RitaBentonMusicLib

The University of Iowa's music library since 1957

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@UIowa Libraries provides students, staff & faculty with emergency digital access to our collections through @hathitrust when you log in with your HawkID. Instructions at https://t.co/oNnLC7Vesx

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Important news for all you Music Library patrons out there! Head Librarian @BuehnerKatie just published this informative video about requesting partial score scans - https://t.co/mSFwFJZc0I via @YouTube

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Wulfie Parsons is hosting a "Work from Home" interview series - check it out on his Instagram! https://t.co/hWlmYarsSa

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As of the beginning of the Fall '18 semester, we have a mascot - follow him on Instagram! Handle is @wulfieparsons

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A HUGE horn for a wax cylinder phonograph (player forthcoming...!) #witchhatstyle

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A belated #tbt post - This borrowed, still functional reel-to-reel tape recorder with field recordings from Tanzania in the 1960s... AMAZING! Listen below 🎶

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A questionnaire from the UI SOM 1983 production of "Faust" - "In the future, what opera(s) would you enjoy attending at the University of Iowa?" #tbt #contemporaryopera! #LAmourdeloin #PNIMAinsinnere #legrandmacabre #saariaho #czernowin #ligeti
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#tbt! Received a donation today with rare @uischoolofmusic photos - pictured are Himie Voxman, Philip Greeley Clapp, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Darius Milhaud, among others...

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Move over Liszt and Thalberg--for this final project from my 19C music class.

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A "Music locater" for finding the right track on your LPs in "10 Operatic Masterpieces" (with very cool illustrations by Merle Armitage!) #TBT

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The Music Library will close early today at 12pm. Never fear, things will be back to normal tomorrow!

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William Hibbard's (CNM Music Director, '66-'89) score of Ligeti's "Nouvelles Aventures" from the Center for New Music's 1968 season. This and more CNM-donated scores currently on display at the Music Library! #tbt #drinkwater @uischoolofmusic

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Schumann, Thom Yorke, CHVRCHES, John Adams??? James Skretta's DMA Thesis "Perceiving meter in romantic, post-minimal, and electro-pop repertoires" for #thesisTuesday
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A recording of a 1948 recital excerpts (Philip Greeley Clapp & Imre Waldbauer) now available at the Iowa Digital Library! This is the earliest SOM recording we have uploaded yet 🎻🎹🎶@UILibraries @uischoolofmusic https://t.co/86JpWN2MQX

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Saturday (April 14) is Iowa Musicology Day! Open to all, the day includes presentations by current students & faculty, as well as a tour of the Arthur and Miriam Canter Rare Book Room at the Music Library. Schedule @ https://t.co/sCfsxwz2Fu @uischoolofmusic @UILibraries

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Greg Newbold's thesis on the music of horror-film composer Benjamin Frankel! Greg is a recent MA graduate and former Rita Benton Music Library employee. #thesistuesday #WerewolfMotive
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#thesistuesday! Here's Christine Burke's composition/MA thesis "from the signal" https://t.co/FoJT997A8d (https://t.co/0nsfOkMMZR)

More new music by UI Composers this weekend at Voxman for the EMCC Festival, including a thesis by current MA student Jeremy Maas! @uischoolofmusic

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#tbt from our very own stacks! A copy of Schubert's "Symphony No. 5", from James Dixon (Orchestra, 1954-1959, 1962-1997) to Dr. Philip Greeley Clapp (School of Music Director, 1919-1954) @uischoolofmusic

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#thesistuesday! Steven Baker Jepson's thesis on composer Marcel Delannoy's contribution to baritone repertoire https://t.co/ETwu4zeaXH

Coincidentally, baritone and Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell will perform with the UI Symphony Orchestra tomorrow! https://t.co/fA3Hu6qLG3

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Happy Monday from the Rita Benton Music Library and three semi-matching student employees! @UILibraries