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Suiana Wanka

Description: Recording of Fernando Condon-Garcia's Suiana Wanka for tape. This work collects and develops independently the materials of a music scene for Peter Shafer work "The Royal Hunt of the Sun". It is based exclusively on sound recordings of various Latin American instruments such as the Indian flute, pincuyos, sicus, tarkas, mohecenos, various kinds of percussion, etc., to which are added, during some passages, instruments from European culture (organ, flute, bass). The original sound was made in a … more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Condon, Fernando, 1955-
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Juego de magos y gonilas

Description: Recording of David de Gandarias's "Juego de magos y gonilas" ("Game of Magicians and Gorillas"). Uses percussion instruments as sources of sound.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 16 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Gandarias, David de, 1951-
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Concerto for tape

Description: Recording of Bogusław Schäffer's Concerto for tape.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Schäffer, Bogusław
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Matin, matinée, soirée, nuit

Description: Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's "Matin, matinée, soirée, nuit." It is a work for children who conform to the adopted principles which should be of aesthetic values to initiate the broader sense of the term music. Mazurek introduced program elements to the music in order to train the young listener to attain the sense of psychological concentration needed for the perception of music. The musical layer lacks a homogeneous style, which results from the preconceived idea the diversity of functions th… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 12 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Mazurek, Bohdan
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Slow Dance on a Burial Ground

Description: Recording of Stephen Montague's "Slow Dance on a Burial Ground." Inspired by multi-traking and over-dubbling in pop music. Montague plays all various individual parts on folk flutes and log drums, playing at various speeds and other manipulations in an electronic studio to create at virtuosic product, even with modest skills on the instruments. The piece is an exploration in "Romantic minimalism," with its monthematic unfolding of a melody in the dorian mode and static harmony, but also with 18… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 24 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Montague, Stephen
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Cantata ai-ai-a

Description: Recording of Rudolf Růžička's Cantata ai-ai-a.
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Date: 1973
Duration: 13 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Růžička, Rudolf
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Music for two flutes and tape

Description: Recording of Joe Davidow's "Music for two flutes and tape." All of the sound material for the tape was originally played on the flute. The studio processing has has the aim of enhancing the inner harmonics and enriching the more obscure instrument sounds, bringing them to the forefront in inter-structural relation to the two live flutes. Breath, which is the original source of all the sound in the work, is itself an intricate part of the sound color relationship, together forming a structure of… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Davidow, Joe
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Triple concerto

Description: Recording of Alejandro Viñao's "Triple Concerto" for flute, cello, piano, and computer. Triple Concerto was commissioned by Option Band with funds provided by the Art Council of Great Britain. The tape was produced and composed with a Fairlight computer music instrument at The City University Electro-Acoustic Music Studio in London.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 26 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Viñao, Alejandro, 1951-
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Night flower

Description: Recording of John Winiarz's Night flower performed by Le Duo Classique de Montréal: Davis Joachum and Eric Wilner. The title refers to a desert plant called a "night-blooming cactus," which blooms in the dark and dies at the first light of dawn. This is not a piece of program music; rather, it is an evocation of the atmosphere suggested by the images of the desert, night and beauty. The sound material used comes from electronic sources, natural and instrumental, processed mainly by lilting and … more
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Date: 1978/1979
Duration: 14 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Winiarz, John, 1952-
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Nokturn

Description: Recording of Eugeniusz Rudnik's Nokturn. Nokturn was made according to a conventional method, by typical means for a classical electronic music studio. The basic materials come from different sources and are so deeply transformed that it is difficult to recognize their origins. There is one exception - the ability to hear the flute bill that performs background functions at other musical events that take place.
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Date: 1975
Duration: 9 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Rudnik, Eugeniusz
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Lapinkyla jaa tckojarven alle

Description: Recording of Åke Andersson's Lapinkyla jaa tckojarven alle.
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Date: 1975/1976
Duration: 5 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Andersson, Åke, 1934-
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Ballada

Description: Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's Ballada. The title of the work relates above all to the epic character of the musical narrative. All the main thematic subjects and the materials of this composition are present in a brief entry. Apart from this entry and the conclusion we can find three different parts, but this division does not in any way interfere with the continuity of the work.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Mazurek, Bohdan
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Pourquoi t'as jeté ta pantoufle?

Description: Recording of Xavier Garcia's "Pourquoi t'as jeté ta pantoufle?" ("Why did you throw your slipper?"). Garcia asks the listener to do two things when listening to the piece: to pervert your listening and to find drama where there is none. To is done through both concrete listening (identifying the surrounding sound world, hearing external noise and understanding the "clues" -- this sound is read as the index of a causality.) and abstract "reduced" listening (listening to the thing for itself, de… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 21 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Garcia, Xavier
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Espaces sonores pour des textes de Jean Tortel

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Espaces sonores pour des textes de Jean Tortel. This piece begins with the poet himself (Jean Tortel) reading his poem aloud and then exchanging verses with a female speaker. Instrumental sections of music fill in the gaps between the speakers or play softly beneath the spoken voice.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 34 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
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Combinaisons en cercles

Description: Recording of Octavian Nemescu's Combinaisons en cercles. It is a version at the request of Partita Radicale with a new timbral guise. The work is coceived in three different layers of sound. The surface, representing everyday (diurnal) consciousness, consists of brief and fleeting timbral events almost invariably played forte. A somewhat subdued middle layer provides semiconscious recollections and anticipations of the overall timbral fabric. The deepest layer is made up of complex static sound… more
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Date: 1965
Duration: 16 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian
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Presagio

Description: Recording of Roberto Morales-Manzana's Presagio. The piece is a story about a strong tropical storm in the Tehuantepec Oaxaca region; while the storm is occurring, non-optimistic images arise from the spectator. Instrumentation includes two analog synthesizers (a harp 2600 and a korg 2100), voice and flute, which have been processed live through both synthesizers in addition to an analog pitch follower. Mercedes Benet did the voice and reading. Roberto Morales-Manzana did the flute and electron… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 16 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Morales-Manzanares, Roberto, 1958-
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P = Pinocchio ?

Description: Recording of Jukka Tiensuu's P = Pinocchio ? for six interpreters, computer-generated tapes and computer system for real-time compositional processes.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 26 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Tiensuu, Jukka
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Ensemble: 2017-11-15 – UNT Symphony Orchestra [Stage Perspective]

Description: Orchestra concert performed in the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall. This video is shot from the orchestra's perspective, showing the conductor.
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Date: November 15, 2017
Duration: 46 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Symphony Orchestra.
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Joan Tower's Hexachords for Solo Flute: an Analysis and Comparison of its Flute Writing to Tower's Flute Concerto with Three Recitals of Selected Works of Vivaldi, Rivier, Mozart, Davidowsky, and Others

Description: This dissertation discusses two flute works by Joan Tower (born 1938). The performance medium consists of flute alone, Hexachords for Solo Flute (1972), and flute and orchestra, the Flute Concerto (1989). The discussion on Hexachords consists of a theoretical analysis; discussion on the Flute Concerto pertains to Tower's flute writing through an investigation into her musical language and specific performance techniques. Numerous examples are included to illustrate various aspects of Tower's st… more
Date: May 1993
Creator: Jones, Margo S.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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