Guide to the Eric Moe Collection, 1976- UA.90.F96

Repository
ULS Archives & Special Collections
Title
Eric Moe Collection
Creator
Moe, Eric
Collection Number
UA.90.F96
Extent
13.9 Linear Feet (26 mss boxes plus 3 oversize boxes)
Date
1976
Abstract
The Eric Moe Collection includes sketches, fair-copies, and computer-generated scores of the composer's works from the late 1970s to the present. Dr. Moe joined the music faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1989 as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to Full Professor in 1999.
Language
English .
Author
Jim Cassaro.
Publisher
ULS Archives & Special Collections
Address
University of Pittsburgh Library System
Archives & Special Collections
Website: library.pitt.edu/archives-special-collections
Business Number: 412-648-3232 (Thomas) | 412-648-8190 (Hillman)
Contact Us: www.library.pitt.edu/ask-archivist
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Previous Citation

Eric Moe Collection, 1976-, UA.90.F96, University Archives, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh

Preferred Citation

Eric Moe Collection, 1976-, UA.90.F96, University Archives, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System

Access Restrictions

No restrictions.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by librarians and staff of the Theodore M. Finney Music Library beginning in 2005, and is on-going. The guide to this collection was completed in April 2011 by Amy Welch, a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Science and Pitt Partners Program Intern (2010-2011), and James P. Cassaro, Head of the Theodore M. Finney Music Library. It incorporates previous inventories done by David King in 2003, and another earlier inventory written by Music Library staff. It was entered into Archivists' Toolkit by William Daw and Ed Galloway.

Scope and Content Notes

The collection contains manuscripts and computer-generated scores of musical sketches and compositions by Moe, dated from 1976 and on. In some cases, compositions include individual pages that Moe revised during the composition process.

Materials are listed here and arranged chronologically by the year of composition. Because items were acquired at different times, some box numbers may appear out of sequence in the following Contents List.

Unless otherwise noted, there is one copy of each item listed.

Biography

Eric Moe (1954- ) is professor of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Pittsburgh, director of the University of Pittsburgh Electroacoustic Music Studio, and co-director of the Music on the Edge new music concert series. He studied composition at Princeton University (A.B.), and the University of California at Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D.). Moe founded the Ph.D. program in Composition/Theory in the Music Department at the University of Pittsburgh.

Moe was a founding member of EARPLAY, a new music ensemble based in San Francisco, CA. He is known as a composer and pianist and has received wide recognition for his work including the Lakond Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Fromm Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, and Meet-the-Composer USA.

In addition, Moe earned fellowships from the Wellesley Composer's Conference and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Bellagio, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, the Montana Artists Refuge, the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, and the American Dance Festival.

From 1981 to 1989, he served on the faculty of the San Francisco State University, and also at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1980-1981). He holds the PhD (1982) and MA (1978) in composition from the University of California, Berkeley, and the A.B. in Music from Princeton University (1978).

Accruals

New material is expected to be donated on an ongoing basis.

Subjects

    Corporate Names

    • University of Pittsburgh -- Faculty
    • University of Pittsburgh. Music Department

    Personal Names

    • Moe, Eric -- Manuscripts
    • Moe, Eric

    Genres

    • Faculty papers

    Other Subjects

    • Vocal music
    • Music -- United States -- 20th century
    • Composers -- United States
    • University of Pittsburgh
    • Music
    • Music -- Manuscripts
    • Instrumental music

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