Description

Donor: Dr. Robert B. Cantrick and Estate.
Date of Acquisition: 2007. Processed: 2007.
1 box; 1.5 linear ft.

Historical Background

Dr. Robert B. Cantrick (1917-2006), composer and music professor at Buffalo State College, 1969-1985, gifted the Butler Library with copies of his major compositions for study and use. Dr. Cantrick’s music is of interest for its pioneering use of new flute sounds and its characteristic employment of other avant garde compositional techniques. Dr. Cantrick also donated to Buffalo State College what is thought to be the only extant copy of his reconstruction of the concert band version of Gustav Holst’s Hammersmith.

Dr. Cantrick’s family will soon provide Butler with the originals of Dr. Cantrick’s musical compositions, as well as a CD of his ground-breaking unfinished scholarly monograph, “Semantics of Music Scholarship: Concepts True of All Music,” in hopes that his work might be made widely available for study and performance.

The material and its use are under certain restrictions. Please contact the Archivist for information on the material.

Please see more information on Dr. Cantrick’s life and works at: http://cantrick-semantics-music.csdco.com/index.html.

Further information on the Robert B. Cantrick Collection at Buffalo State College’s Archives and Special Collections will be forthcoming.

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Contents and Inventory

The Robert B. Cantrick Collection is composed of one copy each of nine scores of Cantrick’s musical compositions, and each score is accompanied by a CD recording of that work:

1-1. Score. E.T.O., Rhapsody for Dance Band and Symphony Orchestra.

1-2. Score. Elegy, quartet for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, with flute, viola, bassoon, and piano.

1-3. Score. The Friendly Beasts, song cycle for mezzo soprano and piano (or orchestra). .

1-4. Score. Local, for solo flutist and four sound systems.

1-5. Score. Small Mysteries, quartet for C flutes.

1-6. Score. Sonorities, for flutist and symphony orchestra.

1-7. Score. Three Mimes, theater piece for flute and baritone voice.

1-8. Score. Trio, for violin, viola, and cello.

1-9. Score. Woodwind Quintet.

1-10. CD recording. E.T.O., The Friendly Beasts, Trio, Elegy.

1-11. CD recording. Small Mysteries, Sonorities (two versions: edited and unedited).

1-12. CD recording. A Half-Time Show [i.e., Three Mimes, 2d movement, played by the composer], Demonstration Tap[e?], Local.

1-13. CD recording. Woodwind Quintet, included on a CD of a January 2006 performance program at Canterbury Woods, Williamsville, NY; also includes audio recordings of works by Paul Hindemith, Darius Milhaud, and Antoine Reicha.

1-14. VHS recording. Three Mimes, video of world premier by the American Opera Company, New York City, NY, 1994.

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