Notated music

File contains drum parts for Paul Cram compositions for the Paul Cram Orchestra, including "High Ground"; "Walkin' the Wall"; "Zebra Zone"; "Have a Heart"; "Campin Out"; "Life of Crime"; "Trouble in Paradise"; "Immortal Coil"; and "Urban Desperado." There is also a page of handwritten notes for "Kafka's Chair" and loose sheets of manuscript scores for "Side Order from B-flat Restaurant" and "March of the Philistines" for concert-pitch instruments.

Drum parts from the PCO "Campin Out" tour

MS-5-21, Box 2, Folder 11
File
2001

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains drum parts for the Paul Cram Orchestra's second Canadian tour in September 2001 in support of the band’s debut CD on the Victo Label: “Campin Out.” The group played Halifax, Ottawa (National Library of Canada), Guelph (Guelph Jazz Festival), Vancouver (Western Front), and Montreal (Sala Rossa). Works included are: "Taiwanese Bootleg"; "Life of Crime"; "Tip of the Iceberg"; "High Ground"; "Have a Heart"; "Walking the Wall"; Eye of the Storm"; "Kafka's Chair"; "Immortal Coil", "Zebra Zone"; "Urban Desperado"; "Thunder"; and "Campin' Out." File also includes a note to Dave from Paul.

Druids : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 4, Folder 9
File
[after 1990]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains two annotated copies of Paul Cram's "Druids," for piano, guitar and percussion.

Dminor diner : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 2, Folder 19
File
[between 1997 and 2008]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains parts for "Dminor Diner," written by Paul Cram for the Paul Cram Orchestra. Parts include cello; trombone; trumpet; bass; alto saxophone (reed one); tenor saxophone (reed two); bass clarinet (reed three); drums; and guitar.

Détente : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 11, Folder 10
File
1984

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains a facsimile handwritten score by Paul Cram for voice; violin, viola and cello; soprano, alto, tenor and baritone reeds; piano; electric bass; string bass; and percussion 1 and 2. The first page indicates a running time of 90 minutes. There is also an original handwritten score: Part II, "Spies," pages 34-37.

Détente : music from no man's land / Paul Cram

MS-5-21, Box 13, Folder 9
File
1985

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains scores for Paul Cram's Détente: Music from No Man's Land, including two copies of the part for voices (male and female) and one each of soprano sax, baritone sax, and percussion.

Cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's "Steamboat Bill Jr."

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 19
Item
2004

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an annotated copy of the score with cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's score for "Steamboat Bill, Jr."

Cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's "Steamboat Bill Jr."

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 20
Item
2004

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an annotated copy of the score with cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's score for "Steamboat Bill, Jr."

Cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's "Steamboat Bill Jr."

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 21
Item
2004

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an annotated copy of the score with cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's score for "Steamboat Bill, Jr." with a running time of 60 minutes.

Cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's "Steamboat Bill Jr."

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 17
Item
2004

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an annotated score with the cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's "Steam Boat Bill Jr."

Cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's "Steamboat Bill Jr."

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 18
Item
2004

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an annotated copy of the score with cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's score for "Steamboat Bill, Jr."

Cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's "Steamboat Bill Jr."

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 22
Item
2004

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an annotated copy of the score with cue sheet and cues for Paul Cram's score for "Steamboat Bill, Jr."

Cram music

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 26
File
[between 1992 and 2009]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains the score for "Mail-Order Mantis"; concert, Bb tenor and Eb saxophone parts for John Coltrane's "A Love Upstream/Resolution"; Eb part for "Monk on Time"; Bb score for "Beyond Benghazi"; Bb instrument parts for "Bb Restaurant Redux"; "Free Delivery"; "Silent Movies"; "Telescope"; "Monk on Time"; "Long Distance"; and tenor sax part for "Back of the House."

Corridors of power / Paul Cram

MS-5-21, Box 13, Folder 6
Item
[2000?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an undated composer's score of Paul Cram's Corridors of Power for voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone, bass clarinet, accordion, piano, guitar, electric bass, drums, marimba, timpani, violin 1 & 2, viola, cello and contrabass.

Corridors of power : [scores]

MS-5-21, Box 12, Folder 12
File
2000

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains two spiral-bound scores; one is marked "old" and the other is annotated and marked "new score." The work was commissioned by Canada Council and written for Upstream Orchestra, which premiered it in the fall of 2000. The score is written for voice; flute 1; oboe 1; clarinet; bassoon; trumpet; alto sax; tenor sax; baritone sax; bass clarinet; accordion; piano 1; guitar; electric bass; drums; marimba; timpani; violin 1; violin 2; viola; cello; and contrabass.

Corridors of power : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 5, Folder 12
File
2000

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains parts for Paul Cram's "Corridors of Power," which was commissioned by Canada Council and written for Upstream Orchestra, who premiered it in the fall of 2000. File includes parts for flute; clarinet; bass clarinet; oboe; bassoon; alto sax; viola; cello; piano; and guitar. The composition is written in both traditional musical and graphic notation.

Convoy Hfx / P. Cram

MS-5-21, Box 14, Folder 1
Item
2001

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is a composer's score printed on one page divided into 12 numbered sections or movements that combine printed standard music notation and handwritten formation.

Convoy HFX : [score]

MS-5-21, OS Folder 1
Item
[between 2001 and 2003]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an annotated score composed by Paul Cram and commissioned by the Canadian Council of Music in 2001. "Convoy HFX" was first performed by an 18-piece Upstream Orchestra in January 2002; in 2006 by the Upstream Ensemble; and in 2013 alongside "The Magic Order" and "Witch Gong Gang II/10" at the International Festival de Musique Actuel in Victoriaville, Quebec. A list of musicians includes: Jeff Reilly, Kenny MacKay, Paul Cram, Steven Naylor, David Burton, Erin Donovan, Tim Crofts, Doug Cameron, Lukas Pearse, Danny Martin, Tom Walsh, Rick Waychesko, Paul Tynan, Tena Palmer, Geordre Haley, and Scott McMillan.

The lefthand pages of the score are predominantly in graphic notation with some standard music notation. They are divided into 13 parts: 1) "Whispers"; 2) "Morse"; 3) "Nausea"; 4) "Storm"; 5) "Attack" followed by a solo; 6) "0400 Hours"; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12. The righthand pages, labelled "13," are in standard notation for different instruments. The file also contains two posters advertising Convoy HFX.

Concert parts for Paul Cram compositions

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 28
File
1986 - 2005

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File includes concert parts for "Ambulatory"; "Lamnations"; "The Problem"; "Groucho Joe"; "Happy Talk"; "Caravan"; "In the Bosom of the Bubble"; "Somewhere in Between"; "Wave Surface"; "Volga Boat Race"; "Walk!!!"; and "Campin Out."

Compose Yourself — Grammar School

MS-5-21, Box 3, Folder 13
File
1999

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains parts for Paul Cram's "Irons in the Fire," an 11-minute piece for chamber orchestra commissioned by Symphony Nova Scotia and premiered by Upstream Ensemble in the fall of 1999. Parts include: guitar; tenor sax; solo electric cello; piano; accordion; alto sax; bass clarinet; drums; electric bass; violin 1; violin 2; viola; cello; contrabass; flute 1; flute 2; oboe 1; oboe 2; clarinet 1; clarinet 2; bassoon 1; bassoon 2; trumpet 1; trumpet 2; French horn 1; French horn 2; timpani; and marimba. The parts were copies for a Halifax Grammar School concert or workshop in 2012/2013.

Clarinet, tenor sax, bass, drum and concert parts for Paul Cram compositions

MS-5-21, Box 1, Folder 24
File
[between 1988 and 2007]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains annotated drum, trombone and bass parts for "1963," "Revolutions" and "Under the Double Standard"; trumpet part for "Under the Double Standard"; bass part for "Zones"; Tenor and alto sax parts for "Tango Oreo"; clarinet parts for "March of the Philistines" and "Get up and Go"; Bb and concert parts for "Monk on Time"; concert parts for "On the Lam";"Telescope"; "Live it Up"; "Mandarins"; "Lonely Woman"; "In the Bosom of the Bubble"; "Round Trip"; "Heads Up"; and "In Mufti." There are also parts for various jigs and for "Public Nuance," by Gregg Simpson.

Clarinet in Bb: [part]

MS-5-21, Box 10, Folder 25
Item
[after 1980?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an original handwritten composition by Paul Cram.

Circuits : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 10, Folder 29
Item
1981

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an original handwritten composition in both traditional musical and graphic notation.

Cheap seats : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 9, Folder 29
Item
1999

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an annotated facsimile handwritten part for C instruments.

Cello parts from the PCO "Campin Out" tour

MS-5-21, Box 2, Folder 4
File
2001

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains cello parts for the Paul Cram Orchestra's second Canadian tour in September 2001 in support of the band’s debut CD on the Victo Label, “Campin Out.” The group played Halifax, Ottawa (National Library of Canada), Guelph (Guelph Jazz Festival), Vancouver (Western Front), and Montreal (Sala Rossa). Works included are: "Trouble in Paradise"; "Kafka's Chair"; "Eye of the Storm"; "High Ground"; "Have a Heart"; "Tip of the Iceberg"; various works from "B flat Restaurant"; "March of the Philistines"; various works from "Thunder"; "Urban Desperado"; "Campin' Out"; "Life of Crime"; "Taiwanese Bootleg"; "Zebra Zone"; and "Immortal Coil."

CBX : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 5, Folder 15
Item
1981

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an original handwritten composition by Paul Cram.

Caravan : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 5, Folder 37
Item
[198-?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is a score for soprano, alto and baritone saxophone arranged by Paul Cram.

Caravan : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 5, Folder 35
Item
[198-?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an original handwritten cello part by Paul Cram.

Campin out : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 2, Folder 22
Item
[ca. 2002]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an annotated piano part for Paul Cram's "Campin Out."

Cabaret for the end of time

MS-5-21, Box 3, Folder 9
File
[200--?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains a set list, script material, and Paul Cram and other artists' parts and scores for a cabaret/concert in Chester, Nova Scotia. Music includes a concert part for "Y Chromosome"; tenor sax parts for "Holiday in Paradise, "Well You Needn't," "No Call for Mercy," "Come Sunday," "Wonderland," "Stormy Weather," "More" and Moonlight in Rio"; synth parts for "Walking thru Walls" and "Dancing Star"; and the clarinet part for "Send in the Clowns."

Cabaret for the end of time

MS-5-21, Box 3, Folder 10
File
[20--?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains bass parts music by Paul Cram and other artists performed in "Cabaret for the End of Time" in Chester, Nova Scotia. Compositions include: for "Holiday in Paradise"; "No Call for Mercy"; "Wonderland"; "Moonlight in Rio"; "Dancing Star"; "Send in the Clowns"; "Walking the Walls"; "More"; "Nightcap"; "All the Things You Are"; "Georgia"; and "Boogie Stop Shuffles."

Broadway blues : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 5, Folder 31
Item
[198-?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an original handwritten composition by Paul Cram.

Blues on Pluto : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 10, Folder 33
Item
[after 1980?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is an undated original handwritten composition.

Blue tales in time : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 9, Folder 35
Item
October 1980

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is a facsimile handwritten composition in graphic notation.

Blue plate special : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 8, Folder 22
Item
[198-?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is the drum part for Paul Cram's "Blue Plate Special."

Blue moon : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 9, Folder 12
Item
[after 1980]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains a photocopy of Paul Cram's graphic notation composition "Blue Moon." File also contains two pages of untitled graphic notation.

Black dog : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 8, Folder 5
File
2003

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains concert, voice, clarinet, bass, baritone, trumpet and drum parts for Paul Cram's "Black Dog."

Black dog : [part]

MS-5-21, Box 8, Folder 29
Item
[2003?]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is a part marked "Inst 8."

Beyond Benghazi II : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 3, Folder 16
Item
1990

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is the 1989 conductor's score for "Beyond Benghazi" by Paul Cram, for clarinet; trumpet; alto sax; tenor sax; trombone; baritone; bassoon; cello, timpani; guitar; piano x 2; bass; and drums. The title page contains handwritten musical directions.

Beyond Benghazi II

MS-5-21, Box 13, Folder 3, Item 1
Item
1989

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is conductor's score removed from its binding. The first page is handwritten (facsimile), indicating instrumentation with graphic notation.

Beyond Benghazi 93

MS-5-21, Box 13, Folder 1, Item 1
Item
1993

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is a conductor's score for Beyond Benghazi, copyright in 1987 and revised in 1993. The score, which is annotated, is for oboe, sop /flute, clarinet, trumpet, ten/clar, bassoon, violins 1 and 2, viola, cello, percuss/timpani, Sandy, guitar, piano, bass and drums.

Beyond Benghazi / Paul Cram

MS-5-21, Box 13, Folder 3, Item 3
Item
1993

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is a set of two master copies of the composer's score of Beyond Benghazi, one printed single-sided and the other printed double-sided.

Beyond Benghazi / by Paul Cram

MS-5-21, Box 13, Folder 1, Item 2
Item
1996

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is a conductor's score for Beyond Benghazi, copyright 1996. The title page includes an instrumentation list: flute, piccolo, 2 oboes, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, 2 trumpets, 2 french horns, violins 1 & 2, violas, cellos, string basses, timpani, percussion (vibes and marimba), synthesizer, guitar, piano, electric bass , drums.

Beyond Benghazi : [score]

MS-5-21, Box 3, Folder 14
Item
1996

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Item is the 1996 score for "Beyond Benghazi" by Paul Cram, which was first copyright in 1979 and revised in 1996. The score is for flute, piccolo, 2 oboes, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, 2 trumpets, 2 French horns, violins 1 & 2, violas, cellos, string basses, timpani, percussion (vibes & marimba), synthesizer, guitar, piano, electric bass and drums.

Beyond Benghazi : [score]