A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches

Contents

• Introduction Friedemann Sallis and Patricia Hall;
• 1. Sketches and sketching Giselher Schubert and Friedemann Sallis;
• 2. Preliminaries before visiting an archive Ulrich Mosch;
• 3. Archival etiquette Therese Muxeneder;
• 4. Coming to terms with the composer's working manuscripts Friedemann Sallis;
• 5. The classification of musical sketches exemplified in the catalogue of the Archivio Luigi Nono Erika Schaller;
• 6. Digital preservation of archival material William Koseluk;
• 7. Transcribing sketches Regina Busch;
• 8. A tale of two sketchbooks: reconstructing and deciphering Alban Berg's sketchbooks for Wozzeck Patricia Hall;
• 9. 'Written between the desk and the piano': dating Bela Bartok's sketches Laszlo Somfai;
• 10. Defining compositional process: idea and instrumentation in Igor Stravinsky's Ragtime (1918) and Pribaoutki (1915) Tomi Makela;
• 11. Floating hierarchies: organisation and composition in works by Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen during the 1950s Pascal Decroupet;
• 12. Elliot Carter's sketches: spiritual exercises and craftsmanship Denis Vermaelen;
• 13. E-Sketches: Brian Ferneyhough's use of computer assisted compositional tools Ross Feller;
• 14. John Cage's Williams Mix (1951-3): the restoration and new realizations of and variations on the first octophonic, surround-sound tape composition Larry Austin; Appendix. Select list of institutions housing manuscript collections of twentieth-century