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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...

Dates: 1981

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Eight Songs for a Mad King / Davies, Peter Maxwell ; Stow R., 1969

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Identifier: CC-52122-73241

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...

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Elisa / Castaldi, Paolo., 1971

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Identifier: CC-16823-17179

Dates: 1971

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Embarbussaments for Four Speaking Voices / Sublette, Ned., 1977

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Identifier: CC-32457-34031

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There are 29 different phonemes in this composition, drawn from three languages, Xhosa, Catalan, and English. Sublette presents written characters as notations for these phonemes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Epitaph For Moonlight / Schafer, R. Murray., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55866-9999352

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

Dates: 1968

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Festival of Fantastics Roskilde / MacLow J ; Ben ; Knowles A ; Noel A ; Williams E ; Andersen E ; Corner P ; Hendricks G ; Koepcke A ; Watts B ; Tardos A., 1985

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Identifier: CC-11245-11460

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The page by Ann Noel resembles the "I" painting held by the Sackner Archive. No two I's are typographically repeated in this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

fonergon 79-5: for one speaker / Monach, Greta., 1979

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Identifier: CC-43993-46105

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This book consists of a sound poem with directions from Monach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Four Pieces For John Tilbury / Phillips, Tom., 1966

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Identifier: CC-30058-31453

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This is Phillips' first musical score (Opus 1). The musical notations are composed of lines and rectangles presented as a constructivitic grid. One side of the print deals with Phillips' instructions for playing the piece. Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 248. The number is written in red ink adjacent to Phillips' signature on the envelope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Four Pieces For John Tilbury / Phillips, Tom., 1966

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Identifier: CC-38196-40092

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This is Phillips' first musical score (Opus 1). The musical notations are composed of lines and rectangles presented as a constructivitic grid. One side of the print deals with Phillips' instructions for playing the piece. Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 248. This copy is unnumbered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

[Gap Map] / Phillips, Tom., 1972

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Identifier: CC-60252-10003255

Dates: 1972

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Golden Flower Piece for Keyboard / Phillips, Tom., 1972

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Identifier: CC-30066-31461

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This piece (Opus 5) was originally published by AIA gallery in 1966 in an edition of 100; the current copy was reprinted by Tetrad Press in 1972 in an undisclosed tirage. Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 250. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Green Sounds / Danon, Betty., 1978 - 1986

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Identifier: CC-60823-10003678

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Taken frompete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1986

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Harmonia Praestabilita / Phillips, Tom., 1967

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Identifier: CC-30065-31460

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This work (Opus 7) was included in Exit Magazine issue No.5-6. It is also depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 252. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry