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[Concert Poster: Gospel Meets Jazz: A Black History Celebration]

Poster advertising a concert by The Brad Leali Jazz Orchestra and a gospel choir including the UNT Jazz Singers on February 17th, at Voertman Hall.
Date: February 17, 2013
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music. Division of Jazz Studies.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
From the Archives: The Moonmaids transcript

From the Archives: The Moonmaids

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode chronicles the formation of the Moonmaids vocal ensemble as the Swingtet at what was then North Texas State Teachers College, and their rise to national fame in the late 1940s with big band leader Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra. The podcast includes selections featuring the singers on WFAA radio in Dallas, at the former Camp Howze in Gainesville, TX, and live from Denton with Vaughn Monroe in 1949.
Date: March 14, 2019
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
From the Archives: Early Jazz Studies at UNT transcript

From the Archives: Early Jazz Studies at UNT

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode provides background about the early days of the jazz studies program at UNT. It includes recordings of oral histories by Gene Hall and Walter Hodgson, along with performances from 'Fessor Graham's stage show and 1950s jazz ensembles from UNT, including the Laboratory Dance Band, the forerunner of the One O'Clock Lab Band.
Date: August 29, 2017
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wanna Be Heard: Conversations With the MARTIAL Eagles transcript

Wanna Be Heard: Conversations With the MARTIAL Eagles

Podcast interviewing with six members of the MARTIAL Eagles Living Learning Community about the influence of music in their lives and their experiences at UNT and in the MARTIAL Eagles program.
Date: December 18, 2017
Creator: Outhier, Sara
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Recital Program: An Evening of Classical Music Honoring Teddy L. Coe, December 1, 1992] (open access)

[Recital Program: An Evening of Classical Music Honoring Teddy L. Coe, December 1, 1992]

Program for a classical music concert in honor of Teddy Coe, held in the University Union. It includes a list of pieces and performers, as well as biographical information about Coe, a description of the Horace Brock Professorship, and a list of donors.
Date: Autumn 1992
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Program Book: Murchison Performing Arts Center, Feburary - March 1999] (open access)

[Program Book: Murchison Performing Arts Center, Feburary - March 1999]

Booklet containing the program for the opening gala of the Murchison Performing Arts Center and for events occurring during the first two months, with notes and performer lists. It also contains brief background information on the newly-constructed buildings and acknowledgments for staff and funders, along with various advertisements.
Date: 1999
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
From the Archives: Bob McGrath transcript

From the Archives: Bob McGrath

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode focuses on Bob McGrath's little-known career as a popular singer in Japan before he joined Sesame Street.
Date: 2018
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
From the Archives: Bob Rogers: A Musical Life transcript

From the Archives: Bob Rogers: A Musical Life

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library providing a biography of UNT College of Music faculty member Bob Rogers with selected recordings of his music. The recording was made in honor of the 75th anniversary of the UNT Music Library.
Date: April 21, 2016
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
From the Archives: William P. Latham, an American Composer transcript

From the Archives: William P. Latham, an American Composer

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode provides biographical information about composer and longtime UNT College of Music faculty member William P. Latham with selected recordings of his music.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
From the Archives: The Class of '42 transcript

From the Archives: The Class of '42

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode provides biographical information and selected recordings related to four major figures in jazz who attended North Texas State Teachers College in the early 1940s: Herb Ellis, Jimmy Giuffre, Gene Roland, and Harry Babasin. The recordings include selections from on-campus concerts featuring Giuffre and Ellis in the 1950s and 1970s, respectively, and from both artists again in the Jazz Lecture Series in 1983.
Date: 2019
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
From the Archives: Duke Ellington Collections at the UNT Music Library transcript

From the Archives: Duke Ellington Collections at the UNT Music Library

Podcast from the University of North Texas Music Library highlighting materials from their collections. This episode describes five major collections of materials related to Duke Ellington, including multiple sound recordings which are unreleased according to available discographical information: Ellington at the Paramount Theater, April 30, 1947; Ellington on WWDC radio, April 21, 1946; Ellington interviewed by Willis Conover, March 27, 1948; Ellington interviewed by Willis Conover, September 5, 1973; Swedish telecast, February 7, 1963; Goteborg, Sweden, November 6, 1958; Milan, Italy, January 15, 1967.
Date: August 15, 2019
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder, Number 6, December 1945 (open access)

The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder, Number 6, December 1945

The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder was dedicated to information about folk and country songs and singers in the United States. These issues are from the collection of Floy Case, a pioneering music journalist who wrote many articles for this publication.
Date: December 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder, Number 5, September 1945 (open access)

The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder, Number 5, September 1945

The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder was dedicated to information about folk and country songs and singers in the United States. These issues are from the collection of Floy Case, a pioneering music journalist who wrote many articles for this publication.
Date: September 1945
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder, Number 14, February-March 1947 (open access)

The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder, Number 14, February-March 1947

The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder was dedicated to information about folk and country songs and singers in the United States. These issues are from the collection of Floy Case, a pioneering music journalist who wrote many articles for this publication.
Date: February 1947
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Binder's Collection: Minnie Greene, Book 1]

Bound compilation of sheet music. The dates of publication range between 1840 and 1880, and most of the publishers' imprints were located in New York or Philadelphia, along with several other locations. Discard stamps from the Columbus, Ohio public library, and a stamp for R.B. McAdow, Music Dealer in the same city suggest the compiler's residence was also there; the name Minnie S. Greene is written in pencil on the first page of music. Page 127 of the scan, or 114 of the music, is also inscribed "Presented to Minnie Greene."
Date: 1840/1880
Creator: Greene, Minnie S.
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Binder's Collection: R. S. Harrington]

Bound compilation of sheet music compiled by R.S. Harrington. The collection consists of music for dances, ballads, and minstrel songs, notably juxtaposing songs with related titles, (Young Folks at Home and Old Folks at Home; Are We Almost There? and We Are Almost There). Most selections were published in Boston or New York. This item contains racial slurs and stereotyping.
Date: 1817/1859
Creator: Harrington, R. S.
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library