A handbook to twentieth-century musical sketches

Abstract

Introduction Friedemann Sallis and Patricia Hall 1. Sketches and sketching Giselher Schubert and Friedemann Sallis 2. Preliminaries before visiting an archive Ulrich Mosch 3. Archival etiquette Therese Muxeneder 4. Coming to terms with the composer's working manuscripts Friedemann Sallis 5. The classification of musical sketches exemplified in the catalogue of the Archivio Luigi Nono Erika Schaller 6. Digital preservation of archival material William Koseluk 7. Transcribing sketches Regina Busch 8. A tale of two sketchbooks: reconstructing and deciphering Alban Berg's sketchbooks for Wozzeck Patricia Hall 9. 'Written between the desk and the piano': dating Bela Bartok's sketches Laszlo Somfai 10. Defining compositional process: idea and instrumentation in Igor Stravinsky's Ragtime (1918) and Pribaoutki (1915) Tomi Makela 11. Floating hierarchies: organisation and composition in works by Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen during the 1950s Pascal Decroupet 12. Elliot Carter's sketches: spiritual exercises and craftsmanship Denis Vermaelen 13. E-Sketches: Brian Ferneyhough's use of computer assisted compositional tools Ross Feller 14. John Cage's Williams Mix (1951-3): the restoration and new realizations of and variations on the first octophonic, surround-sound tape composition Larry Austin Appendix. Select list of institutions housing manuscript collections of twentieth-century composers.

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