Guide to the Lou Harrison Papers: Notebooks
UCSC OAC Unit
The Rex Foundation and the Unbroken Chain; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation of New
York; Richard Faggioli; Charles Hanson.
University of California, Santa Cruz
2012
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz 95064
speccoll@library.ucsc.edu
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Lou Harrison Papers: Notebooks
Creator:
Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003
Identifier/Call Number: MS.132.Ser. 2
Physical Description:
12 Linear Feet
16 document boxes
Date (inclusive): 1934-2004
Abstract: This collection contains the notebooks
kept by Lou Harrison over the course of his life.
Language of Material: Languages represented in the
collection: English, Esperanto, Spanish.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Copyright for the items in this collection is owned by the Lou Harrison Estate.
Reproduction or distribution of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair
use requires permission from the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the user to
determine whether a use is fair use, and to obtain any necessary permissions. For more
information see UCSC Special Collections and Archives policy on Reproduction and Use.
Preferred Citation
Lou Harrison Papers: Notebooks. MS 132 ser.2. Special Collections and Archives, University
Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Acquisition Information
Gift from Lou Harrison 1991-2003.
Biography
Lou Harrison (1917-2003) is recognized especially for his percussion music, his work with
just intonation tuning systems, and his syntheses of Asian and Western musics. His
compositions have combined instruments from various cultures and utilized many of his own
construction. His style is marked by a notable melodicism: even his percussion and 12-note
works have a decidedly lyrical flavor.
Harrison spent his formative years in northern California, where his family settled in
1926. In 1935 he entered San Francisco State College (now University), and in his three
semesters there studied the horn and clarinet, took up the harpsichord and recorder, sang in
vocal ensembles and composed works for early instruments. In Spring 1935 he enrolled in
Henry Cowell's course "Music of the Peoples of the World" and began composition lessons with
Cowell, who proved one of the strongest influences in Harrison's life.
Harrison also collaborated with West Coast choreographers and in 1937 was engaged by Mills
College in Oakland, California as a dance accompanist. At Mills in 1939 and 1940, and in San
Francisco, Harrison and John Cage staged high-profile percussion concerts, for one of which
they jointly composed Double Music for Four Percussionists.
In August 1942 Harrison moved to Los Angeles, where he taught music to dancers at
University of California, Los Angeles and enrolled in Arnold Schoenberg's weekly composition
seminar. The following year he moved to New York. There he wrote over 300 reviews for the
New York Herald Tribune, premiered (as conductor) Ives's Third Symphony, and composed works
in a dissonant contrapuntal style. But New York life proved difficult and in 1947 Harrison
suffered a nervous breakdown that ultimately served as a catalyst for a change in his
compositional language. Following this traumatic event, Harrison turned more deliberately to
melodicism and pentatonicism, and embarked on studies of tuning systems. After a two-year
residency at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, he returned to the West Coast. In
1954 he settled in Aptos, California where he remained for the rest of his life.
Studies in Korea and Taiwan in 1961-62 and an intensive exploration of Indonesian gamelan
beginning in 1975 inspired Harrison to bring Asian influences into his musical style and to
write works combining Eastern and Western instruments. In 1967 Harrison met William Colvig
(1917-2000), an electrician and amateur musician who became his partner and collaborator in
instrument-building and tuning experiments. Together they built three instrument sets
evoking the gamelan. In his last years, Harrison returned more avidly to composing for
Western instruments. He wrote four symphonies, various concerti, and numerous chamber
works.
Throughout his life, Harrison articulated political views of multiculturalism, ecological
responsibility and pacifism in both writings and musical compositions. He and Colvig were
also active politically in the gay rights movement. In addition to his musical compositions
and prose writings, Harrison, a published poet and a painter, was renowned for his
calligraphic script, and even designed his own computer fonts.
Leta Miller
Scope and Content of Collection
Lou Harrison was a man with a continuously unrestrained flow of thoughts and ideas, poetry,
music, and intellectual observances. The "Notebook" series, consists of over 140 legers,
artist's pads, and journals spanning 1934 to 2003.
Harrison would often pick up a notebook begun decades earlier and make new entries or
revising and adding to existing ones. Drafts of letters and papers, musical composition
sketches, and socio/political observances find themselves side by side with architectural
designs, calligraphic decorations, and figure studies.
Lou was fond of using the term "Item" as a designation for a certain thought or observance
(as is particularly noted in the
Music Primer). Within the contents
description the user will encounter such references as "Item: on John Cage", "Item: A
further thought on Kirnberger's Well Temperament" or "Item: An Indian Tal. First
instructions for composing".
In 1951 Lou began musical and poetry sketches for
Songs in the Forest. It
wasn't until 1992 that he returned to this work and completed it. Gamelan notation is
relatively simple and compact compared to Western instrument scoring. Lou could pull out a
small notebook while traveling and sketch ideas and revisions with ease. The notebooks are
filled with such scores, some that were abandoned or remain incomplete.
Poetry was also Harrison's passion. Early letters to his mother speak of his conflict and
indecision to devote more time to poetry or music. The notebooks are filled with examples
from 1934 right up to 2003 when he completed his second book of poetry,
Poems and
Pieces
.
Processing Information
Initial processing by Charles Hanson; Final processing by M. Carey, completed March 2012.
EAD encoded finding aid by UCSC OAC Unit.
Finding aid revision statement
This finding aid was revised in the Reparative Archival Redescription Project. Previous
versions of this finding aid are available upon request.
Related UCSC Collection
- George Barati Papers
- Ernest T. Kretschmer Archive
- Sticky Wicket Scrapbook
Other Harrison Finding Aids
- Lou Harrison Papers: Music Manuscripts
- Lou Harrison Papers: Correspondence
- Lou Harrison Papers: Personal Materials
- Lou Harrison Papers: Writings
- Lou Harrison Papers: Printed Appearances
- Lou Harrison Papers: Photos and Media
- Lou Harrison Papers: Artwork
- Lou Harrison Papers: Realia
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Composers -- United States
Dramatic music
Dance music
Motion picture music
Orchestral music
Vocal music
Ensembles (Musical compositions)
Percussion music
Gamelan music
Keyboard instrument music
box-folder 1:1
Notebook #1
1969-71
Physical Description: 4 x 6
inches
Contents description: Various sketches of
calligraphy and writings.
Scope and Contents
To Ron and Elsie at Solstice 1969 from Lou and Bill. Verse: "To the rational
animal...". "Zoroastrianism is a most excellent religion..." .
"Accept money up to the point of lightly amusing".
"Four kinds of Compositions".
Uncial sketches.
Young Caesar: "While the boats are being readied".
"Jahlas are very useful" (with example and description).
box-folder 1:2
Notebook #2
1957-1959
Physical Description: 4 x 6
inches
Contents description: This could possibly be
a date book for 1957, but entries include notes from the Korea trip, 1961.
Approximately 50 pages with many small entries and notes referring to scales and modes
and instruments.
Scope and Contents
Verse: "One no longer gets a life-estimate from the Health Dept., but from the State
Dept." "I think that in the U.S. nothing has a value, it only has a price".
Modes: Slendro types; Pelog types; pelogs with 7's; pelogs with 11's. Tempered 7-tone
scale in cents.
Notes on tunings and modes: Scale on 3rd oct. of ratios ( 7-limit gamut);
"Odd-number-high idea reinforces tonality". Mixed five-tone modes. Over-tone groups.
Notes in Esperanto. Notes with instruments, Haegum, Ahjeng, Kayagems, and Piri.
Possible daily structure: "4 hours - the book (Korean Music Book), 1 hour playing, 1
hour composing, 1 hour instruments making, 1 hour letters". Questions: "Date of
earliest separate pitch notation in China, Korea, Japan?" "Comparison and tuning of
Sinitic musics during the middle ages".
Concerto in Slendro. 3rd
Strict Song. "Begin clicks, begin triangles, begin gong", (
Political Primer).
box-folder 1:3
Notebook #3
ca. 1990-92
Physical Description: 6.5 x 8.5
inches
Contents description: Gamelan notation and
writings with poetry and teaching materials.
Scope and Contents
Gending in Honor of Max Beckman. Poem 7/10/91. General notes and
"ism's". Divisions of countries and instruments. Teaching notes test for
World
Music
. Final exam. Writing: "In 1959 Mantle Hood brought to the U.S."
(gamelan). Sparse notes of Harrison gamelan pieces. Note on
Gamelan Si
Betty
. Personal notes. "Eros: he is Coterminous with Chaos". Brief
description of Harrison/Colvig visit to Petra. Note on Harrison interview with Remy
Charlip and about Remy Charlip's Children's Books. American Sign Language. Black
Mountain College celebration/performance at San Francisco Legion of Honor. List of
people to practice sign language with. List of friends for complimentary tickets. Quiz
for 9/18/92. More tests through Spring 93. Poetry sketches: "Ah, your music Munyi".
Complete poems 1992. Many pages of poetry that became substance for the unpublished
book
Poems and Pieces.
box-folder 1:4
Notebook #4
ca. 1974
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Sparse musical
sketches.
Lullaby for Elsa Lewis
12/1/1974
Little Homage to Eratosthenes, in his chromatic
12/22/1974
box-folder 1:5
Notebook #5
ca. 1970
Physical Description: 6 x 9.25
inches
Contents description: Writings and
calligraphy sketches.
Scope and Contents
"Items". "First instructions for composing". " The World of Music" (7 pages of
descriptions of World Music). " Somewhere in the world, at every minute, a solemn song
is being sung". Letter to Director Wu regarding a plan to reintroduce Chinese music in
schools in San Francisco. Calligraphy sketches. Notebook appears to be from Redwood
City, Aptos, Oaxaca, and San Jose State University.
box-folder 1:6
Notebook #6
ca. 1962
Physical Description: 4.25 x 6.75
inches
Contents description: Writings on Asian
instruments.
Scope and Contents
"The Psaltery". Writings on the psaltery, its history and movement through various
cultures. Approx. 6 pages.
box-folder 1:7
Notebook #7
ca. 1941
Physical Description: 4.5 x 8.5
inches
Contents description: Art and
poetry.
Scope and Contents
This notebook has one drawing by Harrison and one poem by Harrison (9/15/41). This
notebook was recovered from a shed and is in very poor condition though legible. The
poem was reproduced in a booklet for Harrison's 80th birthday at Mills College.
box-folder 1:8
Notebook #8
ca. 1964
Physical Description: 9 x 8
inches
Contents description: Music
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Sketches for horn and percussion and Wesak Sonata, "On the mode which in Korea is
called delightful".
box-folder 1:9
Notebook #9
ca. 1964-94
Physical Description: 9 x 8
inches
Contents description: Music
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Various sketches for "water bowls" and
Book Music. Book music refers
to accompanying music to a recording of Harrison poetry read by Harrison and William
Colvig. Performed by Harrison, Colvig, and Charles Hanson on metallaphone, suling,
wood block, harp. Recorded by Gregg Squires.
box-folder 1:10
Notebook #10
ca. 1960
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Writings in Esperanto
and English.
Scope and Contents
Writing in Esperanto. Writing: "Art & Cuba Socialism and the artist".
box-folder 1:11
Notebook #11
ca. 1959
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Writings
sketches.
Scope and Contents
"Scholastic Suite on the first three primes/ for galvanized iron washtubs/ garbage
cans and water pails to Robert Hughes for the pleasure of working with him".
Notes on Cantonese Opera. Slendro and Pelog tuning.
box-folder 1:12
Notebook #12
ca. 1966
Physical Description: 6 x 8
inches
Contents description: Writings and writing
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Elaborate writing on music, government, Hiroshima, birds, radiation; "Power corrupts
and absolute power corrupts absolutely". More writing: "If you want to understand
music you will first train your ears." Lengthy writing on sound. Writing in Esperanto.
Quotes by Virgil Thomson. Music Primer sketches.
box-folder 1:13
Notebook #13
1960-69
Physical Description: 6 x 8
inches
Contents description: Writings sketches and
observances.
Scope and Contents
Notes (things to do). Sparse note. Chinese music. Reference to Tsai Ping. Several
"Items". "Item" with words to John Cage. Personal thoughts.
box-folder 1:14
Notebook #14
ca. 1971-72
Physical Description: 12 x 9
inches
Contents description: Writings, art and
calligraphy sketches.
Scope and Contents
Young Caesar notes. Notes about Dan Kobialka in William Colvig's hand.
Calligraphy sketches. "Sonata for Sax and Percussion". Possible ideas for puppetry
works. Designs for "Our bedroom window; xmas'71". "Items" of music 1972. "Item" on
John Cage.
box-folder 2:1
Notebook #15
ca. 1951-1966
Physical Description: 5 x 8
inches
Contents description: Writings and sketches
for a drama.
Scope and Contents
Lengthy writing including a reminiscence of hiking with John Cage and discovering
mushrooms. Act breakdown for Hymn to Demeter with sketches for text.
box-folder 2:2
Notebook #16
ca. 1972
Physical Description: 12 x 9
inches
Contents description: Sparse calligraphy
sketches and notes.
Scope and Contents
Scene sketches for
Young Caesar. List of puppetry books. Letter to
Paco regarding performance. Uncial sketches. Article on the films of James
Broughton.
box-folder 2:3
Notebook #17
ca. 1970
Physical Description: 12 x 9
inches
Contents description: Sparse sketches with
notes and lists.
Scope and Contents
Young Caesar sketches and notes for Estampie in Scene VII. Also
includes a letter to Harrison regarding production. A list of friends to invite to
production and a Red Gate Players list.
box-folder 2:4
Notebook #18
ca. 1955
Physical Description: 9 x 11
inches
Contents description: Lengthy
writings.
Scope and Contents
On the Separation of War and State. Writings on Registered Veterinary Nurses.
box-folder 2:5
Notebook #19
ca. 1971
Physical Description: 12 x 9
inches
Contents description: Calligraphy and art
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Calligraphy notes and sketches (multicolor). Sketch of "Oak Stall England 14th
century". Sketch of "Painted concrete portal to Chapel in Miss. St. B" (Mission Santa
Barbara). Notes on various flora.
box-folder 2:6
Notebook #20
ca. 1955
Physical Description: 12 x 9
inches
Contents description: Writings and notes in
Esperanto and English.
Scope and Contents
Writings in Esperanto (Harpsichord, dulcimer). Introductory notes to Cinna in
Esperanto. Notes on where to send things (Ives, Cowell letters).
box-folder 2:7
Notebook #21
ca. 1948-49
Physical Description: 10 x 7
inches
Contents description: Music
manuscripts.
September 31, 1948
Scope and Contents
"Jean's Ballet" (
The Perilous Chapel).
Allegro Moderato (
Homage to Milhaud). September 31, 1948
box-folder 2:8
Notebook #22
ca. 1970-83
Physical Description: 9 x 8
inches
Contents description: Chinese and Indonesian
transcriptions.
Scope and Contents
List of percussion instruments. Chinese Concerts:
A Hundred Birds Court the
Phoenix
.
Step by Step Higher.
Dance of the Golden
Dragon
. Gamelan transcriptions:
Kulu Kulu/ Lagu Alit/Patet
Kenong
.
Kulu Kulu sulingan.
box-folder 2:9
Notebook #23
ca. 1963
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Music
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Music Sketches:
Overture to a Tragedy,
Free Songs,
Divided chants. Psaltery sketches.
Exquisite Fragments in Free
Style
,
Concerto for Aulos,
Estampie for
Psaltery
,
Homage to Chi Pai-Shi,
Song Kit for
Poets
. Sentences and sayings by Harrison. Sketches for
Tombeau de
Charles Ives (At the Tomb of Charles Ives)
. Poetry "On Whatman paper... alas
no more". Piri sketches, psaltery sketches. Chromatic sketches.
Mahasthamaprapta,
Avoliketshvara.
Haiku
(for Kay Davis).
Solo for Bob Hughes from Group on a Row the
Same
.
box-folder 2:10
Notebook #24
ca. 1994-96
Physical Description: 12 x 9
inches
Contents description: Large variety of
musical sketches and revisions.
Scope and Contents
Duporo (Pak Chokro),
Pastorale en Rondeau (cello and
harp, from
Suite for Cello and Harp, 1949, revised expanded to
Suites for Cello and String Orchestra),
Vestiunt
Silve
,
New First Suite for Strings,
Rhymes with
Silver
,
Lazarus Laughed,
Young Caesar (final
version),
A Parade for MTT.
box-folder 2:11
Notebook #25
ca. 1998-2002
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Music sketches and
scores.
Scope and Contents
Music for Remy (Remy Charlip,
Snake Dance).
Scenes from Nek Chand.
box-folder 2:12
Notebook #26
ca. 1977,
1986
Physical Description: 8.75 x 11.25
inches
Contents description: Gamelan sketches and
scores, writings, paste-ins, and notes.
Scope and Contents
Music Sketches, class roster, class exams.
Song tunes in Honor of
Palladio
, 1982.
Gending in Honor of James and Joel (sketch).
Mills College material. Art/design sketches.
Gending Claude,
Lancaran Molly,
Gending Dennis,
Gending in
Honor of Sinan.
Architectural designs.
Gending in Honor of Aphrodite
(chorus). Puppet design notes. Rough schedule of class: Music 1126 "
Intonation" 1985. "A 7-limit tuning - 33 tones".
Lagu Pa Undang.
Lines of 11 and 8 on Harry Partch, (1973 - paste in). Many personal notes and
sketches. Diet schedule. Pasted in magazine photos. Ladrang in Honor of Pak Daliyo.
Lines to Ned Rorem, (1973 - paste in). Lancaran Singa Neba. Writing on a Sidney Jowers
project. Many "paste ins" - photos/newspapers.
Pak Daliyo sketches and
score.
Nines to John Cage (1977).
Lines for the
Hovhanessiad
(for Alan Hovhaness).
Tens on remembering Henry
Cowell
. Large writing: " There is widespread interest in musical intonation
and tuning...".
box-folder 2:13
Notebook #27
ca. 1939,
1953
Physical Description: 7.5 x 9.5
inches
Contents description: Poetry, art, and
notes.
Scope and Contents
Poetry (December 1939). "Catalogue" (listing of Harrison works to date by genre and
date): "Sonata Types, Fugue Types, Chamber Music, Orkestral, Whatnots".
"Melodyregulants" (5 choices to determine melody). " Opera" (schematic). Canon
(sketch). "Teknic", dance movements. " The Heavenly Jig". " Manners of Soundmoving".
"Demonstration". History of Sappho (approximately 10 pages script of drama). "The
seven powers of dimension". Artwork ("minstrel with guitar"). Poem; Miracle of an
Icehouse (Carmel, July 24, 1939). Several pasted in artworks. One artwork dated July
24, 1939 in Harrison's hand ca. 1953, with continuation of poetry in Harrison's hand
dated October 18 1953. List of recordings (San Francisco ca. 1939).
box-folder 3:1
Notebook #28
ca. 1973-74
Physical Description: 7.5 x 9.5
inches
Contents description: Lengthy writings and
notes.
Scope and Contents
Notes on tunings, instruments, waterbowls. Studies in Intonation. Transfer harp,
psaltery design, moveable frets. Writing sketch "My Mother no longer Exists" (Mother's
death and subsequent executorship). Letter from Gibson Walters regarding donation of
books to San Jose State University. Programs: International Conference and Third
Annual Festival of Fine Arts. Music of the Orient, Billings, Montana with Harrison
pieces, lectures. Chinese Classical Music and Verse. Notes on Esperanto. Committee for
Asian Studies.
box-folder 3:2
Notebook #29
ca. 1983-84
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Entries from New
Zealand, Indonesia, and Petra.
Scope and Contents
Many sketches and notes on gamelan and writings and personal observances.
Elevens from reading Pope (8/13/83, Christchurch). Nabataen Order
column design. Design for building. Pasted in quotes from magazines. Photograph of
Petra. Tuning and instrument schema by William Colvig. Archytas' Enharmonic, Didymus'
Chromatic, Ptolemy's Intense Diatonic. "Floor mosaic" (sketch) New Paphos, Cyprus.
Of a matter I've not seen written of in Javanese Music Theory
(Slippery Slendro).
Eights on Islam. Personal notes for travel. Letter
to Mary Hill (music secretary at Mills College) from Jogjakarta.
Gending
Demeter. Eights in Illness
3/9/84. Letter from Kathy Foley (UCSC Porter
College) regarding music for production of
Faust. "Notes in Naples"
5/7/84. Notes from Rome 5/13/84 regarding dependence on chemicals. Various magazine
articles. Column sketches (Petra). Addresses and numbers of friends and
colleagues.
box-folder 3:3
Notebook #30
ca. 1958-59
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Writings in Esperanto
and English.
Scope and Contents
Writings in Esperanto. Letter to "Richard" regarding
Political Primer
and possible performance. Loose page refers to
Crackpot Lecture, "Why
I've permanently Joined the Crackpots...in two words; for sanity".
box-folder 3:4
Notebook #31
ca. 1975
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Sparse drawings and
notes.
Scope and Contents
Several pages of "dots and lines" drawings with 1 page sparse references.
box-folder 3:5
Notebook #32
ca. 1983-85
Physical Description: 8.75 x 11.25
inches
Contents description: Entries from New
Zealand and Indonesia with gamelan works and poetry.
Scope and Contents
Travel notes, things to do. Gamelan notes and notation. Notes of lecture or
presentation. Tuning notes.
Gending in Honor of James and Joel.
Gending in Honor of Palladio.
Ketawang Wellington.
Lagu Lagu Thomasan. Poetry:
Ode,
Cry to
Herakles
,
Elevens from reading Pope. William Colvig's notes
for phoning to United States.
For the Pleasure of Ovid's Changes.
Photographs: Hammering a gong in Aptos Garage/Shop. Floor design for new house "after
the King's Pattern, Knebworth House".
Mass to St. Cecilia.
The
Foreman's Song Tune
. Petra. Poems:
Five's for a tinted Xerox.
Fives on New Zealand Rain. Photographs of architectural scenes.
"Dream Food I" (a recipe dreamed of).
Gending in Honor of Sinan.
Lagu Elang Yusuf. "Cirebon Joy" (recipe). " Comments from Java about
Double Concerto (comments from people on a performance or hearing of
this piece).
box-folder 3:5
Notebook #33
ca. 1987
Physical Description: 8 x 10.5
inches
Contents description: Music
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Varied Trio, Rondeau in Honor of Fragonard (from
Varied
Trio
).
Ariadne. Io and Prometheus (revisions of 1951 work).
A Cornish Lancaran.
box-folder 3:6
Notebook #34
ca. 1984-88
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Art, gamelan, and
writings.
Scope and Contents
Column designs. "However Sue de Vale ...has brought up 'puzzling pelog' a
companionship to Slippery Slendro" (writing on pitch in gamelan instruments). Slendro
tunings, (Pak Chokro). Gamelan sketches. Paste-in photos from magazines. Note on Hanya
Holm (dancer, early Mills College). Calligraphic notes. Drawings from Florida Trip.
Various art sketches. The Heart Sutra translation from Sanskrit to English by Edward
Conze. Program for Percussion Concerts (2) with Rupert Kettle at Aquinas College.
Reviews (6) of
Piano Concerto (1985). Gamelan works (traditional):
Lancaran Ricic Ricik,
Lancaran Manyar Sewu. Sparse
notes on separate scraps of paper (poetry).
box-folder 4:1
Notebook #35
ca. 1996
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11.75
inches
Contents description: Poetry.
Scope and Contents
The Four Patrons of the Palaestra.
The Path at West
Holding
.
box-folder 4:2
Notebook #36
ca. 1976
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Gamelan, writings and
notes.
Scope and Contents
Gamelan works and sketches.
Music for Kyai Hudan Mas. Writing on the
Center for World Music (1976).
Bubaran Robert.
Gending
Samuel
. ["
Gending Valentine", words.]
Various personal notes on things to do and send.
box-folder 4:3
Notebook #37
ca. 1981-86
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Music scores and
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Mills College. Music score/sketches: trumpet part for
Bubaran Robert,
Estampie for Organ to Susan Summerfield,
A Cornish
Lancaran
,
Mass to St. Cecilia,
Stampede.
box-folder 4:4
Notebook #38
ca. 1961-62
Physical Description: 6 x 9
inches
Contents description: Entries from Korea with
notes and sketches.
Scope and Contents
Notes on
New Ode II, drawings, writing sketches "The sound of the
ti-tze". "Composer's diseases". Notes on furnishings (reclining mats and cushions) on
ceramics, stone, silk, screens.
Writing: "On composing".
Nak Yang Chun, Hyi Mun.
box-folder 4:5
Notebook #39
ca. 1973-77
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Poetry and writings and
letters..
Scope and Contents
Music sketch: "Toniaion on E". Letter/Poem:
On Bill's return from the
Mountains
(September 1973). Note on Adolph Berson (artist). Poetry:
Sapphic Stanzas to Ned Rorem (October 1973). Poetry:
Ode on
the Monochord, Nines to John Cage on his 60th birthday
(1977). Cinquaines by
Adelaide Crapsey. "To My Favorite Composers" by Henry Noyes. Writing to Liang Tsai
Ping for his 60th birthday.
box-folder 4:6
Notebook #40
ca. 1983/86,
2000
Physical Description: inches
Contents description: Poetry, gamelan, and
notes.
Scope and Contents
Notes or lesson in Indonesian with Jody Diamond.
The Path at West
Holding
section (from 2000). Gamelan sketches:
For the Repose of my
friend James Broughton
(ca 1998). Sparse personal notes. Pasted in magazine
photos.
Cry to Aphrodite (1986). Poetry sketches (regarding William
Colvig). Tour Accounts (Stanford - Humboldt). Notes on Harry Partch.
7's on the
Solar Swell
(1985).
Gending in Honor of William Colvig.
box-folder 4:7
Notebook #41
ca. 1993,
2001
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Sparse poetry and
notes.
Scope and Contents
Mostly empty notebook:
Birthday Haiku from Charles Hanson (2001).
References to book and articles. "Western Worries - thots of an elder alien". Apparent
notes for a talk.
box-folder 5:1
Notebook #42
ca. 1976
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Gamelan Degung
inventory, tuning sketches, architectural drawings.
Scope and Contents
"Gamelan Degung" by Richard North. Silhouettes of Harrison and Colvig paper cut outs
by Betty Polis. Loose papers: responses to letters, recommendations. Scale of an
Egyptian Long Lute. "Lithophone" tuning by William Colvig. Letter regarding Pa
Undang.
box-folder 5:2
Notebook #43
ca. 1983
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: About the Mills
Gamelan.
Scope and Contents
The Mills Gamelan, by William Dithrich. [The Mills Gamelan designed and built by
William Colvig, Lou Harrison, and students]. This being a description of building and
tuning of the Mills Gamelan.
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Notebook #44
ca. 1966
Physical Description: 7 x 8.5
inches
Contents description: Sparse writing
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Sketches for the
Music Primer. "Right Rhythm decides all things
tonal".
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Notebook #45
ca. 1945-51
Physical Description: 8 x 9.75
inches
Contents description: Music sketches,
writings and art.
Scope and Contents
Music sketches:
Triphony,
Passacaglia Theme,
Tenor I. Writing: "On Modes".
Songs in the Forest
(text and music sketches). Sparse notes on melody/counterpoint. Writing: "Total
Polyphony". Unknown writing ending with a Blake quote. Other quotes. Writings:
religion, psychoanalysis. Various sketches of writings. "Hangman" game with John
Cage.
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Notebook #46
ca. 1976
Physical Description: 5.5 x 8.5
inches
Contents description: Sparse
notes.
Scope and Contents
Sparse notes on detail of Chinese Music Concert and Lecture. Lily Chin. Lecture
notes. Accounting for trip. Notes for World Music class.
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Notebook #47
ca. 1937-1949
Physical Description: 8 x 10.5
inches
Contents description: Poetry and
writings.
Scope and Contents
Sketches for a Choric Drama, Poems, and Odeset for the Disenchanted. Sonnets.
Achilles Series. Notes on
Women Walk Free,
Changing
World
, and
All religions are One, (music manuscripts at Mills
College). Many unfinished works. A very rich variety of San Francisco area writings
from the late 1930's.
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Notebook #48
ca. 1987-1997
Physical Description: 5.5 x 8.5
inches
Contents description: Multiple entries and
loose papers spanning one decade.
Scope and Contents
Tokyo: Names and Addresses. Postcard from Dennis Russell Davies. Note from Jack
Foley. Telegram from George Smith. Photos of architecture. Font studies. Spares
writings and notes. Ptolemy "duple divisions" and other tuning ratios. "All from
Boethius (book V)".
Grand Duo corrections.
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Notebook #49
ca. 1935-39,
1954-66
Physical Description: 5.25 x 7.75
inches
Contents description: Many writings, poetry,
and art sketches.
Scope and Contents
San Francisco poems. Sayings and thoughts, poems ca. 1954-60, including lyric
sketches for
Strict Songs. Thoughts on Buddhism. Thoughts on sexuality.
Some figure sketches. Some lengthy writings. Notes for
Music
Primer
.
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Notebook #50
ca. 1935-37
Physical Description: 5.25 x 7.75
inches
Contents description: Poetry and
writings.
Scope and Contents
Many romantic poems and writings from San Francisco period.
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Notebook #51
ca. 1955-57
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Sparse notes and
writings.
Scope and Contents
Cinna: Introduction to
Cinna to Henry Allen Moe and the
Guggenheim Foundation. A letter to Esperanto League requesting progress of translation
to Esperanto.
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Notebook #52
ca. 1959-64
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Writing and
calligraphy.
Scope and Contents
Sparse writing and some calligraphic experiments.
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Notebook #53
ca. 1977-78
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Music sketches and
sparse notes.
Scope and Contents
Some calligraphic work. Gamelan sketches.
Prelude or Postlude to Betty
Freeman.
From Music for Bill and Me (
Bill in Moonlight,
gamelan). "Paul Nash's Just Guitar" (tuning).
Lancaran Anthony.
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Notebook #54
ca. 1970-73
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Sparse notes on tunings
and temperaments.
Scope and Contents
Tuning notes, Intense Diatonic. "Ptolemy invented the monochord!" "Monochord....long,
straight and very narrow path to pleasure". Notes on things to do.
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Notebook #55
ca. 1986-2000
Physical Description: 7.75 x 10.75
inches
Contents description: Large variety of music
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Music sketches for
Young Caesar,
Double Concerto,
Piano Trio,
Threnody for Oliver Daniel,
Homage
to Pacifica
,
Pedal Sonata,
Grand Duo,
Mass to St. Cecilia,
Book Music, and
Fourth
Symphony
.
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Notebook #56
ca. 1960
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Sparse art sketches and
notes.
Scope and Contents
Art sketches including studies for Hermes and Eros. Several thoughts and lists.
Calligraphy sketches.
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Notebook #57
ca. 1990-2001
Physical Description: 7.75 x 10
inches
Contents description: Poetry, gamelan, and
clippings.
Scope and Contents
Paste-in and cutouts from magazines and newspapers. Architectural drawings.
Horatian Ode on Bravo 20,
Cinquain of Discovery,
Cinquan in San Jose, (and others all ca. 1991). Newspaper clipping of
Harrison from 1966.
Gending in Honor of Max Beckman (1984/92). Several
thoughts and writings. Poetry notes (including works in the unpublished book
Poems and Pieces). Newspaper article on Gay issues. Personal diary
entries.
Ladrang Carter Scholz. Addresses and names.
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Notebook #58
ca. 1955-59
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Writings and
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Writings in Esperanto. Notes and sketches of public address (reference to Bob
Hughes). Calligraphy sketches.
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Notebook #59
ca. 1967
Physical Description: 6.25 x 10
inches
Contents description: Writing.
Scope and Contents
Writing on the collapse of the Dynasties of China and the music of China.
box-folder 7:8
Notebook #60
ca. 1959
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Writings in
Esperanto.
Scope and Contents
Esperanto studies [contents unknown], personal notes, note to Harry Partch "Where are
you?"
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Notebook #61
ca. 1965
Physical Description: 6 x 9
inches
Contents description: Sparse
writing.
Scope and Contents
Letters written in anger regarding the use of music - specifically not permitting the
use of Harrison's music by the Federal Government.
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Notebook #62
ca. 1976
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Sparse sketches and
notes.
Scope and Contents
Designs for "Underground Studio". Sparse notes.
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Notebook #63
ca. 1987
Physical Description: 5 x 7.5
inches
Contents description: Sparse
entries.
Scope and Contents
Various pages of names, addresses and notes.
box-folder 7:12
Notebook #64
ca. 1996
Physical Description: 7.5 x 10.25
inches
Contents description: Writings and
gamelan.
Scope and Contents
Notes from trip to Dartington Hall. Notes on learning ASL. Notes on how to use the
computer. Gamelan sketches:
Dartington Hall. Writings: "My preemptive
subtext". Sparse writings and poetry sketches.
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Notebook #65
ca. 1956
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Writings and
letters.
Scope and Contents
"Of Sound & Music in the Vulgar Culture". Letter to Carlos Chavez. Letter to
nephew Brad. Letter to Robert Whitney.
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Notebook #66
ca. 1969
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Sparse notes and
schedule.
Scope and Contents
Sketch for a virginal. Letter to Chong Hwa Park regarding 7th Symposium on the Arts
in Asia. Photocopies of tunings.
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Notebook #67
ca. 1989
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Writings and
poetry..
Scope and Contents
14's to Claude Lorraine,
In Honor of Aphrodite.
Introduction to Peter Garland's book on Jaime De Angulo. Lists of names and sparse
notes.
box-folder 8:4
Notebook #68
ca. 1976
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Sparse entries and
notes.
Scope and Contents
San Jose State University class grades. Sparse music sketches. "Items".
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Notebook #69
ca. 1980
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Unknown music
sketches.
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Notebook #70
ca. 1971
Physical Description: 9.25 x 11.75
inches
Contents description: Calligraphy, sketches,
and notes.
Scope and Contents
Some calligraphic sketches. Letter to Kenneth Rexroth re: performance. Shadow screen
positions [
Young Caesar] and material related to
Young
Caesar
.
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Notebook #71
ca. 1972
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Sparse writings and
notes.
Scope and Contents
Esperanto notes including text for
La Koro Sutro [sketches]. Lists,
book lists, sparse notes.
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Notebook #72
ca. 1986
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Gamelan sketches and
sparse writings.
Scope and Contents
Sketches for
Gending Pindar,
Gending Dennis,
Gending Claude. Sparse poetry notes on the end of the world due to
Bomb [about Bill Colvig, Victor Jowers]. Notes and instruction to
New
Moon
[elaborate notes on ornaments and performance protocol]. List of
gamelan pieces noted by slendro or pelog. Notes for writing and poetry re:
civilization as a "shipwreck".
A Cornish Lancaran. Letter from Carter
Scholz.
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Notebook #73
ca. 1976
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Gamelan
materials.
Scope and Contents
Notes for gamelan instruments and works. Sketch of poetry. Printed materials on
Indonesian culture.
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Notebook #74
ca. 1976
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Gamelan
music.
Scope and Contents
Handwritten scores of traditional Gamelan pieces for use in a concert.
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Notebook #75
ca. 1974-76
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Writings, sketches and
letters.
Scope and Contents
Recommendation for Tom Stone. Architectural sketches of Church in San Francisco,
notes of things to do, outline for Orchestration Class. Draft of "Such Melodies and
Clutter: Thoughts around Ives". (Letter regarding the Center for World Music and
Related Arts in Berkeley.) Recommendation for Michael McNabb. Sparse art drawings and
notes. Writings on Partch/Cowell. Letter to "Al" regarding activities and World Music
Center. Writing on Pauline Benton. Sketch for a tuneable Mountain Dulcimer.
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Notebook #76
ca. 1970-2000
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Music
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Music Sketches:
Main Bersama Sama, and
Threnody.
Sketches for
Young Caesar revision.
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Notebook #77
ca. 1978
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Ratios, sketches and
letters.
Scope and Contents
Original sketches for
A Chart of all Superparticular Ratios by
Harrison and Colvig. Letter regarding Tom Siwe and University of Illinois.
Recommendations for Ernst Heins.
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Notebook #78
ca. 1965
Physical Description: 11 x 14
inches
Contents description: Writings, art, music
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Color calligraphic sketches.
Om Namo Amitabhaya Buddhaya (#1 of three
hymns). Sparse unusual notes: "Harrison's Chanter" (writing and music sketch -
"psalm-tone style of plain chant"). "Items, (
Music Primer). Letter to
Roman Book dealers regarding the possibility of selling autograph manuscripts. Tuning
schema: Fibonacci and Inverse. Writings, calligraphy sketches. Color designs.
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Notebook #79
ca. 1965
Physical Description: 11 x 14
inches
Contents description: Articles and images
from magazines.
Scope and Contents
Magazine pages pasted-in and loose on Vasarely and others.
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Notebook #80
ca. 1960
Physical Description: 11 x 14
inches
Contents description: Writings, letters,
calligraphy.
Scope and Contents
Calligraphic sketches. Notes in English and Esperanto. Letter to Peter Yates about
performance of Violin Concerto (
Concerto for Violin with Percussion
Orchestra
, tunings and composition). "Rules of the Font". Many pages of
calligraphic sketches.
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Notebook #81
ca. 1968
Physical Description: 11 x 14
inches
Contents description: Art and color
designs.
Scope and Contents
"Acrostic hymn on the sanscrit mantram to the Buddha amitabha". Design for around the
edge of the string-droning drum. Various color schemas. Sparse notes on Chinese music
concert.
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Notebook #82
ca. 1965-73
Physical Description: 11 x 14
inches
Contents description: Proportional studies,
sketches, and color designs.
Scope and Contents
Tunings, Modes, Proportional Studies. Photocopy of
Johnny Appleseed
score. The Chapter of practicing the Tao [music]. Loose page writing on the music and
instruments of Asia... loose pages music sketches for drums, guiro, and gongs.
box-folder 9:6
Notebook #83
ca. 1968-69
Physical Description: 11 x 14
inches
Contents description: Teaching materials and
notes.
Scope and Contents
Folding leg system for Psaltery. Class rosters (San Jose State University). Pages of
taped in paper pieces with various notes for lectures. Test Questions (World
Music).
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Notebook #84
ca. 1963
Physical Description: 11 x 14
inches
Contents description:
Calligraphy.
Scope and Contents
Calligraphy experiments. "Rules of the font and rules of the caps". One male figure
sketch. Design for a solstice card.
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Notebook #85
ca. 1997-99
Physical Description: 7 x 9
inches
Contents description: Art sketches and sparse
notes.
Scope and Contents
Loose papers within. Card from Kitaj. Sparse sketches, notes. Paste-ins. Joshua Tree
house ideas. Various small poetry sketches.
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Notebook #86
ca. 1961
Physical Description: 7.25 x 9
inches
Contents description: Entries on calander for
freighter trip and subsequent events.
Scope and Contents
Sparse entries include preparations for trip to Japan, entries regarding concerts,
lessons, lectures, from this trip. Some notes on Korean Musics. Puppet sketches.
Addresses. Notes in Esperanto.
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Notebook #87
ca. 1962
Physical Description: 9 x 6.25
inches
Contents description: Music notation and
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Korean Music:
Nak Yang Chun,
Hyi Mun,
Bluebird
Song
. Comparison charts for Chinese and Japanese music notation. Al Farabi
tuning schema. Sparse music notations.
box-folder 10:4
Notebook #88
ca. 1978
Physical Description: 9 x 8
inches
Contents description: Gamelan
music.
Scope and Contents
Hudan Mas,
Serenade.
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Notebook #89
ca. 1978
Physical Description: 9 x 8
inches
Contents description: Music
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Sketches for an Estampie and gamelan pieces.
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Notebook #90
ca. 1978
Physical Description: 9 x 8
inches
Contents description: Gamelan scores and
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Main Bersama-Sama (for Bill George). Sparse notes for
Serenade.
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Notebook #91
ca. 1978
Physical Description: 9 x 8
inches
Contents description: Gamelan scores and
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Main Bersama-sama II (
Threnody for Carlos Chavez), and
Serenade.
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Notebook #92
ca. 1978
Physical Description: 9 x 8
inches
Contents description: Tuning
modes.
Scope and Contents
"From Ur, in Old Babylonian, British Museum tablet". Tunings of the harp (nine
tones). "Tones of the greater complete System". Manjar Sewu.
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Notebook #93
ca. 1978
Physical Description: 9 x 8
inches
Contents description: Music scores and
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Serenade for Guitar with Optional Percusion.
Plaint, Variations
on Walther von der Vogelweide's Song of Palestine
(
String Quartet
Set
),
Little Homage to Sinan.
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Notebook #94
ca. 1964
Physical Description: 3.5 x 6
inches
Contents description: Names, addresses and
"Items".
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Notebook #95
ca. 1967-69
Physical Description: 5.5 x 8.5
inches
Contents description: Writings, poetry,
journal, and art.
Scope and Contents
"On Homosexuality", Poems for Bill Colvig, personal "diary" entries, "Bill went to
the Southern Sierras." Designs for "new wooden instruments." Artistic designs. Fortune
Cookie messages. Acoustic screen design, transfer harp design. Many "Items." List of
people to receive the limited edition publication
19 Items.
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Notebook #96
Undated
Physical Description: 6 x 8.25
inches
Contents description: Sparse notes for
lecture or presentation.
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Notebook #97
ca. 1958
Physical Description: 5.5 x 9
inches
Contents description: Writings in Esperanto
and English.
Scope and Contents
"I have no 'middle' when unemployed especially". Writings on the class system.
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Notebook #98
ca. 1971
Physical Description: 7.5 x 10.5
inches
Contents description: Materials for
Young Caesar.
Scope and Contents
Instrument lists. Cast list for
Young Caesar. Scenes for
Young
Caesar
. Tuning schema's.
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Notebook #99
ca. 1978
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Very sparse music
sketches for Asian instruments.
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Notebook #100
ca. 1960-92
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Wide variety of music
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Music sketches for psaltery, Wells One, Colvig One, Virgil One (etc.). Tunings and
instruments. Sketches for
Orpheus. Poetry sketches (loose page).
Peace Piece,
Songs on the Forest, melodicles, etc.
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Notebook #101
ca. 1983
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5.25
inches
Contents description: Travel notebook from
New Zealand with many small entries.
Scope and Contents
Names and addresses, sparse gamelan notation, brief writings, lists, and art
sketches.
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Notebook #102
ca. 1980-92
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Gamelan designs,
letters and poetry.
Scope and Contents
Letter to Dennis Russell Davies (Bonn Gallery project, Larry Polansky and Jody
Diamond). Sparse sketch of Colvig for instrumental device. Notes: Shopping for a
Gamelan. "Open House". Sketches for aluminum pieces for instrument (William Colvig).
Font sketches. Poetry Sketches (
Measures, from unpublished poetry
book,
Revenge). Notes about George Smith (for an ASL class). Complete
poems ca. 1992 from unpublished
Poems and Pieces. Letter to Jack Body
ca. 1988 (memories of New Zealand, "feeling old and can't make a big trip".)
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Notebook #103
undated
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Lengthy writings and
poetry.
Scope and Contents
Notes for a lecture. Lengthy notes and letter on Dennis Russell Davies' performance
of the
Third Symphony with revisions as well as references to the
Elegiac Symphony.
9's on a Male Matter. Writings on
tunings. Loose papers: Poem on Sherman Slayback. Notes for Terry Riley's
In
C
. Various "items" and sparse notes.
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Notebook #104
ca. 1984
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5.5
inches
Contents description: Multiple small entries,
names, and notes.
Scope and Contents
Names and addresses, gamelan sketches.
Lagu Victoria,
Lagu
Kiseran
. Quotes by Pasolini, Shaw, and Forster. Very sparse notes, names,
and a few musical sketches for suling.
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Notebook #105
ca. 2000-2003
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Poetry and
paste-ins.
Scope and Contents
Paste-in: Words to country western song used in the film
Big Eden
("Don't let the stars get in your eyes..."). Sketches from
The Path at West
Holding, Bits of a Gathering
,
CODA, (from
Poems and
Pieces
). Sparse paste-ins newspaper and/or magazine.
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Notebook #106
ca. 1974-82
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Large amount of
proportional studies, writings, poetry, notes and sketches.
Scope and Contents
Fibonachi proportions. Diatonic modes. Column design. "Items". Designs for pavilions.
Chi Lu for Richard Dee. Poetry. Tunings. Instrument sketches, Gamalan.
Main
Bersama-sama
II. Traditional gamalan pieces. Drawing of the "great bell at
City of 10,000 Buddhas". Paste-in photographs and articles. Writing sketches.
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Notebook #107
ca. 1955
Physical Description: 6.75 x 8.25
inches
Contents description: Writings.
Scope and Contents
On the separation of War and State. Names and addresses. Sketch for a
letter to Henry Allan Moe regarding
Simfony in Free Style. Esperanto
writings.
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Notebook #108
ca. 1942
Physical Description: 7 x 8.5
inches
Contents description: Concert and performance
materials from Los Angeles.
Scope and Contents
"
Hangout: A show by Lou Harrison, September 1942". Autograph and
typed verse for chorus, 2 dancers and percussion. Additional notes "orkestra for
Hangout". Names and phone numbers.
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Notebook #109
Undated
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Writings and
journal.
Scope and Contents
Writing in Esperanto titled "Hiawatha". Lengthy writing "A Note on Homosexuality in
Science Fiction". Several lengthy pages describing financial and emotional
situations.
box-folder 12:1
Notebook #110
ca. 1992
Physical Description: 4.25 x 6.25
inches
Contents description: Art sketches and tuning
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Sparse figure drawings, ratios, and gamelan sketches.
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Notebook #111
ca. 1987
Physical Description: 8 x 10.25
inches
Contents description: Teaching materials and
program notes.
Scope and Contents
Gamalan class roster. Student add slips and lab tutoring hours. Program notes for
Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan and
Ariadne.
Sketch for a traveling clavichord. Short poem for Jody Diamond on final page.
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Notebook #112
ca. 1964-67,
1972
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Music scores and
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Wesak Sonata,
The Garden at One and a Quarter Moons.
Sparse sketches and writings.
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Notebook #113
ca. 1970-72
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Large variety of poems,
sketches, and notes.
Scope and Contents
Poetry and items: "My back recovered", "Pinnacles II", "Climbing Mt. Whitney",
"Oleanders". Gender sketches and tuning ratios. Sketches for
Young
Caesar
.
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Notebook #114
ca. 1974-76
Physical Description: 4 x 6
inches
Contents description: Names and addresses
(entered, and on loose papers).
box-folder 12:6
Notebook #115
ca. 1980
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Art sketches and spares
notes.
Scope and Contents
Design for "guest room wardrobe". Names and addresses.
box-folder 12:7
Notebook #116
ca. 1982-83
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: A compliation of
photocopied pages from other notebooks with additional autograph entries.
Scope and Contents
Quote from Schopenhauer and Prince Ch'un the 2nd. Sketches for suling. Test questions
from Mills College.
Matched song-tunes in Honor of Palladio. Flute duet
in
Devotions.
Gending in Honor of James and Joel.
Gending Claude,
Lancaran Molly,
Gending
Dennis
.
box-folder 12:8
Notebook #117
ca. 1990
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Writings and figure
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Memories of Irving Morrow. Hermes. Male figure drawings of questionable
authorship.
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Notebook #118
ca. 1961
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Calligraphy, music
sketches, writings.
Scope and Contents
[Aboard the freighter S.S New York]: "The purser has just agreed to give me my second
cholera shot at Midway Island". Slendro types, pelog types. Calligraphy sketches.
Green ink sketch of male figure. Sparse writings.
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Notebook #119
ca. 1965
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Proportional
studies.
Scope and Contents
Proportional studies which were later incorporated into larger art works.
box-folder 13:3
Notebook #120
ca. 1964
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Writings and art
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Drawings of Buddha's. Multiple brief sketches and notes (writings). Nearly complete
poem on the occasion of death of Harrison's father "an ode composed to allow my thots
to wander, and so to avoid suicide".
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Notebook #121
ca. 1972
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Music and art
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Music sketches. Art sketches from various buildings in Santa Fe and Taos. Drawing of
William Colvig in Santa Fe (this drawing reproduced in the unpublished book
Poems and Pieces). Many small sketches and notes on instruments
etc.
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Notebook #122
ca. 1986
Physical Description: 8.5 x 14
inches
Contents description: Writings and program
notes.
Scope and Contents
Notes for a talk and about "pop" music. Writing: "There is an international industry
devoted to a theophany of J.S. Bach". Sparse notes regarding gamelan students
(Cabrillo College). "Anecdote". Notes for a talk or interview. Lengthy notes on
Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan, with precise thoughts of
Piano Concerto with Selected Orchestra (Keith Jarrett "problems").
Notes/writing: Stanza's, rhymed couplets, W.H. Auden, Robert Bridges, Tureo's book
"The New Book of Forms". "Item", An Indian Tal (rhythmic structure). Poem about
Father.
box-folder 13:6
Notebook #123
ca. 1986
Physical Description: 8.5 x 14
inches
Contents description: Writings, gamelan,
teaching materials.
Scope and Contents
"Answers to questions from a gentleman in Greece" (apparently questions for interview
or publication). Loose page in pencil "Harry Partch's amazing book Genesis of a
Music". Poem:
Tens on pressing the button: A Vomit. Cabrillo College
class, student names and sparse gamelan notes. Lengthy writing on various questions
and protocols regarding performances (
Concerto in Slendro: "Agree to
12-tone, do not allow removing tacks". "Percussionists never complain". "Wider slendro
tuning"). "On the way down to Los Angeles, Bill and I stopped to see Pak Cokro".
"Item: "A further thought about Kirnberger's Well Temperament". Notes on Peter
Garland's book ("Jaime de Angulo: The Music of the Indians of Northern
California").
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Notebook #124
ca. 1990
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Artwork.
Scope and Contents
1 pastel landscape by Harrison on 17th page.
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Notebook #125
ca. 1936-37
Physical Description: 9.5 x 12.5
inches
Contents description: Music scores and
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Notebook contains
Saraband and
France 1917 - Spain
1937
. Other pieces not authorized for performance include: Ritual #2, Ritual
#3, Ritual #4, Ritual #5, Group Dance for Lenore, and an untitled Piano Sonata.
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Notebook #126
ca. 1938,
1992
Physical Description: 9.5 x 12.5
inches
Contents description: Music scores and
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Concerto Grosso for Dorothy James, January 3 1938.
Beforepiece
to the Medea
(unfinished sketches).
A Clear Midnight (Walt
Whitman) unfinished music sketches.
Tenth Ritual (unfinished sketches).
Sketches from
White Ashes (1992).
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Notebook #127
ca. 1960
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Eleven reference points
for a "talk" dealing with sexuality presented to the Unitarian Fellowship in
Aptos.
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Notebook #128
ca. 1990-91
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11.75
inches
Contents description: Writings and
letters.
Scope and Contents
Notes for
Fourth Symphony, letter to Marika Smith, letter to Dennis
Russell Davies, review of Carol Oja's book "Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds",
letter from John Schneider.
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Notebook #129
ca. 1980
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Photocopied pages from
other notebooks.
Scope and Contents
Names and addresses, gamelan sketches, poetry, notes, and lists.
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Notebook #130
ca. 1984
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5.5
inches
Contents description: Entries while traveling
abroad (primarily Indonesia).
Scope and Contents
Names and addresses. Shopping lists. Gamelan notation. Poetry and art sketches.
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Notebook #131
ca. 1963
Physical Description: 7.5 x 10.5
inches
Contents description: Music
sketches.
Scope and Contents
"A Tune for Limericks". Sketches for
Pacika Rondo.
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Notebook #132
ca. 1994
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Gamelan class
materials.
Scope and Contents
Ricik Ricik,
Singa Nebah with student names and times
for lessons.
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Notebook #133
ca. 1987-90
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Music, poetry and art
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Varied Quintet,
Ariadne,
Coyote Stories,
Gending Vincent,
Young Caesar,
A Soedjatmoko
Set
. Figure sketches, paste-ins. Syllabic Stanza patterns in Bulwer Lytton's
"Lost Tales of Miletus". "Academy of the West".
Sapphic Syllables in Honor of
Sinan
. Newspaper articles etc.
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Notebook #134
Undated
Physical Description: 5.5 x 8.5
inches
Contents description: Music sketches,
writings, gamelan and art.
Scope and Contents
Landscape drawings, "Items", tuning schema's,
Organ Concerto,
Payatamus, modes,
Gending Samuel,
Gending
Bill
,
Ode to the Monochord. "Forest floor design".
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Notebook #135
ca. 1991
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Gamelan sketches and
scores. Sparse writings.
Scope and Contents
In Honor of Munakata Shiko,
Homage to Pacifica,
Gending Aphrodite, Inscription to Dr. Lu Zung-an, peking patterns,
bonang patterns.
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Notebook #136
ca. 1983
Physical Description: 5.75 x 8.75
inches
Contents description: Personal journal while
traveling.
Scope and Contents
"Journal 1983". A journal written in New Zealand from May through August 1983.
Descriptions of dinners and friends and locales, illnesses, concerts, and
feelings.
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Notebook #137
ca. 1981-82
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Photocopied pages from
other notebooks.
Scope and Contents
Gamelan sketches and scores:
Gending Hesphaestus,
Gending
Demeter
,
Gending Epikuros. Notes for
Young
Caesar
. Poem to Persephone. Teaching materials. Names and addesses, etc.
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Notebook #138
ca. 1966
Physical Description: 11 x 14
inches
Contents description: Art, notes, poetry,
writings.
Scope and Contents
Oaxaca Trip. Phrases in Spanish. List of baggage. Notes on S.I.R (Society for
Individual Rights, San Francisco) dances. Poem to Munyi "on our second meeting", "Ah
your music Munyi". List of prime numbers. "The Symbolic Aphorisms of Pythagoras:
Translation by Thomas Taylor". Music sketch: "You are a young American Soldier
marching to die in Vietnam". Proportional studies in color. Words for a Blues
tune.
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Notebook #139
Undated
Physical Description: 11 x 14
inches
Contents description: Writings, poetry,
art.
Scope and Contents
Various "items". Proportional studies. Poetry sketches. Many sketches of writings and
thoughts. Chinese concert materials. Notes for percussion accompaniment for Lorle
Kranzler.
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Notebook #140
ca. 1977
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Gamelan pieces and art
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Gamelan sketches:
Gending Richard,
Gending Paul,
Lagu Jody,
Gending Bill,
Gending Robin
(Robin Strange).
Lagu Pa Undang. Sketch from "Young Lakes, June 19,
1977".
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Notebook #141
ca. 1960
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Writings in
Esperanto.
Scope and Contents
Writings that cite Bob Hughes, Esperanto League of North America, KPFA. Sparse notes
in English as well.
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Notebook #142
ca. 1959
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Writings in Esperanto,
sketches, letter draft.
Scope and Contents
Writings and sketches in Esperanto. Design for flutes "with readily alterable
intonations". Letter to Henry and Sidney Cowell thanking them for the gift of the
grand piano.
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Notebook #143
ca. 1966
Physical Description: 11 x 14
inches
Contents description: Calligraphy sketches
and designs.
Scope and Contents
Sketches and designs apparently for an article by Peter Yates "An Amateur at the
Keyboard". Calligraphic sketches for the Music Primer.
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Notebook #144
ca. 1958
Physical Description: 9 x 12
inches
Contents description: Sparse
sketches.
Scope and Contents
Sketch of a bench. Sketch of a man. Sparse writing in Esperanto.
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Notebook #145
Undated
Physical Description: 8 x 10
inches
Contents description: Calligraphy samples,
practice pages, notes
Scope and Contents
1st page = "To Lloyd Lojdo - Calligr la bolskvibo liosuro …"
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Notebook #146
Undated
Physical Description: 8.5 x 11
inches
Contents description: Calligraphy samples,
practice, Esperanto?
Scope and Contents
1st page = K Kun granda plezuro mi recevw ulan tre afablan leteron, icas mi dankas
vin
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Notebook #147
Undated
Physical Description: 12 x 18
inches
Contents description: Calligraphy
samples
Scope and Contents
Calligraphy "Veterinarians Oath", lettering samples, practice pages.
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Notebook #148
Undated
Physical Description: 3 3/4 x 6 1/8
inches
Contents description:
Scope and Contents
43 pages - autograph notebook - sketches, scores, notes, poetry.
Pg. 1 - "the levels of rhythmic shift …"
Pg. 2 - "Piano concerto for Billy"
I Cascade running accompaniment to single developing tune
II Formalized accompaniment, chorale-like 4 parts antiphonies & details
III Kaleidecope, brief and brilliant
Pg. 43 - "Be kind to your web footed friend …"
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Notebook #149
Undated
Physical Description: 8 1/2 x 11
inches
Contents description:
Scope and Contents
"The words & the deeds of the gods must be questioned, for in the end full reason
is reserved to men."
"Lines of Nine on a male matter";
Uncial sketches;
Poetry;
Calligraphy sketches;
"item": "Blessed be Translators/for they give us worlds …";
"In Honor of Aphrodite" - gamelan notation
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Notebook #150
ca. 1997
Physical Description: 6 3/4 x 8 1/2
inches
Contents description:
Scope and Contents
Addresses;
Random notes;
Poetry;
Speech notes on straw bale construction;
Gamelan notations?
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Notebook #151
ca. 1944-1952
Physical Description: 7 3/4 x 9 5/8
inches
Contents description:
Scope and Contents
About Carl Ruggles - Title page, notes, introduction,
table of contents;
Random notes;
Notes on Ives;
Sketch;
Poetry;
Calendar for 11/8/1951 - 1/1/1952