İlhan Mimaroğlu Papers, 1926-2012

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Series IV: Music composition and performance, circa 1950-2012

Series IV contains materials related to the composition and performance of musical works by İlhan Mimaroğlu. This series includes manuscript and printed sheet music, audiotape components used by Mimaroğlu in composing his electronic works, audiotapes of finished pieces, and commercially produced recordings on vinyl LP, audiocassette, and compact disc. There are also audio recordings, promotional fliers, programs, and other ephemera from live performances of Mimaroğlu's works. Finally, this series contains materials by other artists whose work directly influenced Mimaroğlu's, such as Jean Dubuffet's Musique Phénoménale and Experiences Musicales.


Subseries IV.1: Compositions by İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1963-1996



Box 22 Item 226 Rhapsody for Clarinet and Clarinet, 1963, 1 open reel audiotapes

Second clarinet part, electronically transformed. Band 1: practice copy; Band 2: Performance copy; Band 3: Work copy.



Box 23 Item 264 Le Tombeau D'Edgar Poe (A Melodrama for Magnetic Tape), circa 1964, 1 open reel audiotapes

Poem by Stéphane Mallarmé. The voice of Erdem Buri and its electronic transformation. Stereo disc master.


Box 23 Item 268 Visual Studies, 1964 April-May, 1 open reel audiotapes

No. 1: Study after Jasper Johns ("Four the News"). No. 2: Study after Ahmet Gursoy ("Green on a Black"). No. 3: Study after Jean Dubuffet ("Bowery Bum").


Box 23 Item 263 Intermezzo, 1964 December, 1 open reel audiotapes

Stereo master copy


Box 23 Item 271 Mimaroğlu Electronic Music, 1964-1966, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Bowery Bum (1964), Visual Study No. 3 after Jean Dubuffet. 2. Agony (1965), Visual Study No. 4 after Arshile Gorky. 3. White Cockatoo (1966) Visual Study No. 5 after Jackson Pollock. 4. Intermezzo (1964). 5. Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe (1964) (Poem by Stephane Mallarme), Erdem Buri, speaker.


Box 23 Item 282 Mimaroğlu Electronic Music, 1964-1966, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Bowery Bum (1964), 2. Agony (1965), 3. White Cockatoo (1966) 4. Intermezzo (1964), 5. Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe (1964)


Box 23 Item 265 Nocturne for string orchestra with electromagnetic tape obbligato, 1964, 1981 March 28, 1 open reel audiotapes

Tape obbligato part - original. Followed by performance of piece 1981 March 28, Howard Shanet conducting String Revival



Box 24 Item 316 Box 24 Item 312 Anacolutha, circa 1965, 2 open reel audiotapes

Work copy, material, complete work copy.



Box 23 Item 284 Mimaroğlu Electronic compositions, 1965-1967, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Anacolutha (1965). 2. Piano Music for Performer and Composer (1967), George Flynn, pianist (pre-recorded). 3. Transitive II (1965-1966). First generation dubs.



Box 18 Item 86 White Cockatoo components and material, circa 1966, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 23 Item 281 Mimaroğlu Electronic compositions; Twelve Preludes for Magnetic Tape, 1966-1967, 1 open reel audiotapes

First generation dubs. In Prelude XII: Güngör Bozkurt, speaker (Poem by Orhan Veli Kanik)



Box 22 Item 246 Mimaroğlu Electronic Pieces, 1966, 1971, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Hyperboles, 1971. 2. Prelude No. 8 to the memory of Edgard Varèse, 1966



Box 20 Item 122 Box 24 Item 299 Box 20 Item 161 Wings of the Delirious Demon material - components, circa 1969-1972, 3 open reel audiotapes


Box 20 Item 150 Wings of the Delirious Demon [illegible], circa 1969-1972, 1 open reel audiotapes

Clarinet piece, three components for sustained section



Box 23 Item 279 Wings of the Delirious Demon materials/components, circa 1969-1972, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 20 Item 130 Wings of the Delirious Demon master, circa 1969-1972, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 26 Item 436 Sing Me a Song of Songmy, circa 1970, 1 audiocassettes

Freddie Hubbard, composed by İlhan Mimaroğlu



Box 20 Item 153 Box 20 Item 155 Sing Me a Song of Songmy, circa 1970, 2 open reel audiotapes

Freddie Hubbard and his quintet, reciters, chorus, and orchestra


Box 20 Item 141 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Sequence of components unclear. Sustained trumpet tones.


Box 20 Item 158 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Material and components for Freddie Hubbard piece and word sub-components for intro.



Box 22 Item 234 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Guevara song. Last few [illegible].



Box 20 Item 147 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Charles Grau reading, preceded by Mary Ann component.


Box 20 Item 156 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Mary Ann reading, crowd selections.



Box 21 Item 184 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

All components for crowd sequence.



Box 18 Item 87 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Crowd components II, transition - Kent State.



Box 20 Item 139 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

This is Combat I Know (Poverty) instrumental component. Prelude to Kent State material. Kent State jazz sequences, unaccepted mixes to check.


Box 20 Item 140 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Jazz interlude, mixes.


Box 20 Item 144 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Vietnamese poem and accompanying components.


Box 20 Item 149 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Jazz interlude II intro, Vietnamese poem components. May also include some discarded components of Wings of the Delirious Demon.


Box 20 Item 151 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

There Could Be Love, Black Soldier mixes and inserts


Box 20 Item 142 Songmy components, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Finale: segments of rejected mix - components.


Box 20 Item 125 Songmy - This is Combat (Poverty), circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Partial electronic and voice final components, also poem reading.



Box 21 Item 183 Songmy material: discards, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Kent State January 13 mixes: 1. Chorus - strings, 2. Jazz. Threnody and Poverty discarded from master.



Box 20 Item 163 Songmy references, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Rough mix crowd - chorus; Strings - Black Soldier; String accompanied with reverse reverb


Box 20 Item 126 Box 20 Item 138 Songmy, side 2, circa 1970, 2 open reel audiotapes

Finished sections, discarded components, etc., dissolve components. Sections redone and transplanted, ending - one version.


Box 20 Item 133 Songmy: There Could be Love; Monodrama, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

Edited trumpet component; Monodrama: accompaniment components, also one version.



Box 24 Item 304 Tract material, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

Barclay session (Both tracks/reverse), Send Me Books, Datura



Box 21 Item 194 Tract materials/components, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

Exxon original without electronics, transition to Barclay components, connecting section to Barclay from work copy, Intro Crowd from work copy, Les Gens cut from work copy


Box 21 Item 195 Tract materials/components, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

Send Me Books final components and Barclay final component in three groups


Box 21 Item 198 Tract materials/components, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

Rock sequence cut from work copy, Nixon selected [illegible] and Nixon I'm Not a Crook, Sayin Muhbir intro


Box 21 Item 199 Tract materials/components, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

Rock group, two sequences, equalized


Box 21 Item 202 Tract materials/components, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

Les Gens: segue to process, also Crowd components. Chorals for Datura, Barclay work sequence, And He's Saying to Me



Box 24 Item 314 Tract materials/components, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

Including Piroyem acc.



Box 21 Item 171 Tract new components and references, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

New components and references


Box 21 Item 176 Tract solo sequences, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Virgin Mary 2. Cher Citoyen Mouchard 3. Send Me Books 4. Internationale


Box 21 Item 177 Tract unfinished version plus new components, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

Citoyen Mouchard strings and voice components and mix to process; Les Gens electronic components; Send Me Books accompaniment



Box 24 Item 319 Tülay German Tract sessions, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

Anthems, Internationale, CIA. Originals.



Box 25 Item 370 Tract, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

Work copy, parts I and II


Box 25 Item 372 Tract, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes

Concert version



Box 23 Item 290 Sing Me A Song of Songmy master dub, 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes

A fantasy for electromagnetic tape featuring Freddie Hubbard and his quintet, with the Barnard-Columbia Chorus, Daniel Paget, conductor; string orchestra, Arif Mardin, conductor and Hammond organ; reciters; synthesized and processed sounds. On texts by F. H. Daglarca, Kirkegaard, Che Guevara, and others. Identified as parts 1 and 3; part 2 unidentified.



Box 22 Item 214 Music Plus One for violin and tape, 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 21 Item 173 Hyperboles, circa 1971, 1 open reel audiotapes

Work copy, materials, components


Box 21 Item 196 Hyperboles, circa 1971, 1 open reel audiotapes

Second group of components



Box 24 Item 325 Hyperboles, 1971, 1 open reel audiotapes

Master safety



Box 23 Item 280 Miscellaneous material, circa 1971-1975, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. To Test. 2. Ending of [illegible]. 3. Patty Hearst. 4. Radio Material: 1975 Weather, 1971 with Bobby Short, Tract "Send Me Books"


Box 23 Item 293 Box 23 Item 289 Box 23 Item 292 Coucou Bazar components/materials, 1972-1973, 3 open reel audiotapes

Sequence of components unclear. Band 1: electric piano component. Band 2: Staircase continuous and music; Staircase bursts to select.



Box 21 Item 185 [Coucou Bazar?] Fragmentation, circa 1973, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. New beginning, unused. 2. Original - NY. 3. Hide and Seek, NY original. Last band: delected section from original of rose


Box 21 Item 180 Coucou Bazar, circa 1973, 1 open reel audiotapes

End of reel.


Box 21 Item 190 Box 21 Item 191 Coucou Bazar discarded segments from disc master, circa 1973, 2 open reel audiotapes

Sequence unclear.


Box 21 Item 204 Box 21 Item 179 Box 21 Item 203 Box 21 Item 186 Coucou Bazar components, circa 1973, 4 open reel audiotapes

Sequence of components unclear. Sequence 11 work copy, five brief sequences work copies. Deployment (original) and unused synthesizer piece. New synthesizer piece (unused). Electric Pf. material and components.



Box 23 Item 273 Box 23 Item 272 Box 23 Item 291 Coucou Bazar components, circa 1973, 3 open reel audiotapes

Sequence of components unclear.



Box 21 Item 182 Box 21 Item 192 Box 23 Item 287 Box 21 Item 189 Box 21 Item 178 Box 21 Item 181 Coucou Bazar sequences, circa 1973, 6 open reel audiotapes

Original version of motor scene. Sequences and segments. Originals. Two independent sequences. Nos. 10 and 11. Nos. 12 and 13.


Box 21 Item 170 Coucou Bazar sequences, circa 1973, 1 open reel audiotapes

Originals


Box 21 Item 193 Coucou Bazar sequences, circa 1973, 1 open reel audiotapes

Sawtooth for rose scene, clarinet shakes for bicycle scene



Box 25 Item 369 STX-128, 1973 May 14, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 21 Item 205 Tract new materials/components, 1974 March-April, 1 open reel audiotapes

New material, including Anthems cut from work copy for processing. Work tape: components including Send Me Books backer, Virgin Mary with bass, Send Me Books left channel, Exxon accompaniment.



Box 24 Item 452 TV and radio documentation, 1974 March, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Track 1: Marcuse, Jane Fonda.



Box 23 Item 256 Session first master, circa 1976, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 22 Item 243 Session materials and components, circa 1976, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Internationale - electronic. 2. Internationale - electronic. 3. Electronic component - unused. 4. Electronic material for "Lecture de Marx," including Chopin quotes, gliss. debout, Tristan - unprocessed. 5. Chopin quotes, plus gliss. Sub-comp. without Tristan. 6. Chopin quotes transformed, plus debout - material. 7. Chopin quotes - material (partly unused). 8. Glissandi, plus low piano. 9. Chopin quotes. Mostly unused experimentation. 10. Debout - material. 11. Connecting electronics to the first piano solo.


Box 22 Item 248 Session, 1976, 1 open reel audiotapes


Box 22 Item 249 Session İdil Biret/Marx text, 1976, 1 open reel audiotapes

Completed edited and timed, but unequalized, component. Also contains İdil Biret WQXR broadcast comment, 1976 January. İdil Biret VOA talk inserts, Marx text recordings out-takes, Voice overdubs for center section of Session - unused.


Box 22 Item 242 Session, 1976 February, 1 open reel audiotapes

İdil Biret, piano part. Edited, time, original component. Recorded at Atlantic. Bobby Warner, engineer.



Box 24 Item 460 Piano Sonata fragment, 1976 June, 1 open reel audiotapes

Beginning to middle of page 13 of score, George Flynn.



Box 22 Item 228 I May As Well Speak Out the Truth While I'm Here, 1977, 1 open reel audiotapes

For jazz group consisting of trumpet, soprano and tenor saxophones, electric guitar, piano, bass and drums, with electromagnetic tape. Tape part.



Box 21 Item 209 The Offering, 1979 February, 1 open reel audiotapes

Text by J.S. Bach, in a French translation. Jean Dupuy, speaker. Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City. Master replaced by copy; Master on LP master reel.



Box 23 Item 286 Sleepsong for Sleepers, 1980, 1 open reel audiotapes

For clarinet, piano and electromagnetic tape. Jerome Bunke, clarinet; Joseph Kubera, piano. 1. Introductory speech. 2. Choice take (out to LP master). 3. Alternate take. Original mixes.



Box 24 Item 350 Still Life, 1980, 1 digital audio tapes

"Musiques Noires"



Box 20 Item 160 Still Life for cello and tape, 1980, 1 open reel audiotapes

Tape part (master)



Box 26 Item 395 Mao Sketches and Alban Berg, Lulu, third act, Metropolitan Opera, 1981 January 3, 1 audiocassettes


Box 26 Item 406 Ulrike My Hope, Frederic Rzewski, pianist, The Kitchen, New York City, 1981 March 28, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: Luca Lombardi, Variazioni su "Avanti Popolo Alla Riscossa" (incomplete). Side B: İlhan Mimaroğlu, "Ulrike My Hope," with Peg Ahrens, singer.



Box 24 Item 343 İlhan Mimaroğlu: GRM extraits, 1996 June 18, 1 digital audio tapes

1. Fanfare. 2. Hyperboles. 3. Anacoluthes. 4. Cipher. 5. La Belle et la poubelle. 6. Wings of the Delirious Demon. 7. Bowery Bum. 8. Coucou Bazar. 9. Music Plus One. 10. Music Plus One for tape and violin. 11. La Ruche. 12. L'Offrande. 13. Sing Me a Song of Songmy. 14. Tract. 15. Still Life.



Box 25 Item 358 Mimar Kemalettin konuşması, 1996 August, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 23 Item 254 [Illegible] mock-up, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 24 Item 340 11 Preludes (for GRM), undated, 1 digital audio tapes

1. No. 1. 2. No. 8. 3. No. 21. 4. No. 2. 5. No. 11. 6. No. 17. 7. No. 22. 8. No. 9. 9. No. 14. 10. No. 24. 11. No. 12.


Box 24 Item 344 11 Preludes (for GRM), undated, 1 digital audio tapes

Copy of item 340. 1. No. 1. 2. No. 8. 3. No. 21. 4. No. 2. 5. No. 11. 6. No. 17. 7. No. 22. 8. No. 9. 9. No. 14. 10. No. 24. 11. No. 12.


Box 24 Item 451 Audio blank spliced, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

May be blank.



Box 21 Item 172 Bass marimba sounds and sound effects, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 24 Item 352 CD master (copy), undated, 1 digital audio tapes

1. Fanfare. 2. Prelude No. 17. 3. Prelude No. 19. 4. Cipher Casting. 5. Prelude No. 20. 6-8. Mao Sketches. 9. Prelude No. 13. 10. Prelude No. 14. 11. Bleaker Streets. 12. Prelude No. 22. 13. Prelude No. 21. 14. Prelude No. 6. 15. Prelude No. 10. 16. The Last Largo.


Box 24 Item 349 Coucou Bazar and Tract (with edited part 2), undated, 1 digital audio tapes

Both used on archives CD.


Box 24 Item 322 Da Capo material/components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 25 Item 371 Box 25 Item 373 Festival master, undated, 2 open reel audiotapes



Box 26 Item 409 Festival master duplicates, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: Reel one. Side B: Reel two.



Box 21 Item 208 Flashes, Gelenbe material, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Flashes retake with wrong note; don't use.



Box 24 Item 458 Frequencies, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 21 Item 175 Gece Ezgileri, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 24 Item 315 If You Don't Burn clarinet accompaniment, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes


Box 24 Item 335 İlhan Mimaroğlu CD master, undated, 1 digital audio tapes

1. Fanfare. 2. Prelude No. 17. 3. Prelude No. 19. 4. Cipher Casting. 5. Prelude No. 20. 6. "Letting a hundred flowers blossom..." 7. La Bella et la poubelle. 8. Prelude No. 24. 9. Bleaker Streets. 10. Prelude No. 22. 11. Prelude No. 21. 12. Melody Lost and Found. 13. Prelude No. 10. 14. The Last Largo.


Box 24 Item 331 l'Apres-Midi work copy, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 18 Item 96 LP master, side 2: The Offering, 5 Preludes, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. The Offering (8:32)("out to new master"), 2. Prelude No. 4 (4:25), 3. Prelude No. 5 (2:28), 4. Prelude No. 7 (2:45), 5. Prelude No. 10 (1:28), 6. Prelude No. 17 (3:27) ("Abandoned as Prelude, No. 17 is now "Istanbul Fog" NOT HERE")



Box 23 Item 278 Mao Sketch No. 3, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Edited version



Box 18 Item 91 Box 20 Item 146 Box 22 Item 222 Box 22 Item 225 Mao Sketches, undated, 4 open reel audiotapes

1. Sketch 1 (7:50) 2. Sketch 2 (5:27) 3. Sketch 3 (7:10). ("There can be no greater crime"), Three steps of processing/three versions (subject to further processing). GM speech. Electronic part.



Box 23 Item 294 Mao Sketches, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Long version (master/work copy) for first performance. To further process if necessary and prepare short version.



Box 26 Item 393 Mimaroğlu and Ussachevsky, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: 1. Mini-Preludes (4). 2. Episode 1. Side B: Ussachevsky, Jubilee Cantata



Box 22 Item 220 Mimaroğlu Foundation Maeght, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Film, synthesized sections, and discarded [illegible]



Box 20 Item 157 Music Plus One for violin and tape, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Tape part (master)


Box 20 Item 131 Music Plus One material and components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 24 Item 457 Nazi Era sound documents, Hitler, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes


Box 24 Item 453 Nocturne tape part, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Two parallel half tracks. Mono; play two channels uncombined.


Box 24 Item 318 Parmak Çocuk, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

master



Box 22 Item 221 Pièces sentimentales, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Alternate takes, edited. Amiram Rigai, pianist


Box 22 Item 247 Prelude No. 10 masters, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

to discard


Box 22 Item 244 Prelude No. 15 "Che", undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

(To be considered for final approval.) 1. 7.5 ips stereo reference from quad original. 2. Tones at 15 ips - 1 kc, 10 kc, 100 cps. 3. Electronic components. 4. Electronic components. 5. Electronic components. 6. Unused components (For possible use elsewhere). 7. Unused components (for possible use elsewhere). 8. Che and translation - prepared component. 9. Che and translation - material.


Box 22 Item 245 Prelude No. 16 (Dino), undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Intro - four channels. 2. Intro - mix with echo. 3. First version - rejected (from quad original). 4. Intro comp. sustained tone and melody, without echo. 5. Electronic component for song. 6. Ending - first version, rejected. 7. Electronic sub-component for song. 8. Other version of electronic sub-component. 9. Electronic component with reverse echo (unused). 10. Song with rough mix and component. 11. Sustained tone component for intro.



Box 23 Item 297 Prelude No. 16 (Dino) components, plus Session Tristan fragment, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Pitch "A." 2. Tristan fragment (For "Session"). 3. Piano accompaniment track - unused (Prelude No. 16). 4. Intro - ostinato component. 5. Siegel with piano acc. unused. 6. Piano acc. both tracks - unused. 7. Siegel - Voice component (with echo). 8. Siegel - voice component (original of above [cut to Qt. master]. 9. Siegel - "blue" 10. Siegel out takes. 11. Siegel outtakes


Box 23 Item 262 Preludes, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Prelude No. 16 two speed- varied versions - NG. [illegible] work copy. Prelude No. 15



Box 21 Item 165 Preludes, side 2, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 24 Item 301 Provocations, White Cockatoo forward, and Tract components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes; This item was in poor condition and could not be digitized.


Box 24 Item 338 Box 24 Item 334 Repository, undated, 2 digital audio tapes

1. Hyperboles. 2. Wings of the Delirious Demon. 3. Intermezzo. 4-9. Preludes, Book I (Nos. 1-6). 10-15. Preludes, Book II (Nos. 7-12). 16-21. Preludes, Books III (Nos. 13-18). 22-27. Preludes, Book IV (Nos. 19-24). 28. Provocations. 29. To Kill a Sunrise.



Box 18 Item 88 Session - Cangianti - master, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1")



Box 22 Item 236 Session electronic component, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes


Box 22 Item 223 Session master duplicates, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes


Box 22 Item 211 Session materials and components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Intro. Three voices/sub-component. 2. Levy: uneq./edited material. 3. Goldstein/Kolodner. 4. Levy with electronic sub-component. 5. Kolodner: uneq. edited material. 6. Kolodner: unused. 7. Electronic sub-component for intro. 8. Electronic material: unused.


Box 22 Item 217 side 2 duplicate of 9001, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 24 Item 354 Sleepsong for Sleepers, undated, 1 digital audio tapes

1. Sleepsong for Sleepers. 2. Arel: Wall Street Impression. 3. The Last Largo.



Box 21 Item 206 Sleepsong for Sleepers materials and components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 18 Item 89 Sleepsong for Sleepers originals, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1")



Box 24 Item 305 Sodome et Gomorrhe components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Three instruments prelude - work copy components; Discarded guitar prelude material. Identified as part 2; part 1 unidentified.


Box 24 Item 302 Music for Giraudoux's play "Sodom and Gomorrah", undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Main tape



Box 26 Item 404 Songs of Darkness, undated, 1 audiocassettes

1. Howard Shanet, Presidential Symphony Orchestra, Ankara. 2. Gürer Aykal, Ankara Chamber Orchestra



Box 20 Item 145 Sound effects, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 23 Item 259 Still Life [illegible], undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 24 Item 326 String Quartet No. 4, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

New vocal track masters, out-takes, edited-out sections. 1. 20th century - unused out-take with unused vocal track. 2. 20th century - Unused instrumental intro (hiss). 3. Your eyes - replaced 2nd violin phrase. 4. The Wall - unused opening with echo. 5. The Wall - new vocal track, edited master. 6. Freedom - New vocal track, edited master, Part I. 7. Freedom - New vocal track, edited master, Part II. 8. Freedom - New vocal track, edited master, Part III. 9. 20th century - New vocal track (unused), Part I. 10. 20th century - New vocal track (unused), Part II. 11. Violin intro phrase takes, plus slowed down (for pitches).



Box 25 Item 368 String Quartet No. 4, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Janis Siegel vocal track with click track, Dolby original



Box 24 Item 332 The Last Largo, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 23 Item 295 The Offering, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Long version/work copy. Do not use for performance. See final master.



Box 24 Item 346 To Kill a Sunrise, undated, 1 digital audio tapes

1. First pass, left overshoot. 2. Second pass, lesser overshoot to left. 3. Third pass, still left overshoot.



Box 22 Item 250 To Kill a Sunrise, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Quad duplicate from master


Box 22 Item 252 To Kill a Sunrise materials and components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Screams - component. 2. Counterpoint seq. follow-up component with overdubs. 3. Electronic component for screams. 4. Electric piano follow-up component. 5. Electronic component for screams. 6. Electronic component for screams. 7. Guevara song: electronic component - sustained chord. 8. Hand clap - material. 9. Radio component (Luche), media control, etc. from cassette. 10. "Praise god." 11. Rock seq. with screams. 12. Strings - sustained. 13. Rock material. 14. Rock material.


Box 22 Item 253 To Kill a Sunrise materials and components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. "Say we enjoy..." - one original take. 2. Electronic sub-component for screams - unused. 3. Electronic sub-component for screams - unused. 4. Square wae attacks - unused. 5. Rear channel pianos for counterpoint sequence: timed component with leaders. 6. Metronomes - unused. 7. Metronomes - unused. 8. Electronic low-thump component for "Say we enjoy..." 9. Record-end noise (unused). 10. Square wave attacks - unused. 11. Electronic piano material. 12. Electric piano material.



Box 21 Item 166 To Kill a Sunrise materials and components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Intro gliss. component 2. Geoffrey/Guevara report - equalized - unused 3. Intro - thumps with piano 4. Geoffrey - unequalized 5. Square wave short tones - unused



Box 22 Item 210 To Kill a Sunrise materials and components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

[illegible] components for intro, Intro and finale components, Chris reading four times and ambient noise


Box 22 Item 231 To Kill a Sunrise materials and components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Counterpoint sequence: follow-up component. 2. Guevara report: Geoffrey w. screams - final. 3. Gb transition to Guevara report - component. 4. Screams - component. 5. Guevara report - polyphonic content.


Box 22 Item 233 To Kill a Sunrise materials and components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Bass line for counterpoint sequence - unfiltered. 2. Guevara report: sustianed sounds = component with overdubs. 3. Guevara report: sustained sounds - overlay sub-components (1). 4. Guevara report: sustained sounds - overlay sub-components (2)


Box 22 Item 239 To Kill a Sunrise materials and components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Counterpoint sequence: follow-up component. 2. Guevara report: sustained component = unused. 3. High Gb - Interlude after "Today is...". 4. Guevara Song: final component (Used with channels reversed). 5. Bass melody component for counterpoint (filtered) unused. 6. Counterpoint sequence component: two lines. 7. Counterpoint sequence component: two lines, continued. 8. One line of above with metronome: sub-component. 9. Guevara Song follow-up: rock plus (sub-component). 10. Drums (unused). 11. Drums (unused). 12. Guevara Song: electric piano intro (unused0. 13. Guevara Song with electric piano. 14. Guevara Song with synthesizer: unprocessed.


Box 22 Item 241 To Kill a Sunrise materials and components, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Two versions of intro to Guevara Song



Box 21 Item 169 To Kill a Sunrise secondary and unused material, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 22 Item 237 To Kill a Sunrise stereo duplicate, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes


Box 22 Item 219 Box 22 Item 240 Box 22 Item 251 To Kill a Sunrise, "Today is...", undated, 3 open reel audiotapes

1. [unidentified] 2. other 3. Music/voice sub-component



Box 24 Item 330 Traité, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Identified as parts 3 and 4. Parts 1 and 2 unidentified.


Box 24 Item 306 Box 24 Item 307 Transitive II - components and complete takes, undated, 2 open reel audiotapes

Sequence of components unclear.



Box 20 Item 159 Box 20 Item 127 Box 24 Item 313 Box 20 Item 152 What Is Electronic Music?, undated, 4 open reel audiotapes


Subseries IV.2: Performances and talks, 1979-1995, undated



Box 24 Item 342 İlhan Mimaroğlu ASUC talk, 1979, 1 digital audio tapes

See also item 446.



Box 26 Item 376 İlhan Mimaroğlu, American Society of Composers talk, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 1979, 1 audiocassettes


Box 26 Item 446 İlhan Mimaroğlu, ASUC Panel talk, Chicago, DePaul University, 1979 November 10, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: İlhan Mimaroğ̆lu panel talk. Side B: ASUC panel, excerpts



Box 22 Item 227 Ussachevsky/Usmanbaş talks, Mimaroğlu Dubuffet talk, 1981 October, 1 open reel audiotapes

France-Culture



Box 24 Item 336 İlhan Mimaroğlu and Arel, 1985, undated, 1 digital audio tapes

1. Sleepsong for Sleepers, Mimaroğlu tape part. 2. Sleepsong for Sleepers, Mimaroğlu tape part (5 dB louder). Transferred from 7.5 ips tape, copyright 1985 Tallapoosa Music. 3-5. Arel disc copy.



Box 26 Item 439 İlhan Mimaroğlu, "Music Plus One" for violin and electromagnetic tape, 1988 February 16, 1 audiocassettes

Victor Schultz, violin. Music Inter Alia concert, recorded live in Winnipeg


Box 26 Item 384 Music Plus One Carnegie Hall, Victor Schutz; İdil Biret/Bach on electric piano, 1989 September 23, 1 audiocassettes


Box 26 Item 388 Music of Turkish Composers, Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York City, 1993 May 14, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: 1. "Pilgrimage to the Forgotten City" (1940), Cemal Resid Rey. 2. Sonata for Flute and Piano. 3. At the Yunus Tomb. Both by Ekrem Zeki Un. 4. "From the Other Diary" (1992), İlhan Mimaroğlu. Side B: 1. Two Songs for Voice and Piano. Cemal Resid Rey. 2. Three Songs for Voice and Piano, Ahmed A. Saygun. 3. Four Etudes on Aksak Rhythms, A. Adnan Saygun.


Box 26 Item 391 Music of Turkish Composers, Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York City, 1995 May 11, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: U.C. Eskin, "Impressions." İlhan Mimaroğlu, 'L'Eruption de la fin." İlhan Mimaroğlu, Three Songs for Voice and Piano. Side B: Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat, "Cehennemde Bir Mevsim Çalınmalıdır." A. Adnan Saygun, Three Songs for Voice and Piano.



Box 20 Item 162 Columbia Composers Concert, İlhan Mimaroğlu, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Monolog I, stereo version; 2. Monolog I, mono original; both with Hamrullah Duyau on clarinet. 3. Toccate I and II, mono; George Flynn, piano.


Subseries IV.3: Works by other artists, 1954-1985, undated



Box 24 Item 328 Varèse: Deserts world premiere performance, Paris, 1954 December 2, 1 open reel audiotapes

Hermann Scherchen, conductor



Box 20 Item 143 Schaeffer, Mâche, Kyrou, Bayle, 1959-1960, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Pierre Schaeffer: Etude aux Objects, 1959; François Mâche, Prélude, 1959; Mireille Kyrou, Etude, 1960; François Bayle, L'Oiseau Chanteur



Box 12 Item 26 Musique Phénoménale I. Nez Cassé / Nouvel An / Vole Vent, 1961, 1 phonograph records

Venice. Galleria del Cavallino. Edition of 56 copies including 6 hors commerce; inscribed '43 / 50' in black ink to central white label.


Box 12 Item 27 Musique Phénoménale II. Débats et Rumeurs / Crépite et Flambe / Brusqueries, 1961, 1 phonograph records

Venice. Galleria del Cavallino. Edition of 57 copies including 7 hors commerce; inscribed '43 / 50' in black ink to central white label.


Box 12 Item 28 Musique Phénoménale III. Ebats / Danse Moustique / Innocence, 1961, 1 phonograph records

Venice. Galleria del Cavallino. Edition of 60 copies including 10 hors commerce; inscribed '43 / 50' in black ink to central green label.


Box 12 Item 29 Musique Phénoménale IV. Sang / Claque Dent, 1961, 1 phonograph records

Venice. Galleria del Cavallino. Edition of 60 copies including 10 hors commerce; inscribed '43 / 50' in blue ink to central green label.


Box 12 Item 30 Experiences Musicales I. Aggravation / Cris d'Herbe / Longue Peine. Musique de Jean Dubuffet jouée par l'auteur, 1961, 1 phonograph records

Venice. Galleria del Cavallino. Edition of 60 copies including 10 hors commerce; inscribed 'HC' and signed by Dubuffet in ink to central pink label.


Box 12 Item 31 Experiences Musicales II. La Fleur de Barbe. Poème de Jean Dubuffet interprété par l'auteur, 1961, 1 phonograph records

Venice. Galleria del Cavallino. Edition of 134 copies including 50 'destinés à l'artiste' with a red label, 60 including 10 hors commerce with a pink label and 24 including 4 hors commerce with a yellow label; inscribed '2/50' and signed by Dubuffet in ink to central pink label.


Box 12 Item 32 Experiences Musicales III. Pousee l'Herbe, l'Eau / Coq à l'Oeil / Aguchements. Musique de Jean Dubuffet jouée par l'auteur, 1961, 1 phonograph records

Venice. Galleria del Cavallino. Edition of 115 copies including 55 'destinés à l'artiste' including 5 hors commerce with a white label and 60 including 10 hors commerce with a pink label; inscribed '49/50' and signed by Dubuffet in ink to central pink label.


Box 12 Item 33 Experiences Musicales IV. Délibérants / Terre Foissonnante / Prospère-Prolifèere / Diligences Futiles. Musique de Jean Dubuffet jouée par l'auteur, 1961, 1 phonograph records

Venice. Galleria del Cavallino. Edition of 60 copies including 10 hors commerce; inscribed 'HC' and signed by Dubuffet in ink to central pink label.



Box 24 Item 454 Ensemble MW2, 1963, 1968, 1978, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Bogusław Schaeffer (Poland), Blues 1 for Tape and 2 Pianos, Adam Kaczyniski (first piano/left), Bogusław Schaeffer (second piano/right), recorded Kraków, 1978. 2. La Monte Young (USA), Study 1 for Piano Solo, Adam Kaczyniski, piano, recorded at concert in Kraków, 1963. 3. Mario Davidowsky (USA), Sinchronisms 1 for Flute and Tape, Barbara Svietek, flute, recorded Besgrad, Festival Benes in Yugoslavia, 1968.



Box 26 Item 440 György Ligeti, Requiem, Lontano, Continuum, circa 1970s, 1 audiocassettes

Requiem for soprano, mezzo, two choirs, and orchestra - Liliana Poli, Barbro Ericson, Bavarian Radio Chorus/Wolfgang Schubert; Hessian Radio Symphony/Michael Gielen



Box 21 Item 201 Rachel La Cubana, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 26 Item 441 Siegfried Palm, Modern Works for Cello, circa 1970s, 1 audiocassettes

Ligeti: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Hessian Radio Symphony/Michael Gielen. Penderecki: Sonata for Cello and Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic/Andzej Markowski. Webern: Three Small Pieces for Cello and Piano. Hindemith: Cello Sonata, op. 25 no. 3 (1923). Zimmerman: Cello Sonata (1960).



Box 25 Item 360 Herbert Eimert: Epitaph für Aikichi Kuboyama, 1972 June 3, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 24 Item 455 Igor Stravinski, Samuel Ruskin, Duo Concertant, 1972 July 14, 1 open reel audiotapes

Scherzo, Berceuse, Danse Russe, Pastorale.



Box 22 Item 232 Michel Chion Requiem, 1973, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 24 Item 309 Priscilla McLean, Invisible Chariots, 1973, 1 open reel audiotapes


Box 24 Item 450 Amber '75, by Ann McMillan, circa 1975, 1 open reel audiotapes

Source material for these abstracted sounds: 1 bell recorded by composer, tree crickets and tree frogs through the courtesy of Dr. Richard Alexander, University of Michigan.


Box 24 Item 310 Barton McLean, The Sorcerer Revisited, 1978, 1 open reel audiotapes


Box 24 Item 308 Priscilla McLean, Invisible Chariots, 1978, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 22 Item 215 Lullaby for Daisy Pauline by Pauline Oliveros, 1981 March 25, 1 open reel audiotapes

Performed by Queens College Choral Society



Box 26 Item 386 Kamran Ince, 1982, 1985, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: Beyond Black (1985), piano, celesta, electric piano, percussion. Side B: The Blue Journey (1982), piano.


Box 26 Item 405 Kamran Ince, 1985, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: Infrared Only. New York Youth Symphony, D. Miller, conductor. Side B: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Eastman Symphony. Ince, piano. Komatsu, conductor.



Box 20 Item 164 197 Penderecki Messiaen Boulez Hodeir, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Pederecki, Threnody; 2. Penderecki, Psalmus; 3. Hodeir, Jazz et Jazz; 4. Messiaen, Timbres Dureés; 5. Boulez, Etude No. 1; . Boulez (?), Von der Unglückliche Lebensbedingunden der Thunfish



Box 24 Item 303 207 Varèse Deserts - Interpolations, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

First version



Box 20 Item 137 Amacher, El-Dabh, Behrman, Wilding-White, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Maryanne Amacher from "Everything-in-Air" 1974; Halim El-Dabh, Tahmeel '76; David Behrman Snack; Raymond Wilding-White, Monochromes II (Fanfare for Jasper Johns, Soap, Crusade, Campaign)



Box 24 Item 337 Box 24 Item 347 Arel, undated, 2 digital audio tapes

Components identified as 1 and 3. Item 2 not identified.


Box 24 Item 324 Arel compositions, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Music for string quartet and tape, Camerata Quartet. 2. Music for string quartet and tape, tape part only. 3. Sides A and B of Scapegoat Music, play by D. F. Matthews.


Box 24 Item 311 Barton McLean, Dimensions II for Piano and Tape, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Robert Hamilton, pianist


Box 24 Item 327 Cage, Varèse, Ligeti, Pousseur, Mel Powell, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Cage, Fontana Mix. Varèse, Interpolations. Ligeti, Articulations. Pousseur, 1. Scambi; 2. Etude pour Rhymes; 3. Rhymes. Mel Powell, 1. Events; 2. Electronic setting.



Box 25 Item 366 Box 25 Item 367 Dubuffet, Musical Experiences, undated, 2 open reel audiotapes

Master. Copy/processed.



Box 22 Item 216 Erdem Buri, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 26 Item 408 Frantisek Chaun, Hommage à Jean Dubuffet, undated, 1 audiocassettes



Box 22 Item 218 John Cage, Fontana mix, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Material II-IV


Box 22 Item 213 John Cage: Fontana mix - material I-III, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 24 Item 320 Luc Ferrari, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes; This item was in poor condition and could not be digitized.

Tautologos II, Visage V



Box 20 Item 124 Luciano Berio, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Perspectives 2. Scambi 3. Mutazioni, 4. Momenti



Box 26 Item 400 Münik Nurettin Selçuk, Üstad 3, Üstad 1, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: Üstad 3. 1. Rast Kâr-ı Nâtık (15:51). 2. Çin-i Geysusuna (4:26). 3. Ab-ü Tabile Bu Şeb (5:23). 4. Sâki Parıldasın (4:10). 5. Aziz İstanbul (3:58). 6. Dostun Senden Irak Değil (4:10). 7. Affeyle Günahım (3:46). 8. Dumanlı Başları Gâklere Ermiş (5:00). 9. Zeybeklerle Gezer (4:26). 10. Endülüs'te Raks (4:46). Side B: Üstad 1. 1. İstinye Köfezinde (4:39). 2. Bir Merhaleden Güneş le derya Görünür (2:30). 3. Bakın Bâd-ı Semûm oldu ecel âh (2:35). 4. Tekbir ve Salât-ı ümmiye (3:42). 5. Şol cennetin Irmakları (5:24). 6. Ewel Allah Adını Yâd Edelim (3:12). 7. Dağlar ile Taşlar ile (3:15). 8. Çıkmaz Derun-i Dilden Efen-Dim Muhabbetin (4:13). 9. Bir Melek-Seima Peri Gördüm (3:06). 10. Kandilli Yüzerken Uykularda (3:57).


Box 26 Item 380 New Sounds from Türkiye, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Kamran İnce, conductor



Box 24 Item 456 Pierre Schaeffer, Étude Pathétique, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 21 Item 187 R. Wilding-White, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Whatzit No. 3, piano 2. Pavanne (8:49) 3. Ecce Homo (8:00) 4. Don't Call Us We'll Call You (8:00) 5. America: Love It Or Leave It I. The Courtship (7:30) II. The Wedding (5:42) III. The Consummation (7:24)


Box 21 Item 200 R. Wilding-White, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Time Motion Study (2:35) 2. Concerto Grosso (10:22) 3. The Natives Are Restless (5:55) 4. Of Time and the River (12:24) 5. Guru (5:25)



Box 25 Item 357 R. Wilding-White, Galaxy: commissed by the Adler Planetarium, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Quasar, Andromeda, Polaris, Jupiter, Mars, Terra, Mercury, The Sun and Beyond



Box 21 Item 188 R. Wilding-White, Monochromes III: A Tribute to Society, History, Indsutry, and Technology, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Fanfare, Folk Song, Crusade, Folk Song (reprise), Campaign



Box 26 Item 447 "Southern Voices for Orchestra" and "Tunings for String Quartet," by Sorrel Hays, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Southern Voices for Orchestra: Daisy Newman, soprano; Richard Cormier, conductor; Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra. Publisher: Hemmer Press, agent C. F. Peters. Tunings for String Quartet: Ariadne String Quartet.


Box 26 Item 444 Switched On Music featuring Wendy Carlos, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Program 1: "Study No. 1," Andres Lewin-Richter; "Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe," "Intermezzo," "Bowery Bum," İlhan Mimaroğlu. Program 2: "Vocalise," Tzvi Avni; "Variations for Flute and Electronic Sound," "Dialogues for Piano and Two Loudspeakers," Walter Carlos.



Box 22 Item 224 Varèse Interpolations, GRM version, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 27 Track lists and other inserts from audio recordings

Separated from Boxes 1-3, 5, and 7.