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MS 0513
Ramiro Cortés papers
1933-1988
Cortés, Ramiro, 1933-1984
50 linear feet
The Ramiro Cortés papers (1933-1988) document the personal and professional life of the first significant Mexican-American composer, Ramiro Cortés (1933-1984), of serious twentieth-century music in the United States.
Collection materials are in
English.
Biographical Sketch
Ramiro Cortés was born November 25, 1933, in Dallas, Texas, to Ramiro Cortés Sr. and Elvira Acosta Cortés, parents of Mexican origin. This marriage ended in divorce, when his father left the family in 1936. His brother, Arturo, was one year old. Ramiro began his piano studies at age eight and began composing at age eleven. When he was thirteen years old, his family moved to Denver, Colorado, where he continued his piano studies. He attended South High School where he composed many piano pieces, solo and choral works, and a musical show produced by his junior class. In 1950 he began theoretical studies with Joseph Iadone, a former student of Paul Hindemith. Cortés studied harmony, counterpoint, and twentieth century music with Iadone for two years.
In 1951 Cortés enrolled at the University of Denver where he received a full tuition scholarship. This enabled him to continue his studies with Iadone and begin a formal study of composition. Cortés submitted some of his compositions to the National Federation of Music Clubs' competition and was awarded the Charles Ives scholarship to study at the Indian Hill Music School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, during the summer of 1952.
In the fall of 1952 he enrolled at the Yale School of Music and in 1953 was the recipient of the John Day Jackson Prize for his composition
Introduction and Fugue for string quartet. Later that year he enrolled at the University of Southern California, where he studied with Halsey Stevens and Ingolf Dahl.
In 1954, Cortés received several awards for his works. Perhaps the most significant was the George Gershwin Memorial Award for
Sinfonia Sacra which gave Cortés a great deal of national recognition.
Cortés was the recipient of the Steinway Centennial Award in 1955 for
Piano Sonata and of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Prize for Yerma, A Symphonic Portrait. He received his bachelor of music degree from the University of Southern California that same year, and the following summer served as a fellow on the Huntington Hartford Foundation estate in Pacific Palisades.
During his year of graduate studies at the University of Southern California in 1956, Cortés continued his studies with Halsey Stevens and Ingolf Dahl. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to study composition with Goffredo Petrass in Rome. Later that year, he received first prize in the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Composers competition.
Cortés received a renewal of the Fulbright scholarship and spent a second year in Rome. The summer of 1958 was spent at the Huntington Hartford Foundation, where he worked on three sacred compositions which had been commissioned by the Concorda Society of Princeton. He was awarded first prize in the Broadcast Music Inc. Student Composers competition. The money from this award was used to finance Cortés' studies in composition at Princeton with Roger Sessions during the fall semester. While at Princeton, he composed a score commissioned by the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Association for a film on the history of Pittsburgh. While at Princeton, he also wrote a song cycle on poems by Herman Melville which earned him the George Bolek Memorial Award of the National Federation of Music Clubs. Cortés again returned to the Huntington Hartford Foundation for the summer of 1959.
In New York during February of 1960, Cortés married Nancee Heimbecher Charles--Charles was her professional name--whom he had met in junior high school. During that year he received the John Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship. The most important score he produced was
Symphony in Three Movements for small orchestra. He submitted this composition to the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium International Competition, and was awarded the silver medal.
Cortés enrolled at the Juilliard School of Music in 1961 and held the Rodgers and Hammerstein Scholarship. He received two additional awards while attending Juilliard: the Alexandre Gretchaninoff Memorial Prize and the Benjamin Prize. He finished course requirements for his master's degree in 1962. That same year he received an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Cortés worked as a computer programmer for Systems Development Corporation from 1963 to 1966 when he was invited to be a visiting lecturer at the University of California at Los Angeles. The following year he was offered a faculty position at the University of Southern California, and in 1970 he was promoted to associate professor with tenure. In 1971 he and Nancee separated and were divorced a year later. In 1972-1973 he served as composer in residence at the University of Utah and the following year he joined the faculty as chair of theory and composition. He continued to teach at the University of Utah until his death in 1984. Cortés spent 1978-1979 in Los Angeles on sabbatical from the University of Utah. In the latter year, he and Nancee were remarried. He studied the works of Igor Stravinsky extensively, and presented fifty-five lectures on the music of Stravinsky for the Utah radio station KUER in 1982. Ramiro Cortés died of heart failure July 2, 1984, in Salt Lake City, Utah, at age fifty-one.
The collection has been divided into eight sections. The first two boxes contain autobiographical and biographical materials, resumes, academic records, and items of a personal nature. There are also address books, membership lists, and daily and weekly planners. These include calendars dating from 1966-1984, which document the years Cortés spent teaching at the University of Southern California, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Utah. Correspondence is housed in box three. Most of the personal letters are correspondence between Nancee from Ramiro dating from 1959-1976. General correspondence has been alphabetically arranged. Certificates, awards, diplomas, and miscellaneous information regarding schools, institutions, and competitions can be found in box four.
The second section contains newspaper and magazine articles dealing primarily with Cortés and his career. There are concert and recording reviews, and a few miscellaneous clippings dealing with subjects and people of interest to Cortés and his work.
The programs in the third section reflect the influence and popularity of Cortés' music in the academic community. They date from 1950 to 1993 and include programs, program notes, public performance lists, and selected reviews.
Section four, the smallest portion of the collection, consists of one box. It contains contracts, bills, rental catalogues, and royalty information.
Cortés' musical scores comprise the fifth and most extensive part of the collection. They are housed in boxes eight through fifty-five. The scores have been arranged by the type of work so as to coincide with the
Annotated Catalogue of Compositions compiled by his assistant, Vicki Curry, adjunct assistant professor of music at the University of Utah. Works listed in the Composition Index are listed as found in Curry's index. To eliminate redundancy and confusion, only the title and date of each composition has been listed in this register. For a more detailed description on each composition, see the catalogue. A copy of the catalogue and detailed descriptions on each composition can be found in box fifty-six. Box fifty-seven contains two books with Cortés' handwritten lists of compositions.
Section six contains academic materials added to the collection in 1988. Teaching materials used by Cortés have been arranged numerically by course number in boxes fifty-eight through sixty-four. In addition to the course materials, this section also houses student papers, research grant materials and miscellaneous writings. Also included is a compilation of papers by various scholars entitled, "Articles on Ancient Music." Box sixty-seven contains miscellaneous writings including Cortés' poetry and personal notes.
Many of the materials in the seventh section were originally filed with the academic materials. However upon close examination, it was apparent that many of the files had been used after Cortés' death and prior to their deposition in the library. As a result, many items had been previously moved or misfiled. To ensure that everything was filed properly, works identifiable by course number were left with the course materials. Those not identified were removed and filed alphabetically by composer in this section. Individual works by some of the major composers have been listed for easier finding.
Boxes eighty-four through eighty-eight have been restricted at the request of Nancee Cortés. These boxes contain class materials, research materials, newspaper and magazine articles, compositions, correspondence, and Cortés' personal notes dealing with the work of Igor Stravinsky. These items are closed until the year 2011.
The eighth and final section is comprised mainly of miscellaneous published and unpublished materials used by Cortés in his teaching, research, and composing. Most of the publications have notations in the margins. Other items were of sentimental value to Cortés and it was decided to keep them with this portion of the collection. Box ninety-two contains miscellaneous poetry, literature, artwork, biographical information on composers Vladimir Ussachevsky and Richard Wagner, a few newsletters, and various programs. Box ninety-six contains a copy of
The Liber Usalis, published in 1950, that was given to Cortés by Joseph Iadone, one of his first music teachers. A copy of the first edition of Finnegan's Wake, signed by author James Joyce, has been stored separately from the collection.
In order to avoid confusion, composition titles in the inventory have been listed in the following manner: Cortés' compositions are listed as found in Vicki Curry's
Annotated Catalogue of Compositions, and compositions by composers other than Cortés have been italicized, regardless of classification or type of work.
Organized in eight series: I. Personal Materials; II. Newspaper and Magazine Articles; III. Programs; IV. Contracts, Royalties, and Recording Information; V. Compositions; VI. Academic Materials; VII. Works by Other Composers; VIII. Miscellaneous Materials.
Arranged alphabetically except compositions are arranged by instrument/performance ensemble.
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Gift of Nancee Cortés from 1985-1989.
Processed by Karin Hardy in 1995.
Photographs (P0264) and audio/visual material (A0264) were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
See also the Nancee Cortés papers (ACCN 1172).
Cortés, Ramiro, 1933-1984--Archives
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
Cortés, Nancee
University of Utah--History
University of Utah--Faculty
Composers--Utah
Music--Manuscripts--Utah
Music--Instruction and study--Utah
Music
Scores
Correspondence
Articles
Sound recordings
Audiocassettes
I
Personal Materials
Cortés' personal materials are comprised of autobiographical and biographical materials, resumes, academic records, information on the estate of his mother, Elvira C. Good, and other items of a personal nature. There are also address books, membership lists, and daily and weekly planners. These include calendars and daybooks dating from 1966 to 1984 which document the years Cortés spent teaching at the University of Southern California and the University of Utah. Correspondence is found in box three. Personal correspondence is mostly that written between Nancee and Ramiro Cortés which dates 1959-1976. General correspondence has been arranged alphabetically. Certificates, awards, diplomas and miscellaneous information regarding schools, institutions, and competitions are in box four.
1
1
Academic Materials
1952-1956
1
2
Autobiography
1
3
Biographical Information, Published
1
4
Biographical Information, Unpublished
1
5
Birth Certificate
1933
1
6
Family Coat of Arms
1
7
Death--Letters of Condolence
1984
1
8
Death--Tributes
1984
1
9
Divorce
1971-1972
Legal papers concerning the marital settlement agreement between Ramiro and Nancee.
1
10-13
Elvira C. Good Estate
1981-1983
Copy of Good's will, a death notice, and notices of hearing probate.
1
14
Marriage Certificate and Wedding Announcements
1960, 1979
1
15
Military Forms (DD 48)
1951-1963
1
16
Passports
1956-1970
1
17
Resume
1
18
Tax Information
1983
Music expenses.
1
19
Wills
1977-1978
Handwritten copies by Nancee and Ramiro.
1
20
Wilton, Connecticut
Real estate information and 1965 calendar.
1
21
Miscellaneous Materials
1
1-2
South High School Yearbooks, Denver, Colorado
1950-1951
2
1
Address Books
2
2
International Society for Contemporary Music
1971
Southern California membership list.
2
3
University of Southern California
1971-1980
School of Music faculty and staff listing.
2
4
Address Lists, Miscellaneous
2
5-9
Class schedules, University of California at Los Angeles
1966-1968
2
1-10
Daily Planners
1973-1984
Correspondence
3
1-13
Letters to Nancee Cortés from Ramiro Cortés
1960-1976
3
14
Letters to Nancee Cortés
undated
3
15-16
General Correspondence, A-B
3
17
General Correspondence, Banham, Paul
3
18
General Correspondence, C
3
19
General Correspondence, Durham, Lowell
3
20-29
General Correspondence, D-P
3
30
General Correspondence, Theodore Presser Co.
3
31-33
General Correspondence, R-T
3
34
General Correspondence, University of Utah
3
35-36
General Correspondence, V-W
3
37
General Correspondence, Miscellaneous
3
38
General Correspondence, Birthday Cards
Awards and Honors
4
1
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Standard and Popular Awards
1972-1973
Panel report for standard awards.
4
2
Friends of Harvey Gaul Award
1953
4
3
George Gershwin Memorial Award
1955
Press release and fact sheet.
4
4
John Day Jackson Prize
1953
Prize notification.
4
5
John Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship
1960
Press release.
4
6
National Federation of Music Clubs Young Composers Award
1953
Letter of notification.
4
7
National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant
1961
Award and program.
4
8
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium International Competition
1961
Entry rules, letter of notification and acknowledgement of receipt of award.
4
9
Steinway Composition Contest Award
1955
4
10
Competitions
Miscellaneous information.
4
11
South High School, Diploma
1951
4
12
University of Southern California, Diploma
1955
4
13
Awards and Prizes
Miscellaneous lists.
4
14-15
Scholarships and Fellowships
1951-1954
Correspondence and certificates.
4
16
Schools, Institutions, Foundations
General information.
II
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
The newspaper and magazine articles deal primarily with Cortés and his career and include concert and recording reviews. There are a few articles dealing with subjects and people of interest to Cortés and his work.
5
1-26
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
1955-1990
5
27
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
5
28
Newspaper and Magazine Articles, Nancee Cortés
5
29-32
Miscellaneous Articles and Newsclippings
III
Programs
The programs have been arranged in chronological order and date from 1950 to 1993. This portion of the collection shows the influence of Cortés' music in the academic communities across the country. There are also a few lists of public performances from the 1950s, 1970s, and 1980s as well as selected reviews.
6
1
Public Performance Lists
1955-1983
6
2
Selected Reviews
1955-1977
6
3-40
Programs
1950-1993
6
41-44
Programs, Miscellaneous
6
45
Program Notes
IV
Contracts, Royalties, Recording Information
This portion of the collection is quite sparse, but contains various contracts, bills, rental catalogues, and royalty information.
7
1
Contracts
1969-1977
7
2
The Patriots
Bills and contracts.
7
3
Rental Catalogues
7
4-10
Royalties
1972-1982
V
Compositions
This section houses Cortés' compositions in forty-nine boxes. They have been arranged to coincide with the
Annotated Catalogue of Compositions completed in 1987 by Vicki Curry. The compositions are arranged by the type of work. For clarity, only the work and date of each composition has been listed. For a more complete description, see the catalogue. Copies of the catalogue and detailed information on each composition can be found in box fifty-six. Box fifty-seven contains two handwritten books in which Cortés listed his works.
Compositions--Works for Piano
8
1
Theme
8
2
Prelude in G Sharp Minor for Piano
1947 August-September
8
3
Prelude (Largo) for Piano
1947
8
4
March of the Drawfs [sic] for Piano
1948 March 26
8
5
Hungarian Danse in C Minor for Piano
1948
8
6
Fantasia in G Minor for Piano
1948-1949
8
7
Five Pieces for Piano
1951 December 27-1952 March
8
8
Music for Piano: Seven Short Pieces, Revision
1953 April
9
1
The Sea Gives Up Its Ghosts: Dance for Eve Gentry for Piano
1952 September-October 9
9
1
Piano Sonata
1954 March-July
9
2
Canons and Interludes for Piano
1955 March-November
9
2
Canons and Interludes for Piano, First Revision
1957 September
9
2
Canons and Interludes, Second Revision
1963
9
2
Canons and Interludes, Third Revision
9
3
Three Pieces for Piano
1955 November
9
3
Three Pieces for Piano, Revision
1958 August
9
4
Second Piano Sonata
1955 November-1956 December
9
4
The Genie of the Waters
1956 June 16
9
4
Prelude
1956 July 31
9
4
Variation for Piano Four Hands on a Theme of Ulysses Kay
1967 January 7
9
4
Three Variations on Mozart K. 457, Third Movement, Measures 1-16
1970 September 27
9
5
Birthday Variation for Victoria Bond
1971 May 6
9
5
Brief Candles
1973 May 19-28
9
5
Brief Candles, Revision
1984
9
6
Third Sonata for Piano (first score LA)
1978
9
6
Third Sonata for Piano
1981 June 22
Compositions--Works for Piano, Harpsichord, Organ, Voice, and Piano or Organ
10
1
Stravinsky: Concerto in D for Strings, Version for Piano Four Hands
circa 1982
10
1
Little Lullaby
1983 March 19
10
1
Variations on a Theme Composed in Class for Marie Nelson's Harpsichord
1973 April 8
10
1
Rick's Harpsichord Fantasy
1983 November 27-December 16
10
2
Two Chorale Preludes for Organ
1952 November 11-13
10
2
Christ Lag in Todesbanden: Organ Prelude
1960 October
10
2
Meditation on Christ Lag in Todesbanden for Organ
1961 February
10
3
Guitarra: Three Songs for Mezzo Soprano and Piano on Poems by F. Garcia Lorca
1954 April-July 7
10
3
Three Spanish Songs: La Guitarra (The Guitar), Revision
1957 March
10
3
Three Spanish Songs: Las Seis Cuerdas (The Six Strings), Revision
1957 March
10
3
Three Spanish Songs: Adivinanza de la Guitarra (The Riddle of the Guitar), Revision
1957 March
10
4
The Falcon for Soprano and Piano
1956 February 18-28
10
4
The Falcon, Revision
September-October 1957
10
4
Ode to a Nightingale for High Voice and Piano on the Poem by John Keats (1795 1821)
December 18, 1970-April 8, 1971
10
4
Ode to a Nightingale for High Voice and Piano
Pages one through fifteen.
10
5
Ode to a Nightingale for High Voice and Piano
Pages five through eleven, in English.
10
5
Ode to a Nightingale for High Voice and Piano
Pages four through nine.
10
5
Ode to a Nightingale for High Voice and Piano
Miscellaneous materials.
10
6
Ode to a Nightingale for High Voice and Piano, Revision
1980 December 22-1981 January 11
Compositions--Works for Voice and Piano or Organ
11
1
I Am No Subject Unto Fate
1971 October-November
11
1
I Am No Subject Unto Fate
Pencil sketches.
11
1
The Haven
1975 October 8
11
2
De Profundis, A Song Cycle
1976 December 31-1977 January 22
11
3
Song Anthology
1980 March 17
No. 1: Under the Greenwood Tree (from As You Like It).
11
3
Song Anthology
1980 March 18
No. 2: Full Fathom Five (from The Tempest).
11
3
Song Anthology
1980 March 18
No. 3: Still to Be Neat.
11
3
Song Anthology
1980 March 21
No. 4: Come Live With Me and Be My Love.
11
3
Song Anthology
1980 March 27
No. 5: The Garden of Love.
11
3
Song Anthology
1980 March 30-April 1
No. 6: There Is Sweet Music Here.
11
3
Song Anthology
1980 April 2
No. 7: The Sick Rose.
11
3
Song Anthology
1980
Copies of numbers five through seven.
11
4
Song Anthology
1980 April 5
No. 8: Like To the Falling of a Star.
11
4
Song Anthology
1980 April 12
No. 9: Oh Do Not Wanton with Those Eyes.
11
4
Song Anthology
1980 April 13
No. 10: I Dare Not.
11
4
Song Anthology
1980 April 14-15
No. 11: Hence All You Vain Delights.
11
4
Song Anthology
1980 April 15-16
No. 12: A Farewell (And If I Did What Then?).
11
4
Song Anthology
1980 April 26
No. 13: Go, Lovely Rose.
11
4
Song Anthology
1980 June 30
No. 14: Why So Pale and Wan.
11
5
Song Anthology
1980 July 4
No. 15: Why Art Thou Slow, Death.
11
5
Song Anthology
1980 July 5, 8
No. 16: Plain Dealing (Well, Well, 'Tis True).
11
5
Song Anthology
1980 July 9
No. 17: Upon Julia's Clothes (When as in Silks My Julia Goes).
11
5
Song Anthology
1980 July 18
No. 19: This Living Hand.
11
5
Song Anthology
1980 July 19
No. 20: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways.
11
5
Song Anthology
1980 July 21
No. 21: Ask Me No More.
11
7
Song Anthology
1980 July 26
No. 22: Crossing The Bar.
11
6
Song Anthology
1980 July 28
No. 23: When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly.
11
6
Song Anthology
1971
1980
No. 24: I Am No Subject Unto Fate.
11
6
Song Anthology
1976 December 31
No. 25: A Spirit Haunts the Year's Last Hours.
11
6
Song Anthology
1980 August 8
No. 26: Sudden Light.
11
6
Song Anthology
1977 January 22
No. 27: The Last Invocation.
11
6
Song Anthology
1976 December 16-17
No. 28: The World Is Too Much With Us.
11
6
Five Songs
1980 April 26-July 21
Compositions--Voice and Piano or Organ, Voice with Instruments
12
1
Stephen Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
1980 November 11
12
1
To the Sacred Moon (Theocritus)
1980 December 22-1981 January 11
12
1
Commitment of Two Lives to Single Hopes
1981 July 14-15
12
2
Tre Sonetti di Cavalcanti
1983 July 15-16
12
2
A Nocturnal upon S. Lucies Day for Tenor Voice and String Quartet on the Poem by John Donne (1573 1631)
1956 February-1957 December
12
3
A Nocturnal upon S. Lucies Day for Tenor and String Quartet on the Poem by John Donne, Revision
1966 August
12
4
America: A Cycle of Four Songs for Soprano and String Orchestra on Poems by Herman Melville (1819 1891)
1958 October-November
12
4
America: Song Cycle on Poems by Herman Melville for Soprano Voice and String Sextet or String Orchestra, Revision
1963
Compositions--Voice with Instruments, Choral Works
13
1
Reve Parisien de Charles Baudelaire
1971 December 17-1972 February 11
13
2
Reve Parisien de Charles Baudelaire, Revision
1973 July-August
13
3
Reve Parisien de Charles Baudelaire, Second Revision
1981
13
4
Igor Stravinsky: Pribaoutki Arranged for Voice, Violin, Clarinet and Piano
1982 March 30
13
4
Hark, Hark! The Lark! for Mixed Chorus, Unaccompanied on a Poem by William Shakespeare
1949
13
4
Last Leaves of Autumn
circa 1950
13
4
Questing for Chorus of Mixed Voices, Unaccompanied
1950
13
5
Three Cinquains for Four Part Chorus of Mixed Voices, Unaccompanied
1950-1951
13
5
Three Cinquains for Chorus of Mixed Voices on Poems of Adelade Crapsey, Revision
1953 April 4
13
5
Quartet For Chorus of Mixed Voices, Unaccompanied, on Original Poems by James Stanley Brakhage
1951
13
5
Quartet for Chorus of Mixed Voices on Original Poems by J. S. Brakhage, Revision
1953 April
13
5
Missa Brevis (Kyrie Gloria) for S.S.A. and Eleven Woodwind Instruments
1953 December-1954 February
Compositions--Choral Works, Chamber Music
14
1
Two Songs (1. To the Old, Long Life... 2. Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount...)
1955 March
14
1
Music for Reformation Vespers, Princeton University Chapel
1958 September-October
14
1
Motet for Chorus and Organ
1959 March
14
1
Three Motets for Chorus of Mixed Voices, Unaccompanied
1959 December
14
2
A Shakespeare Song for Mixed Chorus (Soprano, Tenor, and Bass Soloists) with Piano Accompaniment
1959 January
14
2
A Shakespeare Song from a Midsummer Night's Dream (Act II, Scene II), Revision
1966 November-December
14
2
Put Out to Sea (Thalassa)
1973 January 13-February 16
14
2
A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucies Day
1979 October-November
14
3
Turn Back, O Man
1982 July 17
14
3
Fantasia Mexicana for Two Violins
1947
14
3
Quintet for Piano and Strings
1949
14
3
Overture to a Shakespearean Tragedy Transcribed for Piano and String Quartet
1952 March
14
4
Overture to a Shakespearean Tragedy Transcribed for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Trumpet, and Piano
1952 April 28
14
4
First String Quartet
1952 July 16-August 6
14
5
String Quartet
1952-1953
Compositions--Chamber Music
15
1
Flamenquerias: Divertimento for Woodwind Trio
1953 January-March
15
1
Divertimento for Woodwind Trio, Revision
1957 March
15
2
Quintet for Piano and Strings
1953 October-November
15
3
Night Music for Sixteen
1954 November-December
15
4
Canto I. (Night Music) for Sixteen, Revision
1956 March-July
15
5
Introduction and Dirge for Brass and Percussion
1955 January-March
16
1-3
Chamber Concerto No. I for Violoncello Solo and Twelve Wind Instruments
1958 February-January
16
4-5
Chamber Concerto for Violoncello Solo and Twelve Wind Instruments, Revision
1961 November-December
16
6-9
Chamber Concerto for Cello and Twelve Winds, Revision
1978
17
1
A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucies Day for String Quartet
1958 December
17
1
Nocturne (Tis the Year's Midnight)
1975 February-March
17
2
Trio in One Movement
1959 April-September
17
2
Trio in One Movement, In-Between Version
1964
17
3
Trio in One Movement, Final Version
1965
17
3
String Quartet
1959 October-December
17
4
Incursion: A Dance Work
1962 February 28
17
4
Chamber Piece for Nine Players
1963
17
5
Chamber Piece for Nine Players
1963
17
5
String Quartet (Silvermine Version)
1962 April 19
17
5
Duo for Flute and Oboe
1966 December-1967 March 22
18
1
The Brass Ring
1967 August 20
18
2
The Brass Ring, Revision
1967
18
3-4
Three Movements for Five Winds
1967 July 13-1968 February 4
18
5
Variations on a Theme by Halsey Stevens
1968 November 9
19
1
Study in Black
1970
19
1
Charenton Variations for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
1970 December 16
19
2-3
Charenton Variations for Eleven Instruments
1978
19
4
Double Fugue from Charenton Variations
19
4
Capriccio for Woodwind Quartet
1971 April 5-June 14
19
4
Fugue No. IV from "The Well Tempered Clavier," Vol. I, by J. S. Bach
1972 March 17
19
5
Machaut: Ma Chiere Dame
1973 November 30
19
5
Homage to Jackson Pollock
1976 December 30
20
1
String Quartet
1977 June 5
20
2-4
Little Suite, Chamber Version
1979 September 12
20
5
Untitled Version of Concerto for Violin and Strings for String Quartet
1981
20
5
Untitled Version of Violin Concerto for String Quartet and Piano
21
1-3
Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano
1981
21
4
Concertino (1920) by Igor Stravinsky
1982 April 24
21
5
Second String Quartet
1983 May 1-September 2
22
1
"Le Jour S'endort," by Dufay
22
1
"O Alter Duft," by Arnold Schoenberg, Op. 21
22
1
J. S. Bach, Cantata No. 4 "Christ Lag in Todesbanden"
22
1
"Dido's Lament," by Purcell
22
2
Untitled (from Bach: Musical Offering)
22
2
J. S. Bach: Musical Offering, Canon a Four
22
2
Duo for Violin and Piano
1954 October-November
22
2
Duo for Violin and Piano, Revision
1963
22
3
Sonata for Violin and Piano
1956 March-April
22
3
Elegy for Violin and Piano
1958 August
22
3
Partita for Solo Violin
1970 October 16-1971 March 16
22
3
Sonata for Violin and Piano
1971-1972
22
4-5
Sonata for Violin and Piano
1971-1972
Compositions--Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Trumpet
23
1-2
Suite for Violin and Piano
1980 November-December
23
3
Duo
23
3
Homage to Jackson Pollock for Viola Alone
1968 January 4-March 29
23
4
Three Lyric Pieces for Violoncello and Pianoforte
1955 December-1956 January
23
4
Two Lyric Pieces for Cello and Piano
1958 August
23
4
Untitled for Solo Cello
1970 May 14
23
4
Cello Sonata
1976-1977 March 16
23
5
Cello Sonata
1976-1977 March 16
23
6
"Gavotte for Cello and Piano," by W. A. Mozart
23
6
Elegy for Flute and Piano
1952 August
23
6
Elegy for Flute and Piano, Revision
1957 March
23
6
Sonata for Flute and Piano
23
7
Duo for Clarinet and Piano
1984
23
7
Five Studies for Alto Sax
1968 August 28
23
7
Trumpet Sonata
1978-1979
23
7
Trumpet Sonata, Revision
1980
Compositions--Works for Full Orchestra
24
1
Overture to a Shakespearean Tragedy for Orchestra
1951 August
24
1
Overture to a Shakespearean Tragedy for Orchestra, Revision
1952 March
24
2
Sinfonia Sacra for Orchestra
1952-1954
24
3
Sinfonia Sacra for Orchestra
1952-1954
24
3
Sinfonia Sacra, Revision
1959 May-June
24
4-5
Yerma: Symphonic Portrait of a Woman for Orchestra
1955 June-July
25
1-7
Yerma: Symphonic Portrait of a Woman for Orchestra
1955 June-July
26
1-3
Xochitl, for Orchestra
1955 August-September
26
4
Xochitl: A Symphonic Portrait, Revision
1958 August
26
5
Symphony No. II for Orchestra
1954-1956 November
27
1
Symphony No. III for Large Orchestra
1956 December-1957 February 20
27
1-2
Symphony No. III for Large Orchestra
1956 December-1957 February 20
27
2
Sinfonia Breve No. II
1955-1958
27
3
Sinfonia Breve No. I
1953-1958
27
3
Sinfonia Breve No. II
1955-1958
27
3
Sinfonia Sacra, Revision
1959 May-June
28
1
Symphony in One Movement
1958 November-December
28
1
Symphony in Three Movements for Small Orchestra
1960 September-1961 January 25
28
2-3
Six Lyric Pieces for Small Orchestra
1961 February 22
28
4
Music for a Pantomime for Orchestra
1962 May 21
28
4
The Eternal Return
1963-1964
28
5
The Eternal Return
1963-1964
28
6
The Eternal Return: Introduction and Rondo for Orchestra
1966 October 10
29
1
Suite for Orchestra
1965
29
2
Charenton Variations for Chamber Orchestra
1968 August 30-1969 February 23
29
3
Charenton Variations, Revision
1970 January 11
29
4-5
Movements in Variation
1972 October 15
30
1-6
Movements in Variation
1972 October 15
31
1-4
Little Suite for Orchestra
1975
32
1-4
Little Suite for Orchestra
1975
33
1
Symphony No. II
1978
33
1
Symphonic Celebration
1979 August 27
33
1
Symphony No. II
1978
33
2-4
Symphonic Celebration
1979 August 27
33
2
Symphonic Celebration
1979 August 27
34
1-6
Symphonic Celebration
1979 August 27
35
1-5
Symphonic Celebration
1979 August 27
Compositions--Works for Full Orchestra, Works for Chamber Orchestra, Works for String Orchestra
36
1
Tchaikovsky Piece from Nutcracker
1979 November
36
1
Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
36
1
Rameau, Tambourin
36
1
Miscellaneous Masters
36
1
Five Short Pieces for Chamber Orchestra
1952 February
36
2
Variations for Chamber Orchestra
1956 May 18-20
36
3
Four Pieces for Baritone Voice and Chamber Orchestra
1958-1959 February
36
1
Four Pieces for Baritone Voice and Chamber Orchestra
1958-1959 February
36
4
Introduction and Allegro
1961 November
36
5
The Fascination of What's Beautiful
1984
36
6
Introduction and March for Strings
1952 August 14
36
6
Slow Dance for Strings (From Prometheus)
1961 March-April 27
Compositions--Works for String Orchestra
37
1
Concertino for Strings
1961 May
37
2-3
Meditation on Christ Lag in Todesbanden for String Orchestra
1962 March
37
4
Untitled Version of Concerto for Violin and Strings for String Orchestra
1980
37
4
Igor Stravinsky: Pas de Deux from Orpheus
1982 April 6
37
4
Little Lullaby (for Strings)
1983 March 19
37
5
Music for Strings
1983 March 13-April 14
37
6
J. S. Bach, Cantata No. 4, Christ Lag in Todesbanden, Sinfonia
37
6
"Erotik," by Edvard Grieg, Op. 43, No. 21
37
6
Mozart Minuetto
Compositions--Works for String Orchestra, Solo Concertos
38
1
R. Schumann: Traumerei
38
1
Scriabine: Prelude, Op. 11, No. 4
38
1
Schoenberg: Op. 19, No. III
38
2
Concerto for Solo Violin and Strings
1964 October-1965 March 30
38
3
Violin Concerto, Odd Version
1967
38
4
Concerto for Violin and Strings, Revision
38
5-7
Concerto for Violin and Strings
1983
Compositions--Solo Concertos
39
1-5
Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra
1971 June 20-1972 April 20
39
1-2
Piano Concerto
1975
40
1-5
Piano Concerto
1975
41
1-6
Piano Concerto
1975
Compositions--Solo Concertos, Works for Band
42
1-2
Piano Concerto
1975
42
3
Bridges
1973 March 31
42
4
Finale for Bridges
1982 January 24
42
5
Bridges (last part)
42
5
Concerto for Alto Sax and Band
1977 June 10-1977 July 19
42
6
Contrasts
1979 December 30
Compositions--Works for Band
43
1-4
Contrasts
1979 December 30
Compositions--Works for Band, Stage Works
44
1
Untitled Composition for Band
44
1
Steps to Broadway
1949-1950
44
2
Steps to Broadway
1949-1950
44
3
Steps to Broadway
1949-1950
44
3
Low Valley for Voice and Piano
1950
44
3
You Were There
1950
44
3
Weeping Willow
1950
44
3
Alone With You
1950
44
4
The Christmas Garden
1955 December 16-20
44
4
Pittsburgh
1959 March 12-April 15
44
5
Pittsburgh
1959 March 12-April 15
Compositions--Stage Works
45
1-3
Prometheus
1960 February-May 30
45
1-2
Prometheus
1960 February-May 30
45
4
LowDown
1962-1963
46
1
Music for She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
1970December-1971 February
46
2
The Eternal Return
1981 June-September
46
3-4
Incidental Music for Anthony and Cleopatra
1974
46A
1
The Eternal Return
1981 June-September
46A
1
"The Purification," An Opera in One Act on the One Act Verse Play by Tennessee Williams
46A
1
Centennial Film
46A
2-3
The Patriots
1975-1976 June 1
47
1-6
The Patriots
1975-1976 June 1
48
1-3
The Patriots
1975-1976 June 1
48
1
The Patriots
1975-1976 June 1
49
1-19
The Patriots
1975-1976 June 1
49
1
The Patriots
1975-1976 June 1
50
1-8
The Patriots
1975-1976 June 1
50
9
The Patriots
Publicity, programs.
Miscellaneous Compositions
51
1
Composition Sketches
1968-1979
51
2
Songs
1980
51
3
Opera Sketches
Summer 1981
51
4
Quaderno Musicale, Roma
1958
51
4
Miscellaneous Compositions
Miscellaneous Pencil Sketches
52
1
Absent from Thee
Treble voice with piano, four measures.
52
1
Clarinet, Viola, Violoncello, Piano
Measures one through eight.
52
1
Finale, Incomplete
1969
52
1
Music for a Comedy Overture
Pages one and two.
52
1
No. 784 String Orchestra
Various pages, timings included.
52
1
Orchestra
52
2
Orchestra I Lento
Winds, timpani, strings. Pages one and two.
52
2
Orchestra, Horn, Strings
52
2
Orchestra, Chimes, Piano
52
2
Orchestra with Piano
Page eleven.
52
2
Orchestra Adagio
Page one, measures one through eight.
52
2
Orchestra Allegro Sherzoso
Odd pages.
52
3
Orchestra Piece, Fifth Movement
1972 September 10
Pages one through eighteen.
52
3
Quartet in One Movement
Violin, clarinet, cello, piano. Pages one through four.
52
3
Stage
End of act I, scene one.
52
3
Stage
End, scene two.
52
4
Strings
Part of full orchestra with piano.
52
4
Tenor or Soprano with Piano
No words.
52
4
Treble with Piano
1968 August 11
52
4
Treble with Strings, Revision
1968 December 29
Page fifteen.
52
4
Treble, Cello, Piano, Halsey Stevens
Pages three and four.
52
5
Treble Voice with Piano
Pages ten through twelve.
52
5
Viola and Piano
1970 March 4
Pages one through four.
52
5
Voice and Piano
52
5
Woodwinds, Horn, Harp, Strings
Measures sixteen through twenty.
52
5
Sarabande, Celli I
1969 March 31
Measures one through six.
53
Pencil Sketches
54
Pencil Sketches
55
Pencil Sketches
Composition Information
56
1-2
Annotated Catalogue of Compositions by Viki Curry
56
3
Composition Information Forms
Works for piano.
56
4
Composition Information Forms
Works for harpsichord and organ.
56
5
Composition Information Forms
Voice and piano (or organ).
56
6
Composition Information Forms
Voice with instruments.
56
7
Composition Information Forms
Choral works.
56
8
Composition Information Forms
Chamber music.
56
9
Composition Information Forms
Violin, viola.
56
10
Composition Information Forms
Violoncello, flute.
56
11
Composition Information Forms
Clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet.
56
12
Composition Information Forms
Works for full orchestra.
56
13
Composition Information Forms
Works for chamber orchestra.
56
14
Composition Information Forms
Works for string orchestra.
56
15
Composition Information Forms
Solo concertos.
56
16
Composition Information Forms
Works for band.
56
17
Composition Information Forms
Stage works.
56
18-19
Compositions, Miscellaneous Lists
Personal Notes
57
1
A Record Book of Compositions
57
2
Chronological List of Works by Ramiro Cortés
VI
Academic Materials
The academic materials that had been kept at the University of Utah Department of Music in Gardner Hall since Cortés' death were added to the collection in 1988. Teaching materials used by Cortés have been arranged numerically by course number and date from the late 1960s to 1984. In addition to the course materials, there are student papers, research grant materials, and miscellaneous writings. With these writings is a compilation of papers by various scholars (including Cortés) entitled "Articles on Ancient Music." Box sixty-seven contains miscellaneous writings including Cortés' poetry and personal notes.
Course Materials
58
1-2
Music 10c, Musicianship
Assignments, examinations.
58
3-5
Music 11c, Harmony
Assignments, final examination.
58
6-7
Music 107A, Composition
Assignments, final examination.
58
8-9
Music 133a, Theory I
Assignments, quizzes, examinations.
58
10-12
Music 133b, Theory II
Assignments, quizzes, examinations.
59
1-2
Music 156, Theory I
Assignments, examinations.
59
3-5
Music 157, Theory II
Assignments, quizzes, examinations.
59
6-7
Music 158, Theory III
Assignments, quizzes, examinations.
59
8
Music 158, Theory III
Miscellaneous materials.
59
9
Music 233a
Assignments, quizzes, and examinations.
59
10
Music 233b
Examinations.
59
11-13
Music 234a, Counterpoint
Assignments, quizzes, examinations.
59
14
Music 234b, Counterpoint
Examinations.
59
15
Music 237a, 237b
Examinations, miscellaneous materials.
59
16
Music 337a
Examinations.
59
17
Music 356, Theory II
Quizzes, examinations.
59
18
Music 357, Theory II
Quizzes, examinations.
59
19
Music 358, Theory III
Quizzes, examinations.
60
1-3
Music 547, Orchestration I
Orchestration notebooks.
60
4
Music 547, Orchestration I
Bowing exercises.
60
5
Music 547, Orchestration I
Exercise for harp.
60
6-8
Music 547, Orchestration I
Assignments.
60
9-10
Music 547, Orchestration I
Quizzes, examinations.
60
11
Music 547, Orchestration I
Miscellaneous class materials.
60
12
Music 548, Orchestration II
Orchestration workbook.
60
13-14
Music 548, Orchestration II
Assignments, examinations.
60
15
Music 549, Orchestration III
Orchestration workbook.
60
16-17
Music 549, Orchestration III
Assignments, examinations.
60
18-20
Miscellaneous Orchestration Materials
60a
1
Music 547, Orchestration I
60a
2
Music 548, Orchestration II
60a
3
Music 549, Orchestration III
60a
4
Miscellaneous Materials
61
1-3
Music 556, Counterpoint
Diagrams, quizzes, examinations.
61
4-5
Music 557, Counterpoint
Quizzes, examinations.
61
6
Music 558, Counterpoint
Quizzes.
61
7
Music 558, Counterpoint
Examinations (master copy and key).
61
8
Music 558, Counterpoint
Examinations (completed student copies).
61
9-10
Counterpoint Workbooks
61
11
Counterpoint Assignments
61
12
Counterpoint Materials
Notes from counterpoint and orchestration classes.
61
13
Modal Counterpoint in the Style of the Sixteenth Century by Ernst Krenek
1959
61
14
Counterpoint Examples
61
15
Music 627, Twentieth Century Analytical Techniques
Examinations.
61
16
Music 628, Twentieth Century Analytical Techniques
Examinations.
61
17-20
Music 629, Twentieth Century Analytical Techniques
Examinations, composer lists, musical examples.
61
21
Music 629, Twentieth Century Analytical Techniques
Miscellaneous class materials.
62
1
Music 651, Advanced Formal Procedures
Assignments, examinations.
62
2-3
Music 652, Advanced Formal Procedures
Examinations, fugue subjects.
62
4
Music 653, Advanced Formal Procedures
Examinations.
62
5
Music 653, Advanced Formal Procedures
Miscellaneous class materials.
Miscellaneous Course Materials
63
1-3
Understanding Music, Lecture Notes
63
4-5
Lecture Notes
63
6-9
Assignments and Class Materials
63
10-12
Graduate Entrance Examinations
63
13
Examinations
63
14-17
Musical Examples
63
18-21
Composer Lists
63
22-23
Lists of Orchestration Tapes
64
1-3
University of Southern California
1967-1970
Roll books, teaching materials, and miscellaneous.
64
4-8
University of Utah
1974-1982
Course lists, examinations, roll books, and miscellaneous.
65
1
David A. Morales
1971
"Stravinsky's `Oedipus Rex.'"
65
2
John Thow
1971
"Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande: Thematic Usage in Acts I and IV."
65
3-7
Research Grant Materials
1974-1978
65
8
Research Grant Materials, Miscellaneous Compositions
Miscellaneous Writings (A-Z)
This box contains research papers written by Cortés. Also included, in folders one through twenty one, are various additional authors.
66
1-21
"Articles on Ancient Music"
Contributing authors include Dragan Plamenac, Lloyd Hibberd, Leo Schrade, Ramiro Cortés, Jeanne Marix, Leonard Ellinwood, Manfred F. Bokofzer, and Helen E. Bush.
66
22
"Comparative Analysis of the Overtures Beethoven Wrote for his Opera `Fidelio'"
66
23
"Comparative Dualism in Augustine and Marx"
66
24
"The Eternal Return," Libretto
66
25
"Music Theory and Practice"
66
26
"The Piano Music of Ramiro Cortés"
1989
Treatise by Roland Pitt.
66
27-37
"Production of a Shakespearean Tragedy"
1951
66
38
"The Twelve Tone Music of Luigi Dallapiccola"
66
39
"Works By Modern Composers"
1951
67
1
Poetry
67
2-15
Personal Notes
67
16
Lists of Compositions and Performances
67
17
Record of Compositions
68
Personal Notes
Two sets of index cards, arranged alphabetically by composer. Cards are possible reference tools to Cortés' personal library and detail music and recording information.
VII
Works by Other Composers
These materials were originally filed with the academic materials, but it was apparent that many of the materials had been used since Cortés' death and had been misfiled. Works identifiable by course number were kept with the course materials in Section VI. Those not identified were removed and filed alphabetically by composer in this section. These materials include various compositions and score fragments and Cortés' notations and analyses concerning many of each composer's works. Materials in this section include score fragments, compositions, class materials, research notes. Boxes 84 through 88 have been restricted at the request of Nancee Cortés. These boxes contain class materials, research materials, newspaper and magazine articles, compositions, correspondence, and Cortés' personal notes dealing with the works of Igor Stravinsky. These items are closed until 2011.
69
1
Bach, Johann Christian: Sonata
69
2
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Canons
69
3
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Cantatas
69
4-7
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Chorale Preludes
69
8
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Chorale Harmonizations
Harmonized Chorales and Chorale Melodies.
69
9
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Chorale Harmonizations
69
10
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Concertos
Brandenburg Concertos.
69
11
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Fugues and Preludes
The Art of Fugue.
69
12
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Fugues and Preludes
Fugue in F Major.
69
13
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Fugues and Preludes
Organ Fugue in F Major.
69
14
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Fugues and Preludes
Organ Fugue in G Minor.
69
15
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Fugues and Preludes
Organ Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor.
69
16
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Fugues and Preludes
Toccata in E Minor.
69
17
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Fugues and Preludes
Toccata in D Minor.
69
18-26
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Fugues and Preludes
The Well Tempered Clavier, Volumes I and II.
69
27-28
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Fugues and Preludes
Johann Sebastian Bach
70
1
Inventions
70
2
Musical Offering
70
3-6
Organ Works
70
7
Passion Music
70
8
Suites
70
9-12
Miscellaneous
71
1
Bartok, Bela: Bagatelles
71
2
Bartok, Bela: Bluebeard's Castle
71
3
Bartok, Bela: Concertos
71
4
Bartok, Bela: Divertimento for String Orchestra
71
5
Bartok, Bela: Folk Songs
71
6
Bartok, Bela: Fugue
71
7
Bartok, Bela: Mikrokosmos
71
8
Bartok, Bela: String Quartets
71
9
Bartok, Bela: Der Wunderbare Mandarin
71
10
Bartok, Bela, Miscellaneous
71
11
Berg, Alban
Ludwig van Beethoven
72
1
Bagatelles
72
2
Chamber Music
72
3
Concertos
Piano Concerto No. 3.
72
4
Fugues
72
5
Omnibus
72
6
Quartets
72
7-11
Sonatas
73
1-2
String Quartets
73
3
Symphonies
Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major (Eroica).
73
4-7
Symphonies
74
1-3
Trios
74
4
Miscellaneous
75
1
Berlioz, Hector
75
2
Bizet, Georges
75
3
Bloch, Ernest
75
4
Bourget, Paul
75
5
Brahms, Johannes: Chorale Preludes
75
6
Brahms, Johannes: Intermezzi
75
7-10
Brahms, Johannes: Piano Works
75
11
Brahms, Johannes: Sonatas
75
12
Brahms, Johannes: Symphonies
75
13
Brahms, Johannes: Miscellaneous
76
1
Britten, Benjamin
76
2
Bruckner, Anton
76
3
Busoni, Ferruccio
76
4
Chavez, Carlos
76
5
Chopin, Frederic: Ballades
76
6
Chopin, Frederic: Etudes
76
7
Chopin, Frederic: Mazurkas
76
8
Chopin, Frederic: Nocturnes
76
9
Chopin, Frederic: Preludes
76
10-13
Copland, Aaron
76
14
Couperin, Francois
76
15
Czerny, Carl
77
1-3
Dallapiccola, Luigi
77
4
Debussy, Claude: Nocturnes
77
5
Debussy, Claude: Preludes
77
6
Debussy, Claude: Quartets
77
7
Debussy, Claude: Sonatas
77
8
Debussy, Claude: Miscellaneous
77
9
Dufay, Guillaume
77
10
Duparc, Henri
77
11
Elgar, Edward
77
12
Faure, Gabriel
77
13
Fischer, Johann Kaspar Ferdinand
77
14
Franck, Cesar Auguste
77
15
Gardane, Antoine
77
16
Gesualdo, Carlo
77
17
Gluck, Christoph Willibald
77
18
Granados, Enrique
77
19
Grantham, Donald
77
20
Grieg, Edvard
78
1
Haieff, Alexei
78
2
Halle, Adam de la
78
3
Handel, George Frideric
78
4-5
Haydn, Joseph
78
6
Henze, Hans Werner
78
7-15
Hindemith, Paul
78
16
Hoffman, Richard
78
17
Ives, Charles Edward
79
1
La Montaine, John
79
2
Liszt, Franz: Mazeppa
79
3
Liszt, Franz: Sonatas
79
4-6
Liszt, Franz: Symphonies
79
7
Liszt, Franz: Tasso
79
8
Liszt, Franz: Waltzes
79
9-11
Liszt, Franz: Miscellaneous
79
12
Lorca, Federico Garcia
79
13
Machaut, Guillaume de
79
14-17
Mahler, Gustav
79
18
Matos, Manuel G.
79
19
Mendelssohn, Felix
79
20
Messiaen, Oliver
79
21
Monteverdi, Claudio
79
22
Montsalvage, Xavier
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
80
1-3
Concertos
80
4
Minuets
80
5
Sonatas
80
6-7
Symphonies
80
8
Miscellaneous
81
1-2
Miscellaneous
81
3
Mussorgksy, Modest Petrovich
81
4
Nelson, Marie Barker
81
5
Pachelbel, Johann
81
6
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
81
7
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
81
8
Persicchetti, Vincent
81
9-10
Petrassi, Goffredo
81
11
Poulenc, Francis
81
12
Prez, Josquin des
81
13
Prokofiev, Sergei
81
14-17
Ravel, Maurice
82
1-2
Rimsky Korsakov, Nikolai Andreyevich
82
3
Scarlatti, Alessandro
82
4-6
Schoenberg, Arnold
82
7
Schubert, Franz: Sonatas
82
8
Schubert, Franz: Symphonies
82
9
Schubert, Franz: Miscellaneous
82
10
Schuetz, Heinrich
82
11
Schumann, Robert: Piano Works
82
12-14
Schumann, Robert: Symphonies
82
15
Schumann, Robert
83
1
Scriabine, Alexander: Preludes
83
2
Scriabine, Alexander: Sonatas
83
3
Scriabine, Alexander: Miscellaneous
83
4
Sessions, Roger
83
5
Shostakovich, Dmitri
83
6
Sibelius, Jean
83
7
Stevens, Halsey
83
8
Strauss, Johann
83
9-11
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
This subseries contains class materials, research materials, magazine and newspaper articles, compositions, correspondence and Cortés' personal notes dealing with the work of Igor Stravinsky.
84
1-5
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
84
6-16
Class Materials
Handouts, notes, notebooks, and miscellaneous.
85
Stravinsky, Igor Compositions
Descriptions written by Cortés for each work are in box 88. See also description for box 84.
85
1
Abraham and Isaac
85
2
Agon
85
3
Apollo Musagetes
85
4
Cantata
85
5
Cat's Cradle Songs
85
6
Concertino
85
7
Concerto for Two Solo Pianos
85
8
Divertimento
85
9
Duo Concertant
85
10
The Fairy's Kiss
85
11
Faun and Shepherdess
85
12-13
Firebird
85
14
The Firebird Ballet
85
15
Fireworks
85
16
Five Easy Pieces
85
17
Four Norwegian Moods
85
18
Four Studies for Piano
85
19
Histoire Du Soldat
85
20
In Memorian Dylan Thomas
85
21
Les Noces
85
22
Oedipus Rex
85
23
Orpheus
85
24
Pastorale
85
25
Petrushka
85
26
Piano-Rag Music
85
27
Pribaoutki
86
1
Rag-Time
86
2
The Rake's Progress
86
3-5
The Rite of Spring
86
6
Rites of Spring
86
7
Le Roi des Etoiles
86
8
Scherzo a la Russe
86
9
Scherzo Fantastique Pour Grand Orchestre
86
10
Septet
86
11
Study for Pianola
86
12
Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra
86
13
Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra
86
14
Suite Italienne
86
15
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
86
16
Symphony in E Flat
86
17
Symphony in Three Movements
86
18
Symphony of Psalms
86
19
Three Songs from William Shakespeare
86
20
Threni
86
21
Miscellaneous
87
1-5
Stravinsky: Les Noces
1972
87
6
Octet for Wind Instruments
87
7-8
The Rite of Spring
87
9
The Soldier's Tale, Three Pieces for String Quartet, Zvezdoliki
87
10
Stravinsky, Vol. I
87
11
Miscellaneous Compositions
Stravinsky, Igor--Miscellaneous
See description for Box 84.
88
1
Correspondence
1968-1982
To and from Cortés relating to his studies of Stravinsky's works.
88
2-8
Music Descriptions
Descriptions of Stravinsky's works.
88
9
Miscellaneous Materials
89
1
Surinach, Carlos
89
2
Tchaikovsky, Peter
89
3
Telemann, Georg Philipp
89
4
Varese, Edgard
89
5-7
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
89
8
Verdi, Giuseppe
89
9
Villa Lobos, Heitor
89
10
Vivaldi, Antonio
89
11
Wagner, Richard
89
12
Wakefield, Sherril
89
13
Weber, Carl Maria von
89
14
Webern, Anton von
89
15
Wolf, Hugo
90
Miscellaneous Compositions
Oversize
91
1
Beethoven, Ludwig van; Brakhage, Stanley; Debussy, Claude
91
2
Falla, Manuel de; Harsanyi, Tibor; Hindemith, Paul; Hoffman, Richard; Liszt, Franz
91
3
Mendelssohn, Felix
91
4
Monteverdi, Claudio; Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista; Pyrker, Johann Ladislav; Ravel, Maurice
91
5
Ruggles, Carl; Schubert, Franz; Schumann, Robert
91
6
Stevens, Halsey; Tchaikovsky, Peter
91
7
Miscellaneous Materials
1938
Famous Symphonic Poems in Score.
VIII
General Published and Unpublished Materials
This section is comprised mainly of miscellaneous published and unpublished texts used by Cortés in his teaching, research, and composing. Most of the published materials have notations in the margins. Other items were of sentimental value to Cortés. Box 92 contains miscellaneous poetry, literature, and artwork as well as a few newsletters. Two items are of particular interest: The Liber Usalis, given to Cortés by Joseph Iadone, one of his first music teachers, and a first edition copy of
Finnegan's Wake signed by the author, James Joyce.
Miscellaneous Files
92
1
"Block out for William Faulkner's `As I Lay Dying'"
92
2
Boosey and Hawkes Incorporated Newsletters
1981-1982
92
3
Brakhage, Stanley
1950
Poem entitled, "Lines for Christmas."
92
4
Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, Vol. I, No. I
1976
92
5
New Music of Darmstadt
1957
92
6
Ussachevsky, Vladimir
Biographical pamphlets and program from Ussachevsky's 75th birthday celebration in 1990.
92
7
Wagner, Richard
Program and newspaper articles about the film Wagner and miscellaneous notes by Cortés concerning Wagner's life and music.
92
8
Death of a Salesman, Program
1950
92
9
A Streetcar Named Desire, Program
92
10-14
Film Music Notes
1949-1953
Official publication of the National Film Music Council.
92
15
Miscellaneous Artwork
92
16
Miscellaneous Poetry
92
17
Miscellaneous Materials
1981
Program for the film
Napoleon.
Publications
93
1
Aida, Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto.
93
1
Anthology for Musical Analysis, Charles Burkhart, Third Edition. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
1978
93
2
Essentials of Eighteenth Century Counterpoint, Neale B. Mason. Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa
93
2
Four Literary Historical Walks, Elizabeth Kray. The Academy of American Poets, New York
1982
93
3
Life Magazine, "To the Moon and Back," Special Edition
1969
94
1
Musical Acoustics, Charles A. Culver. The Blakiston Company, New York
1951
Third edition.
94
2
Musical Form, Ellis B. Kohs. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
1976
94
1-12
Projects in Musicianship, Vol. I-ll, Anthony E. Vazzana. University of Southern California
1966
95
1
The Technique of Choral Composition, Archibald T. Davison, Oxford University Press, London
1945
95
2
Text Book of Gregorian Chant, Dom Gregory Sunol, O.S.B., Monk of Montserrat
1930
95
1-8
Workbook for Chromatic Harmony, Justine Shir Cliff, Stephen Jay, Donald J. Rauscher. The Free Press, New York
1965
96
1
The Liber Usalis, McLaughlin & Reilly Company, Boston
1950
96
2
Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce, First Edition. Faber and Faber Limited, London
1939
Signed by the author. This book is stored separately from the collection.
97
1
An Aural Approach to Orchestration, Ellis B. Kohs
Signed by the author.
97
2
Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota, C. F. Peters Corporation, New York
1958
97
1
Elementary Training for Musicians, Paul Hindemith Second Edition. Associated Music Publishers, Inc., New York
1949
98
1
Example of Gregorian Chant and Works by Orlandus Lassus, Giovanni Pierlugi Palestrina and Marx Antonio Ingegneri, Gustave Fredric Soderlum. New York
1946
98
2
Historical Anthology of Music, Archibald T. Davison and Willi Apel. Harvard University Press, Cambridge
1950
98
3
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters
1962
98
4
Standard Song Classics, Ralph L. Baldwin and E.W. Newton. Ginn and Company, Boston
1913
98
5
Study Guide for the Enjoyment of Music, Rubin Bergreen and John Castellini. W.W. Norton and Company Inc., New York
1970
98
6
Teaching Music: The Human Experience, Shirley Mullins
1985
98
7
Treatise on Instrumentation, H. Berlioz-R. Strauss, translated by Theodore Front. Edwin F. Kalmus, New York
1948
98
8
Typical Piano Pieces and Songs for Student of Music Appreciation, selected by Clarence G. Hamilton. Oliver Ditson Company, Philadelphia
1921
99
1
Artforum
January 1973
99
2
Erich Lachmann Collection of Historical Stringed Musical Instruments, Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1950
100
1
Bach's Ornaments, Walter Emery, Novello & Company, Limited, Kent
1973
100
2
Goffredo Petrassi, John S. Weissmann, Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milano
1957
100
3
Luigi Dallapiccola, Roman Vlad, Edizioni Suvini Zervoni, Milano
1957
100
4
The Marriage of Figaro: An Opera in Four Acts, W.A. Mozart, Broude Brothers, New York
Signed by Maurice Abravanel.
100
5
La Tecnica Dell'Orchestra Contemporanea, A. Casella and V. Mortari, G. Ricordi and C.
1950
101
Miscellaneous Items
This box contains various items of value to the composer, including the 1961 Concours Musical International Reine Elisabeth de Belgique Third Prize medal; a University of Utah Centennial token, and Cortés' Palmer Cadencia metronome.