Sketches for Deserts
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Title
Sketches for Deserts
Names
Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965 (Composer)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1954
Library Location
Music Division
Shelf locator: JOH 73-4 (Locked case)
Subjects
Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965. Déserts
Orchestral music
Musique concrète
Genres
Scores
Manuscripts
Musical Sketches
Notes
Content: One page is for orchestra, the other for magnetic tape. A holograph description of sketch in pencil ([1] page) on the composer's stationery is laid in.
Content: First published: New York, G. Ricordi, 1957.
Content: For orchestra and magnetic tape.
Content: First performed in Paris in December 1954.
Physical Description
Extent: score ([2] pages on [2] leaves) ; 64.5 x 29 cm.
Languages
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG744541928-C
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b10175398
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f803d170-3c9f-0138-74e3-69112483bbc7
Access
© Edgard Varèse
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1954
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MLA format
Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Sketches for Deserts" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1954. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f803d170-3c9f-0138-74e3-69112483bbc7
APA format
Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1954). Sketches for Deserts Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f803d170-3c9f-0138-74e3-69112483bbc7
Chicago/Turabian Format
Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Sketches for Deserts" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f803d170-3c9f-0138-74e3-69112483bbc7
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