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Serialism (Music)

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Donald Martino music greeting cards collection

 Collection 0338-SCPA-ICA
Abstract Donald Martino (1931 – 2005) was an American, Pulitzer Prize winning composer and a proponent of serialism as composed and instructed by his teacher, Luigi Dallapiccola. The collection consists of five musical greeting cards created by Donald Martino. For the birthdays of his composer friends and peers, Martino composed single-page scores of solo clarinet music. Some of the motifs and inspirations for the compositions are based off of the French musical cryptogram system, which allows the...
Dates: 1966 - 1997; Majority of material found in 1988 - 1997