May 24th, 2007
Stravinsky: Sketches for Petruchka
A veritable treasure trove of manuscripts are now available online. The Juilliard Manuscript Collection is a flash-based website with images of 99 manuscripts, and 8000 pages of high resolution scans of manuscripts by “famous” classical composers. I immediately gravitated to Stravinsky, finding early sketches for PETRUCHKA, which started out its life as a piano concerto, so I wonder whether this passage is actually from it. The roots for this manner of composing, or sketching, was what later became known as a “cut-away score”–showing only the instruments that were playing. My theory teacher from UW-Madison, Robert Crane, didn’t not care for this tradition: “Silence is music too and the score should show that.”
[© Juilliard Manuscript Collection]
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[…] Thanks to Roger Bourland for finding this. The Julliard Manuscript Collection is a collection of 138 autograph manuscripts, scanned in high-resolution. Highlights include the late engravers proof of Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, the original manuscript of the Gross Fuge, in his arrangement for Piano Four hands, and the last scene of Le Nozze di Figaro. There’s also works be J.S. Bach, Benjamin Britten, Brahms, Debussy, Dvorak, Elgar, Wilhelm Furtwangler’s Symphony No. 2, Handel, Liszt, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart (both Wolfgang and Leopold), Purcell, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Schubert and Schumann, Strauss, Stravinsky, Wagner, and more. They are of quite fantastic quality, and you can zoom up incredibly close and still have fine detail. However, I don’t think that you’re able to print them out, which is a bit of a shame. But this is still an incredible resource. […]