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[Clipping: Dickens program will open NT Lyceum lecture series]

Description: Newspaper clipping from the Denton Record-Chronicle, printed Sunday, September 18, 1977. The article, Dickens program will open NT Lyceum lecture series, was written in regards to the opening program for the Kingsbury Lyceum lecture series at North Texas State University. The opening program is titled, "Dickens' Trip in America" by Dr. Jerry Don Vann.
Date: September 18, 1977
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[Clipping: Museums capture Denton's past]

Description: Newspaper clipping from the Denton Record-Chronicle, printed Sunday, November 13, 1977. The article, Museums capture Denton's past, was written in regards to three Denton museums that are participating in the Denton County Historical Festival and History Appreciation Week. The three museums mentioned are The Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, Texas Woman's University Alumnae Historical Museum, and North Texas State University Historical Collection.
Date: November 13, 1977
Creator: Sid Graham
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clipping: Viewing History]

Description: Newspaper clipping of a photo of a woman viewing a framed photograph in an exhibit. A caption accompanies the photo, describing that the Grimes County photographic exhibit at the North Texas State University Historical Collection is part of the activities planned for History Appreciation Week.
Date: November 10, 1977
Creator: Jim Mahoney
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clipping: Historical groundbreaking]

Description: Newspaper clipping of a photo of Mayor Ellinor Hughes and County Judge Dan Trammell digging into the ground to prepare for a historical marker. A caption accompanies the photo, describing that a historical marker will be placed for the city of Denton on the lawn of the courthouse as part of the Texas Historical Commissions preservation program.
Date: November 10, 1977
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Dinner dress

Description: Dinner dress of black velvet. Scoop neck with decoration of cut-out, vandyke points. Long sleeves with points matching neckline; inserted empire waistline. Full length gathered skirt. Center back zipper closure; lined in black silk. Designer label: Elinor Simmons / for / Malcolm Starr
Date: 1977/1979
Creator: Simmons, Elinor
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Wedding dress

Description: Wedding dress of ivory cotton with lace details, scoop neckline, long sleeves with cuffs and a wide band at empire waistline. Designer's label: "Gunne / Sax / by / Jessica / San Francisco" Care label: "Hand Wash / Separately in / Cold Water / Drip Dry / Use Cool Iron / 82 Size 5 619 A / Contents reverse side" and "100% Cotton / Lace 100% Nylon / Lining 100% Acetate" "RN49422"
Date: 1977
Creator: McClintock, Jessica
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

With the Light Pen

Description: Recording of Theresa Rampazzi's With the Light Pen. The equipment used is an I.C.M.S. video terminal relayed with the IB IMB 370/158 computer. This device was designed by the engineer Graziano Tisato at the Computing Center of the University of Padua. Bessel functions applied by Rampazzi.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 43 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Rampazzi, Teresa
Partner: UNT Music Library

Timbri 1597-1977

Description: Recording of Theresa Rampazzi's Timbri 1597-1977. The work is realized only with the synthesizer ARP. The sounds by program Gabriel are inverted without any elaboration. The mixing work was produced in Rampazzi's private studio.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Rampazzi, Teresa
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Pluriversum

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals's Pluriversum. Work was produced at IPEM, using 2 sequencers. The materials were sinusoidal, square and triangular waves, and the transformations were filtering, transpositions, frequency modulation, manual editing. Quarter-tone composition, constructed from a single basic figure of 24 sounds, whose multiple transformations are organized in 49 sequences, divided into 3 sound layers. The variable superposition of the 3 layers can give rise to a considerable number of… more
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Date: 1977
Duration: 57 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien
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Stones of Jerusalem

Description: Recording of Joseph Dorfman's The Stones of Jerusalem, in three sections, "Galeed"--based off of Genesis 31; "Altar"--based off of Exodus 20; and "Tables of Testimony"--based off of Exodus 31 and Exodus 34.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 31 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Dorfman, Joseph
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Mimoïde

Description: Recording of Emmanuel Van Weerst's Mimoïde.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 21 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Weerst, Emmanuel van
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Cercles Vicieux

Description: Recording of Fernando Lafferriere's Cercle Vicieux. The title "Cercle Vicieux" is an allusion to the technical means used: the electronic re-feeding (feedback or Ruckkopplung) considered as a vicious circle in an amplifier. The piece, in ternary, is of a very simple formal design; in the alternation of movements, moderate-slow-brisk, almost traditional.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Lafferriere, Fernando
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Red Bird

Description: Recording of Trevor Wishart's Red Bird. The resources available for its realization were-6 semi-professional TR (all stereo) (Revox A77s), a portable Nagra stereo TR, microphone recording equipment (but NO soundproofed recording facilities), and a 12-in, 4-out mixer. The only filters available during most of the period of composition were the EQ controls on the mixer. Specific source-sounds are chosen to solve specific problems in the realization in sound of the preconceived form scheme. In gen… more
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Date: 1977
Duration: 44 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Wishart, Trevor
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Sinfonia for Computer

Description: Recording of William Schottstaedt's Sinfonia for Computer. "Sinfonia" was composed between June and October 1977 on the PDP-10 digital computer at Stanford University's Artificial intelligence Center. All sounds were created using non-linear synthesis techniques, mainly frequency modulation and Wavesaping. "Sinfonia" has three movements entitled "An introduction to Forensic Toxicology," "Bucky Bug's Composure Corner," and "Death by Drowning." It is dedicated to CCRMA project director John Chown… more
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Date: 1977
Duration: 13 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Schottstaedt, Bill, 1951-
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Lo Canto del Planeta

Description: Recording of John Anthony Celona's Lo Canto del Planeta. Lo Canto Del Pianeta (the song of the planet) is a computer-generated composition in four channels based on the digital software synthesis of complex waveforms using the principle of frequency modulation. Timbral complexes result resembling "natural" instrumental timbres. The auditory images are essentially: brass-like, reed-like, bell-like, and percussion-like. Rhythmic relations, in particular crisp attack cues, and distinct timbral im… more
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Date: 1977
Duration: 50 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Celona, John, 1947-
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Diamant

Description: Recording of John Elmsly's Diamant for electronic sounds. Diamant was composed in 1977, using a Flemish poem written and read by Chris Dries as text. Using a simple bank of tuned oscillators, a sequencer pattern to modulate an oscillator, and very simple tape manipulations to leave the words as intact as possible the work is intended as a meditative coloring of the poem. The tape was realized in the IPEM studio in Gent, Belgium.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 11 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Elmsly, John
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Thème et Variations

Description: Recording of Arthur Kreiger's Thème et Variations. This piece was composed at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, and composed in its image. "The timbral qualities were very thick and defined; the rhythms like an epileptic machine gunner; and the pitches right out of another decade."
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Date: 1977
Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Kreiger, Arthur, 1945-
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Manipulation II

Description: Recording of Miklos Maros's Manipulation II performed by Ilona Maros. The technique in this work is much like that used in Manipulation I by the same composer, but without the conditionals made possible by the Svensson box. The solo voice appears by itself, with or without treatment. Also, tape delay is used.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Maros, Miklós, 1943-
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Sweet Jesus and the Honkies

Description: Recording of Reynold Weidenaar's Sweet Jesus and the Honkies. Sounds were processed by multiple delay, equalization, echo chamber, overload distortion, phasing, expansion, flanging, cross-channel penning, tape scrape flutter, editing, variable speed, multiple generation, feedback, and tape delay echo. The recording machines used included one 4-track tape recorder and three 2-track tape recorders.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 8 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Weidenaar, Reynold, 1945-
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Shadow Music

Description: Recording of Ross Harris's Shadow Music. A single sound source--an orchestral chord--is used to generate all the materials and sonority of this piece. The work is in one movement in which the source undergoes continual transformation through speed changes, modulation, and filtering. The devices used to make this work: variable speed tape playback, filters, ring modulation, and tape recorders.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 8 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Harris, Ross, 1945-
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Par La Fenêtre Entrouverte

Description: Recording of Bruno D'auzon's Par La Fenêtre Entrouverte. This piece, varying in articulation, draws its basic materials from the four types of sound sources generally used in electroacoustic composition (concert sounds, electronic sounds, musical instruments, human voice). The initial sampling however remains intentionally restricted within each of these categories (concrete: sustained percussions on a resonating body; electronic: three fixed frequencies, a glissando; instrument: string, isolat… more
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Date: 1977/1978
Duration: 6 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Auzon, Bruno d', 1948-
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Les Inventeurs

Description: Recording of Rune Lindblad's Les Inventeurs The composition is based upon a poem of the French writer René Chars. Especially the relationships between freedom and discipline, cognizance an action, and other items like solitude and community, have been important when shaping the piece, which have resulted in the creation of voice fragments, solo or chorus, mixed with inarticulate screams and stifled exclamations.
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Date: 1977/1978
Duration: 8 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Lindblad, Rune, 1923-1991
Partner: UNT Music Library
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