Archives Catalogue

The ravens by the Tower of London : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 32
Item
1996

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is an annotated copy of Jamieson's composition, which is in five sections. Each section has textual instructions for individual instruments with four musical parts notated at the bottom: melody, accompaniment, B-flat trumpet line, and bass line.

Jamieson, Daryl

The problem : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 10, Folder 2
File
1985

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains an original handwritten concert part and alto sax part for Paul Cram's "The Problem."

The problem : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 8, Folder 15
Item
1985

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is the concert part for Paul Cram's "The Problem."

The problem : concert pitch

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 23
Item
1985

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of the concert pitch part for Paul Cram's atonal composition, "The Problem," in three sections.

Cram, Paul

The point of sympathy / by Paul Cram

MS-5-21, Box 13, Folder 2
Item
1997

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is the master of a conductor's score for Paul Cram's The Point of Sympathy for Chamber Orchestra with Improvisor, which includes an instrumentation list on the title page: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in Bb, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets in Bb, 2 french horns, violin1 (8), violin 2 (6), viola (4), cello (4), contrabass (2), marimba, timpani, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, electric cello, piano, accordion, guitar, electric bass, drums.

The point of sympathy : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 4, Folder 6
Item
1997

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item contains a partial score of Paul Cram's "The Point of Sympathy" — pages 3-50; the last four pages are printed on the reverse sides of scrap paper.

The point of sympathy : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 4, Folder 21
Item
1997

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item contains an annotated score of Paul Cram's "The Point of Sympathy." The file includes a handwritten conductor's key and a photocopied key to formings.

The point of sympathy : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 11, Folder 14
Item
1997

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains four copies of Paul Cram's "The Point of Sympathy," for chamber orchestra with improvisers, written for: flute 1 & 2; oboe 1 & 2; clarinet 1 & 2; bassoon 1 & 2; trumpet 1 & 2; French horn 1 & 2; violin 1 & 2; viola; cello; contrabass; marimba; timpani; guitar; drums; accordion; and electric bass. The scores includes a key for forming parts E and F. Two scores are spiral bound, two are loose, and one is marked as a transposed score.

The point of sympathy : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 8, Folder 1
File
1997

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File comprises 26 parts for chamber orchestra with improvisors; each part contains a key for the section of the score (@ letter E + F) that changes from traditional to graphic notation.

The nth degree : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 2, Folder 17
File
2001

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains parts for "The Nth Degree," composed by Paul Cram in 2001 for Upstream Ensemble. The piece has four movements; the first and third movements comprise typed cues, while the second and fourth movements are traditional scores. Parts include cello; electric bass; harp; guitar; piano; drums; alto saxophone; bass clarinet; and tenor saxophone. File includes additional annotated copies of the tenor sax, piano and cello parts.

The navigator : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 12
File
July 19, 2006

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains annotated treble 1& 2 and piano, bass & drum parts for Paul Cram's score for the silent film "The Navigator," starring Buster Keaton.

The navigator : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 13
Item
July 19, 2006

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is the piano, bass and drums parts for Paul Cram's score for the silent film "The Navigator," starring Buster Keaton.

The navigator : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 15
Item
July 19, 2006

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is the treble 1 & 2 parts for Paul Cram's score for the silent film "The Navigator," starring Buster Keaton.

The navigator : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 16
Item
July 19, 2006

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is the piano, bass and drums parts for Paul Cram's score for the silent film "The Navigator," starring Buster Keaton.

The navigator : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 14
Item
July 19, 2006

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is the treble 1&2 part for Paul Cram's score for the silent film "The Navigator," starring Buster Keaton.

The naked ear / Paul Cram

MS-5-21, Box 15, Folder 5
Item
1991

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is Paul Cram's score for reeds 1 & 2, wx7, trumpet, guitar, harp, synth, drumscom (?), comp 1, 2 & 3.

The naked ear : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 3, Folder 4
Item
1991

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is a conductor's score for "The Naked Ear," a concert work composed by Paul Cram in 1991 for Upstream Ensemble, which debuted at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on November 24, 1991.

The mountains of madness : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 10, Folder 17
File
1988

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains Bb and concert parts for a Paul Cram composition.

The master builder : [score]

MS-2-693, Box 2, Folder 14
File
1946

Part of R. Graham Murray fonds

File contains "The Master Builder." Based on a Norwegian folk song by Alfred Whitehead.

The magic order : [score and parts]

MS-5-21, Box 5, Folder 9
File
2013

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains a title page; a handwritten forming order/conductor's score in graphic notation (and copies); and 12 printed parts for Inst 1, each in a different key.

The magic order : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 11, Folder 9
Item
2013

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is a facsimile score for voice; trumpet; soprano sax/flute; trumpet 2; alto sax; trombone; tenor sax/clarinet; bass trombone; baritone sax/flute; guitar 1; guitar 2; synthesizer 2; piano 1; contrabass 2; drums 2; drums 1; and percussion.

The magic order : [score]

MS-5-21, Oversize Folder 2
Item
2013

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an annotated score of a work first performed by Upstream Orchestra in memory of Steve Lacy on May 18, 2013 at the International Festival de Musique Actuel, which commissioned the work, in Victoriaville, Quebec. The piece was played alongside "Convoy HFX" and "Witch Gong Gang II/10." The Upstream Orchestra included Jeff Reilly, conduction; bass clarinet, Tena Palmer; voice, Rick Waychesko; trumpet, Chris Mitchell; soprano sax/flute, Paul Tynan; trumpet, Kenny MacKay; alto sax, Danny Martin; trombone, Paul Cram; tenor sax/clarinet, Tom Walsh; trombone, Dawn Hatfield; baritone sax, flute, Geordie Haley; guitar, Scott McMillan; guitar, Tim Crofts; synthesizer, Steven Naylor; piano, Lukas Pearse; contrabass-electronics, David Burton; drums, Danny Parker/contrabass, Doug Cameron; drums; and Erin Donovan, percussion.

The top of the score pages are in standard notation and provide the music for different instruments. The bottom half of each page is in graphic notation with symbols noting improvisational cues and solos for each instrument. There also parts for B, Bb, Eb, bass, and drums. There are two pages of smaller visual notations. The score was composed for voice; 2 trumpets; 2 trombones; soprano sax/flute; alto sax; tenor sax/clarinet; baritone sax; piano; synthesizer; 2 guitars; 2 basses; 2 drum sets; and percussion.

The lines eye : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 5, Folder 19
Item
1982

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an original handwritten composition by Paul Cram.

The life of a cell : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 10, Folder 15
Item
1985

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an original handwritten composition by Paul Cram. At the end of the piece is the direction text, "REPEAT BACKWARDS."

The holy boy : a carol of the nativity

MS-2-26, Box 6, Folder 27
Item
1941

Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

Item is a copy of John Ireland's string arrangement of his choral version of "The Holy Boy," with pencil annotations and analysis by Anthony Pugh.

The gentle airs / Stephen Pedersen : [score]

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 27
Item
[ca. 1973]

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a handwritten score by Stephen Pedersen.

The empty cup : parts

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 9
File
1997, October

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains parts for Bauer's improvisational composition in five sections: Sitar Drone Atmosphere; Falling - Filling the Cup; The Streets of Calcutta; Ascension - Reaching Beyond Life; and Resolution. The composition is for violin, bassoon, piano, guitar, and oboe and lacks a clear tonal centre and meter.The last section is a canon between the violin and bassoon.

Bauer, Bob

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.

The blue suite 1-5 : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 9, Folder 45
File
2006

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains multiple copies of parts for Graham Collier's "The Blue Suite" (1-5), which includes 1. "Kind of Sketchy"; 2. "Kind of So What"; 3. "Kind of Freddy"' 4. "Kind of Green"; and 5. "All Kinds." Some parts are taped together and/or annotated: five concert parts; two Bb horn parts; two Eb horn parts; and one alto flute part.

The black pirate : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 9
Item
2007

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is the drum part for Paul Cram's score for the film "The Black Pirate."

The black pirate : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 8
Item
2007

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an annotated piano part for Paul Cram's score for the film "The Black Pirate."

The Arts and Letters Club Constitution : [choral score]

MS-5-1, Box 2, Folder 18
Item
October 1922

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

Item is a copy of a manuscript for the Arts and Letters Club Constitution song, written for tenor, bass, and chorus in A Major.

The alternate Aberdeen Angus : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 9, Folder 38
File
[2009?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains multiple copies of parts for Graham Collier's "The Alternate Aberdeen Angus," some of them annotated: four concert parts; one Eb part; five Bb instruments parts; and two bass clef instrument parts.

Textual notes and music notations for Pastimes

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

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Terceiro concerto de piano e orquestra : redução para dois pianos

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 4
Item
1956

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is an autograph manuscript of Heitor Villa-Lobos's reduction for two pianos of his Piano Concerto No. 3, completed in New York in 1956. The composition was commissioned by the Brazilian pianist Arnaldo Estrella.

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Tenor sax (reed 2) parts for Campin' Out record release tour

MS-5-21, Box 5, Folder 7
File
September 2001

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File includes tenor sax (reed 2) parts for music performed during Paul Cram Orchestra's second Canadian Tour, which included concerts at the Marquee Club, Halifax; the National Library of Canada, Ottawa; the Guelph Jazz Festival; Western Front, Vancouver, Meduse Arts Centre, Quebec City; and Cafe Espagnole, Montreal. Parts are for "High Ground"; "Immortal Coil"; "Have a Heart"; "Taiwanese Bootleg"; "Dminor Diner"; "Eye of the Storm"; "Life of Crime"; "Trouble in Paradise"; "Revolutions"; "Tip of the Iceberg"; and "Telescope."

Tenor parts for "Necktie Party"and "Main St."

MS-5-21, Box 10, Folder 8
File
1978

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains original handwritten tenor parts for two Paul Cram compositions.

Ten : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 9, Folder 24
Item
[after 1978?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an unsigned, original handwritten composition.

Telescope : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 29
Item
[199-?]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item contains one annotated copy of "Telescope," a monophonic, atonal composition by Paul Cram written at concert pitch.

Cram, Paul

Telescope : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 8, Folder 3
File
2005

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains printed concert, Bb, and Eb parts and facsimile handwritten concert and Bb parts. Telescope was composed for saxophone quartet.

Taras bulba

MS-2-26, Box 6, Folder 28
Item
1947

Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

Item is a copy of Leoš Janáček's "Taras Bulba" for orchestra, with pencil annotations and analysis by Anthony Pugh.

Tarantella bella : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 5, Folder 43
Item
[200-?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is a score written for piano, bass and 3 saxophones.

Tango oreo : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 12, Folder 8
File
1984

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains an original handwritten score for Paul Cram's "Tango Oreo," written for saxophone, bass and drums. The first page is annotated with "Side B of PC Quartets. Cut #2." File also contains the original handwritten compositions "Give it Up" and "Sleight of Hand."

Tango oreo : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 5, Folder 17
Item

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an original handwritten bass part for Paul Cram's "Tango Oreo."

Taiwanese bootleg : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 2, Folder 14
File
[between 1987 and 2008]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains parts for "Taiwanese Bootleg," by Paul Cram for the Paul Cram Orchestra, and include: alto saxophone (reed 1); tenor saxophone (reed 2); bass clarinet (reed 3); trombone; cello; trumpet; piano, guitar; bass; and drums.

Systems—the Duchess overture

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

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Symphony Nova Scotia fonds

MS-5-14
Fonds
1981-2006

Fonds consists of records created by Symphony Nova Scotia in the course of its regular business activities. The majority of the records were created during the process of concert-planning, including special concerts, annual concerts, tours, and concert series. These records include artist contracts, marketing and development documents, internal memos, and correspondence with artists and sponsors.

Records also consist of internal management records, including personnel records, office management files, and the files of the Board of Directors, Executive Director, and Chief Executive Officer. The financial administration of the Symphony is documented though budgets, statements, ledgers, and tickets sales data.

The fonds also contains concert programs and promotional material such as posters, advertisements, flyers, newsletters, and other publications. The final section of the fonds consists of audiovisual and graphic material. There are audio recordings of performances and interviews of Symphony personnel as well as video recordings of advertisements and performances. The graphic material includes promotional photographs and photographs of the orchestra.

Symphony Nova Scotia

Symphony No. 2 in E-flat for full orchestra, op. 63

MS-2-26, Box 2, Folder 13
Item
1911

Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

Item is a miniature score publication of Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 2, op. 63, with analytical annotations by Anthony Pugh. The score was likely used in Pugh's capacity as a program note writer.

Symphony No. 1

MS-2-26, Box 6, Folder 6
Item
1928

Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

Item is a copy of Constant Lambert's reduction of William Boyce's first symphony, with pencil annotations and analysis by Anthony Pugh.

Symphonie No. 30

MS-2-26, Box 7, Folder 4
Item
[19--?]

Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

Item is a copy of Mozart's Symphony No. 30, annotated in pencil by Anthony Pugh.

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