Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Miller, Rob (Robert E.)
2. Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
3. Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-
4. Tcherepnin, Ivan
5. Tudor, David, 1926-1996.
6. City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.)
7. Merce Cunningham Dance Company
8. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor

Found in

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Description

1. 3 streaming audio files (72 minutes total) : digital, stereo

Uniform title

1. Cargo X (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
2. Field and figures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
3. Quartet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Alternative title

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.

Subject

1. Aleatory music
2. Vocalises
3. Modern dance music
4. Live sound recordings
5. Electronic music
6. Percussion music

Genre/Form

1. Live sound recordings.

Contents

1. Streaming file 1, side a: Field and figures "Creative act" / [Ivan Tcherepnin] (0:00-29:01) -- Audience applause (29:02-30:18)
2. Streaming file 2, side b: Cargo X ["Spectra" / Takehisa Kosugi] (0:00-21:05) -- Audience applause (20:05-21:47)
3. Streaming file 3, side b: Quartet ["Sextet for seven" / David Tudor] (0:00-18:15) -- Audience applause (18:16-20:12)

Call number

1. *LTC-A 1236

Note

1. Title, dates and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original cassette, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
2. Handwritten note on original cassette, side A: "Creative Act, City Center 1990 ; Rec. by RM [Rob Miller]". Handwritten note on original cassette, side B: "Cargo X, Quartet".
3. Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Field and figures (1989), Cargo X (1989), and, Quartet (1982).
4. The music for Field and figures, Ivan Tcherepnin's Creative act: Electronically Varied Heterothonies on a Text by Marcel Duchamp, contains spoken short phrases of text by Marcel Duchamp in English.
5. Sound quality is mostly good; audience applause overlaps the end of Spectra, and the recording volume in the beginning of Sextet for seven is slightly low.
6. Donor's inventory number: C036.

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.

Source (note)

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Title

1. Field and figures, Cargo X, and, Quartet : performances at City Center, 1990-03.

Production

1. [March 21 and 24th?], 1990.

Playing time

1. 003018 002147 002012

Type of content

1. performed music

Type of medium

1. audio

Type of carrier

1. audiocassette
2. online resource

Digital file characteristics

1. audio file

Event

1. Recorded in performances at City Center, New York, New York, 1990 [March 21 and 24th?].

Restricted access

1. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.

Original version

1. Archival original: (1 audio cassette (72 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1236.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Local note

1. Transferred from original analog cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; three preservation files were created based on content and cassette sides: C036a -- C036c.

Source

1. Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Miller, Rob (Robert E.), recording engineer.
2. Container of (work): Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. Works. Selections.
3. Container of (work): Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- Spectra.
4. Container of (work): Tcherepnin, Ivan. Creative act.
5. Container of (work): Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Sextet for seven.
6. City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.)
7. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
8. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.

Added title

1. Music for (work) : Cargo X (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
2. Music for (work) : Field and figures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
3. Music for (work) : Quartet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
4. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.

Found in:

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Research call number

1. *LTC-A 1236