Category Archives: Music

Holiday Cheer

Posted on December 18, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Audio, Cool Collections, Music, UA History | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Every year since 1969, the Department of Music at UA has presented a Christmas program called Hilaritas. It includes a variety of holiday-themed music, mixing traditional carols and standards with modern pop songs and new arrangements. Earlier this year, we digitized the audio from … Continue reading →

Symbols of liberty

Posted on December 11, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Music, Sheet music, World War I | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

The Wade Hall Sheet Music collection features a great deal of music from the first two decades of the 20th century, especially music related to World War I. Maybe because America took so long to enter the war, it seems … Continue reading →

Audio Digitization: a look at the Rohlig process

Posted on June 4, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Audio, Cool Collections, Digitization, Music, Software, Work Flow | 2 Comments

Audio Digitization is a completely different type of mole hill than Image Digitization. There are different concerns, such as playback speeds, distortion, clipping, etc. There are also different types of technical metadata needed, such as track begin and end times. … Continue reading →

Easter Music by Harald Rohlig

Posted on April 6, 2012 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Audio, Music, World War II | Tagged , | Leave a comment

This week we will feature pipe organ music by Dr. Harald Röhlig in honor of Easter weekend. World renowned organist, Harald Röhlig is a composer and pipe organ designer. His career as a musician began in Germany during the 1930s. … Continue reading →