George Edwards papers, 1963-2012

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Series III: Written Works, 1962-1998, undated

This series contains drafts and published copies of essays and articles written by Edwards, from college essays to journal articles. Edwards' collected essays were published in the volume Collected Essays on Modern and Classical Music in 2008; that volume is not included in this collection, though most of the essays within it are represented here in draft form.



Box 15 "What Is My Religion" essay, 1962

(Typed manuscript with professor's comments)


Box 15 "The Role of Set Structure in Formal Articulation" essay, 1964

(Typed manuscript with professor's comments)


Box 15 Letter to New York Review of Books, 1989

(Handwritten draft (facsimile) and typed draft (contain markings) )


Box 15 "Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music" review, 1990

(Draft (computer printed) )


"Involuntary Affinities" article, 1990


Box 15 Drafts (2; computer printed)


Box 15 Published article (in Southwest Review )


Box 15 "The Pleasure of Its Being Over" article, 1990

(Draft (computer printed) )


"A 'Conversation' about New Music" article, 1990


Box 15 Draft (computer printed; contains markings)


Box 15 Published article (facsimile from Threepenny Review )


"The Nonsense of an Ending: Closure in Haydn's String Quartets" article,, 1991


Box 15 Draft (computer printed)


Box 15 Notes (computer printed)


Box 15 Published article (facsimile from The Musical Quarterly )


Box 15 "Music and the Politics of Postmodernism" article, 1991

(Drafts (3, computer printed; one contains markings) )


"A Palimpsest of Mozart in Schubert's Symphony No. 5" article, 1998


Box 15 Draft (computer printed)


Box 15 Notes (pen)


Box 15 Published article (facsimile from Current Musicology )


"Papa Doc's Recap Caper: Haydn and Temporal Dyslexia" article, 1998


Box 15 Notes (pen)


Box 15 Draft (computer printed)


Box 15 "A Golden Age?" essay, undated

(Draft (computer printed) )


Box 15 "Composition as Research" essay, undated

(Draft (computer printed) )


Box 15 "Taking the 'Cult' out of Culture" essay, undated

(Draft (computer printed) )


Box 15 "Casting Away the Yoke or How to be Just a Little Ahead of Your Time" article,, undated

(Drafts (5, computer printed; two contain markings))


Box 15 "Is Lessing More?: Problems of Time in Contemporary Music" article,, undated

(Drafts (3, computer printed; two contain markings))


Box 15 Notes for an unidentified written work or talk, undated (pen), undated