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This work consists of a visual poem written on music score pages. The paper stock is rougher than the special edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive. This book is stored with Caruso publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work consists of a visual poem written on music score pages. In contrast to the ordinary edition, the calligraphy and abstract notations are handwritten in red ink. Further, the paper stock is smoother than the ordinary edition. This book is stored with Caruso publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The Sackner Archive holds Grainger's "Tips" a book that was published by Coracle press in 1981. George Percy Grainger (8 July 1882 "“ 20 February 1961), known as Percy Grainger, was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. He also made many adaptations of other composers' works. Although much of his work was experimental and unusual, the piece with which he is most generally associated is his piano arrangement of the folk-dance tune "Country Gardens." Grainger's attempts to produce "free music" by mechanical and later electronic means, which he considered his most important work, produced no follow-up; they were quickly overtaken and nullified by new technological advances. This card depicts one of those machines. Covell nevertheless remarks that in this endeavour, Grainger's dogged resourcefulness and ingenious...

Scope and Contents Wikepedia (abridged): Eight Songs for a Mad King is a monodrama by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with a libretto by Randolph Stow based on words of George III, written for the South-African actor Roy Hart and the composer's ensemble the Pierrot Players and premiered April 22, 1969.Lasting half an hour, it is scored for a baritone with an extraordinary command of extended techniques covering more than five octaves, and six players: flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet, percussion: railway whistle/Snare drum/ 2 susp.cymbals /foot cyms/ 2 wood blocks / Bass drum/chains/ratchet/tom-toms/tamtam/tambourine/rototoms/toy bird-calls/2tpl.bl/ wind chimes/crotales/sleigh bells/glockenspiel/steel bars/crow/ didgeridoo, piano (doubling harpsichord & dulcimer) and violin cello. The cover shows a famous excerpt in which the staves are arranged in the shape of a birdcage's bars. The eight songs are all based on the tunes played by an actual mechanical organ owned by George III which he used to try...

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The Sackners also hold the manuscripy of this score. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue contains the first version of "Dicamus et Labyrinthes, a Philologist's Notebook." A subsequent version was published by Arcana Editions in 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is an experimental music score with the elements of visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.