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Ewen, David                   ‘Ezra Sims’.  American Composers, D. Ewen, ed, 1982

 

Morton, Brian              ‘Ezra Sims’.  Contemporary Composers, B. Morton, ed, 1992

 NB  Filled with praise and highly flattering, but riddled with inaccuracy, mistakes, and downright invention

 

Sims, Ezra                    ‘The Prehistory of Dinosaur Annex’.  Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble: 25

                                                Years of New Music in Boston,  Christine, Gratto, ed. 2000

                                        ‘Just?  ‘Tempered?’.  Musikwissenschaft-Musikpraxis; Festsschrift für Horst-

                                                 Peter Hesse zum 65. Geburtstag,  Bachman, K. & Thies, W., eds.

                                        ‘Long Enough to Reach the Ground’.  Perspectives of New Music, vol. 32, #1

                                        ‘Apologia pro Musica Sua’.  Jaarboek, 1992, Stichting Huyghens Fokker,

                                                Amsterdam,  Rasch, S., & Brunia, S, eds.

                                        ‘Reflections On This and That’.  Mikrotöne IV.  Bericht über das 4. Internationale

                                                 Symposium in Salzburg, 1991.  Ruschkowski, A.ed.

                                        ‘Reflexions’  (tr. H.P. Hesse).  Mikrotöne IV

                                        ‘Reflections On This and That’.  Perspectives of New Music, vol.29, #1

                                        ‘Harmonic Ordering in Quintet (1987)’.  Mikrotöne III, Bericht über das 3. Internationale

                                             Symposium in Salzburg, 1989.  Hesse, H.P., ed.

                                        ‘Harmonic Ordering in Quintet (1987)’.  ex tempore,  v. V/2, Fall, 1991

                                        ‘A 72-Note Just Computer Music System’.  1/1, vol. 5., no.1, 1987

                                        ‘Yet Another 72-noter’.  Computer Music Journal, Vol 12, no. 4, Winter, 1988

                                        [ Response to CMJ v.11, #1].  Computer Music Journal, Vol 11, no. 4, Winter, 1987

                                        ‘A Question of Microtonal Notation’.  Xenharmonikon XI, Fall, 1987

                                        ‘Microtones’ and related articles.  Harvard Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed., 1969

                                        ‘The Judson or How I Spent My Thirties’      

                                                 and various concert reviews.  Boston After Dark, 1969 passim

                                        ‘Letter From Boston’.  Ballet Review, vol. 3, #3

                                        ‘Odoroki-no Nippon’ (tr. Oda Makoto).  Shosetsu Chuokoron, May, 1963

                                        [ liner notes].  CRI LPs, 186,223; CRI CDs,578, 643, 784

 

Wertnz, Julia              ‘Ezra Sims at Seventy’.  Sonneck Society for American Music.  Bulletin,

                                                 v. XXIV, #1 (Spring 1998)

                                        ‘Ezra Sims in 72 Notes’.  The Microtome, v.1, #2, Nov. 1996

 

 

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, 1996;   Who’s Who In America, 1993 et seq.,

Who’s Who In Entertainment, 1998 et seq; Men of Achievement, 1988; The New Grove

Dictionary of American Music,  1986; Who’s Who In American Music: Classical, 1985;

Contemporary American Composers, 1980; A Dictionary of American Composers, 1980;

International Who’s Who In Music, 1977 et seq; Riemann Musiklexikon, 1975;

Dictionary of Contemporary Music, 1974; Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Music, 1971 et seq.