David Borden Scores, 1952-2017.
Collection Number: 14-20-4107
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
Library
Title:
David Borden scores, 1952-2017.
Collection Number:
14-20-4107
Creator:
Borden, David
Quantity:
2.8 cubic feet.
Forms of Material:
Score sheets, CD's, a DVD, posters.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Original manuscript scores, CD's, DVD's and other media.
Language:
Collection material in English
Professor of Music. David Borden was educated at the Eastman School of Music and
Harvard University and was a Fulbright scholar in Berlin, studying at the Hochschule
fur Musik. His first composition teachers were jazz musicians Jimmy Giuffre and Jaki
Byard. He is the retired founder and Director of the Digital Music Program at
Cornell. In 1969 he founded Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co., the world's
first synthesizer ensemble, with the support of Robert Moog. His Continuing Story of
Counterpoint, a twelve-part cycle of pieces for synthesizers, acoustic instruments,
and voice has been called the "Goldberg Variations of minimalism." He also composed
part of the soundtrack for The Exorcist (1973) and other films. His music is
available on the Cuneiform, New World Records, Lameduck, and Arbiter labels.
Original manuscript scores including "The Continuing Story of Counterpoint" (9
parts), "Dialogues", "Counterpoint for Flute, Cello, and Harp", 1978, "Enfield in
Winter", "C-A-G-E", "I Trill Tunes", "Le Tombeau de Josquin", "CAIRN for JFK",
"Trudymusic", "The Force (That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower)", "Heaven -
Kept Soul", "Double Portrait", "Variations on a Theme of Philip Glass", "Quartet in
Four Movements for Oboe and String Trio", "Twelve Preludes and Fugues".
CD's include "Earth Journeys", Vol. 1-12 and other works. Also, a poster depicting a
performance of a composition written for a Moog synthesizer, and silk screens of 2
Mother Mallard Concerts and 1 self portrait.
Also, an unmixed master VTR cassette of David Borden and the Mother Mallard Band, September 16, 1988.
Names:
Borden, David, 1938-
Borden, David, 1938-
Subjects:
Synthesizer music.
Composers -- United States -- 20th
century.
Composers
Synthesizer music
Places:
United States
Form and Genre Terms:
Scores
Cite As:
David Borden scores, #14-20-4107. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Series I. Score Sheets
Box 1, 3, 4, 6
Box 1, 3, 4, 6
Series III. Other
material
Box 3, Mapcase Folder 1
Box 3, Mapcase Folder 1
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
"Dialogues"
|
1959-1962 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
"Enfield in Winter"
|
1978 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
"Counterpoint For Flute, Cello and Harp"
|
1978 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint" - Part I
|
1976 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint" - Part II
|
1982 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint" - Part III
|
1976 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint" - Part IV
[unfinished]
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint" - Part V
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint" - Part VI, orchestral
version
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint" - Part VI, piano
version
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint" - Part VII
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint" - Part VIII
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint" - Part IX
|
n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
"C-A-G-E" - Part I, II, III
|
1973-1975 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
"I Trill Tunes" - for 1 or 2 keyboard instruments
|
1984 |
|
3 copies
|
|||
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
"Le Tombeau de Josquin"
|
1962-1963 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
"CAIRN for JFK"
|
1964-1965 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
"Trudymusic"
|
1967-1968 |
| Box 4 |
"The Force (That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower)" -
bound score sheets
|
n.d. | |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
"Heaven - Kept Soul" - Score
|
2004 |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
"Heaven - Kept Soul" - Piano
|
2004 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
"Heaven - Kept Soul" - USB 88-Key, MIDI Controller, Keyboard
1
|
2004 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
"Heaven - Kept Soul" - USB 88-Key, MIDI Controller, Keyboard
2
|
2004 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
"Double Portrait" (for 2 piano) - Score
|
1987 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
"Double Portrait" (for 2 pianos) - Piano 1
|
1987 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"Double Portrait" (for 2 pianos) - Piano 2
|
1987 |
| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
"Variations on a Theme of Philip Glass" - Score
|
2011-2014 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
"Variations on a Theme of Philip Glass" - Keyboard 1
|
2011-2014 |
| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
"Variations on a Theme of Philip Glass" - Keyboard 2
|
2011-2014 |
| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
"Variations on a Theme of Philip Glass" - Keyboard 3
|
2011-2014 |
| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
"Quartet in Four Movements for Oboe and String Trio"
|
2014 |
| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
"Quartet in Four Movements for Oboe and String Trio" -
Oboe
|
2014 |
| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
"Quartet in Four Movements for Oboe and String Trio" -
Violin
|
2014 |
| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
"Quartet in Four Movements for Oboe and String Trio" -
Viola
|
2014 |
| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
"Quartet in Four Movements for Oboe and String Trio" -
Violoncello
|
2014 |
| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Heaven-kept Soul - Piano solo and 2 88-key MIDI controller keyboards attached via USB to laptops running Reason 7 or higher
|
2004 |
| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Twelve Preludes and Fugues - for two pianos, piano 1
|
2017 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Twelve Preludes and Fugues - for two pianos, piano 2
|
2017 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
12 Preludes and Fugues - for two pianos, volume one
|
2016 |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
12 Preludes and Fugues - for two pianos, volume two
|
2016 |
| Box 2 | CD-2370 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
1
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2371 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
2
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2372 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
3
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2373 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
4
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2374 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
5
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2375 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
6
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2376 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
7
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2377 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
8
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2378 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
9
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2379 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
10
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2380 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
11
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2846 |
"Earth Journeys, variations on Happy Birthday", Volume
12
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | CD-2381 |
"Heaven-Kept Soul"
|
n.d. |
| Box 2 | HD-3 |
Flash drive, "Heaven-Kept Soul"
|
n.d. |
| Box 5 | DVD-1692 |
Variations on a Theme of Philip Glass
|
2011-2014 |
| Box 5 | CD-2801 |
"David Borden and Edward Murry play Gershwin"
|
n.d. |
| Box 5 | CD-2802 |
"A Tribute to Duke Ellington"
|
1999 |
| Box 5 | CD-2803 |
"Night and Day"
|
n.d. |
| Box 5 | CD-2804 |
"As Time Goes By"
|
1997 |
| Box 5 | CD-2805 |
"The Continuing Story of Counterpoint", parts 1-4, 8
|
n.d. |
| Box 5 | CD-2806 |
"Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece, co.
1970-1973"
|
1999 |
| Box 5 | CD-2807 |
"Mother Mallard, Like a Duck to Water"
|
2001 |
| Box 5 | CD-2808 |
"Variations on a Theme of Philip Glass"
|
2011-2014 |
| Box 5 | CD-2809 |
"Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments"
|
2014 |
| Box 5 | CD-2810 |
"Cayuga Night Music"
|
1993, 2002 |
| Box 5 | CD-2811 |
"Borden on Borden"
|
n.d. |
| V-10949 |
David Borden and the Mother Mallard Band, unmixed master
|
1988-09-16 | |
|
VTR cassette
|
|||
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Silk screens of a self portrait and 2 Mother Mallard concert
posters
|
1969-1971 |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Poster depicting a performance of a composition written for a
Moog synthesizer
|
1975 | |