Research Catalog
Ballet mecanique
- Title
- Ballet mecanique / [George Antheil].
- Author
- Antheil, George, 1900-1959.
- Publication
- 1924-1925.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | no. 11 | Notated music | Supervised use | JPB 94-1 no. 11 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
Details
- Description
- 1 ms. score ([2], 85 p.); 36 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Holograph signed, in black, red, green, and purple ink.
- Includes Instructions for cutting on pianola (Pleyela) roll.
- On 2nd preliminary page: Original score for pianola ; George Antheil estate.
- Portions in black and purple ink constitute the pianola part for Ballet pour instruments mecaniques et percussion (JPB 94-1 no. 6).
- This manuscript also contains notes "only for the 8-hand-four-piano arrangement" and indications for percussion including 2 motors and electric bells.
- "The first version of the Ballet Mécanique was for sixteen pianolas run electrically from a common control."--The life and music of George Antheil, 1900-1959 / by Linda Whitesitt. Ann Arbor, Michigan : UMI Research Press, c1983, p. 106.
- Described in: Whitesitt (Item 156a).
- Stamp on cover: George Antheil 1924.
- Paper damaged by rubber cement.
- Call Number
- JPB 94-1 no. 11
- OCLC
- NYPG94-C363
- Author
- Antheil, George, 1900-1959.
- Title
- Ballet mecanique / [George Antheil].
- Imprint
- 1924-1925.
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- Research Call Number
- JPB 94-1 no. 11