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By Elizabeth Surles and Hannah Jellen
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Collection Overview
Title: Salvatore Martirano Music, Personal Papers, and Sal-Mar Construction, 1927-1999
ID: 12/5/42
Primary Creator: Martirano, Salvatore (1927-1995)
Extent: 55.0 cubic feet
Arrangement:
The collection is organized into eight series and seven sub-series. Series 1: Music, ca. 1947-1995, is organized alphabetically by title. Whenever possible an identification of the format of the music for each title (i.e., full score, condensed score, piano score, and parts) has been noted with the corresponding abbreviations, FS, CS, PS, P. Series 2: Correspondence, ca. 1932-1999, is organized into two sub-series. Sub-series 1: Contracts, Publishing, and Royalties, 1959-1995, is arranged chronogically. Sub-series 2: Personal and Professional, 1932-1999, is arranged alphabetically and then chronologically. Correspondence from 1990-1999 is organized chronologically. Business correspondence is arranged alphabetically according to institution name, while correspondence from colleagues, family, and friends is ordered alphabetically according to the letter writer's last name. Series 3: Instruments and Technology, ca. 1967-2000, is arranged in two subseries. Sub-series 1: Sal-Mar Construction, 1967-1984, is arranged according to document type. Sub-series 2: YahaSALmaMac, 1986-1993, is arranged according to document type. Series 4: Publicity and Performance, ca. 1950-1995, is arranged into three sub-series. Sub-Series 1: Publicity, Marketing, Media Coverage, and Interviews, is arranged according to document type and then chronologically. Sub-series 2: Performances, Lectures, and Panels, is arranged according to document type and then chronologically. Sub-series 3: Published and Unpublished Research, is arranged alphabetically by author. Series 5: Photographs, ca. 1927-2004, is organized by type of image, subject matter, and then chronologically. Series 6: Family and Personal Papers, ca. 1927-1952, is organized by document type and then chronologically. Series 7, Sound Recordings, 1956-1993, is organized by recording number. Series 8, L's GA Props, 1960-1999, is organized by item type.
The collection was received in annotated and numbered envelopes and folders. To retain the original order and annotation, the numbering system and information on the folders and envelopes have either been photocopied and retained with the original records or transcribed on the folders in which the collection has been rehoused. Additional documentation of the original order and annotation is located in the collection's control file.
Date Acquired: 06/06/2008. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Electronic Music, Music, School of, Music Composition, Photographs
Formats/Genres: Architectural drawings, Financial Records, Newspaper Clippings, Papers, Photocopies, Sheet music
Languages: English, French, Korean, Italian, Japanese, German, Romanian, Dutch;Flemish
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of correspondence between Martirano and colleagues, friends, and family, including Milton Babbit, John Cage, Elliot Carter, Gilbert Chase, Aaron Copland, Luigi Dallapicolla, Paul Fromm, Loren Maazel, Morton Subotnik, and Igor Stravinsky; recording and publishing contracts; royalty statements; published and unpublished music scores, drafts, manuscripts, and studies; grant proposals, applications, and reports; address book and lists; Sal-Mar Construction and YahaSALmaMac circuit diagrams, transparencies, and negatives; Sal-Mar Construction wiring lists; circuit boards; books; news clippings; photographs; negatives; slides; posters; concert programs and program notes; mailers; brochures; fliers; articles; theses; concert ticket; scrapbooks; invitations; birth certificate; autograph book; military records; poems by MC Halloway; architectural drawings; technical riders; lecture notes and transparencies; interviews; awards; and degrees. In addition, the Sal-Mar Construction, publicly unveiled in 1970 as the first musical instrument to generate dynamic improvisatory electronic music using analog and digital circuits designed with help from engineers who worked on the University's of Illinois' early Illiac supercomputer, was also included as part of this donation to the University. The papers, music, and Sal-Mar Construction document Martirano's activities as an award-winning composer, performer, and leader in the field of computer generated music.
See also record series number 35/3/68.
Biographical Note
Born in Yonkers, Salvatore Martirano (1927-1995) grew up in New Rochelle, New York where he graduated from high school in 1945. While there he was the leader of "The Sonny Martin Band," the name of which came from Martirano's childhood nickname "Sonny." After graduating, Martirano served as a Marine for fourteen months in 1945 and 1946, during which time he performed with the Parris Island Marine Band and a touring USO show.
Martirano received his undergraduate degree in 1951 from Oberlin College, where he studied composition with Herbert Elwell. A year later he completed his master's degree in composition at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Bernard Rogers. During the same year, Martirano received a Fulbright to study composition in Italy with Luigi Dallapiccola from 1952 to 1954. Martirano continued to work in Italy from 1956 to 1959, when he was a resident fellow at the American Academy. Between 1959 and 1964, Martirano received commissions, awards, and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ford, Koussevitzky, and Fromm Foundations, as well as from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Brandeis University. In 1963, Martirano joined the Theory and Composition Department at the University of Illinois, where he remained on the faculty until his retirement and death in 1995. He was also a resident composer at the NSW Conservatorium of Music in Sydney (1979), IRCAM in Paris (1982) and the California Institute of the Arts (1993). Composers including Phil Winsor, Mark Zanter, Thorsteinn Hauksson, Stuart Saunders Smith, Maggi Payne, and Yehuda Yannay studied with Martirano while students at the University of Illinois.
Many of Martirano's early works incorporate twelve-tone compositional techniques as well as jazz, vernacular, and multimedia idioms. His best-known composition, "L's GA" (Lincoln's Gettysburg Address), was widely performed in the late 1960s and early 1970s and became associated with the anti-war movement. In the early 1960s, Martirano became interested in electronic music, and this interest guided much of his work from the 1960s on. Martirano was among the very first composers in the United States to utilize and invent new computer technology for composition. Martirano created a series of electronic music systems, including the Sal-Mar Construction and YahaSALmaMac, which enabled him to write and perform music that mixed human and computer-generated sounds and composition.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Accruals:
June 6, 2008, September 20, 2008, April 11, 2011, and December 7, 2017.
Access Restrictions:
Box 17, Folder 16 restricted until November 17, 2034.
Acquisition Method:
The music, papers, and Sal-Mar Construction were donated to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by the Martirano family on June 6, 2008. The Sal-Mar Construction was received by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from the Martirano family on September 20, 2008. Audio-visual materials were received by the Martirano family on April 11, 2011. An addition of two sound recordings and oversized notebooks with music parts were acquired on December 7, 2017 by way of the University of Illinois' Music and Performing Arts Library, which received them from the Martirano family through Stephen Taylor in the School of Music.
Processing Information:
Papers, Music, and Sal-Mar Construction processed in 2008-2009.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Music, ca. 1945-1995],
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Series 2: Correspondence, ca. 1932-1999],
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Series 3: Sal-Mar Construction and YahaSALmaMac, ca. 1967-2000],
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Series 4: Publicity, Lectures, and Performances, ca. 1950-1995],
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Series 5: Photographs, ca. 1927-2004],
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Series 6: Family and Personal Papers, ca. 1927-1952],
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Series 7: Sound Recordings, 1956-1995],
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Series 8: L's GA Props],
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All]
- Series 1: Music, ca. 1945-1995
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Action Analysis (FS), 1968
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Ballad, 1966
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: Cocktail Music, 1962
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 4: Columbo (FS, incomplete), ca. 1992
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 5: FoDo (P), 1994
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 6: Fugue on a Given Theme (FS), ca. 1947-1951
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 7: Lo Disse Dante notes, ca. 1965
- Folder 8: LON/dons (draft, FS, incomplete), 1989
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 9: LON/dons (draft, FS, incomplete), 1989
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 10: LON/dons (draft, FS, incomplete), 1989
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Box 6
- Folder 1: 1st Orchestra Piece (CS), ca. late 1940s
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Another You (P), 1992
- Composer/Arranger: Warren and Gordon/Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: Blues for Do (P), 1992
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 4: Blow (FS), 1963
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 5: Bulgarian Dance No. 6 (FS, incomplete), ca. 1947-1951
- Composer/Arranger: Bartok, Bela/Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 6: Chansons Innocentes (FS), 1955
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 7: Cherokee (P), 1992
- Composer/Arranger: Noble/Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 8: The Cherry Orchard (draft, FS, P, incomplete), ca. 1950
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 9: The Cherry Orchard (FS, P), ca. 1950
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 10: Cocktail Music (draft, PS, incomplete), 1962
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 11: Contrasto (draft, CS), 1954
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 12: Great Green Dancing Devil, Devil, Devil, Devil (FS, P), 1963
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 13: I Remember April (P), 1992
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore, arr.
- Folder 14: Isabela (FS, P), 1993
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Box 7
- Folder 1: Ballad (FS, P), 1966
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Cocktail Music (PS), 1962
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: Contrasto (FS), 1954
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 4: LON/dons (notes), 1989
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 5: Phleu (draft, FS, P), 1988
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 6: Piece for Orchestra (draft, FS, P), 1952
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 7: Sampler, everything goes when the whistle blows (FS, P), 1985
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 8: Stuck on Stella (PS), 1979
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 9: Untitled (FS, incomplete), Undated
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 10: A Venusian Waltz (FS), ca. 1963
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Box 8
- Folder 1: L's GA (FS), ca. 1967
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Octet (notes), 1963
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: Phleu (draft, notes), 1988
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 4: Phleu and Sampler midi charts, 1985, 1988
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 5: Prelude in A Major, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. I, No. 19 (FS), ca. 1947-1951
- Composer/Arranger: Bach, J.S. and Martirano, Salvatore, arr.
- Folder 6: Scrape Rim Skin, 1990
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 7: Sampler, everything goes when the whistle blows (draft, P), 1985
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 8: String Quartet No. 1 (FS, P), 1950
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Box 9
- Folder 1: LON/dons (FS), 1989
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: The Magic Stones (draft, libretto), 1951
- Note: Original title was Something for Nothing.
- Librettist/Composer: Rothchild, Eric and Salvatore Martirano
- Folder 3: The Magic Stones (FS), 1951
- Note: Original title was Something for Nothing
- Librettist/Composer: Rothchild, Eric and Salvatore Martirano
- Folder 4: The Magic Stones (P), 1951
- Note: Original title was Something for Nothing
- Librettist/Composer: Rothchild, Eric and Salvatore Martirano
- Folder 5: The Magic Stones (FS), 1951
- Note: Original title was Something for Nothing
- Librettist/Composer: Rothchild, Eric and Salvatore Martirano
- Folder 6: The Magic Stones (Something for Nothing) (PS), 1951
- Librettist/Composer: Rothchild, Eric and Salvatore Martirano
- Box 10
- Folder 1: Mass a capella (FS), 1952-1955
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Ninna Nanna (draft, FS), 1957
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: O, O, O, O That Shakespeherian Rag (FS), 1958
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 4: O, O, O, O That Shakespeherian Rag (draft, FS), 1958
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 5: Octet (draft, FS, incomplete), 1963
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 6: Octet (FS, P), 1963
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 7: An Olive for the Noble Snare (draft, FS), 1987
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 8: Play-Time (PS), ca. 1947-1951
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 9: Prelude in A minor, Op. 6, No. 2 (PS), ca. 1947-1951
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 10: Prelude for Orchestra (draft, FS, P), 1951
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 11: Prelude in D-flat minor, Op. 6, No. 15 (PS), ca. 1947-1951
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 12: Prelude IV, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. II (PS), ca. 1947-1951
- Composer/Arranger: Bach, J.S. and Salvatore Martirano
- Box 11
- Folder 1: Lo Disse Dante (draft, FS), ca. 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Underworld actors parts, 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: Underworld actors parts, 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 7: Underworld cue sheets, undated
- Box 12
- Folder 1: Sonata for Violin and Piano (draft, FS, P), 1951
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: String Quartet No. 1 (draft, FS, P), 1950
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: Suite for Chamber Orchestra (FS), ca. 1947-1951
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 4: Thrown (draft, P), 1984
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 5: Toads in Tweeds (FS), ca. 1963
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 6: UIUS and Jes Fa'laffs (FS, P), 1991
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 7: Unidentified student works, notes, and studies, ca. 1947-1951
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 8: Untitled (draft, FS, incomplete)
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 9: Untitled, Undated
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 10: Untitled, Undated
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 11: Unidentified drafts and notes, Undated
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Box 13
- Folder 1: Thrown (FS), 1984
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Underworld (draft, notes), 1964-1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: We, Undated
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Box 14
- Folder 1: Notebook, ca. 1960
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Theory and Composition Notebooks, ca. 1947-1951
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: Unidentified sketches, drafts, and notes, Undated
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 4: Unidentified sketches, drafts, and notes, Undated
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 5: Unidentified sketches, drafts, and notes, Undated
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 6: Unidentified sketches, drafts, and notes, Undated
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Box 15
- Folder 1: Underworld bass part, 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Underworld bass part, 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: Underworld tenor saxophone part, 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 4: Underworld (draft), 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Box 16
- Folder 1: Underworld tape part, 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Underworld (FS), 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: Underworld percussion parts, 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Box 31
- Item 1: Underworld Computer Programming Cards, Undated
- Box 33
- Item 1: Underworld Score Negative, ca. 1964
- Linograph direct print photographic paper roll
- Item 2: Underworld Score Negative, ca. 1964
- Linograph direct print photographic paper roll
- Item 3: Underworld Score Negative, ca. 1964
- Linograph direct print photographic paper roll
- Box 34
- Item 1: Underworld Score Negative, ca. 1964
- Linograph direct print photographic paper roll
- Box 69
- Folder 1: Underworld, 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Underworld, 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: Underworld, 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 4: Underworld, 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 5: Underworld, Left String Bass (Amplified) part, April 1965
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 6: Underworld, Right String Bass part, undated
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 7: Underworld, Tenor Saxophone part, undated
- Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 8: Underworld, Performance and Lighting Notes, circa 1966
- 3 sheets: Underworld performance notes dated March 10, 1966 and undated stage lighting notes for a performance of Underworld at Gregory Hall.
- Box 70
- Folder 1: Underworld, Full Score, 1965
Conductor's Score, Version I & II
Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 2: Underworld, Percussion (1), undated
8 oversized boards with music pasted on front and back (16 pages total)
Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 3: Underworld, Percussion (2), undated
8 oversized boards with music pasted on front and back (16 pages total)
Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 4: Underworld, Percussion (3), undated
8 oversized boards with music pasted on front and/or back (15 pages total)
Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Folder 5: Underworld, Percussion (4), undated
9 oversized boards with music pasted on front and back (18 pages total)
Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
- Oversize Portfolio Case 2: Underworld, 1965
Oversized and spiral-bound, with Martirano's handwritten notes and signature.
Also includes rental copy of score.
Composer/Arranger: Martirano, Salvatore
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Music, ca. 1945-1995],
[
Series 2: Correspondence, ca. 1932-1999],
[
Series 3: Sal-Mar Construction and YahaSALmaMac, ca. 1967-2000],
[
Series 4: Publicity, Lectures, and Performances, ca. 1950-1995],
[
Series 5: Photographs, ca. 1927-2004],
[
Series 6: Family and Personal Papers, ca. 1927-1952],
[
Series 7: Sound Recordings, 1956-1995],
[
Series 8: L's GA Props],
[
All]