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Vincent Persichetti CollectionLU.121

Vincent Persichetti CollectionLU.121


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Repository
Greenwood Library Archives and Special Collections
Identification
LU.121
Title
Vincent Persichetti Collection 1970-1990
Quantity
7.5 Linear Feet
Creator
Shackelford, Rudy, Dr.
Language
English .

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Use

There are no restrictions to access or use for research purposes.

Custodial History

The Vincent Persichetti Collection was purchased by the Greenwood Library from Rudy Shackelford in 1990. Mr. Shackelford, a composer from Virginia, was responsible for collecting the majority of the materials in this collection.

Biographical / Historical

Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia. He was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, as well as for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School.

Scope and Contents

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Shackelford, Rudy, Dr.
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Container List

Correspondence, Interviews, and Articles
  • Correspondence between Rudy Shackelford and Others about Vincent Persichetti
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  • Correspondence between Rudy Shackelford and Others Concerning the Publication of his book Vincent Persichetti
    1 Folder
  • Booklets about Vincent Persichetti
    1 Folder
  • Information about Vincent Persichetti's Music
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  • Articles about Vincent Persichetti
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  • Interview with Vincent Persichetti by Katy Matheson
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  • Correspondence between Shackelford and Persichetti
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  • Correspondence between Walter Simmons and Rudy Shackelford
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  • Vincent Persichetti, chronology
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  • Conversation with Vincent Persichetti (by Rudy Shackelford)
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  • Conversation with Vincent Persichetti (by Rudy Shackelford), photocopy
    1 Folder
  • Articles by, or with reference to Vincent Persichetti
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  • Awards, Commissions, and Honorary Degrees
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  • News Items and 1947 yearbook for the Philadelphia Music Conservatory
    1 Folder
  • The Split Fifth or Procrustes is Deaf: A Plea for the Wholistic [sic] Analysis of Music, by Hugh Aitken
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  • Information on his (Persichetti) Performance of "String Quartets Nos. 1-4" at Arizona State University
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  • Organ Composition Information
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  • Shackelford's "Modal Harmonic Analysis of the Hymn "Drop, Drop, Slow Tears"
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  • Shackelford's Analysis of the Chorale Prelude of Persichetti's "Drop, Drop, Slow Tears"
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  • Shackelford's Analysis of Persichetti's "Sonata for Organ" and "Sonatine for Organ, Pedals Alone"
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  • Program from 1965 Performance of Organist Joan Lippincott at Westminster Choir College and Scores and Analysis of Persichetti's "Sonata for Organ"
    1 Folder
  • Information on Persichetti's "Shimah B'Koli (Psalm 130)"
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  • Photocopied Scores
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  • Program for the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists
    1 Folder
  • Information on Persichetti's "Auden Variations"
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  • Persichetti's "Shima B'Koli," arranged for Orchestra by Rudy Shackelford
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  • Correspondence between Rudy Shackelford and David Craighead
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  • Correspondence between Rudy Shackelford and The Diapason
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  • Correspondence between Rudy Shackelford and Robert Anderson
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Monographs and Dissertations
  • Vincent Persichetti's Music: A Monograph (photocopy)
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  • Vincent Persichetti's Music: A Monograph, pgs. 1-101
    1 Folder
  • Vincent Persichetti's Music: A Monograph, pgs. 102-222
    1 Folder
  • The Chorale Music of Vincent Persichetti, DMA Dissertation by Theodore Ishizawa and Melange of Dissertations in Music, microfilm catalog
    1 Folder
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Music Scores/Theordore Presser Co.
  • Listing of scores donated by the Theodore Presser Company
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  • Organ Prelude and Fugue in A Minor
    1 Folder
  • Flower Songs - Cantata No. 6
    1 Folder
  • Four Arabesques
    1 Folder
  • Little Mirror Book
    1 Folder
  • Second Piano Sonata
    1 Folder
  • 2nd Harpsichord Sonata
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  • 3rd Harpsichord Sonata
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  • 4th Harpsichord Sonata
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  • 5th Harpsichord Sonata
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  • 6th Harpsichord Sonata
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  • 7th Harpsichord Sonata
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  • 8th Harpsichord Sonata
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  • 9th Harpsichord Sonata
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  • The Little Harpsichord Book
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  • Serenade No. 15 for Harpsichord
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  • Chorale Prelude: Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
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  • Chorale Prelude: Give Peace, O' God
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  • Sonatine for Organ, Pedals Alone
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  • Song of David
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  • Sonata for Organ
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  • Serenade No. 4 for Violin and Piano
    1 Folder
  • Love - S.S.A.A., A Cappella
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  • Parable XXIII for Violin, Cello, and Piano
    1 Folder
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Persichetti - Scores for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, and Vocal Composition
  • Listing of Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, and Vocal Compositions
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  • Piano, "Appalachian Christmas Carols"
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  • Piano, "Little Piano Book"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Mirror Etudes"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Parable XIX for Piano"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Parades"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Poems for Piano, Volume I"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Poems for Piano, Volume II"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Poems for Piano, Volume III"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Reflective Keyboard Studies"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Serenade No. 2"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Serenade No. 7"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Serenade No. 8"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Sonata for Two Pianos"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "First Piano Sonata"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Third Piano Sonata"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Fourth Piano Sonata"
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  • Piano, "Fifth Piano Sonata"
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  • Piano, "Sixth Piano Sonata"
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  • Piano, "Seventh Piano Sonata"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Eighth Piano Sonata"
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  • Piano, "Ninth Piano Sonata"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Tenth Piano Sonata"
    1 Folder
  • Piano, "Eleventh Piano Sonata"
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  • Piano, "Twelfth Piano Sonata"
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  • Piano, "Sonatinas 1-6"
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  • Piano, "Three Toccatinas"
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  • Piano, "Variations for an Album"
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  • Organ, "Auden Variations"
    1 Folder
  • Organ, "Chorale Prelude: Drop, Drop, Slow Tears"
    1 Folder
  • Organ, "Do Not Go Gentle"
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  • Organ, "Dryden Liturgical Suite"
    1 Folder
  • Organ, "Parable for Organ"
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  • Organ, "Shima B'Koli"
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  • Harpsichord, "1st Harpsichord Sonata"
    1 Folder
  • Vocal, "Hilaire Belloc Songs," "Thou Child So Wise," "The Microbe"
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  • Vocal, "Emily Dickinson Songs"
    1 Folder
  • Vocal, "Harmonium"
    1 Folder
  • Vocal, "James Joyce Songs"
    1 Folder
  • Vocal, "A Net of Fireflies"
    1 Folder
  • Vocal, "Two Chinese Songs"
    1 Folder
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Persichetti, Scores for Choral, Chamber and Solo Intrument, Orchestra, Band
  • Listing of Choral, Chamber, Orchestra, and Band Compositions
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  • Choral, "Three Canons for Voices"
    1 Folder
  • Choral, "Celebrations"
    1 Folder
  • Choral, "The Creation"
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  • Choral, ee cummings Choruses, "sam was a man," and "this is the garden"
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  • Choral, ee cummings Choruses, "dominic has a doll," "maggie and milly and molly and may," "uncles," and "nouns to nouns"
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  • Choral, "Glad and Very"
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  • Choral, "Hymns and Responses"
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  • Choral, "Magnificat and Nune Dimittis"
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  • Choral, "Mass"
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  • Choral, "The Pleiades"
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  • Choral, "Proverb"
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  • Choral, "Seek the Highest"
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  • Choral, "Song of Peace"
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  • Choral, "Spring Cantata"
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  • Choral, "Stabat Mater"
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  • Choral, "Te Deum"
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  • Choral, "Winter Cantata"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "The Hollow Man"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Infanta Marina"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "King Lear"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Little Recorder Book"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Masques"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo Flute"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Brass Quintet"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo Oboe"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo Bassoon"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Carillon"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo Harp"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo Horn"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable XI for Solo Alto Saxophone"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable XII for Solo Piccolo"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo Clarinet"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo Trumpet"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo English Horn"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable XVI for Solo Viola"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo Double Bass"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo Trombone"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo Guitar"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Parable for Solo Tuba"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Pastoral for Woodwind Quintet"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "1st String Quartet"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "2nd String Quartet"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "3rd String Quartet"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "4th Strung Quartet"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Serenade No. 1"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Serenade No. 3"
    1 Folder
  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Serenade No. 6"
    1 Folder
  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Serenade No. 9"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Serenade No. 10"
    1 Folder
  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Serenade No. 12"
    1 Folder
  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Serenade No. 13"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Sonata for Solo Cello"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Sonata for Solo Violin"
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  • Chamber and Solo Instrument, "Vocalise"
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  • Orchestra, "Concertino for Piano and Orchestra" 2 pianos, 4 hands
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  • Orchestra, "Concerto for English Horn and String"
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  • Orchestra, "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra"
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  • Orchestra, "Dance Overture"
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  • Orchestra, "Introit for Strings"
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  • Orchestra, "A Lincoln Address"
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  • Orchestra, "Night Dances"
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  • Orchestra, "Sinfonia: Janiculum"
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  • Orchestra, "4th Symphony"
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  • Orchestra, "Symphony for Strings"
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  • Orchestra, "7th Symphony"
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  • Orchestra, "Symphony No. 8"
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  • Band, "Bagatella"
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  • Band, "Chorale Prelude: O God Unseen"
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  • Band, "Chorale Prelude: So Pure the Star"
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  • Band, "Chorale Prelude: Turn Not Thy Face"
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  • Band, "Divertimento for Band"
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  • Band, "A Lincoln Address"
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  • Band, "Masquerade"
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  • Band, "O Cool is the Valley"
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  • Band, "Pageant"
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  • Band, "Parable No. 9"
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  • Band, "Psalm for Band"
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  • Band, "Serenade No. 11"
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  • Band, "Symphony for Band"
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Reel to Reel Audio
  • 01 of 08:
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    • Auden Variations for Organ
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  • 02 of 08:
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    • The Creation
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  • 03 of 08:
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    • Side I: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
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    • Side II: "The Pleiades"
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    • (interview with Persichetti after Philadelphia Orchestra performance of Piano Concerto)
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  • 04 of 08:
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    • Side I: Persichetti, Symphony No. 7, Arizona State University Orchestra
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    • Persichetti, Night Dance
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    • Side II: Celebrations
      1 Reels
    • Te Deum
      1 Reels
    • Stabat Mater
      1 Reels
  • 05 of 08:
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    • Side I: Symphony No. 3 (Alabama)
      1 Reels
    • Fables
      1 Reels
    • Mirror Etudas, Lawton
      1 Reels
    • Parable VIII for Horn (Thomas Bacon)
      1 Reels
    • Piano Sonata No. 9 (Keith Smith)
      1 Reels
    • Piano Sonatina No. 3 (Brenda Beck)
      1 Reels
    • Side II: Persichetti
      1 Reels
    • Dance Overture
      1 Reels
    • Piano Sonatina No. 1
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  • 06 of 08:
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    • Concertina for Piano and Orchestra
      1 Reels
    • Eastman Rochester Orchestra
      1 Reels
    • Howard Hanson, conductor
      1 Reels
    • Vincent Persichetti, piano
      1 Reels
  • 07 of 08:
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    • Piano Sonata No. 11
      1 Reels
  • 08 of 08:
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    • Side I: King Lear
      1 Reels
    • Side II: Serenade No. 5 for Orchestra - Ormandy
      1 Reels
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Persichetti, Original Music Scores, Working Manuscripts
  • Listing of Original Music Scores
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  • Persichetti, Sonata and Sonatine, working manuscript
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  • "Sonatine for Organ, Pedals Alone," score with handwritten notations
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  • "Parable for Organ," score with handwritten notations
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  • "Serenade No. 4 for Violin and Piano," score
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  • "Sonata for Organ," score with handwritten notations
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  • "Quintet," score
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  • "Concerto for Piano, Four Hands," score
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Holographs
  • Listing of Holographs
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  • Holograph, "2nd Piano Sonata"
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  • Holograph, "1st Piano Sonata"
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  • Holograph, Vocal, "Sara Teasdale Songs, Op. 72, No. 1"
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  • Holograph, Organ, "Auden Variations"
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  • Holograph, Orchestra, "Fables for Narrator and Orchestra"
    1 Folder
  • Holograph, Vocal, "Carl Sandburg Songs, Op. 73"
    1 Folder
  • Holograph, Vocal, "ee cummings Songs, Op. 26"
    1 Folder
  • Holograph, Vocal, "Robert Frost Songs, Op. 49, Dust of Snow"
    1 Folder
  • Holograph, "English Songs, Op. 49"
    1 Folder
  • Holograph, "Poems for Piano, Vol. III"
    1 Folder
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Ephemera, Chronology, and Oversized Scores
  • Vincent Persichetti 1915-1987, booklet
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  • Vincent Persichetti, chronology
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  • A Conversation with Vincent Persichetti, by Rudy Shackelford (working copy)
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  • Scores donated by Dr. Pat Lust, Longwood College, Dept. of Music
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LPs
  • Piano Quintet, performed by the New Art String Quartet and Vincent Persichetti and Harmonium, performed by Darleen Kliener and Lois McLeod
    1 Object
  • Thomas Stacy, English Horn
    1 Object
  • Vincent Persichetti, Concerto for Piano, 4 Hands Op. 56 and Paul Creston, Sonata for Saxophone and Piano, Op. 19
    1 Object
  • Vincent Persichetti, Four String Quartets, performed by the New Art String Quartet
    1 Object
  • Brian Minor play with the Chicago Symphony String Quartet and Lawson Lunde, piano
    1 Object
  • Vincent Persichetti, Parable XI for Solo Alto Saxophone
    1 Object
  • Lawson Lunde, Sonata No. 1 for Alto Saxophone and Piano
    1 Object
  • Leon Stein, Quintet for Saxophone and String Quartet
    1 Object
  • New York Brass Quintet
    1 Object
  • Jan Bach, Laudes
    1 Object
  • Michel Leclere, Par Monts et Par Vaux
    1 Object
  • Vincent Persichetti, Parable for Brass Quintet
    1 Object
  • University of Kansas Symphonic Band, Robert E. Foster, conductor
    1 Object
  • The Compositions of Vincent Persichetti
    1 Object
  • Ralph Sauer Plays Music for Trombone by Milhand, Persichetti, Bassett, and Pergolesi with Alan deVeritch, viola, Ronald Leonard, cello, and Paul Pitman, piano
    1 Object
  • Ithaca High School Band, Frank Battisti, conductor (includes Persichetti's "Serenade for Band"
    1 Object
  • The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor William Schuman, Symphony No. 9
    1 Object
  • Vincent Persichetti, Sinfonia: Janiculum
    1 Object
  • Temple University Trio
    1 Object
  • Vincent Persichetti, Serenade for Violin, Cello, and Piano, Op. 17
    1 Object
  • Walter Piston, Trio
    1 Object
  • Wallingford Riegger, Trio, Op. 1
    1 Object
  • Contemporary Music for Trumpet and Organ
    1 Object
  • Anthony Plog, trumpet
    1 Object
  • Madalyn Swearington, organ
    1 Object
  • Barbara Bing, soprano
    1 Object
  • The Dallas Brass Quintet, performs the music of Persichetti, Hovhaness, Reynolds, and Childs
    1 Object
  • John Barrows-horn, Bernie Leighton and Tait Sanford-piano, Harvey Phillips-tuba (includes Persichetti's "Serenade No. 12 for tuba)
    1 Object
  • New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble
    1 Object
  • Hindemith, Symphony in B-flat
    1 Object
  • Persichetti, Symphony No. 6
    1 Object
  • Oboist Peter Christ with the Crystal Chamber Soloists (includes Persichetti's "Parable for Solo Oboe")
    1 Object
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