Inventory of the Roger Nixon archive, 1944-[ongoing]

I. Correspondence and Papers

Box Box 1

Academic Tribute and California Jubilee and San Joaquin Sketches (commission)

American Bandmasters, National Endowment for the Arts

ASCAP - Former correspondence, supportive material for awards

Biographical Materials

Boosey and Hawkes

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (opera) - N.J. Performance. Photographs and correspondence

Chamarita!

Correspondence - library staff

Correspondence - misc. 1 & 2

Correspondence - S.F. State files 1-4

Correspondence with composers, conductors, musicians, and organizations

Festival Mass

Carl Fischer Inc.

Galaxy

Golden Crest Records and Baylor University Project - corres.

The Goldman Memorial Band

Grants and Awards 1 & 2

Neil A. Kios Music Co.

List of Performances

List of Works

Misc. publishers correspondence, catalogues, info.

Music Educators National Conference, 1986 -- Program

Music for a Civic Celebration, J. C. Penney Bicentennial Project

NPR notes: "Meet the Composer"

Newspaper articles 1, 2, and 3

Nixon - David Boyden

Nixon - Aaron Copland 1 ALS

Nixon - Andrew Imbrie 2 MLS

Nixon - Roger Sessions 3 ALS

Nixon - Schoenberg

Nixon to Ernst Krenek

Photos

Postcards

Presser Co. Correspondence

Box Box 2

Program information, lists of works, lecture notes (1976 on)

Publisher correspondence and catalogs

"Raw" notes for lecture given in Ann Arbor (Univ. of Michigan). A Perspective on Composing for Band / with cassette tape used for demonstration

Reviews

San Francisco Symphony Stagebill (1/31/87)

Scrapbook

A Solemn Processional Southern Music Company

Twelve piano preludes and Opus Music Publishers

US Air Force Band - Arnold Gabriel, cond.

University of Michigan and Univ. of Illinois Bands1

Viola concerto

Workshops

A dissertation: "The Published Band Compositions of Roger Nixon," by Anthony P. Mazzaferro

II. SCORES

Additional Note

All are published scores inscribed by Nixon or ozalid copies of his manuscripts.

Box Box 5

Academic Tribute: for concert band (1987)

Air for Strings; with notes from a lesson with Schoenberg / Summer 1948

Arises the New Flower (1985)

Box Box 6

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Opera in 4 scenes -- piano-vocal score (1967)

Box Box 5

By-By-baby -Lullay! (1965)

California Jubilee (1987)

Centennial Overture (1995) score and parts

Ceremonial piece for brass (1980) score and parts

Chaucerian Visions: for mixed voices (SATB) [and piano] (1987)

Chinese seasons : song cycle (1942)

Box Box 6

Christmas perspectives for mixed voices, another score marked "set 1." (1980)

Concert Prelude: for brass (no date)

Box Box 5

Conversations for violin and clarinet in B flat (1981)

Festival mass [SATB, organ] (1980)

Firwood: for four part chorus (SATB) a capella (1960)

Flower of Youth [Concert Band, Grade 4] Score and parts (1992)

Four duos for flute or oboe and B flat clarinet (1966)

From The Canterbury Tales for mixed voices (no date)

Love's secret: four-part chorus, SATB (1967)

Music for a Civic Celebration, score and parts (1975)

Music for Clarinet and Piano. Score and part (1986)

Music for Piano (1994)

Music of Appreciation: for band. Score and parts (1944)

Box Box 6

A Narrative of Tides. Vocal score. (1984)

Box Box 5

Nocturne: for concert band. Condensed score and parts (1965)

Pacific Celebration Suite (1979) 1 score and parts

Psalm: for band (1972) 1 score and parts

Three duos (flute & B flat clarinet) (1983)

To the evening star (William Blake): for mixed voices a cappella (1967)

Twelve Preludes for Piano (1984)

Two Elegies for solo cello (1984)

Variations for B-flat bass clarinet (1983)

Variation for Clarinet and cello (1991) 2 scores and 1 facsimile (facs. in Box 6)

Variations for bassoon (1983)

Viola concerto (1969) Study score, Viola and Piano version (score and part)

Wonders of Christmas: for chorus of mixed voices unaccompanied (4 pieces) (1993)

III. Programs

Additional Note

The programs are arranged by the titles of the composition.

Box Box 3

Academic Tribute -- SF State University

Academic Tribute -- USA

Air for Strings -- Bay Area

Air for Strings -- California

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky -- SF State University

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky -- Bay Area

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky -- California

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky -- USA

By-By Baby, Lullay -- Bay Area

California Jubilee -- International:Japan

California Jubilee -- SF State University

California Jubilee -- California

California Jubilee -- USA

Carols

Centennial Fanfare March -- SF State University

Centennial Fanfare March -- Bay Area

Centennial Fanfare March -- California

Centennial Fanfare March -- USA

Centennial Overture

Ceremonial Fanfare Nos. 1 and 2 -- SF State University

Ceremonial Fanfare No. 1 -- Bay Area

Ceremonial Piece for Brass -- California

Chamarita! -- International: Japan

Chamarita! -- SF State University

Chamarita! -- California

Chamarita! -- USA

Chanticleer -- International: South Africa

Chanticleer -- Bay Area

Chanticleer -- USA

Chaucerian Visions

Chinese Seasons -- SF State University

Chinese Seasons -- Bay Area

Chinese Seasons -- USA

Christmas Perspectives -- SF State University

Christmas Perspectives -- Bay Area

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra -- Bay Area

Conversations for Violin and Clarinet -- SF State University

Conversations for Violin and Clarinet -- Bay Area

Dialog -- SF State University

Dialog -- Bay Area

Dialog -- USA

Duo for Flute and Alto Flute

Elegie -- Bay Area

Elegy for Band -- Berkeley

Elegy and Fanfare -- International: Istanbul

Elegy, Fanfare and March -- SF State University

Elegy, Fanfare and March -- Bay Area

Elegy, Fanfare and March -- USA

Festival Fanfare March -- SF State University

Festival Fanfare March -- Bay Area

Festival Fanfare March -- California

Festival Fanfare March -- USA

Festival Mass -- Bay Area

Fiesta del Pacifico-- International: China

Fiesta del Pacifico-- International: Japan

Fiesta del Pacifico -- SF State University

Fiesta del Pacifico -- Bay Area

Fiesta del Pacifico -- California

Fiesta del Pacifico -- USA

Firwood -- SF State University

Five Pieces for Two Instruments -- Bay Area

Five Preludes -- International: Bruxelles

Five Preludes -- USA

Flower of Youth

Four Duos -- Bay Area

Four Duos for Flute and B-flat Clarinet -- SF State University

Four Duos for Violin and Viola -- USA

Four Preludes -- SF State University

Four Preludes -- Bay Area

Four Songs -- Bay Area

From the Canterbury Tales

Gliding All Over -- SF State University

Green Growth the Holly -- Bay Area

How Sweet I Roamed -- SF State University

Love's Secret -- Bay Area

In Memoriam Adlai E. Stevenson -- USA

Modesto Centennial March -- Bay Area

Mooney's Grove Suite -- SF State University

Mooney's Grove Suite -- Bay Area

Mooney's Grove Suite -- California

Movement for Clarinet and Piano -- SF State University

Movement for Clarinet and Piano -- Bay Area

Music for A Civic Celebration -- SF State University

Music for A Civic Celebration -- Bay Area

Music for A Civic Celebration -- California

Music for A Civic Celebration -- USA

Music for Clarinet and Piano -- California

Music for Piano

Music of Appreciation

A Narrative of Tides -- SF State University

A Narrative of Tides -- California

Nocturne -- International: France

Nocturne -- International: Germany

Nocturne -- SF State University

Nocturne (for flute and piano) -- Bay Area

Nocturne -- California

Nocturne -- USA

Box Box 4

Now Living Things -- California

Pacific Celebration Suite -- International: Japan

Pacific Celebration Suite -- SF State University

Pacific Celebration Suite -- Bay Area

Pacific Celebration Suite -- California

Pacific Celebration Suite -- USA

Preludes -- SF State University

Preludes -- Bay Area

Preludes -- California

Prelude and Fugue -- International: Taiwan

Prelude and Fugue -- SF State University

Prelude and Fugue -- Bay Area

Prelude and Fugue -- California

Prelude and Fugue -- USA

Preludes VIII and IX -- California

Preludes VIII and IX -- USA

Psalm for Band -- California

Psalm for Band -- USA

Psalm 60 -- Bay Area

Psalm 60 -- California

Qaurtet No. 1 -- SF State University

Reflections -- International: Japan

Reflections -- SF State University

Reflections -- Bay Area

Reflections -- California

Reflections -- USA

San Joaquin sketches -- USA

Six Moods of Love -- SF State University

Six Moods of Love -- Bay Area

Six Moods of Love -- California

Six Moods of Love -- USA

Six Preludes -- SF State University

Six Preludes -- Bay Area

Slowly the Music -- Bay Area

A Solemn Processional -- SF State University

A Solemn Processional -- USA

Songs, from "The Children's Garden of Verse" -- SF State University

Summer Rain -- California

The Tempest -- SF State University

Testimonial -- USA

Three Dances for Orchestra -- California

Three Duos -- Bay Area

Three Preludes -- International: The Philippines

Three Preludes -- SF State University

Three Preludes -- Bay Area

Three Preludes -- California

Three Preludes -- USA

Three Settings of William Blake

Three Songs -- Bay Area

Three Transcendental Songs on Poems by Walt Whitman -- USA

To the Evening Star -- SF State University

Twelve Preludes

Two Dances for Orchestra -- USA

Two Duos for Flute and Piccolo -- SF State University

Two Duos for Flutes -- SF State University

Two Songs --California

Two Transcendental Songs -- Bay Area

Variations

Variations for Bass Clarinet -- Bay Area

Variations for Bass Clarinet -- USA

Variations for Clarinet and Cello -- SF State University

Viola Concerto -- SF State University

Viola Concerto -- Bay Area

The Wine of Astonishment -- Bay Area

The Wine of Astonishment -- California

Wonders of Christmas

SF State University -- Nixon Concerts (Multiple Pieces)

Arrangements by Roger Nixon

Miscellaneous Stuff -- Bay Area

Container List