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Overview

Title:Eleanor Hovda collection
Call Number:Coll119
Creator:Hovda Eleanor 1940-
Dates:1935-2008
Size:13 boxes (11.75 linear feet)
Abstract:The collection includes recordings, sheet music, and other documents pertaining to Eleanor Hovda’s career in music. Recordings include chamber music, dance music, and interviews held with various parties. The sheet music encompasses chamber works, dance works, choreography, and sketches. There are also videotapes of various performances. Other documents include concert programs, press releases, newspaper clippings, and biographical materials. The biographical materials are made up of photographs, resumes, biographies, notes, sketches, school reports, grant applications, and personal correspondence.
Language:English
Citation:Eleanor Hovda collection, Collection 119, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).

Administrative/Biographical Note

Eleanor Hovda was a composer and a dancer, and produced many works for both chamber performances and for choreographers and dancers. She received her B.A. in Music and Piano Performance from American University in Washington, D.C. in 1963. In 1970, she received her M.F.A. in Performing Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Hovda taught extensively, with appointments including, but not limited to, Yale University, Wesleyan University, Princeton University, Bard College, and New York University.

Scope & Content

This collection is arranged into three series: Series I. Events and publicity, 1935-2008. Series II. Dance works, 1966-2088. Series III. Chamber works, 1966-2007.

Provenance Information

The collection was donated by Jeannine Wagar with assistance from Dr. Linda Dusman, and received by Lindsey Loeper in February 2014. Additional collection materials from the original donation were transferred from Dr. Linda Dusman in August 2014.

The collection arrived in eleven boxes and an inventory of the content of the boxes, prepared by Dr. Linda Dusman, was received upon arrival. Scores from the collection were digitized by I Resound Press prior to transfer to the Library. The original order of the collection focused on both item format and alphabetization. To make the research process easier for researchers, the decision was made to separate the print items from the audiovisual items. The print items have been organized chronologically. Documents for which there were more than two copies were weeded. The audio and video recordings were separated by whether the pieces were dance works or chamber works and ordered chronologically. Additional collection materials, which had been separated from the original donation, were added to the collection in Fall 2014. This donation contained two folders and one score binder. Processing was completed and finding aid written by Jordan Hartman, May, 2014, with assistance from Archivist Lindsey Loeper and UMBC professor Dr. Linda Dusman.

Access & Use

No restrictions.

Reproductions allowed for research purposes. Copyright maintained by Jeannine Wager.

Subject Headings

  • Wager Jeannine
  • Laura Pawel Dance Company
  • Nancy Meehan Dance Company
  • Art and music
  • Hovda, Eleanor, 1940- Archives
  • Music United States 20th century
  • Composers United States 20th century

Series Description & Container List

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Series I. Events and publicity

TitleDateBoxFolderInfo

Subseries I.A. Recordings

TitleDateBoxFolderInfo
Deutschland Radio interview (audiocassette)undated
Discovery series interview (audiocassette)undated
Hovda/Friedlander interview (audiocassette)1980
5th Species – Minnesota Composers Forum (audiocassette)1991

Subseries I.B. Biographical

TitleDateBoxFolderInfo
Portable Note Deskundated
Black Binderundated
Personal Correspondence1964-1997
Stackhausen Notes1966-1968
Sarah Lawrence College Correspondence/Reports1968-1970
New Music America Correspondence1979-1980
Lucia Dlugoszewski Correspondence1982-1984
Lucia Dlugoszewski Notesundated
George Crumb Correspondence1982-1985
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Correspondence1984-1991
NEH Seminar, 19851985
Real Art Ways Residency Correspondence/Documents1985-1986
Alternative Museum Correspondence1986-1987
Bang on a Can Festival Correspondence1986-1990
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council/Minnesota Arts Forum1987
Japan Symposium (Spirit of Design) Correspondence/Documents1988
Meet the Composer Correspondence/Documents1988-1992
J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship1989-1996
Yellow Springs Institute1990
Deutschland Radio Correspondence1993-1994
Tetra Ensemble Correspondence1998
Notes- Nancy Meehan Dance Companyundated
Photographsundated
Notes/Sketchesundated
Notes/Sketchesundated
Essays/Writingundated
Resumes/Biographiesundated

Subseries I.C. Press Releases/Newspaper Clippings

TitleDateBoxFolderInfo
Miscellaneous Press Releases/Mediaundated
Miscellaneous Press Releases/Mediaundated
Press Releases/Media, 1935-19741935-1974
Press Releases/Media, 1975-19791975-1979
Press Releases/Media, 1980-19811980-1981
Press Releases/Media, 1982-19831982-1983
Press Releases/Media, 19841984
Press Releases/Media, 19851985
Press Releases/Media, 19861986
Press Releases/Media, 1987-19881987-1988
Press Releases/Media, 1989-19901989-1990
Press Releases/Media, 19911991
Press Releases/Media, 1992-19931992-1993
Press Releases/Media, 1994-19951994-1995
Press Releases/Media, 1996-19991996-1999
Press Releases/Media, 2000-20082000-2008

Subseries I.D. Concert Programs

TitleDateBoxFolderInfo
Concert Programs, 1963-19721963-1972
Sarah Lawrence College Concert Programs1969-1974
Concert Programs, 1973-19821973-1982
Carla Hubner Concert Programs1974-1978
Nancy Meehan Dance Company Concert Programs1974-1988
Laura Pawel Dance Company Concert Programs1974-1996
Lincoln Center Concert Programs1975-1996
Walker Art Center Dance Concert Programs1979-1980
New Music America Concert Programs, 1980-19861980-1986
Miscellaneous Walker Art Center Concert Programs1981-1983
Concert Programs, 1983-19881983-1988
Minnesota Composers’ Forum Concert Programs1984-1985
Sylmar Chamber Ensemble Concert Programs1984-1989
Boston Musica Viva Concert Programs1984-1992
Swarthmore College Concert Programs1986-1993
Composers’ Ensemble at Princeton/Libby van Cleve Concert Programs1987-1995
New Music America Concert Programs, 1987-19961987-1996
Bang on a Can Festival Concert Programs1988-1994
Concert Programs, 1989-19901989-1990
California E.A.R. Unit Concert Programs1990-1993
Concert Programs, 1991-19941991-1994
Concert Programs, 1995-19971995-1997
Miscellaneous Concert Programsundated
Miscellaneous Concert Programsundated

Series II. Dance works

TitleDateBoxFolderInfo

Subseries II.A. Recordings

TitleDateBoxFolderInfo
Elina’s Dance (master) (7 inch tape reel)undated
Crossings/Record (VHS videocassette)undated
NMDA collaboration notes (floppy disk)undated
Bending the Mountain Glacier Track (Nancy Meehan Dance Co.) (VHS videocassette)undated
Untitled (audiocassette)undated
Sharon/Brian piece (audiocassette)undated
Guest to Stars (NMDC) (VHS videocassette)undated
Leslie’s Dance (7 inch tape reel)1970
Whelk Woman (5 inch tape reel)1970
Music for Whelk Woman (7 inch tape reel)1970
Whelk Woman (7 inch tape reel)1970
Whelk Woman (7 inch tape reel)1970
Gargoyles (Cliff Keuter) (7 inch tape reel)1971
Gargoyles (music for Cliff Keuter) (7 inch tape reel)undated
Improvisation for a dance class (audiocassette)1972
Some of Us Most of the Time (7 inch tape reel)1972
Soundings/Solo for Anthony (7 inch tape reel)1972
Solo for Anthony/Sounding (7 inch tape reel)undated
Soundings/Phoebe Neville: Solo for Anthony (audiocassette)1973
Solo for Anthony (audiocassette)1973
Season of Earth-Hush (audiocassette)1973
Season of Earth-Hush (7 inch tape reel)1973
Season of Earth-Hush (7 inch tape reel)1974
Music from Earth-Hush (7 inch tape reel)undated
Season of Earth-Hush (copy) (7 inch tape reel)undated
Firefall (5 inch tape reel)1974
Firefall I (7 inch tape reel)undated
Segment of Firefall (7 inch tape reel)undated
Firefall II (Master) (7 inch tape reel)undated
Firefall II (7 inch tape reel)undated
Oracles-Phoebe (7 inch tape reel)1975
Long Distance (7 inch tape reel)1978
Long Distance (Helical scan videocassette)undated
Folios (7 inch tape reel)1979
Folios (audiocassette)1980
Merce Cunningham (VHS videocassette)circa 1980-1989
Wolf Moon Waltz (VHS videocassette)1980
Crossings* – Friedlander demonstrating clarient techniques (audiocassette)undated
Crossings* – Friedlander clarinet (audiocassette)undated
Crossings* (Friedlander WAC) (audiocassette)1983
Crossings* – WAC Perspectives Series (audiocassette)1983
Crossings* (WAC) (7 inch tape reel)1983
Crossings/Beginnings (NMDC) (VHS videocassette)1996
Vesselsongs, Tomorrow When Apricots, Cymbal Music, Crossing* (audiocassette)1984
Cloud…Roots (Nancy Meehan Dance Co.) (VHS videocassette)1984
Vesselsongs* (WAC) (VHS videocassette)1984
Vesselsongs* (WAC) (VHS videocassette)1984
This dance…at Pace University (For Eleanor) (VHS videocassette)1988
New Dance (NMDC) (VHS videocassette)1988
Coastal Traces (Nancy Meehan Dance Co.) (VHS videocassette)1988
Coastal Traces (Nancy Meehan Dance Co.) (VHS videocassette)1988
Coastal Traces (audiocassette)1989
Switchback/Coastal Traces (NMDC) (VHS videocassette)1989
“Words” for Coastal Traces (floppy disk)undated
Coastal Traces (computer back-up; DAT digital audio tape)undated
Improvisation for a dance at Sarah Lawrence (audiocassette)1990
9 Leaf Window (Nancy Meehan Dance Co.) (VHS videocassette)1990
Roaring Brook (LPDC) (VHS videocassette)1990
Beginnings (audiocassette)1991
Beginnings, Moments & Regard (Nancy Meehan Dance Co.) (VHS videocassette)1992
Moments and Regards (NMDC) (VHS videocassette)undated
Quandaries (LPDC) (VHS videocassette)1993
Quandaries/Shifting Sands (LPDC) (VHS videocassette)1993
New Dance (NMDC) (VHS videocassette)1995
Shifting Sands (LPDC) (VHS videocassette)1995
Trail/Crossing/Ocean (VHS videocassette)1996
NMDC Concerts (VHS videocassette)1996-1998
Nancy Meehan Concerts (VHS videocassette)1996-1998
Crossings/Glacier Track (NMDC) (VHS videocassette)1997
NMDC Concerts (VHS videocassette)1997
White Oak (Meg Stuart) (VHS videocassette)1997
Towards the Pass/Bending the Mountain/Night Suspension (VHS videocassette)1997-1999
NMDC Dance Rehearsal (VHS videocassette)1998
New Dance (NMDC) (VHS videocassette)1999
House (NMDC) (VHS videocassette)2000
New Dance (NMDC) (VHS videocassette)2000
Timings/Bones Cascades (NMDC) (VHS videocassette)2001
The Politics of Being More than One (VHS videocassette)2002
More than One (VHS videocassette)2003
Phoenix (LPDC) (VHS videocassette)2003
Laura Pawel Dance Company – Dance Forum (DVD)2004
Laura Pawel Dance Company – Dance Forum (DVD)2004
Laura Pawel Dance Company – Dance Forum (DVD)2004
Laura Pawel Dance Company – Dance Forum (DVD)2005
Laura Pawel Dance Company – Dance Forum (DVD)2005
Laura Pawel Dance Company – Dance Forum (DVD)2005
Bones Cascades Scapes (Nancy Meehan Dance Co.) (VHS videocassette)2006
Laura Pawel Dance Company – Dance Forum (DVD)2007
Laura Pawel Dance Company – Dance Forum (DVD)2008
Laura Pawel Dance Company – Dance Forum (DVD)2008
Laura Pawel Dance Company – Dance Forum (DVD)2008

Subseries II.B. Sheet music and manuscripts

TitleDateBoxFolderInfo
Cloudundated
Illinois Dance Musicundated
Dance Piece Sketchesundated
Regions* (1971)1971
Some of Us Most of the Time- Elina Mooney (1972)1972
Season of Earth-Hush (1973)1973
Butterfly (1973)1973
Bones Cascades Scapes- Nancy Meehan (1974)1974
Whitewave (1978)1978
Crossings* (1983)1983
Guest to Stars (1985)1985
Fractal Coastline (1988)1988
Switchback (1988)1988
Asakahan (1988)1988
New Dance- Nancy Meehan (1988)1988
Nancy Meehan Dance Company- 19901990
Moments and Regard/Beginnings (1991)1991
Nancy Meehan Dance Company- 19911991
Nancy Meehan Dance Company- 19921992
Nancy Meehan Dance Company- 19931993
Nancy Meehan Dance Company- 19941994
Nancy Meehan Dance Company- 19951995
Nancy Meehan Dance Company- 19961996
Ratman (1997)1997
Meg Stuart Piece (1997)1997
New Dance (2000)2000
Nancy Meehan Dance Company- 20002000
Nancy Meehan Dance Company- 20012001
Earthrunner (1966)1966
Firefall (1974)1974
Firefall Dance Score (1974)1974
Folios (1979)1979

Series III. Chamber works

TitleDateBoxFolderInfo

Subseries III.A. Recordings

TitleDateBoxFolderInfo
Celli (1) (audiocassette)undated
Celli (2) (audiocassette)undated
Celli (3) (audiocassette)undated
Celli/Hovda: Oboe (audiocassette)undated
Demo tape (audiocassette)undated
Laura’s Blood (?) (audiocassette)undated
Violin Solo (audiocassette)undated
Bass song Apricots, Cymbal music, Cymbal music II (audiocassette)undated
Centerflow (?), Trails 2, Cymbal music (audiocassette)undated
St. Marks/Various improvs (audiocassette)undated
Soundings (audiocassette)undated
Breathing, Ikima (audiocassette)undated
Onyx, Song, Snapdragon, Leaning (audiocassette)undated
Hollows at Sylmar (audiocassette)undated
Beautiful Arkansas (MIDI Realization) (CD)undated
Outcome Inevitable (contains Borealis Music) (CD)undated
Beverly Church Tape (5 inch tape reel)undated
Bell Study (7 inch tape reel)undated
Bowed Cymbals (7 inch tape reel)undated
Cymbal & Flute (7 inch tape reel)undated
Flute Studies (7 inch tape reel)undated
Nanmura (SLC) (?) (7 inch tape reel)undated
Pieces for Flute Alone (Dave Gilbert)undated
Work in progress (7 inch tape reel)undated
Untitled (7 inch tape reel)undated
Sound (not Hovda) (7 inch tape reel)undated
Goat Storage (floppy disk)undated
Water Tank (CD)undated
Water Tank Master (CD)undated
Final Master (CD)undated
Soundings (5 inch tape reel)undated
Unlabeled DAT tapeundated
Real Art Ways (Tape I) (11 inch tape reel)undated
Real Art Ways (Tape II) (11 inch tape reel)undated
Music from “The Proclamation”* (Master) (audiocassette)1966
Music from “The Proclamation”* (audiocassette)1966
Music from “The Proclamation”* (audiocassette)1966
Music from “The Proclamation”* (audiocassette)1966
Music from “The Proclamation”* (solo flute) (VHS videocassette)1966
Music from “The Proclamation”/Waveschart* (5 inch tape reel)1968
Music from the Proclamation, Waveschart* (7 inch tape reel)undated
Waveschart* (audiocassette)1970
S&M Workshop (Air Moment & Bell Study)* (5 inch tape reel)1970
Lady Astor (audiocassette)1971
Lady Astor (audiocassette)1975
Lady Astor (WAC) (7 inch tape reel)1983
Lady Astor (WAC) (7 inch tape reel)1983
Music from Several Summers (audiocassette)1972
Music from Several Summers (audiocassette)undated
Music from Several Summers (WAC) (7 inch tape reel)1976
Music from Several Summers (WAC) (7 inch tape reel)1976
Music from Several Summers (Times Square Basstet) (7 inch tape reel)undated
Music from Several Summers (Bass Overlay) (7 inch tape reel)undated
The Lion’s Head (includes information sheet regarding composition) (7 inch tape reel)1972
The Lion’s Head (7 inch tape reel)1983
The Lions Head (audiocassette)1983
Metal music (audiocassette)1973
Summer 1975 (7 inch tape reel)1975
Embermusic & Rashena’s Tale (audiocassette)1978, 1979
Journeymusic (first perfomance) (audiocassette)1981
Journeymusic (Monday Evening Concerts) (audiocassette)1981
Journeymusic (audiocassette)1981
Journeymusic (Monday Evening Concerts) (audiocassette)1981
Journeymusic (7 inch tape reel)1981
Journeymusic (audiocassette)1981
Journeymusic (Monday Evening Concerts) (audiocassette)1982
Journeymusic (7 inch tape reel)1981, 1984
Journeymusic (Monday Evening Concerts) (audiocassette)undated
Journeymusic (MCF/Walker) (audiocassette)1984
Shakuhachi improv (audiocassette)1982
A Quartet, Bass song (7 inch tape reel)1982
Untitled (7 inch tape reel)1982
Breathing (audiocassette)1983
Breathing (WAC) (7 inch tape reel)1983
Cymbalmusic (7 inch tape reel)1983
Cymbalmusic II (7 inch tape reel)1983
Cymbalmusic (audiocassette)1993
Cymbalmusic (audiocassette)undated
Spring Music with Wind (WAC)1983
WAC Perspectives VIII (11 inch tape reel)1983
Brush/Hovda Piece (audiocassette)1985
Saturday AM (Flute, bamboo, viola, breath) (audiocassette)1985
Ikima (7 inch tape reel)undated
Ikima (audiocassette)1986
Ikima (Hovda solo) (audiocassette)1986
Song in High Grasses (audiocassette)1986
Char (?) African Yodels, Meehan 86 voice tape (audiocassette)1986
Fields (7 inch tape reel)1987
Fields (audiocassette)1987
Fields (for orchestra) (audiocassette)1987
Ikima, Coastings, Cymbalmusic (from Princeton Composers’ Colloquium) (7 inch tape reel)1987
Leminscates* (Violin) (audiocassette)1988
Leminscates* (Minnesota Composers Forum) (audiocassette)1995
Boundaries (audiocassette)1989
Boundaries (audiocassette)1993
Strings (audiocassette)1989
Strings (radio recording) (audiocassette)undated
Sylmar at WAC (audiocassette)1989
Jo Ha Kyu (audiocassette)1990
Jo Ha Kyu (from Farmington, ME) (audiocassette)1990
Jo Ha Kyu (audiocassette)1990
Jo Ha Kyu (Libby van Cleve, oboe) (audiocassette)1991
Multicelli (audiocassette)1990
Ariadnemusic – St. Louis Symphony* (audiocassette)1990
Ariadnemusic – St. Louis Symphony* (audiocassette)1990
Ariadnemusic – St. Louis Symphony* (audiocassette)1990
Ariadnemusic – Contemporary Music Ensemble* (audiocassette)1991
Ariadnemusic – SPCMP* (audiocassette)1991
Ariadnemusic – Hovda, Wagar, Prism* (audiocassette)undated
Ariadnemusic – April 10* (audiocassette)undated
Glosses for Electric Bass, Traces (audiocassette)1991
Sliver Moon (audiocassette)1991
Society for New Music (audiocassette)1992
Mountain Goat File (audiocassette)1992
Mountain Goat File (Portland, OR) (audiocassette)1993
Regions* (Boston Musica Viva) (audiocassette)1992
Regions* (Atlanta Contemporary Chamber Ensemble) (audiocassette)1992
Regions* (Ear A+ WNYC) (audiocassette)undated
Regions* (Good performance) (audiocassette)undated
Regions* (copy) (7 inch tape reel)undated
Regions/Elina’s Dance* (7 inch tape reel)undated
Aromonia – Guitar Quartet (audiocassette)1992
Snapdragon (audiocassette)1993
Labryinths (Artemis/Hovda) (floppy disk)1993
Labryinths (floppy disk)1994
Sounds (audiocassette)1993
The Composers Voice (audiocassette)1994
If Tigers were clouds…. then reverberating they would create all songs (audiocassette)1994
If Tigers were clouds (Zeitgeist) (audiocassette)1994
If Tigers were Clouds/Zeitgeist (CD)1994
Beginnings, Song in High Grasses, Leaning into & Away (audiocassette)1995
Borealis Music (audiocassette)1996
Tidepools (floppy disk)1997
Dancing in Place (audiocassette)1998
Dripping Water Tower (CD)2001
Water Tower Sound Experiment (CD)2007

Subseries III.B. Sheet Music/Manuscripts

TitleDateBoxFolderInfo
Minneapolis Guitar Quartetundated
Japan Symposium (Spirit of Design)undated
Composition for Solo Fluteundated
A Quartetundated
Waveschart (1970)1970
The Lion’s Head (1971)1971
The Lion’s Head Onion Skins (1971)1971
Ondes Doubles (1971)1971
Spring Music With Wind (1973)1973
Air Moment (1973)1973
Series for Grand Piano + Friction Mallets (1973-1978)1973-1978
Embermusic (1978)1978
Journeymusic (1981)1981
Journeymusic Onion Skins (1981)1981
Cymbalmusic (1982-1985)1982-1985
Ariadnemusic* – “Empty Shape” Score (1983)1983
Ariadnemusic* (1984)1984
Ikima (1985)1985
Music From Several Summers (1985)1985
Hollows (1985)1985
Song in High Grasses (1985)1985
Songs in High Grasses (1986)1986
Fields 87 for Orchestra Transparencies (1987)1987
Fields 87 Conductor’s Copy (1987)1987
Fields 87 Parts (1987)1987
Fields 87 for Orchestra (1987)1987
Fields 87, 2 copies (1987)1987
Breath Dancing (1987)1987
Borealis Music (1987)1987
Borealis Music Onion Skins (1987)1987
Curves (1988)1988
Boundaries (1989)1989
Traces (1990)1990
No Snow (1990)1990
Solo for Libby (1990)1990
Cheetah (1992)1992
Mountain Goat File (1992)1992
If Tigers Were Clouds… (1994)1994
Early Worksundated
Earthrunner (1966)1966
Firefall* (1974)1974
Firefall Dance Score*(1974)1974
Folios1979
Sketchesundated
Sketchesundated
Span-Flightundated
Trioundated
Labyrinthsundated
Untitledundated
Movement for String Quartetundated
Piece for Flute Alone (1963)1963
Music From “The Proclamation”* Additional Documents(1966)1966
Music From “The Proclamation”* (1966)1966
Air Moment (1973)1973
Lady Astor (1975)1975
Breathing (1983)1983
Fields 87 for Orchestra (1987)1987
Fields 87 Performance Notes (1987)1987
Fields 87 (1987)1987
Fields 87 (1987)1987
Lemniscates* (1988)1988
Lemniscates* (1988)1988
Lemniscates Extended* (1988)1988
Strings (1989)1989
Onyx (1991)1991
Armonia (1992)1992
Snapdragon* (1993)1993
Leaning Into and Away (1994)1994
Beautiful Arkansas (2002)2002