- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (32 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Septet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Note
- Title provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original container and audition.
- Handwritten note on original container: "Septet - (from Helsinki '64)".
- The original tape reel contains two channels of separate musical recordings; the relation between the recordings, if any, is unidentified.
- The left channel track recording contains Trois morceaux en forme de poire, piano music for four hands, that accompanies Merce Cunningham's Septet (1953). The right channel track contains what sounds to be commercial recordings of two unidentified jazz songs, and excerpts of violin and orchestral pieces.
- Sound quality of streaming file 1 is fair, with a recording "hiss" throughout and audience applause; sound quality of streaming file 2 is mostly good with a slight recording "hiss" throughout.
- Donor's inventory number: R021.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Event (note)
- Right channel track recorded in an unidentified location and date.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Contents
- Streaming file 1: Septet [Trois morceaux en forme de poire / Erik Satie]
- Streaming file 2: Two unidentified jazz songs (0:00-11:01) -- violin solo excerpt, begins abruptly (11:02-13:41) -- violin solo and orchestra excerpt, begins and ends abruptly (13:42-15:42)
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 2379
- OCLC
- 890141716
- Title
Septet performance in Helsinki, 1964 ; and, two unidentified jazz songs.
- Production
Helsinki, 1964
- Playing Time
001543 001542
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Left channel track recorded in performance in Helsinki, Finland 1964 September.
Right channel track recorded in an unidentified location and date.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (32 minutes total) : analog, half track, stereo ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2379.
- 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 Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Container of (work): Satie, Erik, 1866-1925. Morceaux en forme de poire.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Septet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2379