UNT Music Library - 530 Matching Results

Search Results

prev Results: 21 - 44 next
transcript

Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Billy Taylor discuss jazz and Africa (with examples)

Description: A longer-form discussion of jazz and its potential antecedents in the music and culture of western Africa between Conover and pianist Billy Taylor, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and bandleader and composer Quincy Jones. This version of the discussion includes examples. This material may have been used in Music USA #2352-B.
Date: 1962
Duration: 31 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis

Don't hesitate, do it right now

Description: Recording of Sten Hanson's Don't hesitate, do it right now. This work consists of 4 separate pieces: 'Che', 'The Glorious Desertion', 'Don't hesitate, do it right now', and 'Revolution'. This collection of pieces were inspired by the ADC (American Deserters Committee), a group of American soldiers that found sanctuary in Sweden after deserting the American army during the Vietnam war. The spoken text in this piece is sampled from a speech given by Che Guevara, a public figure who took part in C… more
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1968
Duration: 10 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013

Doppelrohr II

Description: Recording of Bengt Hambraeus' Doppelroho II. The title indicates that Hambraeus has used as his basic material the range of tones produced by an organ. In this work timbral manipulation becomes a new compositional element. The importance of the organ is immediately established not only in its exclusive use, but as one of the most effective timbral fillers of the gap between live and electronic music.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1966
Duration: 3 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Hambræus, Bengt, 1928-2000
transcript

Duke Ellington at the White House - insert for NBC Monitor

Description: An excerpt from the recording of Duke Ellington's 70th birthday party at the White House on April 29, 1969, for use on the NBC radio program Monitor.
Date: May 10, 1969
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis

Electronic Compositions (1964-1965)

Description: 1. Lemon Drops: commissioned by Magnavox Corp.; Darmstadt, W. Germany, 3.22.67; Pub. Lingua Press 2. For Harry: (dedicated to Harry Partch); Electronic Music Concert, U. Illinois, 3.10.64 3. Fat Millie's Lament: (dedicated to MF); Electronic Music Concert, University of Illinois, 3.10.64 Pub. Lingua Press 4. The Wasting of Lucrecetzia; Electronic Music Concert, University of Illinois, 1.2.65; Pub. Lingua Press 5. Dante's Joynte; incorporated into Lingua I: Poems & Other Theaters (cf. below for … more
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: [1964,1965]
Duration: 23 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Gaburo, Kenneth

Energies

Description: "This piece made in 1969 with extremely modest means was integrated in 1972 into a triptych, Assemblages, which accompanied an exhibition of "Volumes éclatés" by the sculptor Michel Anasse. It can be considered the third of my "presentable" studies. “Energies” was part of the material submitted in 1988 for the first "Magisterium" of the Bourges Competition, which was obtained. "
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1969
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-

Ensemble: 1962-04-03 – One O’Clock Lab Band

Description: Ensemble concert performed at UNT College of Music Main Auditorium.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: April 3, 1962
Duration: 50 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: One O'Clock Lab Band

Exigencies

Description: Recording of George Balch Wilson's Exigencies for eight channel tape. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Balch_Wilson)
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1968
Duration: 4 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Wilson, George Balch, 1927-

Fantasie

Description: Recording of Paul Pedersen's Fantasie. This 8 minute, 2-track tape piece was composed in 1967 at the Mc Gill University electronic Music Studio. The work was conceived as a multimedia presentation using 3 projectors with hand painted slides by the Montreal artist Gino Bielanski. The piece is in 15 sections, which are synchronized with the fifteen slides used in the centre projector. Pitch organization in the work is centered on a 9 pitch series between 77 and 2335 Hz with successive pitches 20… more
Date: 1967
Duration: 6 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Pedersen, Paul, 1935-

Der Frieden

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Der Frieden.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1968
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010

Gargoyles

Description: Recording of Otto Luening's Gargoyles.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1960/1961
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
transcript

Gerry Mulligan, Moscow Jam Session, 1967, Part I

Description: The first of two recordings from which selections for Music USA #4618-B were taken, featuring Gerry Mulligan playing a borrowed alto saxophone in a jam session at Moscow's Molodezhnoe (Youth) Café.
Date: July 1967
Duration: 34 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
transcript

Gerry Mulligan, Moscow Jam Session, 1967, Part II

Description: The second of two recordings from which selections for Music USA #4618-B were taken, featuring Gerry Mulligan playing a borrowed alto saxophone in a jam session at Moscow's Molodezhnoe (Youth) Café.
Date: July 1967
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis

Gueraria repano

Description: Recording of José Vicente Asuar's Gueraria repano
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1968
Duration: 14 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Asuar, José Vicente, 1933-

Gurges

Description: Recording of Rudolf Ružička's Gurges. The composer calls this piece a "space matrix composition." It was created on the strength of promulgation of international trial electronic and concrete composition "Musica nova." It was composed in Pilsener Electronic Laboratory in November 1969 .
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1969
Duration: 12 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Ružička, Rudolf (composer)

Hydrophonie I

Description: Recording of Werner Kaegi's Hydeophonie I for 4-track tape. It was composed and realized in 1969 in the studios of the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht (Holland). The piece is based on the possibilities offered by a generator with a variable function which, at the time, preceded the digital computer. Kaegi's work is based on programmed and descriptive structures. All the musical material was generated in a purely synthetic way, all resembling the "reality" having come only from the musical str… more
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1969
Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Kaegi, Werner

Intensidad y altura

Description: Recording of César Bolaños' Intensidad y altura. This work is based on a poem by the same name by Cesar Vallejo and uses sound material from the read poem. Other acoustic materials were modified later with the usual procedures for Tape Music. This piece was the first electroacoustic piece composed at CLAEM.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1964
Duration: 5 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Bolaños, César
transcript

Interview with Ella Fitzgerald, for Voices of VISTA #127

Description: Willis Conover interviews Ella Fitzgerald for "Voices of VISTA" program number 127. The short programs featured various celebrities and were used, like Treasury broadcasts in decades past, to promote the U.S. government's Volunteers in Service to America program.
Date: May 10, 1968
Duration: 16 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
transcript

Interview with Gil Evans

Description: An interview with Gil Evans, apparently included in Music USA #4884-B, broadcast May 16, 1968.
Date: March 4, 1968
Duration: 6 minutes 01 second
Creator: Conover, Willis

Kiosque

Description: Recording of Alain Savouret's Kiosque.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1969
Duration:
Creator: Savouret, Alain, 1942-

Kiosque

Description: Recording of Alain Savouret's Kiosque. This piece was created for live instruments and stereo tape. It's imagining a situation: in the center of the kiosk, someone is playing the score of their existence. Like any concert in a square, it is disturbed, distorted by external manifestations, foreign to the score. But here, in this particular situation, it is musical actions, taken over by the instrumentalists of Opus 9, which will disturb, prevent or perhaps facilitate the performance of this scor… more
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1969
Duration: 31 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Savouret, Alain, 1942-

Lekcja

Description: Recording of Eugeniusz Rudnik's Lekcja.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: 1965
Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Rudnik, Eugeniusz
Back to Top of Screen