Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Jokinen, Erkki
2. Linjama, Jouko
3. American Composers Alliance

Description

1. 22 linear feet (43 boxes )

Summary

1. The Jack Briece papers contains documents primarily of a personal nature that provide not only details of Briece's life but a snapshot of the landscape of contemporary music and art in America during the 70s and 80s.

Subject

1. Composers
2. Briece, Jack, 1945-1988 > Manuscripts
3. Yi jing
4. Motets
5. Correspondence
6. Promotional material
7. Pianists
8. Organist
9. Scores
10. Fanfares
11. Orchestral music > Scores
12. Clippings
13. Financial records
14. Modern music > United States > 20th century
15. Instrumental ensembles > Scores
16. Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble > Scores

Genre/Form

1. Clippings.
2. Correspondence.
3. Financial records.
4. Promotional material.
5. Scores.

Call number

1. JPB 06-25

Terms of use (note)

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Author

1. Briece, Jack, 1945-1988.

Title

1. Jack Briece papers, 1945, 1960-1988.

Terms of use

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Biography

1. Jack Briece was a composer, organist and pianist, video artist, educator, and author, whose creative output was original and inventive. Born in Oklahoma City, January 28, 1945, Briece attended Kansas State College of Pittsburg in Pittsburg, Kansas where he earned his Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance in 1967, and his Master of Music in Composition and Theory in 1970. He also studied at Fontainbleau with Nadia Boulanger in the summer of 1966, and at the New England Conservatory in the Master of Music program in composition during the 1966-67 academic year. Jack Briece designed the music program for the Escuela Americana in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he taught from 1967-69. In 1970-71 he was organist and music theory instructor at Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College in Texas. In 1973 he co-founded the MusicMusic Corporation with the mission of promoting new music composition and performance. The organization developed an international music exchange program with Mexico, Brazil, and England, in which Briece was active. In 1973-74 he began experimenting with the newly developing videotape medium. Throughout the seventies he produced several concerts and concert series such as Les Salons Vides and Nanny Goat Hill. His own instrumental music has also been performed in Central America, Europe, and the United States and at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas (1973), the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin in Mexico City (1977), and the Santa Fe Festival of the Arts (1983). His music has been published in Soundings and Ear magazines. He was also a member of the American Composers Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to American classical music, and publisher of American composers. Also of great importance to Briece's life and works was his ongoing study of astrology, planetary movements, and the I-Ching. Jack Briece died of AIDS in Aptos, California at the age of 43 on March 26, 1988.

Indexes

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material
2. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Composers
2. Organist
3. Pianists

Added author

1. Jokinen, Erkki. Face.
2. Linjama, Jouko. Missa de angelis.
3. American Composers Alliance.

Research call number

1. JPB 06-25