Special Collections FISHER, ALFRED. Alfred Fisher fonds m of textual records sound recordings.

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1 Canadian Music Archives - Alfred Fisher Special Collections FISHER, ALFRED. Alfred Fisher fonds m of textual records sound recordings. Canadian composer, pianist and educator born in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 30, Biographical information available in Encyclopedia of music in Canada. 2nd ed., p Fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts of articles, essays, book reviews and speeches; manuscript scores, ranging from sketches to final drafts, of orchestral, chamber, instrumental, choral and vocal works; newsclippings of articles and reviews; concert programs; promotional material; sound recordings and published work. Donated by A. Fisher in 1991, 1999 and Text in English. Some items restricted. File level inventory available at repository. Further accruals expected. Acc 494/91.8, 521/92.19, 645/99.2, 668/99.25, 746/03.11 Last update: August 2004 This page, and all its contents are Copyright (C) by the University of Calgary Library 1:53:36 PM

2 Alfred Fisher Fonds - Accession No.:494/91.8 Special Collections ALFRED FISHER FONDS ACCESSION NO.: 494/91.8 FILE TITLE DATE BOX/FILE Programs, brochures, posters of n.d., concerts, conferences, etc. 1960s :53:41 PM

3 Special Collections ALFRED FISHER FONDS ACCESSION NO.: 521/92.19 FILE TITLE DATE BOX/FILE Programmes n.d., Programmes Programmes Programmes Reviews (originally interfiled 1.5 with programmes) Correspondence (originally 1.6 interfiled with programmes) Correspondence n.d., Review (Performances of works 1.8 by Alfred Fisher) Papers and Press releases 2.1 Correspondence with Poland; 2.2 Invitations Diverting from the wholesome 2.3 Canadian model for ethnicism (photocopy) Centrality in marginality: the 2.4 ethnic composer in Canada (photocopy) New music and identity: the 2.5 return from ideology (photocopy) Curriculum vitae (multiple 2.6 copies) and business cards Searching for the authentic: the true north and the true composer (5 items) (1 of 10)10/11/2006 1:53:48 PM

4 Ethnomusicology and serious 2.8 music (5 items) Teaching assignment and 2.9 textbook requisition for 90/91 Income tax Income tax Income tax Income tax Income tax Income tax 1987 and Income tax 1987 and (some 1986) Income tax Income tax Income tax Financial Publications: Nova Music presents fall debut 7.1 (newsclipping) Characters Opening remarks Regional AMS 7.3 Chapter Meeting March 31, 1989 Some reflections on the new 7.4 (old) improvisation (2 items, holograph and typescript) Untitled article (in ACA 7.5 Newsletter, vol. 1, no. iv, Dec. 1978) (2 copies) Foreman commended for release 7.6 of fine album (photocopy); U of C Gazette, Jan. 16, 1985) (2 copies) Twice an ethnic; the ethnic 7.7 composer in Canada (printout and photocopies) Contemporary art music in 7.8 Canada; last of the ethnic musics CanMus Documents, 5 (printout 7.9 and photocopy) Unmasking rigour: composition, 7.10 analysis, and the poetry of experience (8 items) Some reflections on Schoenberg 7.11 the Jew (6 copies) (2 of 10)10/11/2006 1:53:48 PM

5 From composer to listener: the 7.12 production of serious music in Canada today An earful: music and our aural 7.13 environment (in Alberta psychology, v. 14, no. 4, Aug. 1985) 2 copies Manuscript evaluation: Z Shtokalko... Recordings of R. Carlos Nakai 7.15 Coming into focus: scanning 7.16 horizons past and present Research notes 7.17 CBC Wednesday July Review of John Weinzweig, by 7.19 Elaine Keillor Drafts of articles, etc Wanderers: an opera cabaret Magic harmony 8.1 Renaissance counterpoint (green 8.2 manuscript notebook) Song for soprano voice-written 8.3 for Douglas Moore (and other works) (blue music notebook) Work for 2 pianos (sketch) (and 8.4 other works) (black manuscript notebook) Music for cello and piano w. 1960s 8.5 obligatto percussion (and other works) (brown manuscript book) Graduate student work (green 8.6 spiral notebook) Untitled work "from 60s" (brown 8.7 manuscript book) Early draft for piano piece Odd early draft pages for 8.9 different works Ancient love (penultimate 9.1 Refrain from Ape and essence Ariel's whisper (final draft?) (2 items) Benediction for harp 9.4 (penultimate Benediction for harp (final (3 of 10)10/11/2006 1:53:48 PM

6 draft-photocopy) Birdlings (written while a 9.6 student) Breakthrough (mimeograph) copies Credo ( 9.8 Credo - cello and piano 9.9 (original pencil copy) Cry wolf (penultimate 9.10 Cry wolf (fragment of final 9.11 Un Canadien errant (later renamed Diary of a war artist( Diary of a war artist 9.13 (sketches/ Diary of a war artist (Un 9.14 Canadien errant) (final Elegiac variations (sketches 9.15 and drafts) Elegy for flute, cello and 9.16 viola (student composition) Five movements for bassoon and 9.17 cello (original pencil score) Five movements for bassoon and 9.18 cello (sketches) Four movements for 9.19 unaccompanied clarinet ( Four movements for 9.20 unaccompanied clarinet (final Gestalt (symphony) for brass, 10.1 percussion, and chorus (notes and graphics) In darkness (sketches and 10.2 In darkness (final 10.3 Lamentation canticle (final 10.4 Moments sacred and lachrymose 10.5 (sketches) Moments sacred and lachrymose 10.6 (final Sketch fragment from Morning: 10.7 Peniel Morning: Peniel (sketches and (4 of 10)10/11/2006 1:53:48 PM

7 drafts) My Lai Canticle (original 10.9 photo[graph] score) Nameless dances (sketches and drafts) Nameless dances (final Night elegy (drafts) Night elegy (final Night elegy (fair copy) Ouverture P tillante ( The owl at dusk (drafts) The owl at dusk (final The owl at dusk (fair copy) Parables and canons ( Parables and canons (final Peace variations (penultimate 11.1 Peace variations (final draft photocopy) Piano sonata (final draft and 11.3 sketch) Six aphorisms (final and early 11.4 drafts) Six fantasy pieces (drafts and 11.5 sketches) Sketches for a variety of 11.6 completed works (i.e. each leaf contains a sketch for more than one work) Small worlds (sketches and 11.7 drafts) Small worlds (original 11.8 manuscript - final Finished score for Small 11.9 worlds...(corrections) Sketches/fragments Sweet for flute Sweet for flute (final Three mountain songs (final draft - nos. 1 and 2 only) Three mountain songs (fair copy) To a gentile poet (2 cellos) To a gentile poet (sketches and (5 of 10)10/11/2006 1:53:48 PM

8 drafts) To a gentile poet (final Tour de France (1 page - early 1989/ Tour de France (copy of original with corrections) Tour de France (original complete score) Two last words (final and earlier draft and texts) Two sacred motets (sketches/ Unfinished works Visitation (final Wanderers (penultimate Warrior (sketches and drafts) Morning: Peniel (oversize) 12.1 Ouverture p tillante (oversize) 12.2 Warrior (oversize) 12.3 Correspondence, undated 13.1 Correspondence, Correspondence, Correspondence, Correspondence, Correspondence, Correspondence, Correspondence, Correspondence, Diary of a war artist - n.d holograph score Wanderers Sketches Article by Julian Tuwion (in Studio, nr. 2) Sketch (Romantic man(?)) 14.5 Sketch - Work for 2 trumpets 14.6 Untitled 14.7 Notebooks University essays, book reviews, etc. - Schoenberg, Arnold Harmonielehre - Frauenliebe und Leben by Robert Schumann - The Diabelli Variations (6 of 10)10/11/2006 1:53:48 PM

9 - J.S. Bach: Fugue in F# minor, Bk.II W.T.C.: an analysis - The journal of music theory Beethoven: Second movement of 15.6 Op. 59, no. 2: an analysis - Three book reviews Fugue in Bb Ludus tonalis: an analysis - Notebooks University essays: - A critical study of Eight piano pieces (1946) by Ernst Krenek (2 copies) - Hindemith: Grablegung from 16.4 Mathis der Maler: an analysis - Style in the Lieder of Johannes Brahms - Schubert: first movement of 16.6 Sonata in Bb Opus posthumous: an analysis - Electronic music: meeting ground of aesthetics and acoustics - Alexander Scriabin: some 16.8 aspects of the late Scriabin style as represented by the Ninth piano sonata Op. 68 Notebook 16.9 Valerie Ellis. The variations of Op. 109 Classical Madrigal: - Shall I come Sweet Love to you - Cease sorrows now Have you seen but Early madrigal I Correspondence with Holt, Rinehart and Winston Chair selection Beginning harmony: the post Schenkerian dilemma Lecture Notes: - Lecture notes st and 2nd year ear training 17.2 test (7 of 10)10/11/2006 1:53:48 PM

10 - Advanced ear training th century counterpoint th century counterpoint th century counterpoint Riseling dictation material 18.2 (Ear Training) - Medieval Composition class notes Electronic music 18.5 Kodesh: - Score Notes for speech in Cork, 19.2 Ireland, May Programmes, etc. for 39th 19.3 Cork International Choral Festival, April 30th-May 3rd, 1992 Viola concerto - sketch 19.4 Sketches for a viola concerto 19.5 Newspaper clippings (some 19.6 photocopies), press releases Untitled holograph notes (possibly: Gustav Mahler: Jewish experience and Jewish music) I. Neilah 19.8 II. Toads in the closet. Music: Alfred Fisher. Text: Benjamin Fisher III. Aliyah 1989/ IV. Cookies can't walk. Music: Alfred Fisher. Text: Benjamin Fisher V. Kodesh La favorita (holograph) John Casimir in the darkness of his castle (also called Carpentras) - includes Ravel & Dreyfuss; Mesieur Le Post Moderne; Fleur Follets; Le Mignon; untitled sketches The nameless dances Sketches Music and community in Western 20.1 Canada (photocopy) (8 of 10)10/11/2006 1:53:48 PM

11 Ethnicism (notebook) holograph From composer to listener: the 20.3 production of serious music in Canada today (5 items: holograph and typescript) (see also 7.12) Delivered at Forum of CLC in Hamilton, Canadian music in the University in the year 2,000 (3 items: holograph and typescript) Thin partitions: remmebrance 20.5 and reflections in Alfred Fisher's Zakhor: Remember Diary of a war artist (copies of uncorrected parts) Review article of Ballade: 20.7 Charles Foreman, pianist (typescript) Personal position (2 items) 20.8 Untitled ("I regularly travel 20.9 to campuses...) - The Sixties (2 items) Notes (holograph) Role of theorist in Middle Ages (holograph) Opening remarks to national theory conference Composer & his audience(?) Notes for course on native culture...to Child Care Workers...Prince Albert (holograph) On emotion and its significance in music (holograph) Mozart, Prague, and the fate of the world (typescript with holograph corrections) Untitled (1. Some simplistic observations) (holograph) Redefining the direction of the university music degree programme in the 1990's: current and future challenges (9 of 10)10/11/2006 1:53:48 PM

12 (typescript) Untitled (I can't imagine the fool...) holograph Talk Brandon University 1980? 1981? Programe notes [for various works] Press releases and biographical notes Concert programmes Personal financial documents (Restricted) Gershon Sholem (holograph) Correspondence, undated, Correspondence, Correspondence, Correspondence, Notebooks (2 items) 21.5 McCalla Research Professorship 21.6 Research Proposal Notes for article in 21.7 perspectives of new music Photocopies of articles on A. n.d., 21.8 Fisher (4 items) 1986, 1990, 1992 Programme for Resonant Intervals: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Music, University of Calgary Programme for 1st Edmonton New Music Festival Ancient love (The apple; Jerusalem) Non valaqua; Frottala Sonata breve (original fair copy) 3 Commission (10 of 10)10/11/2006 1:53:48 PM