Title: Parsons' Piece.
Description: (Iowa City, IA]: [Center for New Music, University of Iowa], circa [1968]. [1968]. - Oblong folio, 11 inches high by 15 inches wide. Unbound, consisting of 14 loose folio pages, each printed on one side only, including a cover leaf, introductory "Notes" by the composer, and 12 leaves of sheet music. The edges of the soiled cover leaf are darkened with a tiny chip along the left edge and a crease to the top right corner. The edges of the pages are slightly darkened with some minor creases. Very good.
First edition.
"Parsons' Piece was composed during the winter of 1967/68 at the request of William Parsons, percussionist with the Center for New Music, University of Iowa. All indications and instructions in the score are the result of a close collaboration between composer and performer, not only during the conceptual stages, but in the rehearsals as well." [Quoted from the composer/author's "Notes" on the first page].
Appointed to the University of Iowa's Music Composition faculty in 1966, William Hibbard (1930-1989) was a noted composer, conductor, violist and teacher. He chaired the University's Theory and Composition department in the School of Music and served as music director of the Center for New Music, the University's professional new music ensemble. From 1965 through 1974, Hibbard served as director of the University's Center for New Performing Arts which, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the University, brought together interdisciplinary arts in a quest to advance new music and art. In addition to also being the Principal Viola for the Quad City Symphony, Hibbard composed more than 40 works. "Menage" a composition for soprano, trumpet and violin was selected as one of 5 American works submitted to the 1977 ISCM Festival in Bonn, Germany. Hibbard was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the New England Conservatory in 1988. William Hibbard died of AIDS in 1989. Very good .
Keywords: MUSIC; WILLIAM HIBBARD; NEW MUSIC; PARSONS' PIECE; PERCUSSION; NEW MUSIC; SCORE; COMPOSITION; COMPOSER; UNIVERSITY OF IOWA; CENTER FOR NEW MUSIC; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; 1ST EDITION FIRST EDITION; MODERN; VIOLIST; CONDUCTOR.
- Book number: 97469
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