Gardner Read
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gardner Read was an American composer and musical scholar. His first musical studies were in piano and organ, and he also took lessons in counterpoint and composition at the School of Music at Northwestern University. In 1932 he was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Eastman School of Music , where he studied with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. In the late 1930s he also studied briefly with Ildebrando Pizzetti, and Aaron Copland.
Gardner Read's Published Works
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Published Works
- Music notation;: A manual of modern practice (1972) (83)
- The Role of a National Culture (1962) (28)
- THE ROLE OF THE RENAL NERVES IN RENIN SYNTHESIS (1992) (22)
- Source book of proposed music notation reforms (1986) (16)
- Style and orchestration (1979) (14)
- Contemporary instrumental techniques (1976) (10)
- For 1, 2, or 3 People (1971) (9)
- Thesaurus of orchestral devices (1969) (9)
- Compendium of modern instrumental techniques (1993) (9)
- 20th-century microtonal notation (1992) (8)
- Pictographic Score Notation: A Compendium (1998) (7)
- Extending the Tonal Resources of Wind Instruments: Some Contemporary Techniques (1976) (6)
- Modern Rhythmic Notation (1978) (6)
- Orchestral Combinations: The Science and Art of Instrumental Tone-Color (2004) (6)
- Source Book of Proposed Music Notation Reforms@@@Musiknotation: Von der Syntax des Notenstichs zum EDV-gesteuerten Notensatz (1991) (5)
- Concert for Piano and Orchestra. Solo for Piano (1969) (3)
- Piping down the Valleys Wild (1951) (0)
- Quartet: Movement; Night Music; Fragments; Jean Tinguely (1972) (0)
- Accord, for Soprano and 5 Instrumentalists@@@Plectros II (1966-I), for Piano and Electronic Sounds@@@Etude and Scherzo (Section C from "Patterns in Sound"), for SSATBB, Unaccompanied (1969) (0)
- Some Problems of Rhythmic Notation (1965) (0)
- In Aeternum (Consortium IV), for Cello and 4 Players. (Musica XXI) (1976) (0)
- Divertimento no. 2 for 2 Horns in F and 2 Keyboard Players (Performing on Harpsichord, Celesta, Piano, and Music-Boxes) (1976) (0)
- Gastrula@@@In Search of an Orchestration (1970) (0)
- Logs@@@Valentine, for Solo Contrabass (1972) (0)
- Symphony No. 1@@@Prologue and Variations@@@Celebration@@@Sinfonia@@@Symphony No. 4, Op. 92@@@Adagio and Rondo (1987) (0)
- The Modern Composer and His World@@@American Composers on American Music (1962) (0)
- Rose of Sharon : for four-part chorus of mixed voices, a cappella (1954) (0)
- Music of Gardener [i.e. Gardner] Read (1997) (0)
- Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani@@@Sextet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas, 2 'Cellos (Optional double bass for use in string orchestra) (1949) (0)
- Day's End (1957) (0)
- Ungarische Serenade fur kleines Orchester, Op. 25 (1958) (0)
- Brecht-Lieder fur Gesang und 2 Klaviere@@@Lines for the Fallen [for] Soprano and 2 Pianos. Text Adapted from William Blake and the Mass for the Dead (1970) (0)
- Orion M.42, for Solo Percussion@@@Auriga, for Four Percussionists (1971) (0)
- Sonoric Fantasy No. 3, Op. 125, for Flutes, Harp, and Percussion@@@The Seventh Trumpet@@@Night Dances, Op. 114 (1973) (0)
- Threnody, Op. 66, for Flute and Piano (1948) (0)
- Wind Quintet: The Cave of the Winds@@@Contractions, Mobile for Woodwind Quintet (1975) (0)
- Symphony No. 3, op. 75 (1971) (0)
- Chorale and fughetta for fourteen-part brass choir (1957) (0)
- Klangspiel I, fur Streicher@@@Paraphrase pour voix d'alto et II instrumentistes@@@Music for Prince Albert on His 150th Birthday (For Piano, 2 Tapes, and Assistant)@@@Music for Napoleon and Beethoven, on Their 200th Birthdays (For Trumpet, Piano, 2 Tapes, and Assistant) (1973) (0)
- Romantic American art songs : 50 songs by 14 composers, for high voice and piano (1990) (0)
- U.S.A. : compositions for piano by contemporary American composers (1946) (0)
- Sound piece for fourteen-part brass choir with percussion (1950) (0)
- Ni bruit ni vitesse, for 2 Pianos and 2 Percussion (1974) (0)
- Rondeau for Organ@@@Spiritual Set: Invocation; Affirmation, Spiritual; Praise@@@And There Appeared unto Them Tongues as of Fire, Op. 134 (1979) (0)
- The Elements Of Orchestration. (1966) (0)
- Sonoric Fantasia no. 2 for Violin and Orchestra, Piano Reduction (1977) (0)
- Symbols, for Horn and Piano (1968-69) (1971) (0)
- Pentomino, for Wind Quintet@@@Phases. I. Flute et piano; II. flute, piano, trio a cordes; III. flute, piano, 3 percussions; IV. flute, piano, trio a cordes, 3 percussions (1971) (0)
- Background Music, a Theatre Piece for Harp and Electronics (1975) (0)
- Circle with Tangents, for Harpsichord and 13 Solo Strings (1970) (0)
- A computer programme to aid in the determination of molecular formulæ (1966) (0)
- Iconography No. 2, for Horn Solo and Chamber Ensemble@@@Redes, for Small Orchestra@@@Einander, fur Posaune und Orchester (1973) (0)
- A Song of Sixpence, for Soprano and Piano (1967)@@@Sources III, for 2 Performers (Clarinet and Percussion)@@@Armageddon, for Soprano Solo and Wind Symphony Orchestra with Tape@@@Pittsburgh Ouverture, for Wind Symphony Orchestra (1970) (0)
- Fantasy for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 38. Viola and piano (1951) (0)
- Modules 1 and 2 (1971) (0)
- Plein Jeu pour Cuivres [2 Trumpets, Horn, 2 Trombones]@@@Sinfonia da Chiesa, for Brass Quintet and Organ, op. 61b@@@Notes for Brass Quintet, 1972@@@Brass Trio no. 2, 1966, for Trumpet, Horn and Trombone (1974) (0)
- Zeta Eta Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and the Marshall University Music Department Presents The Third Annual Contemporary Music Festival (1970) (0)
- Concerto : for brass quintet, string orchestra, and percussion : 1967 (1969) (0)
- Review of Gardner Read, 20th-Century Microtonal Notation@@@20th-Century Microtonal Notation (1991) (0)
- Three Winter Potatoes [For Piano]@@@Verses, for Clarinet and Piano (1968) (0)
- The golden harp, op. 93 : S.A.T.B., a cappella (1954) (0)
- Concerto, op. 26, for Piano with Chamber Ensemble, 1961 (1970) (0)
- Fantasy for Solo Harpsichord (1976) (0)
- Scherzino, for woodwind quintet (1953) (0)
- Aventures, for 3 Singers and 7 Instrumentalists (1971) (0)
- Music for Organ and 12 Players (1972) (0)
- Daybreak@@@At Bedtime... for Voice and Piano@@@She Who Was All Piety@@@Wanderers Gemutsruhe (Song for a Wanderer). For Voice and Piano@@@Requiem (1951) (0)
- Horn of Plenty, for Orchestra@@@Lions (A Dream)@@@Melorhythmic Dramas, for Orchestra@@@Drama Jondo, Overture for Orchestra (1969) (0)
- Elegy for Small Orchestra (1959)@@@Elegy for Small Orchestra@@@Sinfonietta No. 2@@@Euphorion, Scene for Orchestra (1949)@@@Consort, for Piano and Strings (str. quartet or str. orch.) (1963) (0)
- Eight Preludes on Old Southern Hymns for Organ (1954) (0)
- Incantationes II [Soprano Solo, Instrumental Ensemble, 3 Loudspeakers]@@@Grafische Notationen [Unspecified Instruments]@@@Album fur Mogli [Unspecified Instruments] (1969) (0)
- Night flight : tone poem for orchestra opus 44 (1961) (0)
- Non-Lecture II, [For] Saxophone Solo (1972) (0)
- The Praises of Heaven and Earth, for Solo Soprano, Piano and Electronic Tape (1974) (0)
- Chorale, for Wind Orchestra, Percussion and Organ (1973) (0)
- Conversations, Double Bass Solo (1970) (0)
- Pennsylvaniana Suite, op. 67 (1971) (0)
- Illustrations pour Faust. Version de concert (1957) (0)
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