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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.

Program and pamphlet for the concert season

MS-5-16, Box 7, Folder 27
File
2008-2009

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File includes a copy of Upstream's pamphlet for the 2008-2009 season and a program for one of the concerts, "Winter Summit: A Love Upstream with Lori Freedman."

Upstream Music's Sonic Courage Festival program

MS-5-16, Box 7, Folder 26
File
2007, June 20-23

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File also includes an annotated copy of the performance guide for "Friendly Gestures for the Upstream Orchestra" by Fred Firth, which was performed at the last concert of the festival.

Internal combustion : [score]

MS-5-16, OS Box 21, Folder 14
Item
2007

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a coloured score for C instruments. The composition has three main sections and the third section is further subdivided into five sections, including a passacaglia. No performance instructions are included. The composition was funded by a SOCAN grant.

Reilly, Jeff

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.

Homeland suite : [score]

MS-5-16, OS Box 21, Folder 4
Item
2007

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Item is a graphic score for Lisle (L.S.) Ellis' "Homeland Suite" for voice, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, oboe, bassoon, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet, violin, guitar, piano, bass, and percussion.

Ellis, Lisle

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's Sonic Courage Festival pamphlets

MS-5-16, Box 7, Folder 25
File
2006, June 14-17

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Echoes of time weeping : a dramatic solo for soprano and tape : [score]

MS-5-16, Box 8, Folder 28
File
2006

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains the score and text translation from Spanish to English. The Spanish translation was completed by Andreas Guibert, with consultation by Marcelo Arroyo. Evelyne Benais, Maral Perk, and Tony Tucker helped with the Flamenco rhythms, and Mary E. Moore did the cover artwork. The composition is based on the Mexican folkloric tale of La Llorana, The Weeping Woman.

Moore, Sandy

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.

Summary of Upstream Music Association membership

MS-5-16, Box 4, Folder 8
File
2004, 2009

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File includes personnel, general, and tax data on the Upstream Music Association; a list of executive members (as of October 18, 2004); correspondence from Paul Cram; and a copy of the Parrsboro Band Association newsletter (January 2009).

Correspondence regarding funding from SOCAN and Canadian Heritage

MS-5-16, Box 6, Folder 12
File
2004

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Correspondence regarding application to Canada Council for the Arts Outreach Program

MS-5-16, Box 6, Folder 10
File
2003, July 24

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Correspondence regarding funding from SOCAN and Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture

MS-5-16, Box 6, Folder 11
File
2003, June 25

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Correspondence from Canada Customs and Revenue Agency to Lyle Tilley Davidson, Chartered Accountants

MS-5-16, Box 4, Folder 7
File
August 25, 2003

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Financial statements and correspondence for Upstream Music Association

MS-5-16, Box 4, Folder 6
File
2002-2003

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File contains correspondence, mostly sent to Paul Cram, the Co-Artistic Director of Upstream.

Upstream's North End Extremes [program] : Queen Mab with Ig Henneman

MS-5-16, Box 7, Folder 24
File
2002, November 16

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

Nasca lines

Subseries
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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

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 : piano and synthesizer

MS-5-16, Oversize Folder 10
File
2001

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

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

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

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