Contents

Collection Summary

Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

Organization of the Vivian Fine Music Manuscripts

Selected Search Terms

Music, 1929-1993

Correspondence, 1929-1933

Miscellany, 1927-2004

Vivian Fine Music Manuscripts

Processed by the Music Division of the Library of Congress

2011

Biographical Note

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Scope and Content Note

The Vivian Fine Music Manuscripts chiefly consist of holograph scores, sketches, and parts for works written between 1929 and 1993. Fine's compositions spanned a variety of musical genres: solo instrumental, chamber, orchestral, as well as accompanied vocal and choral pieces. Notable compositions include Capriccio for Oboe and String Trio (1946), The Great Wall of China (1946), Fine's collaboration with Martha Graham, Alcestis (1960), and chamber operas The Women in the Garden (1978) and Memoirs of Uliana Rooney (1994). A small quantity of correspondence, programs, and clippings supplement the music manuscripts. The correspondence captures Fine's years of compositional growth while studying with Ruth Crawford (Seeger) and making acquaintances with figures such as Henry Cowell, George Antheil, Dane Rudhyar, and Aaron Copland.

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Selected Search Terms

People

• Fine, Vivian, 1913-2000--Correspondence.
• Fine, Vivian, 1913-2000--Manuscripts.
• Fine, Vivian, 1913-2000.
• Fine, Vivian, 1913-2000.
• Fine, Vivian, 1913-2000. Selections.
• Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953--Correspondence.

Organizations

• Vivian Fine Collection (Library of Congress)

Subjects

• Music--Manuscripts.
• Women composers--United States.
• Women music teachers--United States.

Titles

• Vivian Fine collection, 1927-2004

Form/Genre

• Clippings (Information artifacts)
• Correspondence.
• Programs (Documents)

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Organization of the Vivian Fine Music Manuscripts

The Vivian Fine Music Manuscripts are organized in three series:

• Music, 1929-1993
• Correspondence, 1929-1933
• Miscellany, 1927-2004

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Container List

Music, 1929-1993

Aegean suite (piano) 1985 Score

After the tradition (orchestra) 1987 Score, sketches, parts

Alcestis (orchestra) 1960 Score, parts

Asphodel (soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion, piano) 1988 Score, sketch

Birthday waltz (viola, piano) 1989 Score, viola part

Canciones y danzas (guitar, flute cello) see also Oda a las ranas 1991 Score, sketches

Cantata for solo voice and six instruments (tenor, oboe, strings, piano) 1961 Sketches, oboe and vocal parts

Canticles for Jerusalem (mezzo-soprano, piano) 1983 Score, sketches

Canticles from the other side of the river (violin, cello, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano) 1993 Score, parts

Capriccio for oboe and strings 1946 Score, sketch, parts (oboe, violin, viola, cello)

Chaconne (piano) 1947 Score

Chamber concerto for cello and six instruments (cello, oboe, strings, piano) 1966 Score, parts

Concertante for piano and orchestra 1944-1943 Score, parts

Concertino for piano and percussion ensemble 1965 Score, parts

Concerto for piano, strings, and percussion (one performer) 1972 Score, sketches/performance notes

The confession: from Phédre (voice, flute, piano, string trio) 1963 Scores, sketches, string parts, lyric sheets

Dance suite for orchestra see also Opus 51. March 1938 Score

Dancing winds (wind quartet) see also Emily's images 1987 Score, parts

Discourse of goatheads (bass trombone) 1988 Score, sketch, part

Divertimento (woodwinds, trumpet, percussion, piano) 1933 Score, parts

Divertimento for cello and percussion 1951 Score

Dollars and cents 1942 Scores

Double variations for piano solo 1982 Score

Drama for orchestra (after paintings by Edvard Munch) 1982 Scores, sketches/notes, parts

Dreamscape (flutes, cello, percussion, piano) 1964 Sketches, parts

Duo for 3 timpani and piano 1965 Score

Eclogue (horn) see also Quartet for brass 1978 Score

L'ecole des hautes études (The school of higher studies) (clarinet, piano, bass, percussion) 1988 Parts

Eleven transformations for four cellos and tape 1970 Score

Elizabeth's aria for projected opera 1980 Score

Emily's images (flute, piano) 1987 Score, sketches

Epitaph upon the death of Sir Albert Morton's wife (voice, piano) 1941 Score

Fanfare (2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani) 1971 Score, parts

Fantasy for cello and piano 1962 Scores, sketches

Five preludes (piano) 1939-1941 Scores

Five Victorian songs (soprano, flute, clarinet, viola, cello) 1988 Score

The flicker (flute or piano) 1973 Score, sketches

A flower given to my daughter (low voice, violin, viola, cello) 1935 Score

For a bust of Eric Satie - a short mass 1979 Score, sketches, parts, lyric sheets

For Aaron, an offering (4 cellos) 1972 Score

Four Elizabethan songs (voice, piano) see also Songs and arias 1938-1941 Scores

Four lyric pieces for voice and piano 1933-1939 Scores

Four piano pieces 1966 Scores

Four pieces for two flutes 1930 Score, parts

Four polyphonic piano pieces 1931-1932 Scores

Four songs (voice, strings) 1933 Score, lyric sheets

The garden of live flowers (soprano, tenor, baritone, piano) 1988 Score

Gertrude and Virginia: a dialogue between Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, using their own words (soprano, mezzo-soprano, clarinet, percussion, double bass, piano) 1981 Score, clarinet and double bass parts

The Great Wall of China (soprano, flute, cello, piano) 1947 Score, lyric sheets

A guide to the life expectancy of a rose (soprano, tenor, flute, violin, clarinet, cello, harp) 1956 Score, parts, notes/clipping

The human mind: Gertrude Stein's aria from the chamber opera "The women in the garden" see also The women in the garden 1977 (voice, piano) 1987) Score

Hymns (2 pianos, horn, cello) 1991 Score

I have not told my garden yet (voice, piano) 1933 Score, sketches

In memoriam: George Finckel (4 or more cellos) 1987 Score, parts

Inscriptions (2 voices, piano) see also Emily's images 1986 Score, sketch

Lacrymosa (2 trumpets, 2 trombones) 1972 Score

Lieder for viola and piano 1979 Score, sketches, parts

Light in spring poplars (chorus, viola, piano) 1987 Score

Little suite for voice and piano 1930 Score

Lyric piece for cello and piano 1937 Score, cello part

Lyric piece for cello and string quartet, undated Score, parts

Ma's in orbit (violin, percussion, double bass, piano) 1987 Score, parts

Madrigali spirituali (trumpet, string quartet) 1989 Score, parts

Meeting for equal rights 1866 (cantata for chorus, orchestra, mezzo-soprano, baritone, narrator) 1976 Score, sketches, parts, text/notes

Melos (double bass) 1964 Score, sketches

Memoirs of Uliana Rooney (soprano, 2 baritones, 2 female voices as chorus, chamber ensemble) 1993 Score, parts, libretto

Missa brevis (4 cellos, taped voice) 1972 Scores

Momenti (piano) 1979 Score, sketches

Morning (chorus, organ, narrator) 1987 Score, sketches

Music for flute (alto flute), oboe (English horn), and cello 1980 Score, parts

Music for study (piano) 1935-1941 Scores

My sledge and hammer ly reclined (chorus, brass, strings, two pianos, percussion) 1967 Score, sketches, parts

My son, my enemy (percussion, string quartet, piano) 1965 Score, sketches, percussion part

New ways of seeing - music for film (string orchestra) 1954 Score, parts

The nightingale (mezzo-soprano, percussion - played by the singer) 1976 Score, lyric sheet

Nightingales (motet for six instruments) 1979 Score, parts

Oda a las ranas (Ode to frogs) (women's chorus, flute, oboe, cello, percussion) 1989see also Canciones y danzas Score, lyric sheets

Ode to Henry Purcell (soprano, string quartet) 1984 Score, parts, lyric sheets

Opus 51 (piano, percussion) see also Dance suite for orchestra 1938 Score

Paean (baritone or tenor narrator-singer, women's chorus, brass ensemble) 1969 Score, sketches, parts

The passionate shepherd to his love and her reply (women's chorus) 1938 Score

Piece for flute and muted strings 1937 Score, parts

Piece for muted strings 1937 Score, parts

Poetic fires (piano, orchestra) 1984 Score, parts

Prelude for string quartet 1937 Score

Prelude for string orchestra 1937 Score

Psalm 13 (2 sopranos, alto, baritone, piano or organ) 1953 Score

Quartet for brass see also Eclogue 1978 Score, sketches

Quintet (clarinet, viola, cello, bassoon, percussion) Sketches

Quintet for trumpet, string trio, and harp 1967 Score, parts

The race of life (piano, percussion, or, orchestra) 1937 Scores, parts, notes

Rhapsody on a Russian follk song (piano) 1944 Score

Romantic ode (violin, viola, cello, string orchestra) 1976 Score, sketches, parts

Second solo for oboe 1947 Score

Sinfonia and fugato (piano) 1952 Score

Solo for oboe 1929 Score

Sonata for violin and piano 1952 Score, parts

Sonata for violoncello and piano (in homage to Claude Debussy) 1986 Score, parts

Sonatina for oboe and piano 1939 Score, oboe part

A song for St. Cecilia's Day (soprano, baritone, chorus, orchestra) 1987 Scores, sketches, parts

The song of Persephone (violin) 1964 Score, sketches/notes

Songs and arias (horn, violin, cello) see also Four Elizabethan songs 1990 Score

Songs of love and war (soprano, chamber ensemble) 1991 Score, lyric sheet

Songs of our time (2 voices, piano) 1943 Score

Sonnet to a cat - to Nikki (soprano, alto, tenor, bass, piano) 1939 Score, sketch

Sounds of the nightingale (soprano, women's chorus, chamber orchestra) 1971 Score, sketches, parts, lyric sheets

String quartet 1957 Scores, sketches, parts

Suite for orchestra, undated Score

Suite in E-flat (piano) 1940 Score

Tango with the Frog Prince (piano) 1984 Score

Teishō (eight solo singers or small chorus, string quartet) 1975 Score

There is a garden in her face (soprano, flute, violin, cello, piano) 1947 Flute, violin, and cello parts

They too are exiles (2 pianos) 1939 Score

Three "ings" (flute, bassoon, harp) 1961 Score, sketches

Three October pieces for piano and cello 1962 Score, cello part

Three pieces for violin and piano 1940 Score, violin part

Three sonnets for baritone and orchestra 1976 Score, parts

Toccata on the Soviet anthem (piano) 1944 Score

Toccatas and arias for harpsichord 1986 Score

Toccatas and arias for piano 1986 Score, sketches

Toccatina for piano 1981 Score

Tomorrow and tomorrow (soprano, piano) 1986 Score

Tragic exodus (baritone, piano) 1939 Score

Trio concertante on aspects of nature (string trio, string quintet) 1976 Sketches

Trio for violin, cello and piano 1980 Score, sketches, parts

Trio in three movements: for violin, viola and cello 1930 Score, parts

The Triple Goddess (concert band) 1988 Score, sketch, parts, notes

Two Neruda poems: The turtle; Ode to the piano (mezzo-soprano, piano) 1971 Score, lyric sheets

Two sonnets (voice, xylophone, violin, bassoon) 1939 Sketches for "To one who has been long in city pent" only

Valedictions (chorus, soprano, tenor, instrumental ensemble) 1959 Scores, sketches

Valedictory songs (voice, strings, bells) 1939-1941 Scores

Variations (piano) 1952 Score

Variations for harp: remembrance of things in the past of Erik Satie 1953 Score

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd (voice, string quartet) 1941 Score, sketch

The women in the garden (chamber opera) see also The human mind 1977 Score, sketches, parts, text

Unidentified parts (violins, viola, cello) 1945 Parts

Unidentified sketch (piano, orchestra) 1945 Sketch score

Correspondence, 1929-1933

Antheil, George, 1932 1 postcard

Copland, Aaron, undated 1 letter

Cowell, Henry, 1930 1 letter

Crawford, Ruth, 1929-1931 and undated 6 letters

Fine, Vivian to Dmitri Shostakovich, 1930 1 letter (not sent)

Fine, Vivian to Norman [?], 1931 1 letter

Rudhyar, Dane, 1930 2 letters

Seeger, Ruth Crawford see Crawford, Ruth

Wallingford, Riegger, 1932 1 letter

Weidman, Charles to Nini Theilade, 1933 1 letter

Miscellany, 1927-2004

Concert programs documenting premieres and other performances, clippings regarding Alcestis, and one personal writing.

Clippings, 1960, 1988

Programs, 1932-2004 and undated

Writing, 1927 Holograph manuscript; 8 pages