Promotional materials for Upstream Open Waters CD
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 45
- File
- 1992
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File includes correspondence, tentative CD cover designs, and press kit mailing lists.
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Mountains of madness : concert pitch
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 44
- Item
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of an anonymous melody entitled "Mountains of Madness," handwritten at concert pitch.
Notes and budget for Upstream CD production
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 44
- File
- 1992
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File includes a tentative recording schedule of the CD for April 1992.
Budgets, reports, and agreements regarding Upstream CD project
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 43
- File
- 1992
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 43
- Item
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of an anonymous score entitled "Cukeoo" for solo voice, piano, and an undefined instrumental ensemble. The score combines common music notation with graphic notation. The text is taken from an English folk song, "The Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird"
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 42
- Item
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of a four-part anonymous composition entitled "Caravan" in 4/4 time.
Upstream excerpts : [audio cassette]
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 42
- File
- 1991
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains an audio cassette of live recordings from Upstream's performances at St. Mary's University Art Gallery between May 13, 1990 and March 17, 1991. The cassette features Steve Tittle (trumpet and Flugel horn); Sandy Moore (Irish harp and synthesizers); Jeff Reilly (clarinet, bass clarinet, and alto saxophone); Don Palmer (saxophone and flute); Bob Bauer (guitar); Tom Roach (drums and percussion); Steven Naylor (keyboards); and Paul Cram (saxophone and clarinet). The pieces include: "Don't Hold Back" by Jeff Reilly; "Nocturne" by Steve Naylor; "Change is a Time for Celebration" by Sandy Moore; "Pluckstucke" by Paul Cram; "Sunrise for a Mad Afternoon" by Jeff Reilly; "Below the Surface" by Steve Naylor; "Valse Triste" by Bob Bauer; "Available Light" by Steve Tittle; "Standing in the Light" by Steve Tittle; "Entangold" by Bob Bauer; and "Immortal Coil" by Paul Cram. All compositions were funded by SOCAN.
Labels for Upstream excerpts audio cassette
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 41
- File
- 1991
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains labels for the "Upstream...excerpts" audio cassette. The cassette includes live recordings from Upstream's performance at St. Mary's University Art Gallery between May 13, 1990 and March 17, 1991, featuring Steve Tittle (trumpet and Flugel horn); Sandy Moore (Irish harp and synthesizers); Jeff Reilly (clarinet, bass clarinet, and alto saxophone); Don Palmer (saxophone and flute); Bob Bauer (guitar); Tom Roach (drums and percussion); Steven Naylor (keyboards); and Paul Cram (saxophone and clarinet). The pieces include: "Don't Hold Back" by Jeff Reilly; "Nocturne" by Steve Naylor; "Change is a Time for Celebration" by Sandy Moore; "Pluckstucke" by Paul Cram; "Sunrise for a Mad Afternoon" by Jeff Reilly; "Below the Surface" by Steve Naylor; "Valse Triste" by Bob Bauer; "Available Light" by Steve Tittle; "Standing in the Light" by Steve Tittle; "Entangold" by Bob Bauer; and "Immortal Coil" by Paul Cram. All compositions were funded by SOCAN.
Muraille de Cayne : tenor saxophone
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 41
- File
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains two copies of the tenor saxophone part of a composition entitled "Muraille de Cayne." "Robert Leriche" is handwritten at the bottom of one of the parts, potentially indicating him as the composer.
Spectacles : [performance instructions]
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 40
- Item
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of the performance instructions for an improvised composition with sixteen possible sets, each defined by four words, that are performed in any order.
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 40
- File
- 1991
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains notes on the forthcoming CD project, which would become Upstream's first recording, "Open Waters."
Records regarding an improvisational composition workshop at Dalhousie Department of Music
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 4
- File
- 1994
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File includes correspondence, planning notes, budgets, schedules, and grant applications.
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 39
- Item
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of the first sixteen measures of a three-part anonymous Waltz in 3/4 time.
Application to Canada Council for Upstream CD project
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 39
- File
- 1991
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains a copy of the grant application and supporting documents sent to Canada Council by the Upstream Music Association for funding to record a CD. The proposed works for the CD were: "Nocturne" by Steven Naylor; "Don't Hold Back" by Jeff Reilly; "Chipper" by Don Palmer; "Immortal Coil" by Paul Cram; "Change is a Time for Celebration" by Sandy Moore; "Valse Triste" by Robert Bauer; and "Available Light" by Steve Tittle. At the point of application, the Undercurrent Recording label did not exist, but Steven Naylor, Jeff Reilly, and Paul Cram were discussing its creation.
Fantasy island : [B-flat and C parts]
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 38
- File
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains a copy of the B-flat and C instrumental parts for an anonymous composition entitled "Fantasy Island," handwritten in common music notation with a 4/4 time signature.
Unnamed improvisational composition : [piano score]
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 37
- Item
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of four accompaniment patterns in Paul Cram's handwriting with instructions for improvised solos written beside each pattern.
Cram, Paul
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 36
- File
- 2000
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains annotated parts for Reilly's composition "Ghost Tracks," for concert, E-flat, and B-flat instruments. According to one of the annotations, the composition was performed as an octet at the Pier 21 Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Reilly, Jeff
Riffs a la rondo : [for piano]
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 35
- File
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains four annotated copies of Naylor's handwritten piece for piano.
Palmer, Chris
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 34
- File
- 1990
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains five annotated copies of Naylor's score for 11 instrumental parts. Each part includes melodic guidance for improvisation and performers are instructed to switch between parts freely.
Naylor, Steve
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 33
- Item
- 1990
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of Naylor's composition for flute, saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, vibraphone, electric guitar, piano, and percussion. The composition is dedicated to Earle Hagen
Naylor, Steve
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
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 31
- File
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains the bass clarinet, bassoon, oboe, cello, and piano parts for "Flux Latitude" by Dimoff, written in pencil.
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 30
- File
- 2000
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains the instrumental parts for Paul Cram's compilation of arrangements entitled "Transfigured Night." The piece includes four arrangements: "Wie Lange Noch?" by Kurt Weill for soprano, accordion, and contrabass; String Quartet Op. 28, 2nd movement by Anton Webern for string quartet; "All the Things you Are" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II for trumpet, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, and baritone saxophone; and a fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach for flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. The piece also includes two newly-composed sections for guitar, bass, and drums, and piano and cello duet.
Cram, Paul
Correspondence regarding improvisational composition workshop
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 3
- File
- [1994]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File includes a letter from Dawn Hatfield, which likely concerns the improvisational composition ensemble workshops led by the Upstream Ensemble at the Department of Music, Dalhousie University.
- 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
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 28
- File
- 1996
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains two annotated copies of "Strong and Free," a composition by Paul Cram written at concert pitch, which improvises on motives from "O Canada."
Cram, Paul
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 27
- File
- 1996
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains two annotated copies of "Speed Call," a composition by Paul Cram written at concert pitch.
Cram, Paul
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 26
- File
- 1992
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains nine annotated copies of "Silent Movies," a composition by Paul Cram in two parts written at concert pitch. The reverse side of one of the copies includes a set list for "Talk Show," which was part of the 1997 Open Waters Festival.
Cram, Paul
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 25
- File
- 1997
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains two copies of "Row, Row, Row," a SOCAN composition by Paul Cram that contains four tone rows.
Cram, Paul
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 24
- Item
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of two "Pulse Tracks" by Paul Cram.
Cram, Paul
- 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
Monk on time : clarinet in B-flat
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 22
- Item
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of the B-flat part for Paul Cram's atonal composition, "Monk on time," which was funded by SOCAN.
Cram, Paul
March of the Philistines : saxophone in E-flat and clarinet in B-flat
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 21
- File
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains the E-flat and B-flat parts for Paul Cram's atonal composition, "March of the Philistines."
Cram, Paul
Les mouton à l'abattoir : [score]
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 20
- File
- 1997
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains two annotated copies of Paul Cram's composition, "Les Mouton à L'Abbatoir," an atonal composition funded by SOCAN, which consists of a monophonic melody.
Cram, Paul
Proposal for improvisational composition workshop with the Dalhousie Department of Music
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 2
- File
- 1994
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File includes a summary of the project, budget, schedule, and curriculum.
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 19
- File
- 1997
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains two annotated copies of Paul Cram's composition, "Kickers," in five parts. Each of the five parts is a short phrase. The composition was funded by SOCAN.
Cram, Paul
Hum over the horizon : [score]
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 18
- File
- [199-?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains two annotated copies of Paul Cram's composition, "Hum over the Horizon," for piano and solo instrument.
Cram, Paul
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 17
- Item
- 1998
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is Paul Cram's composition, "Forming 23," a graphic score for trumpet, trombone, guitar, piano, bass, drums, and vibraphone. The score includes indications for ornamentation, rhythm, style of improvisation, tempo, and register.
Cram, Paul
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 16
- Item
- 1997
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of Paul Cram's composition, "Evil Vamp," which includes a "polytonal" and "dirge" options for improvisation.
Cram, Paul
Cheap seats : C and B-flat instruments
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 15
- File
- 1999
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File contains a copy of Paul Cram's composition in six sections, including a pssacaglia and canon.
Cram, Paul
Campin out : concert pitch score
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 14
- Item
- 1988
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of Paul Cram's composition for three parts. The composition is in three sections with the first in 15/4 and the last two in cut time.
Cram, Paul
B-flat restaurant redux : C instruments
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 13
- Item
- [1993?]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of Paul Cram's composition, "B-flat Restaurant Redux," which reuses elements from his "B-flat Restaurant" composition. The score, written for C instruments, is type-set.
Cram, Paul
B-flat restaurant : concert pitch part
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 12
- Item
- 1993
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is a copy of Paul Cram's composition, "B-flat Restaurant," dedicated to Don Palmer and composed for a SOCAN grant in 1993. The music is handwritten in common music notation and features long and frequent solo sections.
Cram, Paul
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 11
- Item
- 1993, 2010
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is the B-flat part for Bauer's composition, "Time Chaser," which features piano and trumpet solos.
Bauer, Bob
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 10
- Item
- [1994]
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Item is the score for a composition by Bauer. Bauer divided the instruments into three groups: (1) guitar, oboe, piano, violin; (2) violin, viola, cello, xylophone; and (3) bass clarinet, electric bass, and acoustic bass. The composition alternates between 3/8,4/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8, 9/8, 10/8, and 12/8 at a tempo of 100 eighth-notes per minute. The score is printed on the back of Bauer's resume.
Bauer, Bob
Correspondence with Dalhousie Department of Music regarding a new performance ensemble
- MS-5-16, Box 9, Folder 1
- File
- 1993, November 4
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
Records from the Japan-Canada Concert with Upstream, Akikazu Nakamura, and Michiyo Yagi
- MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 9
- File
- 1992, November 27
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File includes a program, press releases, promotional photographs, correspondence, receipts, posters, box office takings, and performers' biographies.
Records from Upstream's concert at Sir James Dunn Theatre
- MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 8
- File
- 1992, April 8
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File includes draft programs and posters, a promotional photograph of the ensemble, press releases, and a signed Atlantic Federation of Musicians Local No. 571 contract for the musicians (Jeff Reilly, Steve Tittle, Sandy Moore, Don Palmer, Steven Naylor, Tom Roach, Paul Cram, and Bob Bauer).
Records from Upstream's concert at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
- MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 7
- File
- 1992, January 26
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File includes draft programs and posters, press releases, and a signed Atlantic Federation of Musicians Local No. 571 contract for the musicians (Jeff Reilly, Steve Tittle, Sandy Moore, Don Palmer, Steven Naylor, Tom Roach, Paul Cram, and Bob Bauer).
Records from Upstream's concert at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
- MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 6
- File
- 1991, November 24
Part of Upstream Music Association fonds
File includes draft programs, a promotional photograph of the ensemble, press releases, correspondence, draft posters, and a signed Atlantic Federation of Musicians Local No. 571 contract for the musicians (Jeff Reilly, Steve Tittle, Sandy Moore, Don Palmer, Steven Naylor, Tom Roach, Paul Cram, and Bob Bauer).
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