.
By Noah Lenstra
Collection Overview
Title: Paul Price Percussion Music and Papers, 1961-1982
ID: 12/5/51
Primary Creator: Price, Paul (1921-1986)
Extent: 17.0 cubic feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Organized into 5 series. Each series arranged alphabetically by last name of composer or performer, except for Series 4, which is arranged chronologically, and Series 5, which is arranged by format. Series 1. Music Manuscripts - Consists of orginal manuscripts of unpublished compositions and/or arrangements. Series 2. Annotated Scores and Parts - consists of unpublished and published sheet music annotated by Price and/or members of the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble for performance. Series 3. Unannotated Scores and Parts - Consists of reproduced manuscripts bearing no or very few annotations, retained because of their unavailability in other sources. Series 4. Papers - Personal papers of Paul Price. Series 5. Sound Recordings - including LPs, reel-to-reel tapes, and cassette tapes.
Date Acquired: 08/31/1987
Subjects: Faculty, Faculty Papers, Manuscripts, Music, Music, School of, Percussion
Formats/Genres: Experimental Music, Sheet music, Sound Recordings
Languages: English, Spanish;Castilian
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of percussion sheet music, sound recordings and correspondence documenting Paul Price's career as a percussion music educator, publisher and performer. Of special note are manuscripts, non-commercial recordings, and other forms of unpublished music materials of American 20th-century composers including Lou Harrison, Michael Colgrass, and Henry Cowell, as well as works by Price himself. Among the sound recordings, of special note are performances by the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble with Paul Price as conductor. Also includes correspondence file containing correspondence with 20th-century composers of percussion music. Some of the sheet music files also contain correspondence, performance programs or other additional material documenting a work's performances or publishing history.
Biographical Note
Paul William Price (b. Fitchburg, Mass., 31 July, 1910- d. New York, 1986) was a percussionist, composer, conductor, publisher of percussion music, and music educator during the four decades following the end of World War II. He studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory under George Carey and Fred Noak. In his teaching career he held faculty positions at the University of Illinois from 1949 to 1956; Boston University; Ithaca College; Newark State College and, after 1957, the Manhattan School of Music. Price also conducted the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble and began independently publishing percussion music under the titles "Music for Percussion" and "Paul Price Publications," beginning in the mid-1960s. He was also a composer of percussion music and a writer of books on percussion methodology. Through these activities he was influential in promoting the growth of the percussion ensemble movement in the United States and in stimulating interest in composing for percussion in the latter half of the 20th century.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Alternate Extent Statement:
17 cubic feet
Access Restrictions:
No restrictions.
Acquisition Source:
Percussive Arts Society and Phyllis Price
Acquisition Method:
Donation.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Music Manuscripts, ca. 1950-1980],
[Series 2: Annotated Scores and Parts, ca. 1950-1980],
[
Series 3: Unannotated Scores and Parts, ca. 1950-1980],
[
Series 4: Papers],
[
Series 5: Sound Recordings],
[
All]
- Series 2: Annotated Scores and Parts, ca. 1950-1980
- Consists of reproduced manuscripts and published versions of sheet music parts and scores with hand-written annotations by Paul Price and his performance groups. Arranged alphabetically by composer's last name. Note that oversized scores and parts are at end of series.
- Box 6
- Folder 1: Ahlstrom, David "Variations for Chamber Ensemble" S and P, May 1952
- Folder 2: Ajiro, Keisuke "Three Short Dances" S and P, Nov. 12, 1960
- Folder 3: Bauernschmidt, Robert L. "Mesozoic Fantasy for Percussion Instruments" S and P, undated
- Folder 4: Bottje, Will Gay "Variations for Percussion and Tape", 1966
- Includes correspondence from composer
- Folder 5: Brisman, Heskel "Concerted Music for Piano and Percussion Ensemble", 1970
- Folder 6: Burt, George "Four Studies", undated
- Folder 7: Camilleri, Charles "Prelude and Dance for Three Percussionists", undated
- Folder 8: Carno, Zita "Sextet for Percussion", 1960
- Folder 9: Chavez, Carlos "Toccata" P, ca. 1950s
- Folder 10: Cohn, Arthur "Quotations in Percussion", 1958
- Box 7
- Folder 6: Colgrass, Michael "Chamber Music", 1954
- Folder 7: Colgrass, Michael "Inventions on a Motive", undated
- Folder 8: Colgrass, Michael "Adagio", 1956
- Folder 9: Creston, Paul "Ceremonial, Op. 103", undated
- Published version with annotations
- Folder 1: Davidson, Harold G. "Hell's Bells", 1935
- Folder 2: DePue, Wallace "Perpetual Motion", undated
- Folder 3: DePue, Wallace E. (Ed. Thomas McMillan) "Sonata Primitif", undated
- Folder 4: England, Wilber T. "Introduction and March", undated
- Folder 5: Erb, David "Four for Percussion", undated
- Folder 10: Feldsher, Howard "Originale", undated
- Folder 11: Feldstein, Saul "Bhairva", undated
- Folder 12: Fine, Vivian "Concertino for Piano and Percussion Ensemble", 1965
- Folder 13: Fine, Vivian "Due for Three Timpani and Piano", undated
- Folder 14: Finney, Ross Lee "Three Studies in Fours", 1974
- Box 8
- Folder 1: Fitz, Richard "Duet for Two Snare Drums", 1962
- Folder 2: Flagello, Nicholas "Divertimento for Piano and Percussion", 1960
- Folder 3: Franchetti, Arnold "4 Nocturnes", 1964
- Folder 4: Frazeur, Theodore "Symphony for Percussion Ensemble of Six Players: Four Precipitations", ca. 1978
- Folder 5: Glanville-Hicks, Peggy "Sonata for Piano and Percussion", 1951/1957
- Folder 6: Hamilton, Iain "Dialogues for Flute and Cello with Percussion" S, 1964
- Folder 7: Harrison, Lou "Symphony #13", May 14, 1941
- For John and Xenia Cage
- Folder 8: Harrison, Lou "Canticle #3", 1942
- Folder 9: Harrison, Lou "The Song of Queztecoatl", February 6, 1941
- Written in San Francisco
- Box 9
- Folder 1: Hoag, Charles "Inventions and Interludes for Clarinet and Marimba", ca. 1976
- Folder 2: Hodkinson, Sidney "Drawings, Set No. 4, for Percussion Trio", June 1961
- Folder 3: Hodkinson, Sydney "Two Structures, Adagio and Rondo, for Percussion Ensemble", December 1957
- Folder 4: Hoffer, Bernard "Fantasia #1 and #2", undated
- Folder 5: Hoffer, Bernard "Sketches", 1962
- Folder 6: Houllif, Murray "Paragons for Solo Marimba and 5 Percussion", 1975
- Folder 7: Houllif, Murray "Under Currents" S and P, 1975
- Folder 8: Johnson, Thomas F. "Music for Cello and Percussion", undated
- Folder 9: Kabalin, Fedor "Ritual for Percussion Ensemble" S and P, undated
- Box 10
- Folder 1: Kahelac, Misolav "Osm Invenci Pro Bici Nastroje" (1 of 2), 1971 (1962)
- Folder 2: Kahelac, Misolav "Osm Invenci Pro Bici Nastroje" (2 of 2), 1971 (1962)
- Folder 3: Keagle, Roger "Three Movements for Percussion Ensemble", undated
- Box 11
- Folder 1: Kitazume, Michio "Relation" P, undated
- Folder 2: Klebe, Giselher "Zwei Studien fur Schlaginstrumente, Adagio and Allegro, Opus 48 and Estatico, Opus 30" S, 1966
- Folder 3: Klein, Lothar "Incantations for Percussion (after Greek ceremonial rights)" S and P, undated
- Includes manuscript arrangement for player 1
- Folder 4: Lenom, Clement "Thirty Lessons in Solfeggio in the Form of Questions and Answers", 1925
- Folder 5: Kupferman, Meyer "Prometheus for Percussion Ensemble" S and P, 1975
- Folder 6: Kresky, Jeffrey "Night Music: A Serenade for Three Percussionists" CS, 1974
- Folder 7: Kraft, William "There and Variations for Percussion Quartet" S with notes, 1956
- Box 12
- Folder 1: Lacerda, Osvaldo "Tres Miniaturas Para Percussao" S and P, 1968
- Folder 2: Lanza, Alcides "Interfaces II 1967-1" CS, ca. 1969
- Folder 3: MacGregor, Laurie "Intrusions," draft of "Intrusion of the Hunter" S, 1974
- Folder 4: MacBride, David "Inside the Ring" S and program, ca. 1978
- Folder 5: Lowes, Donald "Twelve Inventions for Percussion" S, 1965
- Folder 6: Lieberman, Glenn "Ei Qui Tympanum Pulsat: In Memoriam" S Percussion Quartet, 1975
- Folder 7: Miller, Edward Jay "Basho Songs: Six Songs by Matsuo Basho set to Music for Soprano Voice and Three Percussionists", April 1961
- Folder 8: Moy, William C.C. "Toccata and Fugue for Piano and Percussion Instruments", February 5, 1959
- Folder 9: Moy, William C.C. "Music for Piano, Xylophone, Timpani and Percussion" S and P, 1957
- Folder 10: Missal, Joshua (arr. Robert W. Buggert) "Hoe-Down! for PercussioN Ensemble and Piano", 1954
- Folder 11: Miller, Malloy "'Variations' for Roman Totenberg", undated
- Folder 12: Miller, Malloy "Two Rituals for Percussion" S and P, undated
- Box 13
- Folder 1: Nobre, Marlos "Variacoes Ritmicas para Piano e Percussao Tipica Brasileira, op. 15", 1963
- Folder 2: Nobre, Marlos "Rhythmetron para percussao", ca. 1970
- Folder 3: Read, Gardner "Los Dios Aztecos (Los Dioses Aztecas)" MS S and P, undated
- Folder 4: Raphling, Sam "Timpani Concerto" and "Three Pieces for Snare Drums and Piano", undated
- Folder 5: Ptaszynska, Marta "Jeu Parti," "Scherzo" and "Invention, No. 1", 1970/1967/1969
- Folder 6: Porter, Quincy "A Study of 16th Century Counterpoint" with notes, 1939
- Folder 7: Pollock, Robert "Chamber Setting No. 2 for narrator and percussion" with correspondence, undated
- Folder 8: Pinilla, Enrique "Quinteto" and "Satze fur Schlaginstrumente und Klauizr", undated
- Folder 9: Pinilla, Enrique "Cinco Piezas Para Percussion", 1977
- Lima
- Box 14
- Folder 1: Harvey/Garrett Phillips "Toccata for Percussion" S and P, undated
- Folder 2: Schinstine, William J. "Directional Music for Percussion Ensemble" S and P, 1980
- Folder 3: Shechtman, Robert "Digressiosn for Vibes and Marimba (one player)", 1967
- Folder 4: Shumway, Stanley N. "Airs and Cadenzas for Percussion Ensemble and Magnetic Tape", undated
- Folder 5: Roldan, Amadeo "Ritmicas No. 5" P, ca. 1967
- Folder 6: Rudzinski, Zbigniew "Campanella: na Zespol Perkusyjny for percussion ensemble" S and P, ca. 1978
- Folder 7: Russell, William "March Suite" MS, 1957
- Folder 8: Russell, Robert "Symphony for Six: A Percussion Sextet, op. 34" S and P, ca. 1970
- Folder 9: Steiner, Gitta "Quartet for Percussion", ca. 1968
- Folder 10: Stewart, Robert "Voiages I, II and III, 6 percussion and piano" S and P, 1976
- Folder 11: Stout, Gordon "Ode for Marimba", ca. 1978
- Box 15
- Folder 1: Sutcliffe, James H. "Two Pictures for Percussion" S and P, 1957
- Folder 2: Ung, Chinary "Per for Five Players", 1967
- Folder 3: Walcott, Ronald "Fragments for Percussion Quartet" S (old and new version), 1964/1966
- Folder 4: Washburn, Gary "Percussion Sextet in Three Movements" S and P, undated
- Folder 5: White, Charles L. "A Fanfare for Drums" P, undated
- Folder 6: Wuorinen, Charles "Invention for Percussion Quintet" P, 1962
- Box 27: Over-sized scores and parts
- Folder 1: Barker, Thomas E. "Instrumentarium for Percussion Ensemble", 1980
- Folder 2: Bergamo, John "Introduction and Merenge" and "Interventions for Vibraphone and Percussion", 1962/1963
- Folder 3: Beyer, J.M. "Percussion, Op. 14", 1939
- Folder 4: Cacioppo, George "Moves Upon Silence", undated
- Folder 5: Davidovsky, Mario "Synchronisms, No. 5" S and P, 1969
- Box 28: Over-sized parts and scores
- Folder 1: Deschenes, Bruno "Murmurs for Five Percussion and Band" S and notes, ca. 1958
- Folder 2: Drew, James "Concerto for Small Percussion Orchestra" S, 1972
- Folder 3: Duckworth, William "Silent Signals for Percussion Quartet", undated
- Folder 4: Ernst, David "Four and More" S, April 1968
- Folder 5: Finney, Ross Lee "Three Studies in Fours", May 9, 1965
- Folder 6: Fitz, Richard "Chamber Sonata for Percussion Sextet" S and P, 1963
- Folder 7: Flagello, Nicholas "Electra/Synopsis" S and P, 1966
- Folder 8: Harrison, Lou "Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra" S and P, 1959
- Folder 9: Husa, Karel fragments from "Three Dance Sketches for Percussion", ca. 1980
- Folder 10: Kraft, William "Three Miniatures for Percussion and Orchestra", 1959
- Folder 11: Krenek, Ernst "Marginal Sounds" S and P, with notes, 1957
- Box 29: Over-sized scores and parts
- Folder 1: Lambro, Phillip "Dance Barbaro" P and S, undated
- Folder 2: Leseman, Frederick "Suite for Two Percussion Choirs", 1960
- Folder 3: Mamlok, Ursula "Variations and Interludes for Foru Percussionists", 1971
- Folder 4: Maryl, Richard "Apollo for Ten Percussion" S, ca. 1976
- Published by the Johnson Corporation
- Folder 5: Miller, Malloy "Ncoma Invocation and Dance for Timpani and Band", 1959
- Folder 6: Phillips, Peter "Music for Percussion" S, undated
- Folder 7: Pittard III, Mack W. "Escape from Paoshan for C Trumpet, Piano and Percussion" and "Trilogy for Flute, Bass Clarinet and Vibraphone", 1972
- Folder 8: Read, Gardner "Xiuhtecuhtl: Dios del Fuego (God of Fire)" S, undated
- Folder 9: Riley, Howard "Solo Three for Solo Percussion", 1978
- Box 30: Over-sized Scores and Parts
- Folder 1: Ross, Walter "Five Dream Sequences for Piano and Percussion Quartet", undated
- Folder 2: Shapey, Ralph "Evocation for Violin with Percussion and Piano", 1959
- Folder 3: Shechtman, Robert "The Fire of Gehenna A Cantata in Four Movements: written for Tom Siwe and his ensemble", 1974
- Folder 4: Shechtman, Robert "Three Dithyramboi for Percussion Sextet" S written for the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, 1968
- Folder 5: Stern, Robert "Prelude and Dance for Percussion with Mezzo-Soprano Obbligato" S and P, ca. 1960
- Folder 6: Shaffer, Sherwood "Four Quatrains for Percussion", undated
- Folder 7: Thome, Joel "Prisons for Solo Percussion, Piano and Chamber Ensemble", ca. 1970
- Folder 8: Trythall, Richard "Bolero for Four Percussionists", ca. 1980
- Folder 9: Turok, Paul "Capriccio for Violin Solo and Four Percussionists" S, December 15, 1978
- Folder 10: Wilkinson, Jane "Triangles for Three Percussionists" S, 1977
- Folder 11: Worthen, Ellis C. "Percussionata for Percussion Orchestra", May 1966
- Folder 12: Zukofsky, Paul "13 Poems" S and P, 1962
- Oversize Portfolio Box 1
- Oversize Portfolio Case 1: Fields, Robert A. "Delineations for Percussion Quartet", 1968
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Music Manuscripts, ca. 1950-1980],
[Series 2: Annotated Scores and Parts, ca. 1950-1980],
[
Series 3: Unannotated Scores and Parts, ca. 1950-1980],
[
Series 4: Papers],
[
Series 5: Sound Recordings],
[
All]
Holdings 
Submit request (Aeon)
Email us about these papers
Print this information