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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-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Sones de sanblas

Description: Recording of Jon Appleton Sones de sanblas.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 6 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Appleton, Jon
Partner: UNT Music Library

Echoes

Description: Recording of Beatriz Ferreyra's "Echos" with vocals by Mercedes Cornu. The piece was made from the "destructuration" of four Latin American songs: two Argentinian and two Brazilian. Cornu uses a variety of vocal sounds (long and short sounds, breaths, coughs, etc.).
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Date: 1979
Duration: 8 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Ferreyra, Beatriz, 1937-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Ahora

Description: Recording of Ivan Pequeño's Ahora.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 16 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Pequeño, Ivan
Partner: UNT Music Library

Corales poema sonoro

Description: Recording of Carlos Fariñas' and Sergio Barroso's Corales poema sonoro. This piece is excerpted from a show, "Dialogues," for band, instruments, images, and the public performed with Sergio Barroso in 1971. The sound poem is based on a montage of Cuban poems, which goes from a poetic enumeration of Cuban plants and trees to quotes from Macbeth and fragments of the Campaign Journal and other political narratives of José Martí (revolutionary, poet, founder of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, ideolo… more
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Date: 1970/1971
Duration: 6 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Fariñas, Carlos, 1934-2002 & Barroso, Sergio
Partner: UNT Music Library

Sensors IV

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Sensors IV performed in 1984 by the McGill Concert Choir, conducted by Christopher Reynolds. The tape was realized at the Composer's studio (SHELAN Studio) and McGill University EMS in Montreal, QC, Canada. The piece explores different techniques of vocal wiring, especially the relationship of semantics, languages, and memory. The word "Memory" constitutes the entire text for the piece - using letter sound, recombinations of the word, and adding syllables from other… more
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Date: 1983/1984
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
Partner: UNT Music Library

Malebolge

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana's Malebolge.
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Date: 1972
Duration: 18 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Ayayayaya

Description: Recording of Mesias Maiguashca's Ayayayaya.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Maiguashca, Mesias
Partner: UNT Music Library

Los proverbios

Description: Recording of Gerardo Gandini's Los Proverbios. It contains the sounds of human voices only in a fairly simple and straightforward structure. The piece was the composer's first purely electroacoustic composition.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Gandini, Gerardo, 1936-2013
Partner: UNT Music Library

Cuauhtémoc

Description: Recording of Antonio Mastrogiovanni's Cuauhtémoc. The work "Cuauhtémoc" is dedicated to this young Aztec king, who defended the city of Mexico against the Spanish conquerors commanded by Hernan Cortes. During the siege of this city, nine-tenths of the Aztec population was exterminated, and Cuauhtémoc himself was tortured and assassinated by Hernan Cortes. Three fragments of indigenous texts are used in the work: The first text is the one recited on the occasion of the birth of a Mexican child, … more
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Date: 1973
Duration: 14 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Mastrogiovanni, Antonio
Partner: UNT Music Library

Impossible a la x

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana Mejia's "Impossible a la x" ("Impossible to the X"). The piece raises the sonorous vision of a spiritual and violent situation, in which the primitive flows and their purity as a mimetic being and the "being children: are involved in clearly antithetical situations.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Tramos

Description: Recording of Eduardo Bértola's Tramos for tape. The piece was made from two sound sources: radio broadcasts and direct recordings of popular events. These materials were structured by simple juxtaposition excluding the mixes and any kind of development of the original sound. It is therefor a purely horizontal structure in which we note the union of fragments of hard edge, perfectly delimited, similar to that used in some works of North American Pop Art. In this way, Bértola expresses his own po… more
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Date: 1975
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Bértola, Eduardo, 1939-1996
Partner: UNT Music Library
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A Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain. Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, Signed at the City of Paris, on December 10, 1898.

Description: Book containing the text of the Treaty of Paris (1898) and accompanying papers, including statements from government officials, protocols from the conferences in Paris, France, and reports on colonies, protectorates, and states acquired by the United States via the treaty.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Senate.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mexican Light: Healthy Cuisine for Today's Cook

Description: Did you know that Pre-Columbian Mexican cuisine was low in fat and high in fiber and vitamins? Based on corn, squash, tomatoes, beans, and lean meats, the everyday diet of the first Americans was remarkably close to the recommendations for healthy eating we hear about every day. Now for the first time, cooks can use the secrets of the Aztecs in today’s kitchen, thanks to Kris Rudolph’s thoroughly researched cookbook. And because cooks from both sides of the border will be eager to try these rec… more
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Date: November 15, 2006
Creator: Rudolph, Kris
Partner: UNT Press

Miniature Forests of Cape Horn: Ecotourism with a Hand Lens

Description: From book jacket: In the humid forests of Cape Horn, a single tree can host more than 100 species of little epiphyte plants. The floor of the forest and the rocks are also covered by numerous species of liverworts, mosses, and lichens. The decision to stop at a tree or rock and explore these “miniature forests” generates an authentic ecotourism experience. In a small area we can spend several minutes or hours with a magnifying glass or camera discovering the colors, shapes, and textures of the … more
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Date: April 15, 2012
Creator: Goffinet, Bernard
Partner: UNT Press

[NTSN Students at a Cathedral in San Antonio, Texas]

Description: Photograph of NTSN posing in front of the San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio, Texas. In the image the group poses with banners of the university wearing suits and hats. A beggar boy wearing one shoe is watching and standing close to the group. The open entrance doors to the Cathedral is behind the group and two signs providing information about the church services, both in English and Spanish, are hanging on either side. Another set of doors are closed to the Cathedral in the far left of th… more
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Multi-Ethnic Bird Guide of the Sub-Antarctic Forests of South America

Description: The subantarctic forests of South America are the world’s southernmost forested ecosystems. The birds have sung in these austral forests for millions of years; the Yahgan and Mapuche peoples have handed down their bird stories from generation to generation for hundreds of years. In Multi-ethnic Bird Guide of the Subantarctic Forests of South America, Ricardo Rozzi and his collaborators present a unique combination of bird guide and cultural ethnography. The book includes entries on fifty bird … more
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Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo
Partner: UNT Press

Data Annex to the United Nations Truth Commission on the civil war in El Salvador from 1979--1991 (digitized text)

Description: This dataset contains statistical information transcribed from the supplementary documentation of a United Nations (UN) report compiled by The Commission on the Truth for El Salvador (La Comision de la Verdad para El Salvador). It includes information about approximately 20,000 civilian/noncombatant victims of the civil war in El Salvador (from 1979 to 1991) taken from interviews of those who survived or knew/knew of those who were victims.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Mason, T. David; Hamner, Jesse & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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