UNT Finding Aids

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Original graphic scores and sketches.

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Audio recordings.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 67 boxes of original music compositions spanning the length of Bruce Broughton's career. With over 600 items, the collection demonstrates the broad scope and enduring cultural impact of Broughton's work, which includes music for the motion pictures Silverado and The Old Man and the Sea, the themes for the television series JAG and Tiny Toon...

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The collection consists of music sketches and manuscripts by Carl Friedberg, and other materials related to his career as a concert pianist.

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The collection consists of audio equipment and compositions by Carl Johnson.

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The collection consists of the papers of David M. Schimmel, including compositions and teaching materials.

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The collection consists of about 50 boxes of Latham's compositions and papers.

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The collection consists of thirty-one boxes of compositions, articles, correspondence, and personal effects by and regarding Fisher Tull.

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The collection consists of twelve boxes of audio and videocassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, scores, jazz arrangements, concert programs, clippings, photos, and miscellaneous correspondence.

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The collection consists of one box, containing the species counterpoint notebooks and one composition by Hans Weisse, compositions by and performance programs with Josef Knettel, and published compositions by Paul Kletzki.

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Audio recordings.

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The collection consists of twelve boxes of materials related to the Center for Contemporary Opera, including scores, libretti, correspondence, programs, magazines, and photographs. Many of the works were new commissions and appear in incomplete draft or excerpted form. Most of the accompanying correspondence is addressed to Jim Shaeffer and features a creator’s pitch of their work or performance instructions.

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A collection of compositions and recordings of musical works by Larry Austin (1930 - 2018), a composer and former music professor at UNT.

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The collection consists of one box, which primarily contains musical compositions, arrangements, and other writings by Marian Mapes-Bouck, as well as ephemera and newspaper clippings.

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The collection consists of 53 boxes of performance materials for all of Ellis' works: tapes, cassettes, slides, films, instructions, masters, etc. Also included are tapes of historical importance such as the John Cage Lecture, the Roy Harris Informal Evening, and a tape of Ellis discussing plans for the construction of the current Music Building.

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The collection consists of six boxes of Merritt Johnson's compositions, mainly in manuscript form or printed with the Musicwriter typewriter, as well as correspondence, music sketchbooks, and materials related to donor Susan Vaughan's efforts to perserve Johnson's music and pedagogy.

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The collection consists of nine boxes of materials relating to rehearsals and performances by the Nova music ensemble, including scores, parts, and audio tapes (reel-to-reel and cassette). Compositions range from twentieth-century classics to pieces commissioned by Nova and the University of North Texas’s College of Music. Some scores are accompanied by notes from the composer or reference recordings.

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The collection consists of about 19 boxes of materials related to the life and work of composer and music theorist Reinhard Oppel.

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The collection consists of 16 boxes of original compositions and sketches.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of fifty boxes, mainly of the compositions and papers of Simon Bucharoff (1881-1955), along with materials related to Bucharoff's brother, Isadore Buchhalter, papers related to activities of Bucharoff's estate, one piece of realia, and the documentation that accompanied the collection from the University of Houston. Bucharoff's papers consist mainly of correspondence, but also include clippings, photographs, concert programs, promotional materials, and writings on...

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The collection consists of 47 boxes related to the publication of Source: Music of the Avant-Garde, including a complete run of issues as well as unpublished materials and sound recordings.