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American Bandmasters Association, Arlington, TX, 1972
Group photo of attendees of the 1972 American Bandmasters Association meeting in Arlington, Texas. The group, which may be entirely composed of men, appears to be standing on choir risers, with a smaller row of men seated at the front. This photo is from the Don and Barbara Gillis Collection.
Aura Rully with Duke Ellington at the 1972 Newport Jazz Festival
Aura Rully (Urziceanu) performs with Duke Ellington at the 1972 Newport Jazz Festival.
Faculty Recital: 1972-03-22 – Dika Newlin, piano
Faculty recital presented at North Texas State University School of Music Recital Hall.
[Generating Instrumental Music by the Computer]
Journal article discussing computer generated music jointly prepared by M.G. Bidnurkar and Padma Rangachari.
Mithril Canticles
Recording of Michael Christopher's Mithril Canticles. This piece is a heavily edited work utilizing two opposing sound ideas. One is "noise-oriented" sound achieved through fast sequential activity processed by ring modulating the reverb. This activity is opposed to the three-to-five note tune which permeates the work.
Music USA playlists, 1972
A partial set of playlists for individual Music USA programs 6211 through 6572, broadcast in 1972. There are 134 pages in this document.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #1
The first program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program introduces the first half of the 1940s, with discussion of wartime culture, celebrity participation in the war effort, and the Golden Age of Radio.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #2
The second program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program highlights the year 1940, with discussion of the "sweet" bands and the influence of Bing Crosby.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #3
The third program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program continues to highlight songs from 1940 (and slightly before and after), with discussion of vocalists, and the impending war.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #4
The fourth program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program highlights the year 1941, with discussion of the ASCAP boycott and BMI, and the Second World War.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #5
The fifth program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program continues the previous program's emphasis on 1941, with discussion of the music of Freddy Martin, as well as of "sweet" bands and gimmick (or "Mickey Mouse") bands, and wartime novelty songs.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #6
The sixth program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program highlights the year 1942, with discussion of wartime music and culture, and cultural reflections of domestic mobilization in the U.S.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #7
The seventh program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program continues the previous program's emphasis on the year 1942, with discussion of the songs of Johnny Mercer, Capitol Records, and mass migration connected to the war effort.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #8
The eighth program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program highlights the years 1942 and 1943, with discussion of Frank Sinatra, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #9
The ninth program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program highlights the year 1943, with discussion of wartime movies.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #10
The tenth program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program highlights the year 1944, with continued discussion of wartime culture.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #11
The eleventh program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program highlights the time frame around 1944, with discussion of Hollywood's output during the war.
Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #12
The twelfth program in John Gilliland’s 24-program series on popular music and culture in the 1940s, produced following the success of his extensive Pop Chronicles series on the 1950s and 1960s. This program is the finale of Part I of the series, which covered 1940 through 1945, and was originally broadcast in October and November of 1972. It highlights the end of the Second World War, with discussion of armed forces' return home, and "dream" songs.
Pop Chronicles Interviews #130 - Milton Berle
Recording of John Gilliland interviewing Milton Berle for the Pop Chronicles radio program series.
Pop Chronicles Interviews #142 - Allan Jones
Recording of John Gilliland interviewing actor Allan Jones for the Pop Chronicles radio program series.
School of Music Program Book 1971-1972
Fall/Spring performances program book from the 1971-1972 school year at the North Texas State University School of Music.
Signal Messe
Recording of Peter Tod Lewis's Signal Messe. "Signal-messe" is an attempt to make a single coherent "bi-sensory" experience from two independent media expressions. The "performers" were the creators, having long since stored their improvisations on magnetic tape or film. The "mess" of stored "signals" was severely cut, edited, processed, mixed, according to a structure that seemed to be dictated by the material itself (though, naturally, in light of subjective considerations). The structure continued to emerge when the two elements, tape and film, were presented together. It was evident they had much in common: the film seemed, incredibly, a visual analogy of the music, their internal rhythms identical. It remained simply to synchronize the two to match certain salient audio features with video ones. The film is a movie of various video patterns produced largely through video feedback of a black and white system and then converted to color by a video color quantized, a unique device which allows the operator to assign virtually any color to any value in the video grey scale. The film provides a window (a “space gate?”) into a fantastic color world that just might be the same aesthetic realm as that of the sound.
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