Fall/Spring performances program book from the 1974-1975 school year at the North Texas State University School of Music.

Student performances program book from the 1974-1975 school year at the North Texas State University School of Music.

Poster advertising a concert by Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys on September 9, 10, and 11, 1975, at Bigger Than Dallas Club, Lubbock, Texas. Poster by artist Micael Priest features black and white illustrations of Alvin Crow, "Dynamite Diana", "The Texas Kid", and a tour bus driving down a Texas highway. A caption at the top of the poster reads, "Country music for dancin and romancin, guaranteed to put a tear in yer beer!"

The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast May 2, 1975. The program contains Part II of the funeral of Duke Ellington, on May 27, 1974, as broadcast on radio, possibly by station WRVR.

An interview with Willis Conover, following an introduction in Danish.

The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast May 3, 1975. The program contains Part III of the funeral of Duke Ellington, on May 27, 1974, as broadcast on radio, possibly by station WRVR.

Recording of Iván Székely's For Alrun I et II. The work entitled "For Alrun" was composed in 1975 in Bayreuth during a live electronics course. The singing part of the play of about 7 minutes, a form and a light local broadcast, contains the popular song tchango beginning with the words "Gyere ki te gyšngyvirag" / come, leave my beautiful, my lily of the valley / - this one will have to be changed to all the presentations in Hungarian. This task was undertaken at the world premiere by Alrun Zahoransky - hence the title of the work. The player applying the electronics, especially from the point of view of the instrumentation, produces sounds and manipulates the electronic sounds and the human voice. The piece does not require studio work, each tone or voice sounds in vivo (i.e. each presentation, each show is new). The focus is on the psychic process of the piece and not on the technical process; its different degrees of difficulty adapt to the possibilities of the presentation. The singer is Ágnes Zsigmondi. The translation of the song is: Come, leave my beautiful, my lily of the valley, Because the moon is mounted, alas. I will …

A partial set of playlists for individual Music USA programs 7319 through 7669, broadcast in 1975. There are 81 pages in this document.

Typed text of a talk given by Padma Rangachari on computer applications in Indian music. Handwritten editing notes throughout.

Recording of a eulogy for Duke Ellington by Willis Conover, likely incorporated into one of the memorial programs following Ellington's death. It may have been included in Music USA #7427-B, broadcast May 1, 1975.

Recording of Hildegard Westerkamp's Whisper Study (for two electroacoustic sound tracks). Whisper Study is based on the sentence "When there is no sound, hearing is most alert" (a quote from the Indian mystic Kirpal Singh. Except for the distant horns, all sounds were derived from the composer's voice, whispering the above sentence and the word "silence." Whisper Study started out as an exercise in exploring basic tape techniques in the analog studio of the 70s and using the whispered voice as sound material. Eventually, it became a piece about silence, aural perception and acoustic imagination. Whisper Study explores the place or moment where sound ends and its image begins. The poem "When There is No Sound" by Norbert Ruebstaat was written in direct response to the original version of Whisper Study. The poem in this version is spoken by the composer inside a soundscape of icicles and footsteps in snow, which originally was created for her radio series Soundwalking on Vancouver Co-operative Radio in 1978/79. Eventually this section was mixed with the last part of the original version of Whisper Study.

The specified pitches are made to generate their own accompanying frequencies, generally inharmonic with respect to the pitches themselves, as a result of FM or AM procedures. Each interval, or, in fact, each pitch-pair (or if you don't want to limit yourself to the chromatic scale, each pair of arbitrarily decided upon frequencies) can generate several possible spectra, but the similarity in sound quality between kinds of spectra quickly reduces to a limited number of readily manageable families of chord-types. These chords are the basis for a variety of musically interesting relationships, and this work represents but one of many possible developments of these kinds of sounds. The clarinetist in this recording is Philip Rehfeldt.