Mildred Couper scores now online

Mildred Couper, an American pianist and composer was one of the first composers
to experiment with quarter tone music. Couper was born in Buenos Aires in 1887
and lived in Europe as a child until her family emigrated to the United States
in 1915 at the outbreak of WWI. She taught piano at the Mannes School in New
York for several years and then moved to California in 1927. After establishing
her studio in Santa Barbara she started writing quarter-tone music. Her first
work in this medium was a ballet, "Xanadu," which was performed in the
production of Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions" in the Lobero Theatre in 1930.
Scores to three of Mildred Coupers quarter tone works, the "Dirge," for violin
and piano, "Rumba," for two pianos, "Xanadu," for two pianos are now online and
are available for research and study. Couper's papers are housed in the
Department of Special Collections. The scores were scanned and placed online by
Oberlin College Winter Term intern Rebecca Thompson.

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/pamss45.html
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Jeffrey Gordon, Performing Arts Assistant
Davidson Library Special Collections
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
(805) 893-5444 Fax (805) 893-5749