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An Island of Tears

Description: Recording of Jonathan Berger's An Island of Tears.
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Date: 1985
Duration: 52 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Berger, Jonathan, 1954-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Subterranean Network

Description: Subterranean Network, commissioned by Hartt School of Music, is an electronic work which seeks to evoke a sense of the experience of the tunnel fighting in Cu Chi during the Vietnam War. These tunnels, from which the Viet Cong fought much of the war, were dark, narrow, poorly ventilated hell holes, filled with booby traps and inconceivable real and psychological terrors which plagued the American soldiers, known as tunnel rats, whose duty it was to explore them. These men, if not killed by boo… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 34 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Payne, Maggi
Partner: UNT Music Library

Music for Viola, Cello, and Tape

Description: Music for Viola, Cello, and Tape was written and premiered in Paris in 1985. This work brings together two extremely different aspects of my musical experience: improvisational music and music involving computers. These two musical domains, representing intuition and rationale - opposites yet complements - hold a great deal of interest for me. This trio explores the interactions among three soloists, one being a tape of computer-generated sounds; in which no part plays a secondary role. The two… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 6 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Lippe, Cort, 1953-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Voyage

Description: It is a piece for 4-track tape, composed between November 1985 and August 1986 at CEMAMu (Centre d'Etudes de Mathématiques et Automatique Musicale) in Paris, using the UPIC, a graphically oriented computer system designed by Iannis Xenakis. The mixing was done in October 1986 at the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio and Television in Warsaw with Ewa Guziolek as sound engineer. With the UPIC system, the composer is able to design all aspects of the music by means of an electro-magnetically… more
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Date: 1985/1986
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Harley, James, 1959-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Estudio Electrónico II

Description: Composed in the Laboratory of Investigation and Musical Production (LIPM) of the Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Was composed with a Synclavier II. The original mixture was composed in four channels. The sonorous material was elaborated from 34 basic timbres generated from sinusoidal sounds, harmonic, inharmonic spectrum or colored noise bands. The different structures happen one after another, without stopping.
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Date: 1985
Duration: 7 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Rapp, Jorge, 1946-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Dorian

Description: A universe. Self-contained. Where timbre were the principal item. To force it into another state; apart; and let it, in accordance with its own laws, return to its rest; and then to begin to compose. Bend and vary, change and break. To alter some kind of perfection in order to attain something else. Two main items shared the conception of this piece: the possible richness in perception provoked by the duality: whole versus parts; and the possibility of mapping into musical events the behaviou… more
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Date: 1985/1986
Duration: 20 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: González Arroyo, Ramon
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Palimpsest

Description: "Sound recycling" would be the perfect term for Gerald Trimmel's composition cycle called "Palimpsest". When Trimmel performed his first "Palimpsest" in 1985, he did not consider this work as a final result. The following compositions were characterized by various procedures of sound accumulations and structural rearrangements. A lot of acoustic ready mades and complex structured sound elements were inserted, which first covered up and by and by extinguished the older ones. So the shrinkin… more
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Date: [1985..1990]
Duration: 22 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Trimmel, Gérard, 1962- & Böhm, Peter, 1961-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Alternances

Description: "Alternances" for violin, clarinet, piano, percussion, cello and tape was written in 1985, the electroacoustic effects being made in the studio of Romanian Radio-Television. The room consists of seven sections, including sections 2, 4 and 6 on tape. The 6th section on tape and "life" is the recurrence of the second section, of the same existing correspondence between sections 1 and 7, 3 and 4. The dominant idea of ​​the work is that of the imbsication of parallel music, with particular characte… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Iorgulescu, Adrian
Partner: UNT Music Library
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[Lone Star Sesquicentennial - audio presentations by Pinson, Fox, and Sibley]

Description: Sound recording of panelists at the Lone Star Sesquicentennial conference hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. Moderator: Archie McDonald; First panelist: Margaret Sweat Pinson; Second panelist: Daniel E. Fox; Third panelist: Dr. Marilyn McAdams Sibley, reading, "Lone Stars and State Gazettes: Texas Newspapers Before the Civil War." Side A ends in the middle of Pinson's lecture. Side B begins with Fox's presentation, and ends in the middle of Sibley's lecture.
Date: November 8, 1985
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 50 seconds
Location: 30.290196 -97.740780
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Triptych

Description: Recording of John Elmsly's, Triptych. In this work very simple technology is explored for musical results: the tape part was created using nothing more than one synthesizer, sequenced and overdubbed in real-time on a multi-track tape recorder. In all three pieces the aim was to write enjoyable but challenging music where the tape enlarges the performing space for the solo trumpet.
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Date: 1985
Duration: 12 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Elmsly, John
Partner: UNT Music Library
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[Lone Star Sesquicentennial - audio presentation by Dr. Marilyn McAdams Sibley]

Description: Sound recording of Dr. Marilyn McAdams Sibley reading from, "Lone Stars and State Gazettes: Texas Newspapers Before the Civil War," at the Lone Star Sesquicentennial conference hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. Footage begins in the middle of Sibley's presentation.
Date: November 8, 1985
Duration: 19 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Hays, Margaret Parx
Location: 30.290196 -97.740780
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Lone Star Sesquicentennial - audio presentations by Doughty and guest panelist]

Description: Sound recording of panelists at the Lone Star Sesquicentennial conference hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. First panelist: unknown; Second panelist: Robin Doughty, PhD. Clip 1 begins in the middle of the first presentation. Clip 2 ends in the middle of Doughty's lecture.
Date: November 7, 1985
Duration: 57 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Hays, Margaret Parx
Location: 30.290196 -97.740780
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Lone Star Sesquicentennial - audio presentations by Fehrenbach and guest panelist]

Description: Sound recording of panelists at the Lone Star Sesquicentennial conference held by the University of Texas at Austin. First panelist: T.R. Fehrenbach, presenting, "The Texas Revolution in Perspective"; Second panelist: unknown. Fehrenbach's speech is cut off and the recording proceeds in the middle of the second presentation.
Date: November 7, 1985
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: Hays, Margaret Parx
Location: 30.290196 -97.740780
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Lone Star Sesquicentennial - audio presentations by Doughty, de la Teja, and Downs]

Description: Sound recording of panelists at the Lone Star Sesquicentennial conference hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. First panelist: Robin Doughty, PhD; Second panelist: Frank de la Teja, PhD; Third panelist: Fane Downs, PhD; Moderator: T. R. Fehrenbach, author of the book "Lone Star", described as a historian who made Texas larger than life. Doughty gives a biographical account of an early pioneer frontierswoman; de la Teja discusses life in San Antonio in the 1820s; Downs discusses the rol… more
Date: November 7, 1985
Duration: 55 minutes 23 seconds
Location: 30.290196 -97.740780
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Conversation in a family home

Description: Recording of informal conversation in a family home.
Date: November 23, 1985
Duration: 36 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of zaikhawm hla at Christmas

Description: Recording of the Mizos of Tezpur singing Christmas songs in Tezpur, Assam. These songs are in the zaikhawm hla style, which is a group singing style. zai means "to sing", khawm means "together," hla means "song". This type of music is often sung after a big meal or event, such as funerals or Christmas celebrations. People often get up and dance during these performances.
Date: December 29, 1985
Duration: 7 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of zaikhawm hla

Description: Recording of the Mizos of Tezpur singing Christmas songs in Tezpur, Assam. These songs are in the zaikhawm hla style, which is a group singing style. zai means "to sing", khawm means "together," hla means "song". This type of music is often sung after a big meal or event, such as funerals or Christmas celebrations. People often get up and dance during these performances.
Date: December 29, 1985
Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytical discussion of dialectal variation

Description: Discussion and comparison of two Mizo dialects: the northern and southern dialect. For example, "in the north we say X, and in the south we say Y." The male speaker is from the south, and the female speaker is from the north.
Date: 1985
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of Lalruanga leh Keichala

Description: Recording a retelling of Lalruanga and Keichala, a traditional narrative about a being that is a tiger (keimi) that can take on human form. This story has several episodes involving magic and mythology.
Date: September 18, 1985
Duration: 29 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of a song by a Mizo child

Description: Recording of a Mizo child, age 6, beating on drum and singing.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling, updating them on the children at home.
Date: November 23, 1985
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Monologue on family members

Description: Recording of Thangpuii, Lalnunthangi Chhangte's paternal grandmother, describing her husband and his family. She tells what she can remember about his childhood.
Date: November 1985
Duration: 31 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Thangpuii
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of zaikhawm hla at Christmas

Description: Recording of the Mizos of Tezpur singing Christmas songs in Tezpur, Assam. These songs are in the zaikhawm hla style, which is a group singing style. zai means "to sing", khawm means "together," hla means "song". This type of music is often sung after a big meal or event, such as funerals or Christmas celebrations. People often get up and dance during these performances. In this song, a woman calls out the verses and the rest of the group responds.
Date: December 29, 1985
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of zaikhawm hla

Description: Recording of the Mizos of Tezpur singing in Tezpur, Assam. These songs are in the zaikhawm hla style, which is a group singing style. zai means "to sing", khawm means "together," hla means "song". This type of music is often sung after a big meal or event, such as funerals or Christmas celebrations. People often get up and dance during these performances.
Date: November 23, 1985
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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