Responses to questionnaire and drafts of summary for Perspectives of New Music forum on notation practice, 1966-1967.

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Creator

Zukofsky, Paul.

Location

Music Division

Extent

• 27 items.

Scope/Contents Note

The collection consists of the blank questionnaire; responses from the 8 composers used in the presentation: Martin Boykan, Elliott Carter, George Crumb, David Lewin, Seymour Shifrin, Claudio Spies, Kurt Stone, and Richard G.Swift ; handwritten and typescript drafts of Zukofsky's compilation and presentation; and additional responses from: Harvey [Sollberger?], Vincent Persichetti, Otto Luening, Josef Marx, Don Martino, Turetsky [Bertram Turetzky?], [Lejaren?] Hiller, Harold Farberman, Robert Moevs, Michael Colgrass, Eric [?] Berglund [?], J. Glick, and Ross Lee Finney. Zukofsky's article apparently did notappear in a Perspectives of New Music publication.

Biographical/Historical Note

In advance of Perspectives of New Music's forum on problems and discrepancies in conventional notation practice, American violinist and composer Paul Zukofsky sent a questionnaire using the organization's letterhead to 70 composers. He received 25 replies, but based his presentation on only 8 of them.

Controlled Access Terms

• Perspectives of New Music.
• Musical notation.
• Music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
• Composers -- United States.
• Questionnaires.
• Letters.
• Drafts (Preliminary versions).
• Composers.

Additional Creator Names

• Boykan, Martin.
• Carter, Elliott, 1908-
• Colgrass, Michael.
• Crumb, George.
• Farberman, Harold, 1929-
• Finney, Ross Lee, 1906-1997
• Glick, Jacob.
• Lewin, David.
• Luening, Otto, 1900-1996.
• Martino, Donald, 1931-2005.
• Marx, Josef, d. 1978.
• Moevs, Robert, 1920-
• Persichetti, Vincent, 1915-1987.
• Shifrin, Seymour, 1926-
• Spies, Claudio.
• Stone, Kurt, 1911-
• Swift, Richard, 1927-
• American Music Collection.