American composer Lou Harrison's Gending Alexander, a work for Javanese gamelan ensemble, was first performed April 22-24, 1981 at the University of Delaware. Below is the score for the piece, written in kepathian notion - though traditionally, gamelan compositions are passed down orally.
Geolocation: The Indonesian island of Java, the gamelan tradition of which greatly inspired Harrison and his work (as did the related tradition of the nearby island of Bali).
Lou Harrison. Gending Alexander = Pel.. Barang.
Music manuscripts, sketches, poetry, and drawings, 1945-1991. Ms. Coll. 132.
This manuscript of Lili Boulanger's 1914 violin-piano duet Cortège is an arrangement by her sister Nadia for solo violin and chamber orchestra. The full score is in Nadia’s hand; the parts are partly autograph, and partly in a copyist’s hand. While there is no solo violin part, markings in the score indicate it may have been used by the soloist.
Geolocation: The Boulangers' family home in Paris, where Nadia lived her whole life.
Lili Boulanger. Cortège. Arranged by Nadia Boulanger. (19--).
Merritt Room Mus 631.856.200
This collection of six “easy” pieces, composed between 1762 and 1766, was the last of C.P.E. Bach’s seven Berlin sonata collections, and one of several he assembled to appeal to the amateur musical market. The first Breitkopf publication dedicated solely to Bach’s work, the set was published simultaneously in treble- and soprano-clef editions. Pictured here, from the latter edition, is the third movement (Presto) of the sixth and final sonata, in F major. Peruse the full set of the six sonatas here.
Geolocation: The Berliner Schloss in Berlin, where Bach worked at the court of Frederick of Great as member of the royal orchestra.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Sechs leichte Clavier Sonaten von Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 1st ed. (Leipzig: Bey Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn., 1766).
Merritt Room Mus 627.2.426.6