- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (25 minutes) : digital, mono
- Uniform Title
- Crises (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subject
- Note
- Title provided by cataloger based on handwritten note inside the original container and audition. Additional notes about the studies, including their numbers, provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
- Handwritten note on the inside of the original container: "Conlon Nancarrow ; 7 1/2 I.P.S. ; Rhythm Studies for Player Piano ; (1.) 2:40 ; (2.) 2:25 (very low level)(on original) ; 3. 4:20 ; (4.) 5:09 (low level) ; 5. 2:23 ; (6.) 3:20 (low level) ; (7.) 7:40 - Fragm[e]nt Removed ; Copy 7/28/1960 ; Earle Brown".
- Contains music for Merce Cunningham's Crises (1960). The original study nos. 3 and 4 were never commercially recorded; study no. 7 was edited in a variety of ways for Crises.
- Sound quality is fair; the recording volumes for the studies are uneven with some at lower levels.
- Donor's inventory number: R118.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Contents
- Study no. 1 (0:00-2:41) -- Study no. 2 (2:55-5:19) -- Study no. 3 [original version] (5:23-9:43) -- Study no. 4 [original version] (9:51-15:00) -- Study no. 5 (15:06-17:28) -- Study no. 6 (17:33-20:53) -- Study no. 7 [first 3:42 only] (20:58-24:40)
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 2409
- OCLC
- 881254014
- Author
Nancarrow, Conlon, 1912-1997, composer.
- Title
Rhythm studies for player piano / music by Conlon Nancarrow.
- Production
July 28, 1960
- Playing Time
002440
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Copied, 1960 July 28.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (25 minutes) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, mono ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2409.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original open tape reel by the New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts on February 24, 2014.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Crises (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2409