PITTSBURGH MUSIC - ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

ROY HARRIS (1898-1979)

Contents

• Manuscript Copies/Score Mastersheets for his compositions
• Election Day is Action Day
• Folk Fantasy for Festivals
• Madrigal
• Symphony #10

Time period  1950’s

Subject

During his tenure on the faculty of the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University), he organized his most ambitious festival, the 1952 Pittsburgh International Contemporary Music Festival.

Location

Oliver Room, Pittsburgh Music Archive #11

See

• Pittsburgh International Contemporary Music Festival 1952
• Stehman, Dan. Roy Harris: A bio-bibliography - rML 134 .H175 S7 1991
• Stehman, Dan. Roy Harris : an American musical pioneer - (r) ML410.H2055 S7 1984
• Pittsburgh Music Information File
• Link to author entry in online catalog - Harris Roy 1898 1979
• Oral History of Music in Pittsburgh #19, #36

FINDING LIST

Manuscript Copies/Score Mastersheets

Reference: Stehman, Dan. Roy Harris: A Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood Press (NY) 1991 (see link above)

Election Day is Action Day (Remember November)
     Copy 1: 3 verses
     Copy 2: 1 verse
  Stehman: W117 version 1

Folk Fantasy for Festivals
     Movements 1-3 (bound together), 5
     Property stamp: Juilliard School of Music
  Stehman: W53

Madrigal (They Say That Susan Has No Heart for Learning) - 2 copies
  Stehman: W155

Symphony No. 10
     Mov’t 1 (Lonesome Boy in the Wilderness)
        Chorus part (SA)
        Score: SA, 2 pianos, tympani
     Mov’t 2 (Young Wrestler)
        Chorus part (TB)
        Score: TB. 2 pianos, tympani/percussion, 5 trumpets
     Mov’t 3 (Abraham Lincoln’s Conviction)
        Chorus part (SATB) (120 measures)
        Score: 2 pianos (2 copies) (110 measures)
  Stehman W149