Sylvia Smith Archives of Smith Publications and Sonic Art Editions, ca. 1970-1991.

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Sylvia Smith Archives of Smith Publications and Sonic Art Editions, ca. 1970-1991.

Materials relating to publications of New Music by Smith Publications. Includes correspondence with composers, manuscripts and scores, phonotapes, compact discs, videotapes of performances, and publications by and about composers. Composers represented include Robert Ashley, Milton Babbitt, William Brooks, Herbert Brün, John Cage, Randolph Coleman, Thomas DeLio, Robert Erickson, Jean-Charles François, Ben Johnston, Pauline Oliveros, Dan Senn, Ralph Shapey, Stuart Saunders Smith, and James Tenney.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7144419

University of Akron, Bierce Library

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Oliveros, Pauline, 1932-2016

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Music has been at the center of the lives of Edith Gutierrez and her daughter, Pauline Oliveros. Gutierrez has taught piano for much of her life, played professionally, and was active in the Houston music scene. Oliveros, whom Gutierrez had with her first husband, J.B. Oliveros III, is an internationally known composer and accordionist. In 1952, at the age of 20, Pauline moved from Houston to San Francisco. She and her mother wrote to one another for the next 20 years. They discussed many topics...

Cage, John.

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American composer. From the description of Imaginary landscape no. 4 or March no. 2, 1951. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 406987239 American composer, philosopher, and writer on music. From the description of [Renga]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270967275 In the summers of 1940 and 1941, John Cage was on the dance faculty of Mills College (Oakland, Calif.). He composed Dance music for Elfrid Ide when she was a student in 1940. ...

Babbitt, Milton, 1916-2011

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Composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Princeton, N.J., to Mr. [James] Fuld, [1983 Dec. 30?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270911546 American composer. From the description of Autogrpaph letters signed (6), dated Princeton, N.J., [ca. 1977, 1987, and n.d.], to Joan Peyser, [ca. 1977, 1987, and n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270991916 ...

Johnston, Ben

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Composer, faculty member at the University of Illinois. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, May 21, 1978 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862463 ...

Coleman, Randolph, 1937-

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Shapey, Ralph, 1921-2002

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American composer and conductor; composition professor at the University of Chicago, where he founded and directed the Contemporary Chamber Players; MacArthur Fellow, 1982. From the description of Oral history, 1976. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155866428 ...

François, Jean Charles.

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Ashley, Robert Paul, 1915-....

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Smith Publications.

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Sylvia H. Smith is owner and editor of Smith Publications, which she founded in 1974. From the description of Sylvia Smith Archives of Smith Publications and Sonic Art Editions, ca. 1970-1991. (University of Akron). WorldCat record id: 25361963 ...

Brooks, William, 1943-

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William Brooks (1943-) is an American composer, performer, conductor, musicologist, and educator. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in music and mathematics from Wesleyan University (1965), and his Master of Music in musicology (1971) and Doctorate of Musical Arts in composition-theory (1976) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Brooks served on the music faculty at the University of Illinois between 1969-1973 and 1987-2000 as Professor of Composition, Director o...

Brün, Herbert.

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Born in Yonkers, Salvatore Martirano (1927-1995) grew up in New Rochelle, New York where he graduated from high school in 1945.�?  While there he was the leader of "The Sonny Martin Band," the name of which came from Martirano's childhood nickname "Sonny."�?  After graduating, Martirano served as a Marine for fourteen months in 1945 and 1946, during which time he performed with the Parris Island Marine Band and a touring USO show. Martirano received his undergraduate deg...

Tenney, James

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DeLio, Thomas, 1951-....

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Thomas DeLio is an international renowned American experimental music composer and author. His music has been influenced by John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Iannis Xenakis. He has written for soloists, chamber music, and orchestra but is most noted for his computer music. His compositions have been recorded on numerous labels in America, France, Germany, and Italy. His essays have been published in The Journal of Music Theory, Perspectives of New Music, Interface, Artforum, Contemporary Music Revi...

Erickson, Robert, 1917-1997

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Smith, Stuart Saunders, 1948-

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Smith, Sylvia H.

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Senn, Dan, 1951-

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