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[Mel Lewis Lecture, March 8, 1983: Parts 3 and 4]

Description: Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Mel Lewis on March 8, 1983 at 2:30PM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Mel Lewis, drums, interspersed with questions from the audience.
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Date: March 8, 1983
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Lewis, Mel, 1929-1990
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[Bobbi Humphrey Lecture, March 29, 1983: Part 1]

Description: Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Bobbi Humphrey on March 3, 1983 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Bobbi Humphrey, interspersed with questions from the audience.
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Date: March 29, 1983
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Humphrey, Bobbi
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[Herb Ellis Lecture, April 5, 1983: Part 1]

Description: Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Herb Ellis on April 5, 1983 at 9:00AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Herb Ellis, guitar, interspersed with questions from the audience.
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Date: April 5, 1983
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Ellis, Herb, 1921-
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[Tom Harrell Lecture, March 1, 1983: Part 2]

Description: Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Tom Harrell on March 1, 1983 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Tom Harrell, trumpet, interspersed with questions from the audience.
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Date: March 1, 1983
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Harrell, Tom
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[Bobbi Humphrey Lecture, March 29, 1983: Part 2]

Description: Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Bobbi Humphrey on March 3, 1983 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Bobbi Humphrey, interspersed with questions from the audience.
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Date: March 29, 1983
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Humphrey, Bobbi
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[Jimmy Giuffre Lecture, April 26, 1983: Part 1]

Description: Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Jimmy Giuffre on April 26, 1983 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Jimmy Giuffre, saxophone, interspersed with questions from the audience.
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Date: April 26, 1983
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Giuffre, Jimmy
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[Willis Conover Lecture, February 15, 1983: Part 2]

Description: Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Willis Conover on February 15, 1983 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and musical examples by Willis Conover interspersed with questions from the audience.
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Date: February 15, 1983
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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[Jimmy Heath Lecture, February 22, 1983: Part 2]

Description: Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Jimmy Heath on February 22, 1983 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Jimmy Heath, saxophone, interspersed with questions from the audience.
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Date: February 22, 1983
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Heath, Jimmy
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[Johnny Smith Lecture, April 12, 1983: Part 1]

Description: Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Johnny Smith on April 12, 1983 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Johnny Smith, guitar, interspersed with questions from the audience.
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Date: April 12, 1983
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Smith, Johnny

Overfall

Description: Recording of Lelio Camilleri's Overfall. Transformed piano sounds and sound structures realized by means of voltage control make up the sound material of the piece.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 14 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Camilleri, Lelio

Poema Reiterado

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Poema Reiterado using the voice of Leonardo Martinez reciting Mandolini's own poem "Palabras" in an electro-acoustic composition. All sound material are disengaged from the speech of the spoken text (Sprachkomposition) which embodies the idea of the ancient synthesis between text and music. Realized at the Studio of the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany in 1983.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-

He met her in the park

Description: Recording of Charles Dodge's "He met her in the park," poetry by Richard Kostelanetz. The poem consists of a boy-meets-girl story that is told eight times, and the retellings abridged versions of the previous ones, sometimes reversing the gender roles until the final retelling is just "He met her in the park." In the composition, the lines are read by a male and female actor alternating lines and each telling of the story is articulated in a different way. The voices are synthesized with melodi… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Dodge, Charles, 1942-

Metal harmonics

Description: Recording of Margaret Sambell's Metal Harmonics. The short piece uses sounds developed by concrete and electronic means of a metallic resonance, much of it utilizing the rich overtone content of the sound source. The work was completed in April 1983 at the University of Birmingham.
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Date: April 1983
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Sambell, Margaret

Slow Dance on a Burial Ground

Description: Recording of Stephen Montague's "Slow Dance on a Burial Ground." Inspired by multi-traking and over-dubbling in pop music. Montague plays all various individual parts on folk flutes and log drums, playing at various speeds and other manipulations in an electronic studio to create at virtuosic product, even with modest skills on the instruments. The piece is an exploration in "Romantic minimalism," with its monthematic unfolding of a melody in the dorian mode and static harmony, but also with 18… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 24 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Montague, Stephen

Deca-Danse

Description: Recording of Alain Thibault's Deca-Danse. Using a recording of a speech by President Ronald Reagan, Thibault makes a statement about the destruction that humans cause for one another. Th piece is split into ten sections: 1. Technopolis; 2. You are Loved; 3. Special Emission; 4. President's Message; 5. Reagan's Happiness; 6. Reagan's Delirium; 7. The Most Beautiful Gift of God; 8. Generation x; 9. Mx; 10. Future x. The piece was created at the Studios Bruit Blanc and McGill University.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Thibault, Alain, 1956-

Tess In Stonehenge

Description: Recording of Lelio Camilleri's Tess In Stonehenge. The piece explores the relationship between fast sound structures and sounds with a longer duration and different types of envelopes. The sound equipment consists of filtered white noise bands, frequency modulated bands, and sound structures obtained by the control voltage technique.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Camilleri, Lelio

La poëtique de l'espace

Description: Recordings of Yuji Itoh's La poëtique de l'espace for prepared piano. The composer has no real structure for this work, only wanting to let the audience listen to experiences. The work was realized in Studio STGU under the technical direction of Professor S. Sumitani.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Itoh, Yuji, 1956-

Broken Crystals

Description: Recording of Larry Wendt's Broken Crystals, from "World-Class Technology." It is an extended narration piece that takes the form of a personal recollection. It is narrated by a Silicon Valley worker who works for an integrated circuit foundary that grows garnet crystals for the manufacturing of bubble memory. The factory is overcome with insects that destroy the crystals, and, in response, Silicon Valley is bombed with Cane Toads in order to get rid of the bugs. As a performance piece, the narr… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Wendt, Larry

Kren

Description: Recording of Ã…ke Parmerud's "Kren," a concert piece. The title is an acronym of time (the clock) and energy: Kronos an Energy (KREN). The main idea for this piece was to create an electric world loaded with sound events that were emitted in a regular way. The work was created in Stockholm's EMS Studios and was commissioned by the Swedish Institute for National Concerts in 1983.
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Date: 1983/1984
Duration: 17 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Parmerud, AÌŠke, 1953-

Rag, Rag, Rag

Description: Recordings of Marek Choloniewski's "Rag, Rag, Rag" (includes five recordings, the last of which is a reduction). The piece is a transcription of the constructions of instrumental music with added electronic improvisation. Traditions of contemporary music meet those of jazz and rock, giving the piece a three part structure.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Chołoniewski, Marek, 1953-

Mu Song

Description: Recording of Richard Karpen's Mu Song. Karpen used the programs "Music II" sound synthesis language and "Score II" not list preprocessor in the composition of this piece. It was realized at the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 18 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Karpen, Richard, 1957-

Pax

Description: Recording of Gottfried Martin's Pax for tape. Includes electronic and natural sounds, including voice, news recordings, and recordings of war sounds.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 18 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Martin, Gottfried
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