Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 15. Recordings and media, 1977-2011, includes two sub-series. Sub-Series 1. Audiovisual media, 1977-2001, consists of 45 vinyl records, audio cassettes, open-reel audiotapes, Super 8 mm film, U-Matic, VHS, Hi8 and Betamax videocassettes. Audio and video recordings include performances by Branca, the Theoretical Girls, and The Static, and performances of Branca's compositions by symphony orchestras. This series includes commercial and non-commercial recordings. Also included is a VHS...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: John Cage was already established as an influential American composer and important leader of post-World War II avant-garde music when he began his Notations project in the mid-1960s. The previous decade had seen his compositional breakthroughs with uses of silence and chance operations. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Cage earned increasing public fame through travels and performances abroad, publication of his music by C. F. Peters, and publication of his book ...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 8. Scores, parts, charts, performance and composition notes, 1981-2016, is the largest series, including twenty-nine sub-series, grouped by work: 1. The Ascension album, circa 1981, 2005, 2. Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus), circa 1981, 3. Symphony No. 2 (The Peak Of The Sacred), circa 1982, 4. Symphony No. 3 (Gloria), 1982 and undated, 5. Symphony No. 4 (Physics), circa 1983, 6. Symphony No. 5 (Describing Planes Of An Expanding Hypersphere), 1984-1985, 7. The Belly of an Architect Film...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Parts of this collection have been digitized and can be viewed here: John Cage Correspondence.The Cage Correspondence collection is comprised of correspondence and ephemera including letters, cards, clippings, catalogs, photographs, negatives, cassette tapes, music scores, and art.  Early materials focus on family correspondence and newspaper clippings and are...

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Published scores from di Bonaventura’s personal library. Most scores are autographed by the composer and bear personal inscriptions, dedications and/ or other annotations but not performance markings.

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Manuscript and published scores, concert programs and playbills, clippings, photographs, correspondence, and diaries.

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Published scores from di Bonaventura’s personal library. Most scores are autographed by the composer and bear personal inscriptions, dedications and/ or other annotations but not performance markings.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 8. Scores, parts, charts, performance and composition notes, 1981-2016, is the largest series, including twenty-nine sub-series, grouped by work: 1. The Ascension album, circa 1981, 2005, 2. Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus), circa 1981, 3. Symphony No. 2 (The Peak Of The Sacred), circa 1982, 4. Symphony No. 3 (Gloria), 1982 and undated, 5. Symphony No. 4 (Physics), circa 1983, 6. Symphony No. 5 (Describing Planes Of An Expanding Hypersphere), 1984-1985, 7. The Belly of an Architect Film...

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The Cage Correspondence collection is comprised of correspondence and ephemera including letters, cards, clippings, catalogs, photographs, negatives, cassette tapes, music scores, and art.  Early materials focus on family correspondence and newspaper clippings and are interspersed with Cage's own notes and manuscripts.  Later correspondence is enhanced through Cage's use of "Note-o-Grams" which provides carbon copies of his sent messages.

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The Cage Correspondence collection is comprised of correspondence and ephemera including letters, cards, clippings, catalogs, photographs, negatives, cassette tapes, music scores, and art.  Early materials focus on family correspondence and newspaper clippings and are interspersed with Cage's own notes and manuscripts.  Later correspondence is enhanced through Cage's use of "Note-o-Grams" which provides carbon copies of his sent messages.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Parts of this collection have been digitized and can be viewed here: John Cage Correspondence.The Cage Correspondence collection is comprised of correspondence and ephemera including letters, cards, clippings, catalogs, photographs, negatives, cassette tapes, music scores, and art.  Early materials focus on family correspondence and newspaper clippings and are...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Parts of this collection have been digitized and can be viewed here: John Cage Correspondence.The Cage Correspondence collection is comprised of correspondence and ephemera including letters, cards, clippings, catalogs, photographs, negatives, cassette tapes, music scores, and art.  Early materials focus on family correspondence and newspaper clippings and are...

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Scores (mostly published) owned by the conductor Fritz Reiner, many with his performance markings.

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Scores (mostly published) owned by the conductor Fritz Reiner, many with his performance markings.

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The Cage Correspondence collection is comprised of correspondence and ephemera including letters, cards, clippings, catalogs, photographs, negatives, cassette tapes, music scores, and art.  Early materials focus on family correspondence and newspaper clippings and are interspersed with Cage's own notes and manuscripts.  Later correspondence is enhanced through Cage's use of "Note-o-Grams" which provides carbon copies of his sent messages.

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The Cage Correspondence collection is comprised of correspondence and ephemera including letters, cards, clippings, catalogs, photographs, negatives, cassette tapes, music scores, and art.  Early materials focus on family correspondence and newspaper clippings and are interspersed with Cage's own notes and manuscripts.  Later correspondence is enhanced through Cage's use of "Note-o-Grams" which provides carbon copies of his sent messages.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Parts of this collection have been digitized and can be viewed here: John Cage Correspondence.The Cage Correspondence collection is comprised of correspondence and ephemera including letters, cards, clippings, catalogs, photographs, negatives, cassette tapes, music scores, and art.  Early materials focus on family correspondence and newspaper clippings and are...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Moldenhauer Collection is comprised of music manuscripts, sketches and quotations, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed programs, manuscript texts and other materials which document composers and musicians active between 1683 and 1973. The majority of the materials date between 1890 and 1950. With the exception of a few letters written by the collection’s creator, Hans Moldenhauer (1906-1987), the collection is comprised entirely of the musical and non-musical works...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Moldenhauer Collection is comprised of music manuscripts, sketches and quotations, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed programs, manuscript texts and other materials which document composers and musicians active between 1683 and 1973. The majority of the materials date between 1890 and 1950. With the exception of a few letters written by the collection’s creator, Hans Moldenhauer (1906-1987), the collection is comprised entirely of the musical and non-musical works...

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The Cage Correspondence collection is comprised of correspondence and ephemera including letters, cards, clippings, catalogs, photographs, negatives, cassette tapes, music scores, and art.  Early materials focus on family correspondence and newspaper clippings and are interspersed with Cage's own notes and manuscripts.  Later correspondence is enhanced through Cage's use of "Note-o-Grams" which provides carbon copies of his sent messages.