Finding Aid for the North American New Music Festival Sound Recordings, 1983-1993 Mus. Arc. 13.1 State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library 112 Baird Hall Buffalo, New York 14260-4750 United States Phone: 716 645-2924 Fax: 716 645-3906 Email:
[email protected] URL: http://library.buffalo.edu/music/ Finding aid prepared by John Bewley. Finding aid encoded in EAD by John Bewley , September 2018. Finding aid is in English. Finding aid prepared using DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard ). Please use the following URL when citing this document: http://purl.org/net/findingaids/view?docId=ead/music/ubmu 0013_1.xml © 2018. State University of New York at Buffalo. All rights reserved. Collection Overview Title: North American New Music Festival Sound Recordings, 1983-1993 Collection Number: Mus. Arc. 13.1 Creator: North American New Music Festival (Buffalo, N.Y.) Extent: 10 boxes (390 cassettes, 22 reels and 1 container with 2 hard drives and accompanying documentation) Language of Material: Spoken word content is in English. Repository: State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library Abstract: Contains sound recordings on 390 cassettes and 22 reels of performances from the North American New Music Festival, a series of annual festivals of contemporary art music sponsored by the University at Buffalo Department of Music from 1983 to 1993. The collection contains recordings of circa 720 musical works composed by about 334 different composers, including most of the most prominent composers of the 20th century. Many works were rehearsed and prepared with their respective composers in attendance and performers at the festival were chiefly specialists in new music.