Preliminary Inventory of the Phillip Rhodes papers, 1958-2004
[top]Descriptive Summary
Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Creator
Rhodes, Phillip
Title
Phillip Rhodes papers, 1958-2004
Language of Material
Material in English
Extent
71.5 Linear Feet
7186 Items
Abstract
7186 Items
North Carolina born and raised composer, Duke alumn, and composer-in-residence and professor at Carleton College.
Collection comprises primarily scores, instrumental parts, notes, and recordings that follow the development of each of Rhodes' compositions. There are published and unpublished works for vocal and instrumental preformance, as well as correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings, and other publicity and related items. Included are also 34 CDs, 2 audiocassettes, and 1 videocassette, as well as photographs. The 2007 Addition (07-061)(1600 items, 2.5 lin. ft.; dated 1960s-2004) primarily contains professional files and correspondence related to Rhodes' career. Files include music festivals; premieres and other performances of Rhodes' works; correspondence with performers, other composers, and record companies; and some clippings and other memorabilia.
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Phillip Rhodes papers, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Phillip Rhodes papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a
gift in 2006, 2007.
Processing Information
Processed by Christina Ramos, Alice Poffinberger; John Mayrose, June 2007
Encoded by John Mayrose, June 2007
This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Composer-in-Residence and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Carleton College where he joined the faculty in 1974. His principal teachers have been William Klenz, Iain Hamilton, Donald Martino, and Mel Powell. Born in Forest City, North Carolina in 1940, he received degrees from Duke University and the Yale University School of Music. Rhodes has been the recipient of numerous commissions and composition awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Fund for Music, a citation and award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Tanglewood Orchestra Prizes, two McKnight Foundation Fellowships, two Fromm Foundation Commissions (Harvard), and a Bush Foundation Fellowship for Artists. Rhodes' compositions are published by C. F. Peters, E.M.I., Theodore Presser, J Ballerbach, and Schott, and recorded on labels including CRI, Centaur Records, First Edition (Louisville), Innova, New World Records, and Vienna Modern Masters.
[top]Collection Overview
Collection comprises primarily scores, instrumental parts, notes, and recordings that follow the development of each of Rhodes' compositions. There are published and unpublished works for vocal and instrumental preformance, as well as correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings, and other publicity and related items. Included are also 34 CDs, 2 audiocassettes, and 1 videocassette, as well as photographs.
The 2007 addition (07-061)(1600 items, 2.5 lin. ft.; dated 1960s-2004) primarily contains professional files and correspondence related to Rhodes' career. Files include music festivals; premieres and other performances of Rhodes' works; correspondence with performers, other composers, and record companies; and clippings and other memorabilia.
Addition (2008-0185)(50 items, .5 lin. ft.; dated 1959-2008) contains 41 CDs featuring audio recordings of performances of Rhodes compositions and arrangements, an original score for Sweet River Waltz, and notes and drafts related to compositions from 2007.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Rhodes, Phillip.
- Carleton College. (Northfield, Minn.)
- Music--Manuscripts.
- Composers--United States.
- Composers--United States--Correspondence.
- Compact discs.
- Audiocassettes.
- Photographs.
 | List of Series in Collection | |||||||
 |  | Accession, 2006 (2006-0014) | ||||||
| | Accession, 2007 (2007-0061) | ||||||
 | | Accession (2008-0185), 1959-2007 | ||||||
Preliminary Description of Collection
Accession, 2006 (2006-0014)
48 Boxes
Accession comprises primarily scores, instrumental parts, notes, and recordings that follow the development of each of Rhodes' compositions. There are published and unpublished works for vocal and instrumental preformance, as well as correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings, and other publicity and related items. Included are also 34 CDs, 2 audiocassettes, and 1 videocassette, as well as photographs.
Box 1
Madrigal, 1967
for orchestra and SATB chorus
Commissioned by the ELgin (ILL) Public Schools. Published (rental) by Theodore Presser, Bryn Mawr.
Autumn Setting, 1969
for soprano and string quartet
Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation (Harvard University) and the Berkshire Music Center (Tanglewood Festival). Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Box 2
Recordings
(Compact discs)
Three French songs
Three scenes for voice and piano
Three pieces for solo cello
Duo for violin and cello
Autumn setting for soprano and string quartet
Remembrance
Three pieces for band
Cosmic fantasies
March parody
Devil's advocate
Wind songs
Dancing songs
The lament of Michael
Divertimento for small orchestra
Witticisms and lamentations from the graveyard
Prayers from the Psalms
Five songs on children's poems
String trio
Museum pieces
Concerto for bluegrass band and orchestra
Quartet for flute, violin, cello and harp
Cantata: On the morning of Christ's nativity
Mountain songs
Reflections: Eight fantasies for piano
Partita for solo viola
Visions of remembrance
Ad honorem Stravinsky
The face I carry with me
Recording of two published excerpts from Nets to catch the wind
Wedding song: a blessing
Reels and Reveries
Excerpt publication from Nets to Catch the Wind
Excerpt publication from the Christmas Cantata, On the morning of Christ's nativity
Fiddletunes
Chorale and organ meditation
Chorale fantasy for organ (O sacred head, now wounded)
A love song (string quartet)
Operas and oratorios
From paradise lost
The gentle boy
The magic pipe
Cassette tape recording of Martinomezzo
Box 3
Duo for violin and cello, 1967
Commissioned by the violinst, Paul Zukofsky. Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Programs
Correspondence
Notebooks
Class materials
Box 4
Programs and program notes from concerts Rhodes sponsored and on which his music was played, 1967
Programs for concert band works
Dancing songs, 1984-1985
For children's voices and Orff instrumentarium.
Commissioned by the American Orff-Schulwerk Association. Published by Schott (London).
Programs and program notes
Box 5
Scores
Box 6
Scores
Correspondence
Box 7
Remembrance, 1967
For concert band.
Published by Theodore Presser (rental).
Box 8
Cosmic fantasies, 1983
For concert band.
Originally titled Adventure fantasies for young players.
Published by J. Ballerbach.
Three Kentucky songs, 1973
For treble choir and piano.
Commissioned by the Kentucky Music Educators Association. Published by the Kentucky Music Educators Association.
Wind songs, 1979
For children's choir and Orff instrumentarium.
Commissioned for the Northfield Public Schools with funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Published by Schott (London).
Correspondence
Box 9
Scores
Programs
Box 10
The Devils' advocate, 1972
Commmissioned by Paul R. Bryan for Duke University Symphony Band.
Cosmic fantasies for concert band, 1983
March parody (with variations), 2001-2002
For concert band.
Correspondence
Box 11
The Devils' advocate, 1972
Remembrance, 1967
For concert band.
Three pieces for band, 1967
Commmissioned by the National Band Association.
Published by J. Ballerbach.
Correspondence
Box 12
Shakespeare in song, 1999-2000
For high voice, clarinet and piano.
Texts from the Shakespeare plays. Commissioned by tenor, James McDonald, Professor of Voice, Indiana University.
Cluck ol' hen from Three Appalachian settings, 2005
Published by earthsongs music, Corvallis, Oregon.
Two Appalachian settings, 1995-2002
For string quartet.
Box 13
Correspondence
Fanfare and reflections on the Carleton College Alma Mater, 2002
For brass choir.
An
"occasional"
piece commissioned by Carleton College to mark the retirement of Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. as President of the College (1987-2002).
Meditations upon Lactantius' "De ave phoenice", 2002-2003
For bassoon and harp.
Commissioned by Jackson Bryce through the David Bryn-Jones Endowed Professorship.
Three Gershwin settings, 2000-2004
Ffor violin and piano.
Someone to watch over me commissioned by Anna Jean Rhodes and Alan J. Lipsky to celebrate their marriage. Summertime fantasy and I got (fascinating) rhythm commissioned by Kathryn Ananda-Owens and Hector Luis Valdivia for concert use.
Bluegrass and country dances arrangements
Beginning in 1973 (and continuing for a number of years), the Berea College Country Dancers and the McLain Family Bluegrass Band were engaged by the CIncinnati Symphony Orchestra to tour with the orchestra's summer programs. It was a good, old-fashioned event: the CSO softball team would play the local team in the afternoon, followed by a picnic supper, and ending with a concert (usually outdoors) in the evening. Enclosed is the program book from 1974.
Since I was at the time Composer-in-Residence for the Kentucky State Arts Commission, I was hired by the CSO to do the orchestral arrangements for both groups.
My work with the MCLain Family Band eventually led to the Concerto for Bluegrass Band and Orchestra (a.k.a. Bluegrass Festival Suite) which was commissioned jointly by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Commission to celebrate the national bicentennial. This work has subsequently been performed more than 200 times from Alaska to Florida. (PR)
Orchestral arrangements for the Berea College Country Dancers
English country dance suite, 1974
1. The parson's farewell;
2. The hare's maggott
Leapfrog
Appalachian square dance
Box 14
Orchestral arrangements for the McLain Family Band
Live it up, honey, 1974
High hopes, 1974
Movin' on to higher ground, 1974
One step at a time, 1974
Silver creek, 1974
You sing for me, 1978
Come out tonight, 1978
Back up and push, 1978
On the road, 1978
Bound for gloryland, 1980
Box 15
Scores
Programs
Box 16
Scores
Programs
Notes
Box 17
Scores
Box 18
Scores
Box 19
Three scenes for voice and piano (Mezzo sop.), 1964-1965
Kyrie, 1966-1967
SSA, a cappella
Published score, C. F. Peters, New York.
Ensemble Etudes, 1967
For string quartet and woodwind quintet.
Three pieces for solo cello 1965-1966
This piece was the first publication of Rhodes' music by C.F. Peters, New York.
Box 20
Ensemble Etudes, 1967
For string quartet and woodwind quintet.
Three pieces for solo cello 1965-1966
Box 20
Three Bs, 1971
For orchestra.
For the Louisville-Jefferson County Youth Orchestra.
Box 21
Suite no. 2 for five winds, 1962
Recollections of a summer past, 1962
For high voice and piano.
Poetry by Millard C. Dunn, Duke 1962.
Four movements for chamber orchestra, 1962
Winner of Tanglewood Orchestra Prize, 1962
Original score of String trio, 1964-1965
For violin, viola, and cello.
BMI Student Composers Award, 1965. Later revised and published in 1973.
Notebook
Box 22
Three French songs, 1961
For SATB, a cappella.
Poetry by Millard C. Dunn, Duke 1962. Published in 2000 by J. Ballerbach, San Antonio
Manuscript scores of three unfinished
"large"
pieces, 1962 and 1967 and an orchestration class assignment from Duke, 1962
An arrangement of Grenada for a high school friend, Patricia Blanton, as her talent piece in the Miss North Carolina Pagent, 1963
Five songs on children's poems, 1972
For soprano and piano.
For the Kentucky Arts Commission.
Partita, 1978
For solo viola.
Commissioned by the violist, Ann Woodward. Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Correspondence
Box 23
March, 1961
For woodwind quintet.
Notes on an unfinished brass trio, Tanglewood, 1965
Unidentified notebook,
"Work notes on early pieces, 1962-1966"
Score of Fugue in C minor; awarded the Frances E. Osborne Kellogg Fugue Prize (Yale School of Music, 1965)
String Trio, 1965 (rev. 1973)
For violin, viola and cello.
Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Notebooks
Box 24
Prayers from the psalms, 1972
For soprano, SATB chorus and organ.
For the Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church of Bethesda, MD.
Museum pieces, 1973
For clarinet and string quartet.
Commissioned by the J.B. Speed Art Museum of Louisville. Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Box 25
Divermento for small orchestra, 1971
Commissioned by the Kentucky Chamber Orchestra. Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Witticisms and lamentations from the graveyard,1972
For SATB, a cappella.
For the Berea College Choir. Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Ceremonial fanfare and chorale, 1977
For double brass choir.
To celebrate the inauguration of Robert Edwards as President of Carleton College.
Box 26
Anniversary Waltz for Pat and Peter, 1970 (not finished)
"Benediction" setting, 1973
For SATB, a cappella.
For the Berea College Choir.
Cantata: "On the morning of Christ's nativity", 1976
For soprano and tenor soli, SATB chorus, flute, oboe, trumpet, bassoon and harp.
Text from John Milton's ode of the same name. Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Newspaper clippings
Box 27
Programs
Newspaper clippings
Boxes 28-35
Correspondence
Box 36
About faces ballet, 1970
For chamber orchestra.
Commissioned by the Kentucky Dance Theater. Published (rental) by C.F. Peters, New York.
Box 37
Concerto for bluegrass band and orchestra (a.k.a. Bluegrass Festival Suite), 1974
Commissioned by the NEA and the Kentucky Arts Commission. Published by EMI, New York (G. Schirmer, agent).
Box 38
Mountain songs (a ballad cycle), 1976
For high voice and piano.
Commissioned by the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Relections: Eight fantasies for piano, 1976-1977
Commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts. Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Box 39
The lament of Michal, 1970
for soprano and orchestra
Commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra. Published (rental) by C.F. Peters, New York.
Visions of remembrance, 1978-1979
for soprano, mezzo soprano and 12 instruments
Commissioned by Carleton College for the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Published by C.F. Peters, New York (rental).
Box 40
Visions of remembrance, 1978-1979
for soprano, mezzo soprano and 12 instruments
Commissioned by Carleton College for the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Published by C.F. Peters, New York (rental).
Box 41
Quartet, 1975
for flute, violin, cello and harp
Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation (Harvard University) for Seculum Musicae of New York. Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Box 42
Newts to catch the wind, 1986
SATB with percussion
Commissioned by three professional choruses through the National Endowment for the Arts. Excerpt publicaton by C.F. Peters, New York
Box 43
Ad honorem Stravinsky, 1981
for SATB, a cappella
Published by C.F. Peters, New York
In praise of wisdom, 1982
SATB and brass choir
Commissioned by West Virginia Wesleyan College for their 100th Anniversary.
The face I carry with me on poems of Emily Dickinson, 1982
Soprano, flute, viola, cello and piano
Commissioned by the Chicago Ensemble.
Box 44
Inaugural processional, 1987
Commissioned by Carleton College for the inauguration of Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. as its ninth president.
Concert programs
"Official"
performance notices from publishers
Martinomezzo (A birthday card), 1991
for clarinet with extension
For Martino
"Festschrift"
publication in Perspectives of new music.
Reels and reveries (Variations for orchestra), 1991 (rev. 1992)
Commissioned by the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra to dedicate a new arts center. Published (rental) by C.F. Peters, New York.
Box 45
Reels and reveries (Variations for orchestra), 1991 (rev. 1992)
Commissioned by the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra to dedicate a new arts center. Published (rental) by C.F. Peters, New York.
Mary's lullaby, 1993
A Christmas piece for soprano, violin, and organ.
Chorale and organ meditation, 1994
SSAA, organ
Commissioned by the First United Church of Christ, Northfield for the dedication of a new organ.
Fiddletunes, 1994-1995
for solo violin and synthesized strings
Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Box 46
Wedding song: a blessing, 1990
Soprano, violin, and organ
Chorale fantasy, 1995
for organ
On
"O sacred heart, now wounded"
A love song, 1998
for string quartet
Originally written for our son's wedding (a revised version later used in Two Appalachian settings for string quartet.)
Excerpt publication from the Christmas cantata, On the morning of Christ's nativity, 1998
Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
Excerpt publication from Nets to catch the wind, 1998
Published by C.F. Peters, New York.
This work was originally commissioned throught the National Endowment for the Arts by a consortium of three professional choruses: The Paul Hill Chorale (Washington, DC), the Gregg Smith Singers (New York), and the Oregon Repertory Singers (Portland).
Operas and oratorios
Boxes 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 20
Opera-Oratorio: From paradise lost, 1972
for narrator, soprano, tenor, baritone soloists, SATB chorus, and large orchestra
Text from John Milton's epic poem.
Commissioned by the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times Foundation for the Louisville Orchestra. Recorded on First Edition Records in 1972 as a 2-Record Set, LS-723, 723. Published (rental) by C.F. Peters, New York.
Boxes 4-6, 14-17
The gentle boy, Opera in one act,1980 (rev. 1987)
for soprano, mezzo, tenor, baritone soloists, SATB chorus, and chamber orchestra
Based on the Hawthorne short story of the same name.
Winner of the National Opera Association's New Opera Competition in 1986.
Boxes 44, 46-48
The magic pipe, Opera in one act,1990-1991
for soprano, mezzo, tenor, baritone soloists, SATB chorus, and two pianos
Based on the Hawthorne short story,
"Feathertop."
Commissioned by Carleton College to celebrate its 125th anniversary. One of three finalists in the National Opera Association's New Opera Competition, 1994.
Box 47
Videocassette of a performance of The magic pipe
Box 46
Proposed
"grand"
opera project - unfinished - called Odysseus, 1974-1977
Enclosed are working notes, draft of manuscript full score (composed excerpts intended to show opera people.
Libretto (by Dr. Benjamin Bradford.
Accession, 2007 (2007-0061)
6 Boxes
Addition (dated 1960s-2004) primarily contains professional files and correspondence related to Rhodes’ career. Files include music festivals; premieres and other performances of Rhodes’ works; correspondence with performers, other composers, and record companies; and some clippings and other memorabilia.
Box 48
Festival and conference files
Box 49
Festival and conference files
Box 50
Professional files
Recording company files
Performance ensembles files
Grant applications
Box 51
Festival and conference files
Festival and conference files
Professional files
Concert programs and memorabilia, 1960s
Concert programs and memorabilia, 1970s
Concert programs and memorabilia, 1980s
Concert programs and memorabilia, 1990s
Concert programs and memorabilia, 2000s
Box 52
Professional correspondence
Box 53
Oversize materials
Newspaper clippings and articles, 1962-1968
Items from residency in Louisville, 1969-1974
Programs
Newspaper clippings and articles
Accession (2008-0185), 1959-2007
1 Box
Addition (2008-0185)(50 items, .5 lin. ft.; dated 1959-2008) contains 41 CDs featuring audio recordings of performances of Rhodes compositions and arrangements, an original score for Sweet River Waltz, and notes and drafts related to compositions from 2007.
Box 54
Works written from 1959-1969 (10 CDs)
Works written from 1970-1979 (14 CDs)
Works written from 1980-1989 (4 CDs)
Works written from 1990-1999 (1 CD)
Works written from 2000- (2 CDs)
Operas and Oratorios (5 CDs)
Bluegrass Orchestral Arrangements (1 CD)
Works for Concert Band and Large Wind Ensemble (4 CDs)
Score: Sweet River Waltz
New Compositions, 2007
