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Burning River

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Recording of Wayne Siegel's Burning River. This is a work for four channel tape and was commissioned by the New Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum with financial support from the Danish Arts Foundation. The composition was inspired by a section in The Iliad by Homer: Achilles running amok against the Trojans. The composer states his attraction to this section was due to the many references of sound within the passage and he attempts to emulate those in the composition.
Date: 1999
Creator: Siegel, Wayne, 1953-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Thalis

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Recording of Paul Dibley's Thalis. This work is based on the Greek philosophy by Thalis, that water is the basis of all life. The composition includes three elements: water, the voice, and pitch. The vocal component takes the form of Greek text about the philosopher, Thalis. While the pitched element takes the form of sung notes and the manipulated sounds of pitched instruments.
Date: 1998
Creator: Dibley, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aï∂a ∂omi

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Recording of Mia Schmidt's Aï∂a ∂omi. The spoken word, on which the composers short composition for tape "a rose is a rose" is basing, transfers two antithetical messages. The poem "rose is a rose" written by Gertrude Stein is a love- poem. The composer added sentences, taken from newspaper articles discussing the brutality of the pornographic industry. The poem is represented by this overtone-spectrum in form of sinus-tones or slightly modified sinus-tones. The sentences from the newspaper articles are normally spoken.
Date: 1995/1996
Creator: Schmidt, Mia, 1952-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mimoyecques

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Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's Mimoyecques. The piece consists of two sets of recordings and electronics. One set of recordings would be made in and around the fortress and would serve as the base where the imprisonment, death, and transfiguration themes would be built. The second recording is in the languages of the 18 nationalities of the laborers. The central section of the work illustrates the idea of terror freedom is suddenly, inexplicably removed. The final section explores the concept of the departure of the souls of the victims.
Date: 1994
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-
System: The UNT Digital Library

At night they call the dragons

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Recording of Spyros Faros' At night they call the dragons. This piece is inspired by rock music. There is also samples which have been utilized to give the piece direction and stability such as the train signal and speech heard throughout the piece.
Date: 1992
Creator: Faros, Spyros
System: The UNT Digital Library

Piano se trikorfo vouno

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Recording of Spyros Faros' Piano se trikorfo vouno.
Date: 1992
Creator: Faros, Spyros
System: The UNT Digital Library