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Invocation

Description: Recording of Hugh Le Caine's Invocation. The piece opens with a trio of three recorded sounds: a glass that is broken with a hammer, a ping-pong ball hitting a racket, and a drop of water. These sounds are the "instruments" used throughout the piece. Drips are configured as fast ascending and descending glissandi. A series of chords is constructed from a sustained movement of glass stamps. The sound of the ping-pong ball - from the left to the right - gradually accelerates. Severe rumbling and … more
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Date: 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Le Caine, Hugh, 1914-1977
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Partner: UNT Music Library

Ninety nine Generators

Description: Recording of Hugh le Caine's Ninety nine Generators. The title refers to the 99 organ sound generators sensitive keys - a separate generator for each note of the keyboard that can all be operated simultaneously. Le Caine here uses a resonance pedal and a device that can change the pitch to produce a vibrato or long glissandi impossible to achieve on an organ. The particular reverb of this piece is caused by the unusual acoustics of the place where it was realized.
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Date: 1956
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
Creator: Le Caine, Hugh, 1914-1977
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Partner: UNT Music Library

Dripsody

Description: Recording of Hugh le Caine's Dripsody. It is an study for variable speed recorder. It was composed in one night. Le Caine used a recording of a drop of water falling into a bucket, which he re- recorded different speeds, obtaining the heights of a pentatonic scale. Using 25 connectors and the variable speed tape recorder, it produced thousands of sound effects. Dripsody begins with the original sound of the water drop, repetition loop. Shortly afterwards, by adding more loops, the density of th… more
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Date: 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Le Caine, Hugh, 1914-1977
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Partner: UNT Music Library

[Interior of President's House, with members of the Matthews Family]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the President's House on the North Texas campus in Denton. Seated are (from left) J.C. Matthews, Rena Matthews; standing at right is Kenneth Matthews. The building was erected in 1956 near Fouts Field, and was demolished in 1999/2000. James Carl Matthews was president of North Texas State College/North Texas State University from 1951 to 1968.
Date: March 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.207666 -97.154661
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Elderly Females Singing, 1952]

Description: Photograph of two older women next to a piano during the Festival of 20th Century Music on April 8, 1952. One of the women is sitting on the piano's bench facing the second woman and is holding sheet music while the other woman stands next to her, facing toward the camera.
Date: 1952
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women's gymnasium #2]

Description: Photograph of the Women's Gymnasium on the North Texas campus in Denton. The building is made of brick, and has three sets of doors at the entrance. This building was built in 1951, and its name changed to Stovall Hall in 1991. The front of a parked car appears at the bottom left of the image, and the back of another car appears in the bottom right.
Date: [1951..1991]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.209360 -97.147471
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Women's gymnasium entrance]

Description: Photograph of the Women's Gymnasium on the North Texas campus in Denton. The building is made of brick, and has three sets of doors at the entrance. This building was built in 1951, and its name changed to Stovall Hall in 1991.
Date: [1951..1991]
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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