Biographical information
College diplomas 1946-1948
Erickson's uncle Harold's diary 1919-1930
Portrait of Robert Erikson - Pen drawing on rice paper by Lenore Erick-Alt, and New Year's Greetings from Robert and Lenore Erickson 1955, 1968
Family documents - Photocopies 1898-1906
Family photos
Interviews of Robert Erickson 1982
Media appearances 1956-1970
School and university papers
University of California at San Diego Robert Erickson celebration - Booklet 1987
Articles and newsclippings about Erickson 1946-1987
Datebooks and journals
Journals 1940-1948
Datebooks
1962-1970
1970-1981
CORRESPONDENCE
1941-1977
1978-1982
1983-1986
1987-1989
1991-1996
Undated
Correspondence with Ernst Krenek 1940-1985
MUSIC
Compositions
List of compositions 1940-1980
Program Notes undated
Timings for the music of Robert Erickson undated
Canonic Variations for Piano; Sonata for Piano; Four Piano Pieces - Op 6; Symphony in Three Movements; Symphony in Two Movements 1940-1947
Concerted Music for Flute, Clarinet and String Orchestra 1953
Divertimento for Flute, Clarinet and Strings 1953
Pastorale 1953
Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra 1954
Quartet for Strings 1956
Variations for Orchestra; Duo for violin and piano 1957-1959
Chamber Concerto 1960
Chamber Concerto 1960
Piano Piece; Ramus 1961
Ramus 1961
Bell Record (unfinished) 1962
The End of the Mime of Mick Nick and the Maggies 1962
Mick Nicks and the Maggies; Finnegan's Wake 1962
Illinois Piece 1963
Concerto for piano and seven instruments 1963
Concerto for piano and seven instruments 1963
Graphic Score for a Chamber Ensemble, various parts 1965
Ricercar à 5 for trombone 1966
Scapes II 1966
Ricercar à 3 for contrabass 1967
Do It 1968
Down at Piraeus 1968
Drum Studies 1968
General Speech for solo trumpet 1969
High Flyer for solo flute 1969
Pacific Sirens 1969
Small orchestra piece 1969
Nine and a Half for Henry (and Wilbur and Orville) 1970
Rainbow Rising; White Lady; Garden 1971-1977
Cradle II 1972
Ensemble timbres score 1973-1974
LOOPS: An Informal Timbre Experiment 1973
LOOPS for instruments undated
LOOPS undated
Sirens and Other Flyers 1973
Sirens and Other Flyers 1973
Rainbow Rising sketches 1974
Summer Music 1974
Dice piece 1975
White Lady for wind ensemble 1975
White Lady 1975
Garden for Violin and Orchestra 1976
Sketches - Orchestra and violin 1976
Ornaments 1976
Sketches - Solo flute 1976
Garden 1976-1977
Garden 1976-1977
Drone Piece 1977
Harkins: TPT experiment 1977
Kryl, for solo trumpet 1977
Composition notebook 1978
Flute experiments 1978
Night Music 1978
Vocal with ensemble piece 1978
Night Music 1978
Chamber Orchestra 1979
Quoq for solo flute 1979
The Idea of Order at Key West 1979
East of the Beach 1980
East of the Beach 1980
East of the Beach 1980
Auroras shortscope 1980-1981
Horn sketches 1981
Night Sky 1981
The Pleiades 1981
Postcard Songs 1981
5c. Second Set 1982
Auroras 1982
Auroras (Holding) with notebook 1982
Auroras repair 1982
Auroras 1982
Auroras 1982
Before Dawn 1982
Trio for clarinet, violoncello and harp 1982
Mountain 1983
Taffy Time 1983
Taffy Time 1983
Hard Time, Soft Time, and the Times Between 1983
Sierra 1984
Dunbar's Delight for trumpet solo 1985
Quintet 1985
Corfu 1986
Corona 1986
Seasonal 1986
Birds at Dusk 1987
Fires, for viola, cello, English horn and piano 1988
Venus Enfolded 1988
Music for Trumpet and Strings 1990
Miscellaneous Projects undated
Composition notebooks undated
Composition notebook undated
Compositions for FA3 undated
African Rhythm undated
Beverly's Scene undated
Clarinet Talk undated
Drum Words undated
Flute piece undated
Libretto undated
New Ensemble Piece undated
Noise Organ Notes undated
Ogdon Grant undated
Orchestra Piece undated
Ricercar a 6 undated
Sequoia String Quartet undated
Solstice for string quartet undated
Trumpet piece undated
Ya Muh Tuh Ruh-Ja Buh undated
Orchestra Variations, Short Score; Chamber Piece undated
Introduction and Allegro undated
Chamber Symphony; String Quartet; Orchestra Piece undated
Sounds Structure in Music - Illustrations - Oversize undated
Abajo y Arriba; Ricercar a 3 For 3 Contrabasses undated
Music Theory Charts undated
Programs and Reviews
1941-1963
1964-1975
1976-1985
1986-2001
Undated
Other Projects
Artifact - Musical theory reference tool
Computer research proposals
"Empirical Studies Introductory to a Theory of Timbre Music" undated
"Ensemble Timbre Experiments" 1974
Grant applications 1966-1984
Electronic organ/speaker system - Plans and research notes
Instrument project - Plans and research notes
"Making Music on Homemade Instruments" 1980
"Open Your Ears" undated
Patent fund application for speaker system
UC SAN DIEGO MATERIALS
Teaching Materials
Class Materials
Music 27 1956
Music 10 1969
Seminar 206: Timbre 1969-1985
Graduate seminars 1974-1978
Music 102: Music Theory 1974-1984
Music 209: Contemporary Orchestral Music 1975-1979
Melodic tonality seminar 1978
Musicianship seminar 1978
Musicianship I and II, Book
Untitled class 1978-1979
Music 210: Music Analysis 1978-1979
Music 6: Musical Masterworks 1980
Orchestra seminar 1980
Composition seminar 1981-1982
Music 3: Bali Lecture 1982
Seminar 209B: The Opulent Orchestra 1982-1986
Seminar 209B: The Orchestra Between the Wars 1982-1987
Seminar 209A: The Orchestra Since 1945 1983
Untitled class 1983
Seminar 209 undated
Theory III undated
Miscellaneous lectures
Subject Files
B-D
G-K
M
M
N-V
Writings by Others
Babbit, Milton - "Who Cares if You Listen?" Annotated 1958
Balzano, Jerry - Untitled. Chapter excerpts with correspondence 1980
Barzun, Jacques - "The Meaning of Meaning in Music: Berlioz Once More" 1980
Birnbaum, Daniel "Lost Hills" 1980
Duberman, Martin - "Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community" 1972
Grey, John M. - "Musical Timbre Discrimination in Temporal Contexts." With correspondence 1977-1978
Griffin, Elinor - Untitled. Chapter excerpts with correspondence 1976
Johnson, Mark - " 'Jeffered' by Peter: An Analysis of Musical Organization." With correspondence 1979
Plomp, R. and Bouman, M.A. - "Relation Between Hearing Threshold and Duration for Tone Pulse." Annotated 1959
Rush, Loren - "Mandala Music" undated
Schoenberg, Arnold - "Erecting the Sound Image" 1946
Stewart, John L. - Outline of Krenek book. With correspondence 1979
Tuzin, Donald - "Sound, Ritual and 'Peak-Experience' " 1973
Music Department
Correspondence 1973-1984
Department seminar 1978-1984
Meeting minutes 1974-1984
Reports and proposals 1973-1984 and undated
Miscellaneous
Erickson UCSD Music Department posters, 1987
WRITINGS
Sound Structure in Music
Typescript draft
Edited typescript
Chapter 1 typescript with Will Ogdon's edits
Introduction - Typescript draft
"Timbre: What is it?" - Typescript and handwritten notes
"Timbre and Pitch" - Typescript and handwritten notes
"Timbre and Time" - Typescript and handwritten notes
"Timbre in Texture" - Typescript and handwritten notes
"Klangfarbenmelodie: Problems of Linear Organization" - Typescript and handwritten notes
"Drones" - Typescript and handwritten notes
Bibliography 1972
Research notes - Typescript and handwritten
Contracts 1972
Illustrations
Illustrations
Oversize illustrations for book
Mock-up with negatives and handwritten notes
Reviews and correspondence
Articles and Books
Time Relations 1962-1963
A Primer for New Music 1940
Sound Ideal 1947
Krenek's Later Music (1930-1947), review 1948
The Musical System of Archytas 1965
Varese: 1924-1937: Sound-Ikon 1965
Griffin School Drama of Children 1966
Ad Hoc Musical Instruments 1968
Directions for How to do 'Do It' 1968
Tube Filters in Electronic Music Review No.7 1968
Instruments for Cardenitas 1969
Remembering Sounds 1973
LOOPS, An Informal Timbre Experiment in Source Magazine No.14 1973
How to Educate a Composer 1974
Military Interlude 1974
Reconstructed Sounds 1974
San Francisco in the Fifties and Sixties 1974
Statement for Mandeville Center opening 1974
Timbre and the Tuning of the Balinese Gamelan 1974
Working with Stuart Dempster 1974
Back in the Shop 1975
Moonlighting 1975-1980
Other Worlds 1975
The Structure of the Pitch Memory System written with Diana Deutsch 1975
A Bibliography of Historical Music Theory, Mostly in Translation , and Some Articles that Comment Upon those Theorists and/or Their Theories 1976
Psychoacoustics and the Musician 1977
New Music and Psychology in The Psychology of Music 1979
Composing Music 1980
Moment Form 1980
Words and Music 1980
The Way the Wind is Blowing 1982 October
The Way the Wind is Blowing 1982 September
Audiences and Orchestras: Peering Ahead 1983
Peering Ahead 1983
Remembered Sounds 1983
Charlie 1984
My Music: It's Sources, Aesthetics, Poetics, Theory 1984
A Perceptual Substrate for Tonal Centering 1984
The New Audience 1985
Hearing Things: Autobiographical Essays 1989
An Account of My Career as a Composer undated
Autobiographical Sketch undated
Background and Method undated
A Few Words About My Music undated
The Harmonic Side of Atonal Music undated
Improvisation undated
Music in Plato's Republic and His Harmonics undated
The Musical System of Archytas undated
New New Music undated
Thinking About Audiences undated
Time and Chance in Contemporary Music undated
Tunable Tube Drums undated
The Twelve-Tone System and Musical Information Processing written with Diana Deutsch undated
Miscellaneous writings
Miscellaneous loose notes
Notebooks
Timbre notebooks
Vol. I-IV 1970
Vol. V-VIII
Vol. IX-XII
Vol. XIII-XVI
Vol. XVII-XIX
Notebooks
1980-1985
Undated
MEDIA
Images
Photographs of Robert Erickson
Portraits of Robert Erickson
Events, 1982 and undated
Instruments
Robert Erickson in his studio, portrait, undated
VHS and Beta Cassette Tapes
New World of Sound - KOGO TV Channel 10 1969
Robert Erickson videos undated
Erickson Archive number 1-6
Audiocassettes
"Erickson Archive" number 1-12 1968-1984 and undated
"Robert Erickson" undated
"Auroras" 1984 and undated
"Dunbar's Delight" - First performance May 6, 1985
Erickson program - KFAC March 10, 1987
"Focus" 1992-1996
"The Idea of Order at Key West" 1979-1980
"Night Music" and "Garden" undated
Petersen "Monopoly Mix" and Erickson "Do It" 1966
"Postcards" 1982
"Sierra" undated
"Solstice" (1985) and "Sequoia Quartet" undated
Trio 1987
"Summer Music" 1975
Erickson Festival: Kronos Quartet - "Solstice" March 1, 1987
Krenek - "Concerto for Violin" undated
LPs
"Five Prayers" undated
"Job Choruses" by Robert Erickson undated
"Little Trio" for violin, viola and piano undated
"Pastorale," music by Robert Erickson undated
"The Star Song" and "I Saw a Sweet Silly Sight" by Robert Erickson undated
Untitled undated
Reel-to-Reel
7 1/2 IPS, 1/4", 7" diameter
"Peter," Movie Tape I (a)
7 1/2/ IPS, 1/4", 5" diameter
"Elegy for solo percussion," Jerome Rosen
"Nine and a Half for Henry"
Sound examples illustrating "Computer Study of Trumpet Tones"
Notes relating to reel to reels, 1956 and undated
"Peter," Movie Tape I (b)
"Peter," Movie Tape II
"Peter," Movie Tape III
"Time and Chance in Contemporary Music"
"Down at Piraeus," Performance Tape
"Down at Piraeus," Performance, May 14, 1970, Jerome Rosen, Conductor
"I am R.E.'s Keeper," July 23, 1984, Reel 1 and 2
"White Lady," for wind emsemble
"LOOPS," an informal timbre experiment, Master
15 IPS, 1/2", 10 1/2" diameter
"4 track Bells Master," Jack Williams
"Bialka P/22 Mix"
"Forks" 1972
"Mixes: La Jolla Cove"
"Nine and a Half for Henry," Master
"Wave Mix," 4 tracks
15 IPS, 1/4", 10 1/2" diameter
"Ch Concerto," Stereo
"Down at Piraeus," Stereo Dub 15
"The End of the Music," from concert 1967 March 19
January ACA Composer Program, "Chamber Music" 1957 January 6
Music Improvisations from Griffin Nursery School 1964 January 22
Piano improvisations by Claudia and Betsy and group drumming. Griffin Nursery School, May 1955
"String Quartet"