Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Miller, Rob (Robert E.)
2. Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
3. Tcherepnin, Ivan.
4. Tudor, David, 1926-1996.
5. Cunningham, Merce.
6. City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.)
7. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
8. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.

Found in

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Description

1. 2 streaming audio files (52 minutes total) : digital, stereo

Uniform title

1. Quartet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Alternative title

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.

Subject

1. Live sound recordings
2. Musique concrète
3. Modern dance music
4. Electronic music
5. Aleatory music

Genre/Form

1. Live sound recordings.

Contents

1. Streaming file 1: Quartet ["Sextet for seven" / David Tudor] (1:20-18:45) -- Audience applause (18:45-20:57)
2. Streaming file 2: Field and figures "Creative act" / [Ivan Tcherepnin] (0:00-29:13) -- Audience applause (29:13-31:16)

Call number

1. *LTC-A 1276

Note

1. Title, date and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original cassette, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
2. Handwritten note on original cassette, side a: "Quartet, City Center 1990". Side b: "Creative act ; Rec. by RM [Rob Miller]". Handwritten note on original container: "Quartet/Field + Figures, Creative Act".
3. Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Quartet (1982), and, Field and figures (1989).
4. The music for Field and figures, Ivan Tcherepnin's Creative act: Electronically Varied Heterothonies on a Text by Marcel Duchamp, contains electronically altered short phrases of text by Marcel Duchamp, spoken in English by John Cage.
5. Sound quality is fair to mostly good; the recording volume for Sextet for seven is low and audience applause overlaps the ends of both performances.
6. Donor's inventory number: C194.

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.

Source (note)

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Title

1. Quartet, and, Field and figures : performance at City Center, 1990-03.

Production

1. [March], 1990.

Playing time

1. 002057 003116

Type of content

1. performed music

Type of medium

1. audio

Type of carrier

1. audiocassette
2. online resource

Digital file characteristics

1. audio file

Event

1. Recorded in performance at City Center, New York, New York, 1990 [March].

Restricted access

1. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.

Original version

1. Archival original: (1 audio cassette (52 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1276.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Local note

1. Transferred from original analog cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides: C194a NEW, and, C194b NEW.

Source

1. Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Miller, Rob (Robert E.), recording engineer.
2. Container of (work): Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. Works. Selections.
3. Container of (work): Tcherepnin, Ivan. Creative act.
4. Container of (work): Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Sextet for seven.
5. City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.)
6. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
7. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
8. Music for (work) : Cunningham, Merce. Field and figures.

Added title

1. Music for (work) : Quartet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
2. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.

Found in:

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Research call number

1. *LTC-A 1276