Composition (Music)

The Bill Barron papers include musical manuscripts; manuscripts; correspondence; photographs; concert posters; reviews and promotional materials; financial records, copyright registration certificates, and contracts; discographic materials; interview transcriptions; ephemera; sheet music; and books related to Barron’s life and work as a jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator.

Henry Dreyfuss Brant (1913-2008) was a composer who was noteworthy for acoustic special music where he placed performers outside the proscenium in the concert hall. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2002 for his composition Ice Field. Brant was awarded an honorary degree from Wesleyan in 1998. The rough inventory list for this unprocessed collection does not identify parts or pieces; it does not distinguish originals, photocopies, or publications.

The John Cage papers described here include manuscripts, interviews, fan mail, and ephemera. Other material, including clippings, gallery and exhibition catalogs, a collection of Cage's books and serials, posters, objects, exhibition and literary announcement postcards, and brochures from conferences and other organizations are also part of the unprocessed Cage papers.

The papers of composer John Spencer Camp.

This collection is comprised of materials created and accumulated by writer, composer, and teacher Richard K. Winslow. The materials include scores, notes, recordings, and ephemera regarding Winslow's operas and operettas, as well as a large collection of general and miscellaneous compositions. In addition to the musical materials, the collection includes the notes, essays, and correspondence of Winslow throughout his career.