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Holograph Music Manuscripts of Elliott Carter (1932-1971) [resource description]
- Title
- Holograph Music Manuscripts of Elliott Carter (1932-1971) [resource description]
- Date Created
- Span: 1932-1971
- Language
- English
- Form
- resource description
- Physical Description
- 15 ft.
- 65 boxes
- Abstract
- This is an extensive collection of holograph scores and sketches by American composer Elliott Cook Carter (b. NYC, 1908). It begins with 200 pages of counterpoint exercises from the early 1930s when Carter was studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and ends with the holograph score and 2,400 pages of sketches for his String Quartet no.3 (1971) which earned Carter his second Pulitzer Prize. Also included are holograph scores and voluminous sketches for: Canonic Suite; Piano Sonata (200 pages of sketches); Minotaur Suite; Emblems; Woodwind Quintet; Cello Sonata (400 pages of sketches); Eight Etudes and a Fantasy; String Quartet no.1 (550 pages of sketches); Six Pieces for [4] Kettledrums; Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord; Variations for Orchestra (1,500 pages of sketches); Double Concerto for piano, harpsichord and two chamber orchestras (4,000 pages of sketches); Piano Concerto (7,500 pages of sketches); and other works. Item of note: early 8-page version of the "harmony book" dated "Nov. 21, 1965" located in the sketches for String Quartet no.3. Besides thoroughly covering what is arguably his most innovative period, this is probably the largest single collection of Carter holograph material available for research in the United States.
- Contents Note
- Holograph scores (25); sketches (9,000 leaves or approximately 18,000 pages); photographs (10); programs (12 boxes). 1,735 leaves of sketches for the Concerto for Orchestra dating from this period are not included in this collection but are available on microfilm in the Performing Arts Reading Room.
- Microfilm available
- Music-1813 through Music-1836; 88/20,045 <Mus>
- Preferred Citation
- Holograph Music Manuscripts of Elliott Carter (1932-1971), Music Division, Library of Congress
- Subjects
- Chamber Music
- Piano Music
- Choral Music
- Orchestral Music
- Carter, Elliott
- Boulanger, Nadia
- Call Number
- ML96.C288 Case
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Last Updated: 09-27-2012