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Application to Nova Scotia Arts Council

File contains correspondence regarding Upstream Music Association's application to the Touring Program for Grants to Organizations and Small Groups, and the Production/Presentation Program for Grants to Organizations and Small Groups. File also includes a signed copy of the Terms and Conditions for Sustaining Grants to Organizations.

Programs and promotional materials for concert season

File contains copies of newspaper clippings, posters, and programs for the 2000-2001 concert season. The concerts included: Transfigured Nights by the Upstream Orchestra, conducted by Christoph Both (December 5 and 6, 2000 at the Sir James Dunn Theatre); Iron Sky with Jerry Granelli, Jeff Reilly, and John Little (February 27, 2001 at Saint George's Church); Up Close and Interactive with the Noir Angels (March 7, 28, and April 4, 2001 at the Spring Garden Road Public Library); and Spring Fever Festival (May 2001).

Ghost tracks : [parts]

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

Ghost tracks : [score]

File contains two annotated copies of the score for Jeff Reilly's "Ghost Tracks," one in concert pitch and one in B-flat. The concert pitch score was used by Susan (Sue) Sayles, a violist with the Upstream Ensemble. The score is in three large sections, each of which have various musical phrases notated in common music notation. The pitch material for the composition is derived from seven notes: F-sharp, G, G-sharp, B, C-sharp, D, and E (at concert pitch).

Reilly, Jeff

Applications to Canada Council for the Arts

File contains correspondence regarding Upstream Music Association's application to the Classical Contemporary/ New Music Organizations Program; Residencies and Commissioning of Canadian Compositions Program; and New Music Program: Targeted Initiatives program.

Transfigured night : [parts]

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

Nasca lines

Subseries contains the conductor’s score, instrumental, and vocal parts used for the premiere performance of Nasca Lines by Barry Guy. Nasca Lines is a one-hour, seven-part work that was commissioned by the Upstream Ensemble and premiered in collaboration with the Symphony Nova Scotia on June 3, 2001 at the Scotia Festival with conductor and composer, Barry Guy.

The composition is named after and inspired by the geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert, Peru, which include outlines of animals and various geometric shapes. Graphical representations of a selection of these geoglyphs are used in the graphic notation of this score, particularly in parts 3 and 7.

Nasca Lines is an atonal work that uses a combination of composed material, based on tone rows and pitch class sets, and guided improvisation. There are twenty instrumental parts and one vocal part.

Nasca lines : performance notes

Nasca lines : performance notes

Item includes two copies of the performance notes. The first copy does not include instructions for Part 3, page 3 and the second copy rectifies this error. The performance notes include instructions for each of the seven sections of the piece; a description of the composition; and diagrams of the orchestra and percussion performance layouts.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : Veto A flashcard

Nasca lines : Veto A flashcard

Item is a flashcard with the text "VETO A" on both sides. It is used in conjunction with flashcards "VETO B" and "VETO C" in parts 1 and 7 of the composition to interrupt the normal flow of the music. When the conductor implements VETO A, the orchestra switches to "single focus gestures," which are represented on the score for parts 1 and 7 by a subito fortissimo (sff) sign and graphic notation showing seven arrows pointing at a black dot.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : the spider flashcard

Nasca lines : the spider flashcard

Item is a graphic representation of the spider geoglyph from the Nazca Desert, Peru. The conductor implements this flashcard in part 5 of the composition to indicate that an instrument group (string quintet, percussion, voice, sax quartet, or wind quintet) should improvise using "dense/ active" articulations. The flashcard is double-sided.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : the hands flashcard

Nasca lines : the hands flashcard

Item is a graphic representation of the hands geoglyph from the Nazca Desert, Peru. The conductor implements this flashcard in part 5 of the composition to indicate that an instrument group (string quintet, percussion, voice, sax quartet, or wind quintet) should improvise using "extremes of range."

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 3A : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 3A : [full score]

Item is a complete conductor's score for part 3A of Nasca Lines, a vocal cadenza, in graphic notation. A rectangle in the centre of the score features the same image as part 3, an aerial representation of an area of the Nazca Desert in Peru with the condor geoglyph in the middle. Radiating outward from the central rectangle are seven sections, each featuring a graphical representation of one of the Nazca Lines geoglyphs and phrases from Alan Davie's texts and/or a tone row. The geoglyphs included are the hands, pelican, spider, monkey, condor, and two unidentified glyphs.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 5 : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 5 : [full score]

Item is a complete conductor's score for part 5 of Nasca Lines, in graphic notation. The conductor uses the score in conjunction with colour flashcards indicating instrument groups (blue for the string quintet; yellow for the wind quintet; red for the sax quartet; green for percussion, sythesizer, and electronic instruments; and purple for voice) and flashcards with graphic representations of geoglyphs from the Nazca Desert, Peru. The colour flashcards and flashcard for the monkey (indicating an improvisation style that features "fragmented/ active" articulations) are missing from Upstream's Music Score Library, but are reproduced on this score. Boxes for each instrument group have been coloured in with the appropriately-coloured marker. The score also features phrases from Alan Davies' texts.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : performance notes

Nasca lines : performance notes

Item contains a copy of the performance notes for Nasca Lines, including an inserted page of additional notes. The performance notes include instructions for each of the seven sections of the piece; a description of the composition; and diagrams of the orchestra and percussion performance layouts.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 3A : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 3A : [full score]

Item is a black and white copy of the full score for part 3A of Nasca Lines in graphic notation. A rectangle in the centre of the score features the same image as part 3, an aerial representation of an area of the Nazca Desert in Peru with the condor geoglyph in the middle. Radiating outward from the central rectangle are seven sections, each featuring a graphical representation of one of the Nazca Lines geoglyphs and phrases from Alan Davie's texts and/or a tone row. The geoglyphs included are the hands, pelican, spider, monkey, condor, and two unidentified glyphs. Item also includes a copy of the five tone rows used in this part of the composition, extracted from the full score.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : performance notes

Nasca lines : performance notes

Item contains a copy of the performance notes for Nasca Lines, including an inserted page of additional notes. The performance notes include instructions for each of the seven sections of the piece; a description of the composition; and diagrams of the orchestra and percussion performance layouts.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 1 : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 1 : [full score]

Item is a black and white copy of the full score for Nasca Lines in graphic notation. The score includes representations of flashcards used by the conductor in this part, including VETO A, B, and C and flashcards indicating different improvisational styles.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 1: [full score]

Nasca lines : part 1: [full score]

Item is a black and white copy of the full score for Nasca Lines in graphic notation. The score includes representations of flashcards used by the conductor in this part, including VETO A, B, and C and flashcards indicating different improvisational styles.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 5 : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 5 : [full score]

Item is a coloured copy of the full score for part 5 of Nasca Lines in graphic notation. The score includes representations of the flashcards used by the conductor for this part of the score, including colour flashcards that indicate instrument groups (yellow for the wind quintet) and flashcards that indicate improvisational styles via graphic representations of geoglyphs from the Nazca Desert, Peru. The score also features phrases from Alan Davies' texts.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 1 : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 1 : [full score]

Item is a black and white copy of the full score for Nasca Lines in graphic notation. The score includes representations of flashcards used by the conductor in this part, including VETO A, B, and C and flashcards indicating different improvisational styles.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 5 : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 5 : [full score]

Item is a coloured copy of the full score for part 5 of Nasca Lines in graphic notation. The score includes representations of the flashcards used by the conductor for this part of the score, including colour flashcards that indicate instrument groups (yellow for the wind quintet) and flashcards that indicate improvisational styles via graphic representations of geoglyphs from the Nazca Desert, Peru. The score also features phrases from Alan Davies' texts. «

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 4 : percussion

Nasca lines : part 4 : percussion

Item contains the percussion part for part 4 of Nasca Lines in standard notation. Item also includes a copy of the last two pages of the full score for part 4, which have graphic notation.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : piano and synthesizer

File contains the performance notes and piano and synthesizer parts for all sections of the composition except parts 3A and 6, where the piano and synthesizer are tacet. Because of the graphic notation in parts 1, 2, 5, and 7, there are no individual instrumental scores for these parts of the composition; instead, the musician was given a copy of the full score or score for a group of instruments (e.g. part 2). The musician then annotated their score appropriately. The piano and synthesizer part was likely played by Steven Naylor, a pianist and synthesizer player with the Upstream Ensemble.
Nasca lines : performance notes

Nasca lines : performance notes

Item contains a copy of the performance notes for Nasca Lines, including an inserted page of additional notes. The performance notes include instructions for each of the seven sections of the piece; a description of the composition; and diagrams of the orchestra and percussion performance layouts.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 1 : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 1 : [full score]

Item is a black and white copy of the full score for Nasca Lines in graphic notation. The score includes representations of flashcards used by the conductor in this part, including VETO A, B, and C and flashcards indicating different improvisational styles.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 7 : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 7 : [full score]

Item is a black and white copy of the full score for part 7 of Nasca Lines, used by Janice Jackson for the premiere performance. This section of the composition is in mixed graphic notation and standard notation and revisits material from parts 2, 4, and 6. The score includes representations of flashcards used by the conductor, including Veto A, B, and C and flashcards indicating various improvisational styles.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 2 : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 2 : [full score]

Item is a copy of the score used by the first violinist, Mark Fewer, for part 2 of Nasca Lines, in mixed graphic and standard notation. Sections of notated music are interspersed with improvised moments, and the violinist employs extended techniques like circular bowing.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 7 : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 7 : [full score]

Item is a black and white copy of the full score for part 7 of Nasca Lines in mixed standard notation and graphic notation. This section of the composition revisits material from parts 2, 4, and 6, and includes representations of flashcards used by the conductor, including Veto A, B, and C and flashcards indicating various improvisational styles. Two sections from the string parts of part 2 of Nasca Lines have been taped over the score.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 5 : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 5 : [full score]

Item is a coloured copy of the full score for part 5 of Nasca Lines in graphic notation. The score includes representations of the flashcards used by the conductor for this part of the score, including colour flashcards that indicate instrument groups (blue for the string quintet) and flashcards that indicate improvisational styles via graphic representations of geoglyphs from the Nazca Desert, Peru. The score also features phrases from Alan Davies' texts.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : performance notes

Nasca lines : performance notes

Item contains a copy of the performance notes for Nasca Lines, including an inserted page of additional notes. The performance notes include instructions for each of the seven sections of the piece; a description of the composition; and diagrams of the orchestra and percussion performance layouts.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 1 : [full score]

Nasca lines : part 1 : [full score]

Item is a black and white copy of the full score for Nasca Lines in graphic notation. The score includes representations of flashcards used by the conductor in this part, including VETO A, B, and C and flashcards indicating different improvisational styles.

Guy, Barry

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