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Nocturnes : John Cage's rehearsal

Title
Nocturnes : John Cage's rehearsal / music by Erik Satie.
Author
Satie, Erik, 1866-1925
Publication
1968

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Cage, John
  • Bradley University.
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
Found In
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Description
1 streaming audio file (14 minutes) : digital, stereo
Uniform Title
Nocturnes (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Alternative Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Rehearsal.
Note
  • Title, date and song titles provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original reel hub and audition.
  • Handwritten note on original reel hub: "Satie: Nocturnes, Cage Rehearsal ; 4 stereo, 7.5 ips ; 4 May 1968, Peoria, Ill[inois] (Bradley Univ[ersity])". Handwritten note on the spine of original container: "Satie NOCTURNES ; Cage rehearsal". Handwritten note on the back of original container: "Nocturnes, Satie ; V/5/68 ; Cage/Mumma".
  • Contains music for Merce Cunningham's Nocturnes (1956).
  • Sound quality is mostly good; there is brief recording distortion in the beginning and very faint background sounds are audible.
  • Donor's inventory number: R001.
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
Nocturnes [no. 3] (0:00-3:01) -- Nocturnes [no. 5] (3:02-5:12) -- Nocturnes [no. 1] (5:17-8:06) -- Nocturnes [no. 4] (8:07-10:59) -- Nocturnes [no. 2] (11:00-13:54)
Call Number
*LT-7-A 2415
OCLC
881254059
Author
Satie, Erik, 1866-1925, composer.
Title
Nocturnes : John Cage's rehearsal / music by Erik Satie.
Production
1968
Playing Time
001354
Type of Content
performed music
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Performer
John Cage, piano.
Event
Recorded in rehearsal at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, 1968 May 4 ; (There is a date discrepancy between the original reel hub and container thus the cataloger selected the date noted on the reel hub as the recording date).
Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (24 minutes) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, quarter track, stereo ; 5 in. rewound onto an archival 7 in. reel) in *LT-7-A 2415.
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 14, 2014. To create the streaming file, the sound engineers edited out the recording silences in the preservation file, thus the discrepancies in length between the preservation file and the streaming file.
Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
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Added Author
Cage, John, instrumentalist.
Bradley University.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
Added Title
Music for (work) : Nocturnes (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2415
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