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Anthony Vazzana papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0368

Scope and Contents

This collection includes teaching materials, audio recordings of Vazanna’s performances and compositions, correspondence, sheet music and scores, binders of composition projects, and materials related to the USC Composition Forum.



Teaching materials include lesson, project, and course plans, sheet music for instruction, and textbooks related to Vazzana’s USC courses. AV formats present are reel-to-reel magnetic tape, cassette tapes, and VHS tapes.



Anthony Vazzana (1922-2001) was an American composer and educator who taught composition, orchestration, and theory at the University of Southern California from 1959 until his retirement in 1990. Vazzana also served as the director for the USC Composition Forum for 16 years.



The majority of materials are housed at the Grand Archive, while boxes 9, 10, and 19 are housed at the Crozier building.

Dates

  • Creation: 1958 - 1991

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access. The majority of materials are housed at the Grand Archive, while boxes 9, 10, and 19 are housed at the Crozier building.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

Anthony Vazzana (1922-2001) was an American composer and educator who taught composition, orchestration, and theory at the University of Southern California from 1959 until his retirement in 1990.



He composed over 100 works several of which have been performed and broadcast in Europe, Asia and at New Music Festivals in the United States with additional performances scheduled for South Africa in 1992. For more than 16 years he directed the USC Composition Forum brought composers and musicians such as John Adams, Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, and John Cage among others of comparable international stature, to the USC campus.



Vazzana is the author of the four-volume work, Projects in Musicianship, (funded by the Ford/MENC Foundation) and his compositions have been recorded by Shawnee, Golden Crest, Silverseal and Orion.

Extent

41.625 Linear Feet (30 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection includes teaching materials, audio recordings of performances and compositions, correspondence, sheet music and scores, binders of composition projects, and materials related to the USC Composition Forum of USC educator and composer Anthony Vazzana (1922-2001).

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the family of Anthony Vazzana.

Processing Information

Collection is partially processed.

Related Names

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Finding Aid for the Anthony Vazzana papers
Status
Minimally Processed
Author
Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
Date
2022 January
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Physical Storage Information

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository

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Contact:
Doheny Memorial Library 206
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Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States

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Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.