Archives West Finding Aid

Contents: includes collections from 8 areas within Asia and Africa.

NOTES: For information related to the Hovhaness recordings, see notes filed under specific HRAF numbers; photo-copies of tape boxes are filed together under W1 World. For information about the Ethnomusicology Archives' collection of documents relating to Hovhaness' life and career, contact archivist.

80-15.1-11/AF1 China - includes dubs of commercial recordings -

80-15.1 - Ch'in (Qin) music, Taiwan Oct. 9, 1960 (Introductory & welcome remarks; Evening Conversations of Travellers; Mooring for the Night on an Autumn River; Wild Geese Alighting on a Sandy Shore; Moon Over the Mountain Pass; Quitting Office)

80-15.2 - Ch'in (Qin) music (Rain and Clouds Over the Xiao and Xiang Rivers; Seagulls and the Beauty of Nature; Dialogue Between Fisherman and Woodcutter; Plum Blossoms Three Variations)

80-15.3 - Varieties of Chinese Classical Music - dubs of old 78 rpm records (La Ma (Mongolian Temple) music; Orchestra music in Peiping; General's March; "Tung Hwei Fong," music orchestra, Lake boat; Miss Yun Shia: Nine Circles (Gamelan); Swatow (Chazhou) music: "Long Tao Shia"; Lee, Wen-Hsing: Sen Sien (San Xian solo) (3-stringed guitar), Song of Monk; Amoy Music: beautiful steps)

80-15.4 - Excerpts of Chinese Classical Music (Ch'in music – sections of: Plum Blossoms, 3 variations; Chant of the monk Pu'an; Drunken Fishermen Singing at Dusk; Pipa solo; Ambush from All Sides; Zheng music; Zheng and Sheng; Shandong music; Chinese music in Japan – Gagaku; Koto music; Gagaku; Chinese music in Korea; Pakistan music)

80-15.5 - Chinese operatic music excerpts (In the Deep of the Night; The West Chamber – Peking drum singing; Beloved Consort – Cantonese opera)

80-15.6 - Five folks songs of Shantung (Shandong) province, "Prepared by David Chén, Police Broadcasting Network, Taipei, Taiwan"; Note on tape box: "No. 2 – Five folks songs of Shantung province in China")

80-15.7 - Drum songs/musi (Big Drum Song from Peiping (Peking folk song); Duet Sword Dance with drum (from traditional boxing); Heroine Liang's Drum Music (Peiping opera); Flower Drum Dance (from folk dance); Drum music in New Year's Festival (traditional dance))

80-15.8 - Shantung (Shandong) music, (Side one: Lamentation of Lo River – Sheng, Po, Tang, kuan (instrumental ensemble); Standing in front of the make-up stand – sheng duet; Shansi opera excerpt – Song of Blue Sea (Praise to East Wind and West Wind) – pan-hu, nan-hu, small titzn, sheng, po; Green Willow – small sona, pan-hu, sheng, tang, po (instrumental ensemble); Four Seasons (suona duet); Side two: Peiping opera excerpt – Returning General – sona, nan hu, sheng)

80-15.9 - Amoy music 1 (Nanguan) (Side one: Feather-like Snow; Eight Beautiful Horses; Side two: Lonely for Her; A Lonely Man; Under a Trellis of Beautiful Flowers)

80-15.10 - Amoy music 2 (Nanguan) (Traveling over Five Lakes; In the Front Chamber; Story from the Book)

80-15.11 - Amoy music 3 (5 items) (7:21:00 total duration) (copied to 11 WDs)

80-15.12/AD6 Taiwan - songs of the Tayalo (Love Song; Forsaken Lover; Terror Song; Happy Song) and Ami (Harvest Dance with leaf accomp.; Harvest Dance with leaf acomp.; Love Song; Serenade) tribes; recorded in Taipei, 1962 (20:47) (copied to 1 WD)

80-15.13-40/AA1 Korea - court and folk music recorded mainly in Seoul in 1960's (14:05:29 total duration); performers include some from the Korean Classical Music Institute (notes in doc file) (copied to 28 WDs)

80-15.41-45/AB1 Japan - includes Noh; Shishi (Lion Dance); Katsumasa Takasago presents Shomyo chant (WBAI radio program) (2:32:34 total duration) (notes in doc file) (copied to 5 WDs)

80-15.46-66/AW1 India - includes music from North and South India; some dubs of commercial recordings, some live (25:43:04 total duration) (copied to 32 WDs)

80-15.67-77/RJ1 Armenia - notes on tape boxes, no original archive sheet (5:40:27 total duration) (copied to 11 WDs)

80-15.78/A1 Asia - music from Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan (30:08) (copied to 1 WD)

80-15.79/F1 Africa - lectures from radio broadcasts (29:22) (copied to 1 WD)

Transmission Data: Digitization of tapes completed 2/2010 - 90 files (48 kHz, 24-bit).

Compact disc (Work Disc) copies of 80-15.1-12 produced 8/2006; CD copies of 80-15.13-22 produced 1/2007; CD copies of 80-15.23-40 produced 11/2007; production of remaining CDs (80-15.41-79) completed 2/2010 (90 CDs total).

Logsheets: Handwritten logsheets are included in Archives notebooks for Tapes 1-11 (China), 12 (Taiwan), and 13-40 (Korea); handwritten and online logsheets available for Tapes 41-45 (Japan), 67-77 (Armenia), 78 (Asia), and 79 (Africa); online logsheets available for Tapes 46-66 (India)

Work Tape copies produced in the 1980s (90 reels) discarded following digitization and production of Work Discs (2010)

Documentation: For information about the archive's collection of documents relating to Hovhaness, contact archivist