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Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

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Septet

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Title
Septet
Additional title: Morceaux en forme de poire
Additional title: Septet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Names
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Satie, Erik, 1866-1925 (Composer)
Avidor, David (Recording engineer)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1987-02-24
Library locations
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LT-10-A 3066
Topics
Modern dance music
Piano music (4 hands)
Genres
Music
Notes
Content: Title provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original container.
Content: Handwritten note on original container: "MASTER, eng[inee]r: David Avidor, tones 1k, 10k, 100 @ NAB + 3 (261 nwb/m) at head ; TAILS OUT [Battery Sound Address]".
Content: Contains music for Merce Cunningham's Septet (1953).
Numbering: Donor's inventory number: R067.
Performers: Pianists are unidentified.
Venue: Recorded, mixed and produced at Battery Sound studio in New York, New York, 1987 February 24.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Conservation history: Transferred from original open tape reel by the New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts on February 27, 2014. To create the streaming file, the sound engineers edited out the recording silences in the preservation file, thus the discrepancies in length between the preservation file and the streaming file.
Physical Description
Audiotape reel
Extent: 1 audiotape reel (33 minutes) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 7 in.
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 880675984
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20211272
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 24cb0290-b3fb-0133-63b8-3c07547a230f
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Item timeline of events

  • 1987: Created
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

MLA Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Septet" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1987. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/26bcba30-b3fb-0133-a7da-3c07547a230f

Chicago/Turabian Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Septet" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/26bcba30-b3fb-0133-a7da-3c07547a230f

APA Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1987). Septet Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/26bcba30-b3fb-0133-a7da-3c07547a230f

Wikipedia Citation

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Septet