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MS-5-23
Fonds
1964 - 2000

Fonds contains records related to Stephen Pedersen's music teaching, composing and performance activities. Record types include manuscript music scores, sound recordings, posters and programs, contracts and correspondence.

Pedersen, Stephen Alan

Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences booklets on teaching children music

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 19
File
1971-1972

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains three booklets published by the Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences and two newsletters from the Contemporary Music Project.

Sound recordings

Series
1968-1983

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Series contains audio recordings of musical performances featuring Stephen Pedersen's compositions and/or his performances on flute and piccolo. Series includes recordings of Pedersen's solo performances and performances by musical ensembles including Scotia Wind and the Halifax Woodwind Quintet. Most recordings are on audio reels; series includes two audio cassettes of a radio play featuring Pedersen's music. Recordings include several made for radio or television broadcast.

The Conservatory manuscript music book

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 32
File
[ca. 1968]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains a manuscript book with a pencilled transcription of Debussy's Première Rhapsodie pour Clarinette en Sib, as well as loose notes and a draft score for Sonnet 60, and a program for a 1968 McGill Faculty of Music recital.

Publicity photograph of Stephen Pedersen

MS-5-23, Box 7, Folder 1
Item
[1980s?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a photograph of Stephen Pedersen playing the flute.

Publicity photographs of Stephen Pedersen

MS-5-23, Box 5, Folder 19
File
1984

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains three publicity photographs of Stephen Pedersen and one of the Halifax Wind Quintet; an Atlantic Camera Trio program for "Music in the French Baroque Style"; and biographical sketches of Stephen Pedersen and Monique Gusset.

Concert programs, reviews and promotional records

MS-5-23, Box 5, Folder 20
File
1968 - 1991

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains correspondence, posters, programs and contracts for recitals and concerts in which Stephen Pedersen performed solo, with his wife, Virginia Beaton, and with groups including Scotia Winds, Chebucto Symphony Orchestra, Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony.

Cut and paste scores for strings

MS-5-23, Box 7, Folder 12
File
[ca. 1968-1970]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains scores for violin, viola and cello composed of photocopied staves pasted onto sheets of paper, with brief notes written in ink.

Three haiku / Stephen Petersen : [score]

MS-5-23, Box 7, Folder 4
Item
[ca. 1968]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is an annotated score for alto flute, handwritten in ink.

Zwicker / by Silver Donald Cameron : [script]

MS-5-23, Box 6, Folder 2
File
1977

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File also contains Stephen Pedersen's score and cue sheet for the CBC Radio play.

Nova Music posters and programs

MS-5-23, Box 5, Folder 21
File
1971 - 1982

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Explosion

MS-5-23, Box 2, Item 9
Item
[1983?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is an audio reel with "Explosion" written on the case, which probably refers to a concert directed by Stephen Pedersen at St. George's Anglican Church on 6 December 1983 that featured symphony musicians playing music of the period.

Flute recital - CBC

MS-5-23, Box 1, Item 5
Item
February 7, 1975

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is an audio reel with a recording of a flute recital with Stephen Pederson.

Correspondence regarding Stephen Pedersen's music and theatre reviews

MS-5-23, Box 5, Folder 24
File
1993 - 2000

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Music notations, lyrics, recording notes and a newspaper article about Ontario community colleges

MS-5-23, Box 4, Folder 17
File
1967-1969

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains records created or collected by Stephen Pedersen during his employment at Centennial College.

Letter from John Haar, President of Centennial College, to Stephen Pedersen

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 4
Item
June 26, 1969

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a letter thanking Stephen Pedersen for his part in developing the English curriculum at Centennial College.

Acadian and Dalhousie brochures and programs for band camps and flute seminars

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 3
File
1975 - 1981

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains brochures for concerts, summer band camps, and music seminars taught by Stephen Pedersen at Acadia and Dalhousie. File also contains notes and newspaper clippings.

Nova Scotia Drama League's Annie

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 9
File
1993

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains a program, press release and call for auditions.

Electronic music studio manual

MS-5-23, Box 6, Folder 8
Item
[197-?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Three haiku / Stephen Pedersen : [score]

MS-5-23, Box 6, Folder 15
Item
[ca. 1968]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a score for soprano, alto flute and harpsichord, handwritten in ink.

Schooldays : [score]

MS-5-23, Box 5, Folder 23
Item
[197-?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a handwritten score in pencil.

Shawnigan Summer School of the Arts

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 10
File
1976 - 1977

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains correspondence and notes regarding Stephen Pedersen's involvement with the summer school.

University of King's College arts reporting course outline, first class notes and assignment

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 14
File
1993

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains records from J4320/5320B Specialist Write, taught by Stephen Pederson in January 1993.

Minuet a la Bay of Fundy : [score]

MS-5-23, Box 6, Folder 11
Item
[197-?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a handwritten copy in ink.

Sanctus nagilus : [score]

MS-5-23, Box 5, Folder 22
Item
[197-?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a handwritten score in pencil.

Duchess of Malfi overture : [score]

MS-5-23, Box 7, Folder 13
File
[197-]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains two untitled orchestral scores, handwritten in pencil and ink.

Textual notes and music notations for Pastimes

MS-5-23, Box 4, Folder 18
File
[197-?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Mass for strings / Stephen Pedersen : [score]

MS-5-23, Box 7, Folder 15
File
[197-]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains scores for violin, viola, cello and bass, handwritten in ink. There are additional copies and partial copies on vellum.

Composition notes and fee schedules from the Canadian League of Composers

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 11
File
1983 - 1988

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Game of Chance photographs and dice

MS-5-23, Box 7, Folder 17
File
1973

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains the dice used in the creation of Stephen Pedersen's Game of Chance as well as photographs of the dice rolls that generated the composition.

Systems—the Duchess overture

MS-5-23, Box 4, Folder 16
File
[197-?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Titled and untitled liturgical scores

MS-5-23, Box 7, Folder 11
File
[ca. 1970?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Piano pieces

MS-5-23, Box 4, Folder 19
File
1967

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains title and untitled piano compositions by Stephen Pedersen.

Minuet : The Bay of Fundy fugue : [score]

MS-5-23, Box 4, Folder 21
Item
[197-?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a draft score of Stephen Pedersen's Minuet.

Sketches

MS-5-23, Box 4, Folder 22
File
1973

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains a one-page composition and a finger board chart for the guitar.

Zwicker theme scores

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 1
File
1977

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains scores for the Zwicker theme, which was composed by Stephen Pedersen for the CBC Radio series of six half-hour plays written by Silver Donald Cameron. There is also a note from Cameron to the Pedersens.

Untitled music notations

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 31
File
[ca. 1970s?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains textual notes and music notations, including two pages titled "Original / Retrograde" and "Original and Inversion / Retrograde Inversion."

Composition assignments

MS-5-23, Box 7, Folder 14
File
[197-]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File also contains handwritten scores in pencil, including drafts of Stephen Pedersen's Mass for Strings.

Empire music manuscript book

MS-5-23, Box 5, Folder 18
Item
[ca. 1968-1970]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains a manuscript book containing untitled and titled musical compositions in pencil, including "Counterpoint + Palestrina & the Dissonance"; "Western Wind"; "Weepe You No More"; "What is Beauty"; and "Never More the Wind."

Untitled score by Stephen Pedersen

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 30
File
[ca. 1970s?]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

File contains pages of an untitled score that contains references to classical gods and goddesses (Hestia, Diana, Hermes and Dionysos), and a typed excerpt of a poem referencing King Arthur.

Duet for guitar and sun flower / Stephen Pedersen : [score]