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Open waters / Upstream : a new music collective : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 12
Item
2015

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising Upstream's recording Open Waters, which was released on compact disc and cassette on November 4, 2015.

Winter summit : 21st century music concerts : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 13
Item
2010

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising Upstream Music Association's series of winter concerts, which include: "New Music for a New Year," with Symphony Nova Scotia under the direction of Bernhard Gueller; "Halifax Calling!", with the Temporal Follies, featuring Janice Jackson, suddenlyListen Trio & Upstream 6.0; and "Away all Boats!!", with Geordie Haley, Motion Ensemble (NB) and Forum Improvisation Ensemble.

My 20th century multimedia concert : music/video/theatre : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 16
Item
2009

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster for a Bradyworks ensemble concert featuring Tim Brady (music and texts), Stephané Zarov (stage direction), and Martin Messier and Oana Suteu (video). The concert was held in the CBC Radio Room on Thursday, October 22, 2009, one of nine concerts in a Canadian tour.

Winter summit : a Love Upstream featuring Lori Freedman

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 16
Item
2009

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster for a concert and workshop presented by Upstream Music and held at the Sir James Dunn Theatre on January 9 and 10, 2009.

Ugly Beauties, featuring Matt Brubeck, Nick Fraser and Marilyn Lerner : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 10
Item
2009

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is poster advertising an Upstream Music concert held on May 15 and 16, 2009 at 1313 Hollis Street, as well as a workshop held Saturday, May 16, 2009.

The song project : a Love Upstream featuring Erin Costelo : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 9
Item
2008

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster for concerts held November 14 & 15, 2008 at 1313 Hollis Street, the first of which included an artist talk and the second an interactive performance.

Fred Frith & friends : where rock and new music meet : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 15
Item
2007

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising three concerts featuring Fred Frith at Upstream Music's 2007 Sonic Courage International Festival.

Paul Cram's CONVOY HFX : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 14
Item
2006

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a poster advertising a concert held at Alderney Landing Theatre on Monday, October 30, 2006. It was presented in association with Eastern Front Theatre and the Canadian Music Centre's New Music in New Places initiative on the set of Michael Melski's play Corvette Crossing.

Upstream Music presents spring fever weekend : [poster]

MS-5-16, OS Folder 25, Item 6
Item
[ca. 2005]

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is an undated poster for a JazzEast all-ages concert featuring the Pierre Labbe Ensemble, Upstream Orchestra with the Pierre Labbe Ensemble, and The Guerilla Orchestra with Harris Eisenstadt.

Nasca lines : performance notes

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 3, Item 1
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 3, Item 3
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 3, Item 7
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 3, Item 10
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 3, Item 14
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 3, Item 16
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 4, Item 1
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 4, Item 4
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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 : part 6 : flute

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 4, Item 7
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is the flute part for part 6 of Nasca Lines in standard notation.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : performance notes

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 5, Item 1
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 5, Item 2
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 6, Item 2
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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 6 : clarinet in B-flat

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 6, Item 8
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is the clarinet part for part 6 of Nasca Lines in standard notation.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 4 : trumpet in C

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 7, Item 6
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item contains the trumpet part for part 4 of Nasca Lines in standard notation.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 5 : [full score]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 7, Item 7
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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 6 : trumpet in C

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 7, Item 8
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is the trumpet part for part 6 of Nasca Lines in standard notation.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 1 : [full score]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 8, Item 2
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 8, Item 7
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 9, Item 4
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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 : performance notes

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 10, Item 1
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 10, Item 2
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 11, Item 8
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 12, Item 3
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 12, Item 9
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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 3A : viola

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 14, Item 5
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a letter-size page with "Viola / Part 3A / Tacet" written in marker.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 5 : [full score]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 14, Item 7
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 15, Item 1
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 15, Item 2
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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 : parts 3A and 4 : accordion, synthesizer, and harp

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 17, Item 4
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a letter-size page with "Accordion/ Synth/ Harp / Part 3A - Tacet / Part 4 - Tacet" written in marker.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 7 : [full score]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 17, Item 7
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a black and white copy of the full score for part 7 of Nasca Lines in mixed standard notation and graphic notation, used by Sandy Moore for the premiere performance. 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.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 1 : [full score]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 18, Item 2
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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 2 : [accompanying instruments]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 18, Item 3
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of the score used by the accompanying instruments (clarinet, bassoon, tenor sax, baritone sax, bass clarinet, electric bass, electric guitar, double bass, and synthesizer) for part 2 of Nasca Lines, in graphic notation.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 1 : [full score]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 21, Item 2
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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 2 : [accompanying instruments]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 21, Item 3
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a copy of the score used by the accompanying instruments (clarinet, bassoon, tenor sax, baritone sax, bass clarinet, electric bass, electric guitar, double bass, and synthesizer) for part 2 of Nasca Lines, in graphic notation.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 6 : baritone saxophone in E-flat

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 21, Item 7
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is the tenor saxophone part for part 6 of Nasca Lines in standard notation. The majority of this part is improvised with basic directives from the composer, e.g. "more fragmented" or "pitch free."

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : performance notes

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 22, Item 1
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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 3 : percussion, drums, synthesizer or accordion, guitar, and electric bass

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 24, Item 3
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is the graphic notation score used by the rhythm section for part 3 of Nasca Lines. The score was used by the drummer for the premiere performance. As the drums are tacet for the first page, this page is not included.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 4 : drums

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 24, Item 4
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a letter-size piece of paper with "Drums / Part 4 / Tacet" written in black marker.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : Alan Davie texts

MS-5-16 Oversize Folder 3, Item 2
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item contains excerpts from texts by the Scottish painter Alan Davie (1920-2014) selected by Barry Guy for use in Parts 3A and 5 of the composition. The excerpts are taken from opuses D. 2 (June 1994); D.4 (June 1994); D. 15 (September 1994); D. 16 (June 1996); D. 24a (June 1996); D. 29 (May 1996); and D. 107 (1990). Davie's artwork is also one of the sources of inspiration for the graphic notation in Guy's composition.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 1: [full score]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 3, Item 11
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a complete conductor's score for part 1 of Nasca Lines, in graphic notation. The conductor uses the score in conjunction with flashcards, including VETO A, B, and C. Other flashcards used in the performance of this part of the composition are lost, but the images of each flashcard and their meanings are captured on the score for part 1. Each image serves as the basis for improvisation.

Guy, Barry

Nasca lines : part 2 : [full score]

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 3, Item 12
Item
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a complete conductor's score for part 2 of Nasca Lines, featuring a string quartet and voice, with occasional contributions from the rest of the orchestra. Part 2 begins with approximated pitches and rhythms, where each instrument's part is written in relation to two outer staff lines and rhythmic values are relational (i.e. no clear metric structure). Some specific pitches are given starting on page 6 and five-line staves are used on pages 10 to 13 and 16. Sections of notated music are interspersed with improvised moments, and the string and wind instruments use extended techniques like circular bowing and multiphonics.

Guy, Barry

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