Series I: Scores

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{"value"=>"1947-2015", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1947/2015"}
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{"value"=>"Series I: Scores"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Scores series represent Wolff's music at every stage of his career. The earliest are for works dating from the late-1940s, and the most recent composition is from 2015. A list of most of Wolff's compositions and their instrumentations, found on his faculty website at Dartmouth College, is available as an added resource in the archival portal. Within this finding aid, only compositions that do not appear on that list have descriptions of instrumentation.</p> <p>The music (in both notated and prose/narrative form) appears as notes, sketches, drafts, fair copies, and, in some cases, published scores. Not all compositions are represented in all these forms. Some have only sketches and drafts, some have only fair copies, and some have everything from sketches to published copy. Most, however, have sketches and drafts, and a smaller number have fair copies. Published copies are present for only a few of the compositions. Many works have explanatory notes by Wolff regarding history of the composition or performance directions and suggestions.</p> <p>Among the compositions for which both drafts and fair copies are present are <span class=\"title\">Serenade</span> (1950), <span class=\"title\">Duo For Pianists II</span> (1958), <span class=\"title\">Duet I</span> (1960), <span class=\"title\">Septet</span> (1964), <span class=\"title\">Lines for String Quartet</span> (1972), <span class=\"title\">For Cornelius</span> (1985), <span class=\"title\">Peace March 4</span> (1985), <span class=\"title\">Eight Days A Week Variation</span> (1990), <span class=\"title\">John, David</span> (1993-1998), <span class=\"title\">Pieces For Julius</span> (1995), <span class=\"title\">Spring</span> (1995), <span class=\"title\">She Had Some Horses</span> (2001), <span class=\"title\">Orchestra : Pieces</span> (2005), <span class=\"title\">String Trio For Robert Ashley</span> (2009), <span class=\"title\">Quintet For Merce</span> (2009), and <span class=\"title\">Individuals, Collective</span> (2012).</p> <p>Also present are untitled sketches and orphan score pages; these can be found at the end of the series. Wolff's Library in Series III holds scores by other composers.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The scores are arranged in roughly chronological sequence.</p>"}
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1947
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1947
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2015
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1947
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2015
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5.21 linear feet (15 boxes)

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  1. Juvenalia
  2. Madrigals
  3. Duo for Violins
  4. String Trio
  5. Serenade
  6. Duo for Two Flutes
  7. For Prepared Piano
  8. Trio I
  9. Nine
  10. For Magnetic Tape
  11. No Title
  12. For Piano I
  13. For Piano II
  14. Suite I
  15. Score for Unrealized Tape Piece
  16. For Piano with Preparations
  17. Duo for Pianists I
  18. Sonata
  19. Duo for Pianists
  20. For Six Players
  21. For Pianist
  22. Music for Merce
  23. One
  24. Suite III for Horn and Piano
  25. Duet I
  26. Duo for Violinist and Pianist
  27. Summer
  28. For One or More Pianos
  29. Trio II
  30. Duet II for Horn and Piano
  31. Duo for Pianists I
  32. For Five or Ten Players
  33. Round
  34. In Between Pieces
  35. Septet
  36. For One, Two, or Three People
  37. Quartet
  38. Duet III
  39. Electric Spring
  40. Toss
  41. Pairs
  42. Realization of Cornelius Cardew's Schooltime Compositions
  43. Play
  44. Tilbury I-III
  45. Snowdrop
  46. Burdocks
  47. Variations (Extracts) On the Carman's Whistle Variations of Byrd
  48. Accompaniments
  49. Lines
  50. Prose Pieces
  51. Changing the System
  52. Exercises 1-14
  53. Song for the Rock Band (Heimlicher Kufmarsch)
  54. String Quartet Exercises Out of Songs
  55. String Bass Exercise Out of Bandiera Rossa
  56. Studies
  57. Exercises 15-18
  58. Wobbly Music
  59. Bread and Roses
  60. Freedom
  61. Dark as a Dungeon
  62. Death of Mother Jones
  63. Cello Song Variation
  64. Braverman Music
  65. Stardust Pieces
  66. Hay Una Mujer Desparecida
  67. Exercise 19 (Harmonic Tremors) and Exercise 20 (Acres of Clams)
  68. Preludes 1-11
  69. Exercise 21
  70. Exercise 22
  71. Isn't This A Time
  72. Eisler Ensemble Pieces
  73. Piano Song
  74. For Cornelius
  75. Peace March 2
  76. Peace March 4 Instrumental Exercises
  77. Bowery Preludes
  78. Long Peace March
  79. Peace March I
  80. Peace March 3 (The Sun Is Burning)
  81. I Like To Think Of Harriet Tubman
  82. Piano Trio
  83. Bowery Preludes
  84. Black Song Organ Preludes
  85. Exercise 24
  86. Exercise 25 "Liyashiswa"
  87. For Morty
  88. Digger Song
  89. From Leaning Forward
  90. Peace March I and II Snare Drum and Exercises 26-27
  91. Variation on Morton Feldman's Piano Piece 1952
  92. From Leaning Forward
  93. Emma
  94. Malvina
  95. Mayday
  96. Rosas
  97. Eight Days A Week Variation
  98. Rukus
  99. Ich Den Hungrigen Dein Brot
  100. Look She Said
  101. Jasper
  102. Kegama
  103. Ruth
  104. For Si
  105. Malvina for Two Violins
  106. Tuba Song
  107. Peggy
  108. Six Melodies Variation
  109. Flutist and Guitarist
  110. Merce
  111. Ain't Gonna Study War No More
  112. Exercise X
  113. John, David [2/1]
  114. Two Pianists
  115. Or Four People
  116. Memory
  117. Aarau Songs
  118. Responsibility
  119. Percussionist Songs
  120. En Plus (Satie) Variation
  121. Bratislava
  122. Spring [2/1]
  123. Pieces for Julius
  124. Well, Well, Cornelius by Howard Skempton
  125. Untitled
  126. Tilbury 5
  127. Two Players
  128. Violist and Percussionist
  129. Keyboard Miscellany
  130. Violist Pieces
  131. Untitled
  132. Pulse
  133. Melodies One and Two for Melodica
  134. Schoenen Met Veters
  135. Ghent Song
  136. Pebbles
  137. Mosaic Trio
  138. Borås
  139. Berlin Exercises
  140. Fall I and II
  141. Fall III
  142. Cello Suite Variation
  143. Exercise 28 and Zither Spieler
  144. Zither Spieler
  145. Pianist Pieces
  146. She Had Some Horses
  147. 70 (Or More) For Alvin
  148. Fragment
  149. Ordinary Matter
  150. Balancing
  151. Apartment House Exercise
  152. Peace March 8
  153. Touch
  154. Moving Spaces
  155. Peace March 9
  156. John Heartfield (Peace March 10)
  157. Percussionists (and) Flutist
  158. Wesleyan Organ Song
  159. For E.C.
  160. Incidental Music
  161. For John Ashbery's Hoelderlin Marginalia
  162. Another Possibility
  163. One Coat of Paint
  164. Evening Shade, Wake Up
  165. Long Piano (Peace March 11)
  166. Orchestra : Pieces [2/1]
  167. 37 Haiku
  168. Duo 6
  169. Microexercises 1-8, 9-22
  170. Trio V for James Tenney
  171. A Piano Piece
  172. Violin Quartet
  173. For Bob
  174. Quartet for Frederic, Larry, Michael, Robyn
  175. Metal and Breath
  176. Duo 7
  177. Nocturnes
  178. Grete (Microexercises 23-36)
  179. Nocturnes, Duo 7, and Toccata
  180. Quodlibet
  181. Short Piece for Melodica
  182. Duo 8
  183. Basel
  184. For Two Violinists, Violist, and Cellist
  185. String Trio for Robert Ashley
  186. Duo 9
  187. Quintet for Merce
  188. For A Harp Player
  189. Rhapsody
  190. Music for Bertold Brecht, "The Exception and the Rule"
  191. Accordionists
  192. Small Duos
  193. Duo 10 (Summer Days)
  194. Robert
  195. Spring Two
  196. Exercises 29 and 30
  197. Exercise 31
  198. Song (For Six)
  199. Spring Two and Spring Three
  200. Ashbery Madrigals
  201. Santa Fe
  202. Individuals, Collective [2/1]
  203. Dijon
  204. For A Medley
  205. Exercise 32
  206. Merce Notes (Exercise 33)
  207. Trust
  208. For Björn Nilsson
  209. Octet (Brass players and a Violinist)
  210. Going West
  211. Bass Drum Duo
  212. Winter Exercise
  213. One Cellist
  214. Pete (In Memoriam Pete Seeger)
  215. Hands & Others
  216. Sailing By
  217. Banjo Player
  218. Motto
  219. Unidentified Sketches and Orphan Score Pages