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Setting for spirituals

Description: Recording of Joel Chadabe's Setting for spirituals.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 18 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Chadabe, Joel
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Recorded

Description: Recording of Vladan Radovanović's Recorded. The attention in this piece is focused on the interaction of sound and semantic aspects of the word "recorded" and the sounds that accompany it. At times reversible elements oppose the irreversibility of the flow of the word.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Radovanović, Vladan, 1932-
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Unter dem Pflasterstein liegt der Strand

Description: Recording of Martin Schwarzenlander's Unter dem Pflasterstein liegt der Strand. The music is interspersed with text about demonstrations in East Germany during the 1970s.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 12 minutes
Creator: Schwarzenlander, Martin
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For Jon - Fragments of a time to come

Description: Recording of Lars Gunnar Bodin's For Jon - Fragments of a time to come. The work is a dramatic cantata, with vocal sections for both chorus and soloists alternating with recitatives and instrumental interludes. It is based on a series of texts characterized by a kind of "surrealistic science fiction" testimony and reports about experience in other worlds, real or imaginary. The texts are never sung but are often melodically "coloured", "composed" with the aid of electronic means. The compositio… more
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Date: 1977
Duration: 32 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Bodin, Lars-Gunnar, 1935-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA playlists, 1977

Description: A partial set of playlists for individual Music USA programs 8038 through 8128, broadcast in 1977, along with a list of broadcast dates for programs from June through December of that year. There are 24 pages in this document.
Date: 1977
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library

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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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-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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11 september

Description: Recording of Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen's "11 september." The text is from a document called "What is MIR?" which was sent out illegally in Chile in 1974 and from the appeal of MIR two years after the taking over by the junta, on September 11, 1975. A left-wing party, MIR stayed in Chile in order to contribute as efficiently as possible to the building of the opposition. Other sound material also includes sounds from a typewriter and a demonstration at Bastad, Sweden in September 1975 at a tennis m… more
Date: 1977
Duration: 9 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Carl
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Sweet Jesus and the Honkies

Description: Recording of Reynold Weidenaar's Sweet Jesus and the Honkies. “Sweet Jesus and the Honkies” is ideally meant to be listened to several times in a non-reverberant environment. The piece makes use of recording techniques which enhance the sound, giving it a feeling of depth and spaciousness. By design, these techniques also reduce the intelligibility of the spoken word. Much of the spoken source material for this piece was only moderately intelligible to begin with. The words as they now stand be… more
Date: 1977
Duration: 8 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Weidenaar, Reynold
Partner: UNT Music Library
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