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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

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

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

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

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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Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds

Description: This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including folk dramas, myths, folk music, stories about farming and agriculture, religious folk stories, and information about folk customs, dances and folk art. The index begins on page 157.
Date: 1972
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
Partner: UNT Press
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[News Clip: School plan]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 18, 1979, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Complejo Hidroelectrico General Jose Antonio Paez: Sedimentos en el Embalse

Description: This report is on a study to quantify the production of sediment created by erosion in the upper basin of the Rio Santo Domingo dam site and determine the magnitude of the problem of sedimentation in the "Hydroelectric Complex General Jose Antonio Paez" reservoir.
Date: 1975
Creator: Yanes, Adolfo & Guevara, Juan M.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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El amor como fuerza motivadora en la vida y obra poética y dramática de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

Description: This thesis presents a study of events in the life of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, a lyric poetess and dramatist during the Romantic period, as motivating forces in her literary career. As might be expected in the case of a true representative of the Romantic period, Avellaneda's passions and personal life are reflected in all of her works. She uses human and divine love as the main themes throughout all of her literary production, especially in her lyric poetry and the four tragedies chosen … more
Date: May 1977
Creator: Milián, Marta Lucrecia
Partner: UNT Libraries
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La violencia en el Teatro de Guillén de Castro

Description: This analysis, written in Spanish, compares the use of violence in four of Castro's dramas with its use in their sources and in the works of other Golden Age authors. Chapter II investigates the manner in which the plays based on Greek myths compare with the original stories and with the ancient Classical theater. Each of the four following chapters compares one of Castro's plays to contemporary works with the same plot. The conclusion indicates that Castro's plays do not show an extraordinary … more
Date: August 1979
Creator: Gibson, Sue L.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Paisanos: A Folklore Miscellany

Description: Collection of Texas and Mexican folklore, including "folk tales, folklore in journalism, reflections on the lore of the past, and some analyses of folklore generally" (inside of the front cover).
Date: 1978
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Partner: UNT Press
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[Letter from Pedro J. Gonzalez to Felipe Contreras Pérez]

Description: Letter from Pedro J. Gonzalez to Felipe Contreras Pérez. A long, curving title is printed above small lines of text that sit above and beside a bird icon, below which is a printed date. Beneath the date is a stamped seal and a wide column of text positioned to the right of a smaller text column. The wide column of text continues onto the page's back and ends above a signature that has a second stamped seal to its left.
Date: October 6, 1979
Creator: Parlee, Lorena, 1945-2006
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter to William L. McIntyre from Pedro J. Gonzalez, 3]

Description: Letter to William L. McIntyre from Pedro J. Gonzalez. A long, curving title is printed above small lines of text that are positioned above and beside a bird icon, below which is a printed date. Beneath the date is a wide column of text positioned to the right of a smaller text column. The wider text column continues onto the back of the page and ends above a signature, below which is a single block of text printed above a second signature. A red stamp depicting a man is placed on the letter's e… more
Date: December 22, 1978
Creator: Parlee, Lorena, 1945-2006
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from William L. McIntyre to Pedro J. Gonzalez, 3]

Description: Letter from William L. McIntyre to Pedro J. Gonzalez. Two ruled paper sheets have paragraphs of handwritten text across their front sides. The first page contains addresses and the letter's main message while the second page contains a postscript.
Date: December 15, 1978
Creator: Parlee, Lorena, 1945-2006
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Pedro J. Gonzalez to Hernenejildo Cuenos Diaz]

Description: Letter from Pedro J. Gonzalez to Hernenejildo Cuenos Diaz. On the fronts of the two pages are long, curving titles printed above small lines of text that sit above and beside bird icons, below which are printed dates. Beneath the dates are wide columns of text positioned to the right of narrower text columns. The first page has handwriting overlapping some of its printed text while the second page has a signature and handwritten word near its bottom edge. On the back of the first page is a wide… more
Date: April 8, 1973
Creator: Parlee, Lorena, 1945-2006 & Gonzalez, Pedro J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Solicitando justicia para los veteranos de la rev. de la Baja, California"]

Description: "Solicitando justicia para los veteranos de la rev. de la Baja, California." Om the first page, small blocks of text are printed above a wide, paragraphed column of text. The second page has "1973" handwritten at its top, above two paragraphs and a stamped seal.
Date: April 6, 1973
Creator: Parlee, Lorena, 1945-2006
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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