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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 Music Manuscripts - Consists of orginal manuscripts of unpublished compositions and/or arrangements.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 Annotated Scores and Parts - consists of unpublished and published sheet music annotated by Price and/or members of the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble for performance.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 Of special note are manuscripts, non-commercial recordings, and other forms of unpublished music materials of American 20th-century composers including Lou Harrison, Michael Colgrass, and Henry Cowell, as well as works by Price himself.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],
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Series 2: Annotated Scores and Parts, ca. 1950-1980],
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Series 3: Unannotated Scores and Parts, ca. 1950-1980],
[
Series 4: Papers],
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Series 5: Sound Recordings],
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All]
- Series 1: Music Manuscripts, ca. 1950-1980
- Box 1
- Folder 6: Adams, B "Three Poems for G. Lorez and Trio" S and P, undated
- Folder 1: Arceneaux, Jack "Reflections in Dimension" S, undated
- Folder 2: Arceneaux, Jack "5000 B.C., A Vision: Percussion Ensemble for 7 Players and 2 Voices", undated
- Folder 3: Ardeval, Jose "Suite for 30 percussion instruments" S and P, undated
- "Suite para 30 instrumentos de percusion, friccion y zillrido. 15 ejecutantes"
- Folder 4: Ardevol, Jose "Preludio a 11 para once instrumentos de percussion", 1942
- Folder 5: Bartlett, Harry "Eight Soloistic Etudes for the Advanced Snare Drummer" S, August 1954
- Composed at DePaul University
- Folder 7: Bates, Robert "Blue Offering for Flute and Vibraphone" S, 1979
- Started April 23, 1979; Finished May 24, 1979. Dedicated to Susan, with love
- Folder 8: Belmar, Harold "Timbrandun" S and P, undated
- Folder 9: Belmar, Harold "Quartet 4 Tom-Toms" P, undated
- Folder 10: Bergamo, John "Introduction and Merangue" S and P, undated
- Folder 11: Bergamo, John "Quartet #1", undated
- Folder 12: Bergamo, John "Interactions for Vibraphone and Percussion", 1963
- "For Paul and Phyllis Price"
- Folder 13: Bergamo, John "Tanka for Solo Percussion", undated
- Folder 14: Beyer, Johanna M. "March", 1939
- Folder 15: Brisman, Heskel "Dialogue for Flute and Percussion", undated
- Folder 16: Broadkorp, Wayne "Quartet", undated
- Folder 17: Burnham, E.J. "Reflections", undated
- Folder 18: Canning, Thomas "Symphony No. 1", undated
- Box 2
- Folder 9: Childs, Barney "Welcome to Whipperginny" S and P, 1961
- Folder 10: Colgrass, Michael "Concerto for Timpani and Brass", 1952
- Folder 11: Colgrass, Michael "Impromptu Invention No. 1", undated
- Folder 1: Colgrass, Michael "Impromptu Invention", undated
- Folder 2: Cowell, Henry "Ostinato Pianissimo", 1934
- manuscript arrangement
- Folder 3: Cowell, Henry "Pulse", undated
- Folder 4: Cowell, Henry "Return", 1939
- Folder 5: Crane, Robert "Toccata and Fugue", 1958
- Folder 6: Davidson, Harold (arr. Paul Price) "Auto Accident" P, undated
- Folder 7: Dietz, N.E. "Fantasy for Percussion Instruments" S and P, undated
- Folder 8: de Castilla, Robert "Tentet for Percussion", January 16, 1958
- Box 3
- Folder 8: Ernst, David "Waves" S and P, 1972
- "To Paul Price and the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble"
- Folder 9: Fink, Ron "Sonata Brevis for 2 Percussionists", 1965
- Written in Denton, Texas
- Folder 10: Hale, James P. "Introduction to Percussion Ensemble Playing", undated
- book draft
- Folder 11: Harrison, Lou "Canticle #5", undated
- Folder 12: Harrison, Lou "Suite" [For percussion] (P, FS), undated
- Full score is handwritten in a spiral notebook and includes performance directions.
- Folder 1: Harrison, Lou "Canticle #1", undated
- manuscript arrangement and annotated parts
- Folder 2: Hart, William S. "Concert Piece for Timpani Duet", undated
- Folder 3: Hartley, Gerald "Timpani Concertante", 1963
- Folder 4: Horwood, Michael S. "Piece Percussionique, No. 3", undated
- Folder 5: Iadone, Joseph "Arrangements of mid-16th century music", 1972
- Folder 6: Johnston, Ben "Concerto for Percussion", Christmas 1952
- Folder 7: Kamm, Richard "Fast", undated
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Kelly, Thomas Williams "Die Symphonie - Der Technishen - Das Schlagzeug", undated
- Folder 2: Kelly, Thomas "Snare Drum Duets"/"Snare Solo"/"Burial Song"/"Conclusion Ensemble (Tahitian Song)" S and P, ca. 1964
- Folder 3: Kelly, Thomas "Contemplation" S, undated
- Folder 4: Kelly, Thomas "Hum Drum"/"Go Scene-Roll Off"/"The Crusaders"/"Cross Stroke"/"Cracker Jax", undated
- Folder 5: Kelly, Thomas "Latinette" and "What - Me Worry?", undated
- Folder 6: Knaack, Donald "Music of the Renaissance and Early Baroque Periods" (arr. for Marimba) book draft, undated
- Folder 7: Komorowski, Edward "One, Two, Donki-Do" S, undated
- Folder 8: Larsen, Arved M. "Indian Sortie for Percussion" and "A Fourth for Six" S, September 20, 1964 and February 20, 1964
- Folder 9: McPhee, Colin "Kachapi Mas (Golden Zither)" S
- Folder 10: McPhee, Colin "Lagu Deleim" S and P, undated
- Folder 11: McKenzie, Jack "Suite for Side Man and Four Choirs of Handclappers" P, undated
- Folder 12: McKenzie, Jack "Song for Trombone and Percussion" S and P, undated
- Folder 13: McKenzie, Jack "Cadenza - Timpani" P and "I Scherzo" P, undated
- Folder 14: Macbride, David "Ever Inward" with recording and program notes, undated
- Folder 15: Morgan, Glen E. "Music for Horn and Percussion", 1960
- Folder 16: Price, Paul "S.S.B." S and P, undated
- Folder 17: Price, Paul "Study No. 3" S and P, November 1952
- Folder 18: Price, Paul "12 Graded Timpani Solos for Contest", undated
- Folder 19: Price, Paul "Lullabye" P, undated
- Folder 20: Price, Paul "Octet" and "Jimmy", undated
- Folder 21: Petit, Pierre "Hors d'Oeuvre" with handwritten notes, ca. 1955
- Folder 22: Rosenberg, Michael and Paul Price "Percussion Quartet" S and "Kettle Drum Tuning Exercise", undated
- Folder 23: Russell, William "Marches", undated
- Folder 24: Russell, William (arr. Paul Price) "Three Cuban Pieces" P, undated
- Folder 25: Russell, William (Bill) (arr. Price?) "Three Dance Movements Waltz", undated
- Folder 26: Stephens, Michael "Clusters", 1966
- Folder 27: William Russell (arr. Paul Price) "Fugue for Eight Percussion Instruments", undated (1933)
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Siwe, Tom "For Two in Two Four", undated
- Folder 2: Stevens, Henry K. "African Search", June 19, 1975
- Folder 3: Strang, Gerald "Percussion Music for Three Players", ca. 1949
- Folder 4: Tautenhahn, Gunther "By the Dawn's Early Light", 1980
- Folder 5: Theobald, Jim "Three Rhapsodies for Eb Alto Sax and Percussion Quartet" S and P, 1978
- Folder 6: Thome, Joel "Poco Concerro: Percussion Sextet", undated
- Folder 7: Thome, Joel "The Rhythm Patrol: Percussion Quartet" and "The Rambler: Snare Drum Duet", undated
- Folder 8: Uber, David "Rhythmic Contours for Solo Tuba and Percussion", undated
- Folder 9: Varese, Edgard "Ionisation" P, undated
- Folder 10: Weigel, Eugene "Piece" S and P, undated
- Folder 11: Wertman, David "Alchemy", 1973
- Folder 12: Wildermuth, Richard "Bossa Nova for Percussion" S and P, undated
- Folder 13: Wildermuth, Richard C. "Quartet" S and P, undated
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Music Manuscripts, ca. 1950-1980],
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Series 2: Annotated Scores and Parts, ca. 1950-1980],
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Series 3: Unannotated Scores and Parts, ca. 1950-1980],
[
Series 4: Papers],
[
Series 5: Sound Recordings],
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