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An analysis of the relationship between text and musical shape and an investigation of the relationship between text and surface rhythmic detail in Four saints in three acts by Virgil Thomson [microform] / [Kelly Mac Ward].

Microform

1978.

1978

0 resources

An Eighty-fifth birthday salute to Virgil Thomson [sound recording].

Musical recording

1981

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMusical recordingCall number*LTC 160 (F) (Program booklet on file.)Item locationOffsite

Not available - Please contact a librarian for assistance.

Music by Virgil Thomson : catalog of manuscripts / Victor T. Cardell.

Book/Text

1977.

1977

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJNF 86-140Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNF 86-140Item locationOffsite

Virgil Thomson's musical portraits / Anthony Tommasini ; preface by Virgil Thomson.

Book/Text

New York : Pendragon Press, c1986.

1986

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJNF 86-149Item locationOffsite

Virgil Thomson, a bio-bibliography / Michael Meckna.

Book/Text

New York : Greenwood Press, c1986.

1986

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 86-33Item locationOffsite

John Houseman : 2nd version / V. Thomson.

Manuscript notated music

1984 Nov.

1984

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscript notated musicCall numberJPB 87-3 no. 40Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music
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Yvonne de Casa Fuerte, son portrait : pour violon et piano / Virgil Thomson.

Manuscript notated music

1940 April 17.

1940

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscript notated musicCall numberJPB 84-17 Box 2Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Music.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscript notated musicCall numberJPB 84-17 Box 1Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Selected letters of Virgil Thomson / edited by Tim Page and Vanessa Weeks Page.

Book/Text

New York : Summit Books, 1988.

1988

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 88-32Item locationOffsite

Agnus Dei : canon at the unison : for three equal voices : a capella / Virgil Thomson.

Manuscript notated music

1924 Apr.

1924

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscript notated musicCall numberJPB 84-336Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Music.

Quatrain from the Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayam / tr. by Ed. Fitzgerald ; [music by] V.G.G.T. [Virgil Thomson].

Manuscript notated music

[19--].

1896-1983

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscript notated musicCall numberJPB 84-337Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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A hymn for Pratt Institute / [words by] Rolf Fjelde ; [music by] Virgil Thomson.

Manuscript notated music

1968 Sept. 3

1968

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscript notated musicCall numberJPB 84-339Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Ten easy pieces and a coda / Virgil Thomson.

Manuscript notated music

[1972?]

1972

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscript notated musicCall numberJPB 84-340Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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I attempt from love's sickness to fly / [words by] Sir John Suckling ; [music by Virgil Thomson]. Tell me where is fancy bred / [words by] Shakespere ; [music by Virgil Thomson].

Manuscript notated music

[19--]

1896-1983

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscript notated musicCall numberJPB 84-341Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Alexander Smallens / [Virgil Thomson].

Manuscript notated music

1940 Sept. 6.

1940

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscript notated musicCall numberJPB 85-156Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Portrait of Ruth Smallens : for violin / by Virgil Thomson.

Manuscript notated music

1940 Sept. 15.

1940

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatManuscript notated musicCall numberJPB 85-157Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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List of works by Virgil Thomson / revised and expanded by Victor Cardell.

Book/Text

New York : [V. Cardell], 1979.

1979

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 91-18Item locationOffsite

Picasso / words: Gertrude Stein ; music: Virgil Thomson.

Book/Text

[New York] : JHW Editions, [1992]

1992

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*KP+ (Stinehour) 92-101Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328.

Interview with Virgil Thomson [sound recording].

Spoken word recording

1975.

1975-501

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall number*MGZTL 4-344 discs 1-3Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Interview with Virgil Thomson.

Manuscript

1975.

1975

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall number*MGZMT 5-344 pt. 2Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall number*MGZMT 5-344 pt. 1Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Virgil Thomson: his life and music, by Kathleen Hoover and John Cage.

Book/Text

New York, T. Yoseloff [1959]

1959

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MEC (Thomson)Item locationOffsite

Four saints in three acts (Ashton).

Book/Text

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGZRItem locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.

Book/Text

0 resources

FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Jonathan Ned Katz papers.

Archival Mix

1867-2021, bulk 1950 - 2021.

199-1995

210 items

Collection information

Finding aid

The finding aid is a document containing details about the organization and contents of this archival collection. Archival collections require an appointment to view and use on-site.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberMssCol 1621 tube 20Item locationSchwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328. See the finding aid for details.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberMssCol 1621 tube 19Item locationSchwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328. See the finding aid for details.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberMssCol 1621 tube 18Item locationSchwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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Virgil Thomson.

Book/Text

[U.S.] : Virgil Thomson Foundation, c1996.

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML134.T53 W58 1996Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music - Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

The mother of us all : an opera / music by Virgil Thomson ; text by Gertrude Stein.

Notated music

1947 Mar. 26.

1947

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJNH 96-11 v. 2Item locationOffsite
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJNH 96-11 v. 1Item locationOffsite

Everbest ever : correspondence with Bay Area friends / Virgil Thomson ; gathered and edited by Charles Shere with Margery Tede.

Book/Text

Berkeley, Calif. : Fallen Leaf Press, 1996.

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 96-146Item locationOffsite

Edinburgh Festival.

Book/Text

1996

0 resources

The deadly Saints.

Book/Text

1996

0 resources

Virgil Thomson : composer on the aisle / Anthony Tommasini.

Book/Text

New York : W.W. Norton, c1997.

1997

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 97-730Item locationOffsite

Prepare for saints : Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the mainstreaming of American modernism / Steven Watson.

Book/Text

New York : Random House, c1998.

1998

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 99-182Item locationOffsite

Prepare for saints : Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the mainstreaming of American modernism / Steven Watson.

Book/Text

New York : Random House, c1998.

1998

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 99-279Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

The Virgil Thomson centenary 1896-1996 : [as celebrated by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra : a program companion / edited by Joseph Horowitz].

Book/Text

[Brooklyn : The Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, 1996?]

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJMD 99-207Item locationOffsite

The Virgil Thomson centenary 1896-1996 : [notes on the program / by Anthony Tommasini].

Book/Text

[Brooklyn : Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, 1996]

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJMD 99-208Item locationOffsite

Virgil Thomson : his life and music / by Kathleen Hoover and John Cage.

Book/Text

New York ; London : Thomas Yoseloff, [1959]

1959-1959

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberJME 24-485Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

Virgil Thomson.

Book/Text

New York, A.A. Knopf, 1966.

1966

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MEC (Thomson) (Thomson, V. Virgil Thomson)Item locationOffsite

The choral music of Virgil Thomson [microform] / by Dean Anagnost.

Microform

1977.

1977

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall number*XML-2777Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Frank Wigglesworth papers, 1895-1996.

Archival Mix

1895-1996

95 items

Collection information

Finding aid

The finding aid is a document containing details about the organization and contents of this archival collection. Archival collections require an appointment to view and use on-site.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 97-44 Box 95Item locationOffsite

Available by appointment.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 97-44 Box 94Item locationOffsite

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 97-44 Box 93Item locationOffsite

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The Hartford catastrophe.

Book/Text

2000

0 resources

A performer's guide to Virgil Thomson's Five Songs from William Blake [microform] / by Andrew David Whitfield.

Microform

2004.

2004

1 resource