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By Jan Carmichael, Travis McDade, Brandy Parris and Scott Schwartz
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Collection Overview
Title: Dennis Eberhard Music and Papers, 1967-2005
ID: 26/20/139
Primary Creator: Eberhard, Dennis (1943-2005)
Extent: 5.0 cubic feet
Arrangement: Music is arranged chronologically within each compositional genre and physical format. Papers are arranged alphabetically by subject and content.
Date Acquired: 07/31/2006. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Compositions-Music, Computer Music, Electronic Music, Music, School of, Music Composition
Formats/Genres: Motion Pictures/Videotapes, Papers, Sound Recordings
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists correspondence, publicity packets, news clippings, audio-visual recordings, scripts, and original full scores (FS), condensed scores (CS) and parts (P) for compositions created by Eberhard throughout his professional music career. The music and papers are organized in two series: Series 1: Original Music, 1967-2005 and Series 2: Personal Papers, 1968-2005. The original music is organized in four sub-series: Sub-series 1, Orchestral Works, 1978-2002; Sub-series 2, Chamber Music, 1969-2004; Subseries 3, Choral Works, 1983-1989; and Sub-series 4, Works for Band, 1967-1973. Of particular significance is Eberhard's original composition and motion picture documentary, The Shadow of the Swan, surrounding the 2002 debut performance of this work for orchestra in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Biographical Note
Dennis Eberhard (1943-2005) studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Kent State University, University of Warsaw in Poland as well as at the Experimental Music Studio of the University of Illinois from 1969 to 1972. Composing both concert music and music for film and theater, Mr. Eberhard also worked with John Cage and Lejaren Hiller, participating in the realization of their compositions Music Circus and HPSCHD. He studied composition with Marie Martin, Frederick Coulter, Paul Martin Zonn, Salvatore Martirano, and Wlodzimierz Kotonski, and electronics, computer techniques, and programming with Gordon Mumma and Herbert Brun. He taught at the University of Illinois, Western Illinois University, the University of Nebraska, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Cleveland State University, while lecturing widely on his own music at such institutions as the Cleveland Institute of Music, Cornell University, Penn State, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, the University of New Mexico, and the Sao Paulo State University in Brazil.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Accruals:
"Janus" (1979) and "Paraphrases" (1968) donated by Phillip Musser, August 2007
Acquisition Source:
Susan Lokar
Acquisition Method:
Bequest to the University's School of Music Library.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Original Music],
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Series 2: Personal Papers],
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- Series 1: Original Music
- Sub-Series 1: Orchestral Works
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Janus Music (FS): Original vellum and copy, 1978
- Folder 2: Janus Music (P): Original vellums, 1978
- Original Vellums
- Folder 3: Janus Music (FS), 1979
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Ephrata (FS): Unbound copy, 1981
- Folder 2: Night Tides (FS): Original Vellums, 1983
- Folder 3: Voix Celestes (FS): Bound copy, 1983
- Folder 4: Voix Celestes (FS), (P): Vellum and copy, 1983
- Folder 5: Elegies (FS), (P): Original Vellum, 1985
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Lucifer Rising (FS), (P): Original Vellum, 1985
- Folder 2: The Bells of Elsinore (FS): Unbound copy (corrected), 1988
- Folder 3: To the End of Dreamtime (FS): Original Vellum, 1988-89
- Box 4
- Folder 1: To the End of Dreamtime (FS): Printed Copy and Performance Notes (Chamber version in Box 14, Folder 10), 1988-89
- Folder 2: The Bird of Four Hundred Voices (PS): Bound copy (Chamber version in Box 14, Folder 10), 1992
- Box 5
- Folder 1: The Bird of Four Hundred Voices (FS): Unbound Sibelius and Study Score (Chamber version in Box 14, Folder 10), 1993
- Folder 2: The Bird of Four Hundred Voices: Original Vellums (Chamber version in Box 14, Folder 10), 1993
- Folder 3: For the Musicians of the Queen (P): Original Vellums and Copy, 1994
- Box 6
- Folder 1: To Catch the Light (FS): Original Vellum, 1995-2001
- Folder 2: To Catch the Light (FS), Original Vellum, 1995-2001
- Folder 3: To Catch the Light (FS - revised): Bound copy, 2001-04
- Box 7
- Folder 1: To Catch the Light (FS): Unbound copy(A), 1995-2001
- Folder 2: To Catch the Light (FS): Unbound copy(B), 1995-2001
- Box 8
- Folder 1: Crooked River Oracle (FS): Unbound copy, 1996
- Folder 2: Crooked River Oracle (FS): Unbound copy, 1996
- Folder 3: Prometheus Wept (FS), (P): Original Score, Photocopy, Printed Copy, 1998
- Folder 4: Prometheus Wept (FS): 3 bound copies, 1998
- Box 9
- Folder 1: Shadow of the Swan (FS): Printed Copy, 2002
- Folder 2: Shadow of the Swan (P): Printed Copy (A), 2002
- Box 10
- Folder 1: Shadow of the Swan (P): Printed Copy (B), 2002
- Folder 2: Shadow of the Swan (P): Printed Copy (C), 2002
- Box 13
- Folder 1: To Catch the Light (P): Original Vellum (A), 1995-2001
- Folder 2: To Catch the Light (P): Original Vellum (B), 1995-2001
- Folder 3: To the End of Dreamtime (P): Mixed Original Vellum and Photocopy (A), 1988-89
- Folder 4: To the End of Dreamtime (P): Mixed Original Vellum and Photocopy (B), 1988
- Folder 5: Night Tides (P): Unbound copy, 1983
- Folder 6: Night Tides (P): Unbound copy, 1983
- Folder 7: Marginals (FS): Bound score, 1976
- Box 14
- Folder 1: To Catch the Light (P): Original Vellum (C), 1995
- Folder 2: To Catch the Light (P): Original Vellum (D), 1995
- Box 15
- Folder 1: The Bells of Elsinore (FS): Printed Copy, 1988
- Folder 2: Berceuse (FS): Photocopy, 1989
- Folder 3: For the Musicians of the Queen (FS), 1994
- Folder 4: To Catch the Light (FS): Unbound copy, 1995
- Box 16
- Folder 2: Janus Music (FS), Original Vellum, 1978
- Folder 3: Janus Music (FS), Bound score, 1979
- Folder 4: For the Musicians of the Queen (FS), Original Vellum, 1994
- Folder 5: Crooked River Oracle (FS): Original vellum1, 1996
- Folder 10: Unidentified fragment of score: Original vellum, Undated
- Sub-Series 2: Chamber Music
- Box 11
- Folder 1: Paraphrases (FS), 1968
- Folder 2: Parody (FS): Bound Copy, 1972
- Folder 3: Veillees (FS): Bound Score, 1974
- Folder 4: Returning: Original Vellum, 1987
- Folder 5: Encontros (CS, (P): Original Vellum, 1990
- Folder 6: On Celestial Wings (P), (PS): Pasteup and Photocopy, 1997
- Box 14
- Folder 3: Awakening (PS): Original Vellum, Undated
- Folder 4: (Tape): Mariner (FS): Bound copy, 1969-70
- Folder 5: Visions of the Moon (P): Original Vellum, 1978
- Folder 6: Epodie (FS), (P): Original Vellum, 1982
- Folder 7: Epodie (FS): Bound copy, 1982
- Folder 8: Especially for Solo Harp (P): Bound copy, 1983
- Folder 9: Encontros (FS): Bound copy, 1990
- Folder 10: The Bird of Four Hundred Voices: Unbound Violin Score (Orchestral version in Box 4, Folder 2 and Box 5, Folders 1,2), 1993
- Folder 11: Phantom Dancer, 1998
- Box 15
- Folder 6: Visions of the Moon (FS): Photocopy with Revisions, 1978
- Folder 7: Ephrata (FS): Bound copy, 1980-81
- Folder 8: Night Tides (FS): Bound copy, 1983
- Folder 9: Endgame (FS): Bound copy, 1989
- Folder 10: Suite for Solo Cello: Printed Copy, 1992
- Folder 11: Suite for Solo Cello (P), 1992
- Folder 12: Amazing Gracie: Printed Copy, 2004
- Box 16
- Folder 6: Visions of the Moon (FS), Original vellum, 1978
- Folder 7: Visions of the Moon (FS), Bound copy, 1978
- Sub-Series 3: Choral Works
- Box 12
- Folder 1: De Profundis (P): Original Vellums, 1983
- Folder 2: De Profundis (FS): Photocopy, 1983
- Folder 3: O Sing a New Song (P): Mixed Original Vellum and Photocopy, 1989
- Folder 4: O Sing a New Song (FS): Mixed Original Vellum and Photocopy, 1989
- Box 14
- Folder 12: Let the Heavens Be Glad (FS): Original Vellum and Photocopy, 1986
- Box 15
- Folder 12: O Sing a New Song (FS): Bound copy, 1989
- Sub-Series 4: Works for Band
- Box 16
- Folder 8: Anamorphoses (FS): Bound score, 1967
- Folder 9: Morpos (FS): Bound score, 1973
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