reel #2,
undated
Effects for Pepsi, Reel #2, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (16:49). Tree crash (0:11) -- sawing wood (0:35) -- hammering nails (0:54) -- ping pong
(0:25) -- bowling alley background (0:56) -- bowling ball rolls and hits (0:24) -- people's feet walking (1:20) -- water tower
filling up (0:52) -- tree crash (0:25) -- flubbery bubbling sounds (0:20) -- turkey gobbles (0:33) -- avalanche (0:52) --
glass shattering (0:23) -- bubbling sounds on Jupiter (2:07) -- stream (water) (1:16) -- walking on gravel (1:05) -- slaps
of meat on table (2:38) -- basketball bounce (0:50) -- rim hit basketball (0:20) -- people walking (0:25).
Box 15A, Item R78
Pepsi Sound Effects,
undated
Pepsi Sound Effects, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (27:30). Gargling (0:45) -- bubbling tar (3:21) -- sawing wood (1:04) -- garbage truck (1:05)
-- gravel truck (0:43) -- turkeys (0:27) -- glass shatters (0:39) -- boing; ping; mooge boing (1:47) -- female turkey (0:18)
-- turkey gobbles (0:16) -- tree fall (0:23) -- motorcycle - sequence (3:17); sandpapering (1:38); various water sounds (2:56);
rubber ball -- bounce (1:26) -- comments on a view (0:55) -- Mack 6 truck (5:26) -- crowd footsteps (1:20). 1/2 track.
Box 13A, Item R56
Pepsi Tape No. 1,
undated
Pepsi Tape No. 1, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (31:21). 2 track.
Box 13A, Item R57
Pepsi Tape No. 2,
undated
Pepsi Tape No. 2, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (24:18). 2 track.
Box 2A, Item C88, side B
Anima Pepsi,
undated
Anima Pepsi, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Audiocassette. Total running time: (23:30). Side A of this cassette contained: "Pepsibird, 19710."
Microphone,
1973, undated
Box 12A, Item R37
[Microphone],
undated
[Microphone], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (32:17). [Unmarked tape; contents have been identified as Microphone].
Box 12A, Item R38
[Microphone],
undated
[Microphone], undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (32:35). [Unmarked tape; contents have been identified as Microphone].
Box 31A, Item R287
Microphone,
undated
Microphone, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (01:06:00). Channels 1 and 2 (33:00) -- Channels 3 and 4 (33:00).
Box 30A, Item R288
Microphone,
undated
Microphone, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (01:04:48). Channels 1 and 2 (32:24) -- Channels 3 and 4 (32:24).
Box 31A, Item R289
Microphone,
undated
Microphone, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (01:05:42). Channels 1 and 2 (32:51) -- Channels 3 and 4 (32:51).
Box 31A, Item R290
Microphone,
undated
Microphone, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (01:06:36). Channels 1 and 2 (33:18) -- Channels 3 and 4 (33:18).
Box 34A, Item R332
Microphone,
undated
Microphone, undated (digital version)
Scope and Content Note
Reel-to-reel. Total running time: (33:17). Track 1 (33:17) -- Track 2 (33:17).
