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Collection Number: 05041

Collection Title: Thomas N. Rice Papers, 1950s-2000

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Size 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 400 items)
Abstract Thomas Nelson Rice (1933-2000) of Virginia composed more than 60 works, some by commission, including concertos, orchestral compositions, and chamber music. The collection consists of manuscript scores and published music, including sketches, fair copies, and part sheets; audio materials, which are chiefly recordings of Rice's compositions; and other papers, including performance programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a small amount of correspondence and of Rice family history materials.
Creator Rice, Thomas N.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
Use of audio or visual materials may require production of listening or viewing copies.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Thomas N. Rice Papers #5041, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mary Kidwell in November 2000 and January 2001 (Acc. 98793, 98820), from Dan Patterson in July and October 2005 (Acc. 100146, 100238), and from Carol J. Churukian in October 2009 (Acc. 101179).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2008

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2008

Updated because of addition, January 2019

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Composer Thomas Nelson Rice was born 3 February 1933 in Washington, D.C. He received a B.A. from Catholic University and an M.A. in music from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Rice composed more than 60 works, some by commission, including concertos, orchestral compositions, and chamber music. Most of Rice's works were created while he lived in Virginia, where he also was music director for the Virginia Beach School System until his retirement in 1988. Rice died in 2000.

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The collection of composer Thomas N. Rice of Virginia consists of manuscript scores and published music, including sketches, fair copies, and part sheets, for concertos, orchestral compositions, and chamber music; audio materials, which are chiefly recordings of Rice's compositions; and other papers, including performance programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a small amount of correspondence and of Rice family history materials.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Manuscript Scores and Published Music, 1950s-1990s.

About 250 items.

Manuscript scores and published music, including sketches, fair copies, and part sheets, for concertos, orchestras, and chamber music. A list of the composer's works is filed in box 3.

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Opus +1 Piano Sonata

Opus -1 A Sonatina for Piano Forte

Opus +3 Seven Hymns

Opus -3 Piano Miniatures

Opus +6 Passacaglia

Opus -6 Sonatina

Opus +8 Love Lyrics

Opus -8 Christina Rossetti Song

Opus -9 Suite # One for Recorders

Opus +10 Contata Psalms

Opus -10 Two Elegies

Opus +11 Sonata for Violin and Piano

Opus -12 Nocturne for Strings and Scherzo for Stings AKA Two Pieces for String Orchestra

Opus -12a Nocturne for a String Orchestra

Opus +12 Lamentations

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Opus +13 Prelude and Fugue (for Piano Duo)

Opus +14 Jubilation

Opus +15 Whatever Passes Along the Paths of the Sea

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Opus +16 Image Out of Context

Opus -17 Old Folks at the Home

Opus +17 Variations for Band

Opus +18 Concerto for Piano and Strings

Opus -19 Fully Clothed in Armor, etc.

Opus +20 Sonata for Viola and Piano

Opus -20 Four Pieces for Cello and Piano

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Opus +21 Two Monets - Poems by Oscar Wilde

Opus +22 Three Songs - Poems by Oscar Wilde

Opus -22 Suite for Small Orchestra

Opus -23 Three Preludes for Double Bass

Opus +24 Variations on Nursery Rhymes

Opus -24 Twelve Easy Piano Pieces

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Opus -23 Three Preludes for Double Bass

Opus +24 Variations on Nursery Rhymes

Opus +25 Symphony for Oboe and Strings

Opus -25 First Suite for Band

Opus -26 Suite for Trumpet and Piano

Opus +27 Concerto for Soprano and Trumpet

Opus -27 Karen's Songs

Opus +28 12 Easy Piano Pieces and Piano Preludes

Opus +28b Happenings

Opus -28 Serenade and Toccata

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Opus +29 Ballet - The Lotus Tree

Opus +29a Ballet - David

Opus +30 Brass Quintet

Opus -30 Canzone de Sonare

Opus +31 The Nativity

Opus +31a Peace Three

Opus +31 Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano

Opus -31 Overture 1970

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Opus -31 Overture 1970

Opus +32 Concerto for Violin(s)

Opus +34 String Quartet #2

Opus +36 Sonata for Two Violins and Piano

Opus -36 Study #1 for Clarinet and Synthesizer

Opus -38 Clarinet Sextet

Opus -39 Genesis

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Opus +40 Ballet - The Green Knight

Opus +43 Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Opus -43 Four Poems by Stephen Grunwald

Opus -44 Songs for Baritone and Piano

Opus -44a Reveille

Opus +45 Two Dance Movements

Opus -45 Dance Suite for Brass Quintet

Opus +46 Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano

Opus -48 Diversons of the Re-Echo Club

Opus +49 Three Pieces for Three Harps

Opus -49 Fantasy for Clarinet and Casio VL Tone

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Opus +50 Tempest!

Opus -50 Suite for Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone

Opus +51 Nocturne - Violin, Viola, Cello

Opus -51 Three Piano Pieces

Opus +52 Sonata for Flute and Harp

Opus -52 A Thing for Tuba and Tympani

Opus +53 Nocturnes

Opus +53 Music for Brass

Opus +53 Symphony - for Oboe and String Orchestra

Opus -53 Nocturne for Flute and Piano

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Opus +54 Suite for Small Orchestra

Opus -54 A Musician's Prayer

Opus +55 Fantasy for Harpsichord

Opus -55 A Brass Quartet

Opus +56 The Nova Trio

Opus -56 A Terse Sonatina and Pregue for String Orchestra

Opus -57 Processional March

Opus -58 Foot Thumper #2

Opus 59b Growing Old and Other Bad Habits

Opus 60a-f Piano Preludes

Opus -60 Poems of Stephen Crane

Opus 69 Purple Cow

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Opus -3 Piano Miniatures

Opus +5 Chamber Concerto for Cello

Opus -7 Introduction and Allegro for Band

Opus -12b Theme and Variations for Brass, Organ, Percussion

Opus -15 Whatever Passes Along the Paths of the Sea

Opus +23 Sextet

Miscellaneous compositions

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Miscellaneous compositions

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Box 3

List of compositions

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Opus +47 Toccata Overture

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58 items.
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Recordings, 1979-1994

Chiefly compositions by Thomas N. Rice; also included are two interviews.

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Recordings, 1956, 1960, and undated

Chiefly compositions by Thomas N. Rice, including a performance of Quartet, 1960, by the University of North Carolina String Quartet.

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Recordings, 1960-1969 and undated

Chiefly compositions by Thomas N. Rice.

Videotape VT-5041/1

Dance performance of Psalms of David by Thomas N. Rice and The Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky, 1993

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About 100 items.
Box 3

Other papers

Performance programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, family history materials, poetry, sabbatical requests, jokes, and photographs.

Image Folder P-5041/1

Photographs, 1960s-1980s

Black and white photographs of Thomas N. Rice.

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Acquisitions Information: Accession 101179

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-05041/2

Sonata for Two Violins and Piano by Thomas N. Rice

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