Register of Pauline Oliveros Papers - MSS 0102
Compositions
Box 1 Folder 1-3
Aranged in approximate alphabetical order, A-Z. Includes details of instrumentation, programs and ephemera, first and subsequent performances, commissions, etc.
Box 1 Folder 4
Aok. Includes manuscript score, draft, sketches, and correspondence, 1969
Box 1 Folder 5
Accordion. Includes diagram and tentative program, 1966
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Adagio for woodwinds. For flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon. Includes holograph score in multiple drafts, 1957
Box 1 Folder 9
Anarchy Waltz. Includes manuscript score, annotated photocopy, programs, and review, 1980
Box 1 Folder 10
Angels and Demons. Includes manuscript score, mimeograph and programs, 1980
Box 1 Folder 11
Apple Box Orchestra. Sketch, undated
Box 1 Folder 12
Arrangement. By Douglas Leedy, with further arrangements by Pauline Oliveros and Roger Davis. Includes typescript score and program, 1972
Box 1 Folder 13
Art of the Woodcut. Music for the film "The Art of the Woodcut." Includes holograph score, instructions and photograph
Box 1 Folder 14
Autobiography of Lady Steinway. Manuscript score, 1978
Box 1 Folder 15
Bath. Includes holograph score and sketches, 1966
Box 1 Folder 16
Big Mother Meets the Wolfman. Includes a photocopy of letter to Robert Ashley, 1969
Box 1 Folder 17
Bio-Theatre. Includes notes for Mandeville Center opening ceremony, festivals and courses. Also includes correspondence and Trainability of Listening Comprehension of Speed Discourse , 1975
Box 1 Folder 18
Birthday Tune for Laurel. Includes holograph score
Box 1 Folder 22
Bye Bye Butterfly. Includes program and recording contract, 1975
Box 1 Folder 25
Cat O Nine Tails. Includes instructions, graph and miscellaneous notes, 1965
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Cats. Holograph sketch and text
Box 2 Folder 2
Ceremony of Sounds. For Tamar Read. Includes manuscript score, drafts and correspondence, 1974
Box 2 Folder 4
Chronicles of Hell. Music for the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Includes scripts and partial holograph score, 1965
Box 2 Folder 5
Circuitry. Includes holograph score and notes, 1967
Box 2 Folder 6
Cock-A-Doodle Dandy. Music for the Actor's Workshop Production of Sean O'Casey's "Cock-A-Doodle Dandy," directed by Herbert Blau. Includes holograph score, drafts and program, 1959
Box 2 Folder 7
Concert Piece for Accordion. Holograph score, 1956
Box 2 Folder 14
Dialogue with Basho. Includes manuscript score, typescript and correspondence, 1972
Box 2 Folder 15
Double Basses at Twenty Paces - Multiple drafts of the score, 1968
Box 2 Folder 16-17
Double Basses at Twenty Paces - Revisions and correspondence, 1973
Box 2 Folder 18
Double X. Includes manuscript score and notes, 1979
Box 2 Folder 22
Duo for Pianist and Pedal Pusher. Includes draft of score and sketches, 1964
Box 2 Folder 23
Dying Alchemist. Includes correspondence, source material and drafts. Text by N. P. Willis, 1968 - 1974
Box 3 Folder 1
Eighteen Accordion Pieces for Children. Holograph score, 1957
Box 3 Folder 2-3
El Relicario de los Animales, 1979
Includes drafts of score, instructions, program and miscellaneous correspondence.
Box 3 Folder 4
El Relicario de los Animales - Photographs, 1979
Box 3 Folder 5
Electronic Mantra - Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT). Includes articles published in Techne , 1970
Box 3 Folder 6
Electronic Mantra - Notes. Includes diagrams, 1970
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Electronic Mantra - Pavilion, Expo '70. Osaka, Japan. Plans in Japanese, 1970
Box 3 Folder 8
Electronic Mantra - Pepsi-Cola Pavilion. Press kit, 1970
Box 3 Folder 9
Elephant Call. Ritual for Trumpeter Jack Logan. Includes manuscript score, draft and correspondence, 1975
Box 3 Folder 10
Engineer's Delight for Piccolo and Seven Conductors. Includes diagram and tentative program, 1966
Box 3 Folder 13
Evidence for Competing Bimolecular and Termolecular Mechanisms in the Hydrochlorination of Cyclohexene. Includes diagram, photocopies and excerpt from article with the same title
Box 3 Folder 14
Exception and the Rule. Holograph score
Box 3 Folder 15
Festival House. For orchestra, chorus, mimes, and lights. Includes manuscript score and program notes, 1968
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Few Phrases for Accordion, Trumpet and String Bass. Holograph sketch
Box 3 Folder 17
Five for Trumpet and Dancer. Includes holograph score and slides, 1964
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For Budding Hall-O Ween Peace. Holograph score included in Harold Budd's portfolio, "California 99"
Box 3 Folder 19
Four-H Leader. Includes holographs, source materials, license, and notes, 1958
Box 3 Folder 20
French Horn - Minor Scale and Mixed Mode Studies. Includes mimeographs and notes. Also includes Ear-Training In Absolute Intervals for Music A, 1951
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French Horn - Music notebook. Includes holograph scores related to the French Horn Interval Studies
Box 3 Folder 22
French Horn Etudes. Includes mimeograph and holograph scores
Box 3 Folder 23
French Horn Interval Studies. Includes mimeographs
Box 3 Folder 24
Fugue for Piano, 1954 August 27
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Fugue in A Minor. Holograph score, 1951
Box 3 Folder 25
Fwyynghn: A Stage Piece with Music and a Ballet Dance. Collaboration with Gordon Mumma, Christian Sinding, Louise Frazer, Beatrice Manley, and others. Includes scripts and drafts, 1979 - 1980
Box 3 Folder 26
Fwyynghn: Lament for a Princess Enchanted into Death. Includes holograph sketch and score, 1980
Box 4 Folder 1
Genuine Cheap Commission. Includes instructions and note, 1981
Box 4 Folder 2
George Washington Slept Here. Includes sketch and correspondence, 1965
Box 4 Folder 3
George Washington Slept Here Too. Includes manuscript score and photocopy. Published in Soundings I, 1972, 1965
Box 4 Folder 4
Hallo. With Anthony Martin. Includes annotated scores and drafts
Box 4 Folder 5
I Heard a Boy Singing Long Long Ago. Includes manuscript, typescript and a photocopy of score. Text by Robert Duncan, 1968
Box 4 Folder 6
In Memoriam, Nikola Tesla, Comic Engineer. Music for the dance Canfield by Merce Cunnigham. Includes drafts, typescript of score and miscellaneous correspondence, 1969
Box 4 Folder 7
Indefinite Integral of Psi Star Psi D Tau Equals One. Includes manuscript score and drafts, 1969
Box 4 Folder 8
I've Got You Under My Skin. For solo percussionist and batman. Collage on strip of paper board
Box 4 Folder 9
Light Piece for David Tudor..., 1974
Box 4 Folder 10
Link. Includes manuscript score, drafts and source materials. Published in Womens Work, 1971
Box 4 Folder 11
Lullaby for Daisy Pauline. Includes manuscript score and correspondence, 1980
Box 4 Folder 12
Lulu: A Semi-operetta. Includes annotated typescripts with holograph scores, 1962
Box 4 Folder 13
Mandala. Includes score, program, notes, and correspondence, 1978
Box 4 Folder 17
Music for Stacked Deck. Scripts by Dick Higgins. Includes manuscript score and notes, 1973 - 1980
Box 4 Folder 18
Night Jar. Includes typescript of score, drafts and correspondence
Box 4 Folder 19
Oh Ha Ah. For chorus, conductor and two percussions. Includes holograph score
Box 4 Folder 20
One of Four. Includes holograph score by Jim Stone
Box 4 Folder 21
Outline for Septet. Includes draft of score
Box 4 Folder 22
Painting Meditation, 1975
Box 4 Folder 23
Phantom Fathom. Includes score, correspondence, invitation, and guest lists for 1973 performance, 1972
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Passages for Harp, Trumpet and Accordion. Includes holograph score and draft
Box 4 Folder 25
Patchwork Girl of Oz, 1981
Box 4 Folder 26
Pathways of the Grandmothers, 1978
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Piano Piece. Includes holograph score, 1956
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Piano Piece I - III. Three pieces with the same title, plus one additional untitled composition. Includes holograph score, 1951
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Piece for Cello and Piano. Includes holograph score, 1951
Box 4 Folder 30-32
Includes masters, prints, drafts, transparancies, and photocopy of score.
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Pieces of Eight - Graphic for projection, positive and negative image
Box 5 Folder 1
Pieces of Eight - Revision with manuscript score, 1973
Box 5 Folder 3
Pieces of Eight - Miscellaneous programs, correspondence and notes
Box 5 Folder 4
Pieces of Eight - Photographs, 1965 - 1972
Box 5 Folder 5
Please Be Silent - The Performance Has Begun. Printed score
Box 5 Folder 6
Please Don't Shoot the Piano Player, He is Doing His Best. Includes typed score and annotated drafts
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Prelude and Fugue, for Staring Quartet. Includes holograph score and drafts, 1953 - 1954
Box 5 Folder 9
Prelude and Schuzo. Includes holograph score
Box 5 Folder 10
Program Notes for Tape and Orchestra. Includes manuscript score, 1972
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Quartet for Winds. Includes holograph score and draft, 1951
Box 5 Folder 12
A Realization of Compose by Keith Humble, "Are You Really Doing What You Think You Are Doing?"
Box 5 Folder 13
Rock Piece. Includes photocopy of manuscript score, 1979
Box 5 Folder 14
Rock Symphony. Includes outline and sketch, 1965
Box 5 Folder 21
Box 6 Folder 1
San Francisco Burning. Includes holograph score and correspondence, 1960
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Serenade for Viola and Bassoon, 1957
Box 6 Folder 3
Seven Passages. Includes outlines and notes, 1964
Box 6 Folder 4
Single Stroke Roll Meditation. Includes photocopy of manuscript score
Box 6 Folder 5
Sonata for Flute and Piano. Includes holograph score
Box 6 Folder 6
Song for Horn. Includes holograph score
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Song for Horn and Piano. Includes holograph score
Box 6 Folder 8
Sonic Images. Includes manuscript score photocopy, typescript, draft, and responses, 1972
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Suite for Piano. Includes holograph score and draft
Box 6 Folder 23
Theater of Substitution. Includes photographs, contracts and newspaper clipping, 1976
Box 6 Folder 24
Box 6 Folder 25
Theater Piece for John Baldessari. Includes "15 Musical Projects, an Exchange (for Pauline Oliveros)", 1970 April
Box 6 Folder 26
Sonic Meditations, Phantom Fathom, and Theater Piece for Trombone Player (commissioned by Stuart Dempster)
Includes manuscript score, notes, correspondence, and photographs.
Box 7 Folder 1
Three Part Song, and Three Part Period. Includes holograph score and sketch
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Three Songs for Soprano and Horn. Includes "O You Whom I Often and Silently Come," "Noctum" and "That Shadow My Likeness." Texts by Walt Whitman and Carl Sanburg. Includes holograph sketch, transparencies and ozalid print, 1957
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Three Songs for Soprano and Piano. Includes "An Interlude of Rare Beauty," "Spider Song" and "Song No. Six (from Maximus)." Texts by Robert Duncan and Charles Olson. Includes sketch, holograph score and ozalid print, 1957
Box 7 Folder 4
Three Songs for Soprano and Piano. Includes manuscript score, published score and program, 1957
Box 7 Folder 5
Three Songs for Soprano and Horn. Includes "O You Whom I Often and Silently Come," and "That Shadow My Likeness", 1957
Box 7 Folder 8
Traveling Companions. Includes photocopy of manuscript score, draft, drawings, and correspondence, 1980
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Trio for Accordion, Trumpet and String Bass (1961). Ozalid print, 1961
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Trio for Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon. Includes holograph scores, transparencies and ozalid print, 1955 - 1957
Box 7 Folder 15
Turning Meditation. Includes correspondence and notes for performance. Used for Elaine Summers' "Crow's Nest" , 1979-1980
See also: WORKS BY OTHERS, 1979-1980
Box 7 Folder 16
Twenty Five for Light and Four Players. Includes manuscript score, 1964
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Two Pieces for Trumpet, Accordion and String Bass, 1959. Includes holograph score and three additional pieces from 1960-1961
Box 7 Folder 18
Two Solo Pieces for Flute. Includes holograph score
Box 7 Folder 19
Undertone for Violin and Piano. Includes holograph score and fragment, 1951
Box 7 Folder 20
Valentine. Includes notes for the piece, a text that describes the piece and correspondence, 1968
Box 7 Folder 24
Variation on a Theme. For University of Illinois - Composer's Forum, 1977
Box 7 Folder 29
Water Event. Postcard reproduced in Break Glass in Case of Fire: The Anthology from the Center for Contemporary Music , 1976
Box 7 Folder 31
Box 7 Folder 34
Why Don't You Write a Short Piece? Includes manuscript score and correspondence, 1970
Box 7 Folder 35
Willowbrook Generation and Reflections (1976?). Includes published score, manuscript score, drafts, and correspondence, 1976
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Wistaria. Holograph score, 1953
Box 8 Folder 2
Witness. Includes manuscript score, draft and correspondence, 1979
Box 8 Folder 3
Yellow River Map. Includes manuscripts of score, notes, film editing typescript, and correspondence, 1977 October
Sketches
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Assorted sketches. Includes transparencies and a drawing
Box 8 Folder 7
Composition notes. Includes sketches of "Sonata (Unaccompanied Flute)," "Accordion Piece," and "Solo Piece for Flute", 1957-1960
Box 8 Folder 8
Graph of numerical values of notes
Box 8 Folder 9
Notepad - Scales, triads, intervals and exercises
Circa 20 pages of exercises including major scales, intervals, augmented intervals, triads, and inversions handwritten in ink by Oliveros (no compositions).
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Untitled sketches for ensemble. For flute, clarinet, double bass, bassoon, bass clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, percussion, harp, piano, and strings
Box 8 Folder 11-12
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