{"id":657,"date":"2019-03-22T09:54:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/?page_id=657"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:01:49","slug":"school-of-music-recordings-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/school-of-music-recordings-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Music Recordings Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"margin-top: 30px;margin-bottom: 15px\">Access the Archive<\/h3>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;padding: 30px;border: solid #000 2px;border-radius: 15px;float: left;width: 90%\">\n<p><b>Please Note<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Archival recordings are for educational use by current University of Iowa students, staff, and faculty with a valid Hawk ID and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">are not available to the public<\/span> due to copyright restrictions. PDFs of concert programs are viewable by the public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear-fix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear-fix\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"simple-button\" href=\"https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/ias?f%5B0%5D=member_of%3A950954\">2025-2026 Season &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear-fix\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"simple-button\" href=\"https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/islandora\/object\/ui%3Aias\">View the full archive &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear-fix\"><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 20px\">Using the Archive<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_673\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/files\/2019\/03\/7inchreeel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-673\" class=\"wp-image-673 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/files\/2019\/03\/7inchreeel-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"image of sui orchestra recording reel box\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/files\/2019\/03\/7inchreeel-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/files\/2019\/03\/7inchreeel-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/files\/2019\/03\/7inchreeel.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reel-to-reel tape of a 1956 Symphony Orchestra concert<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Current UI faculty, staff, and students may access digital audio and video recordings from 2003 to present via the <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/islandora\/object\/ui%3Aias\">Iowa Digital Library<\/a>. Access to audio and video recordings is restricted due to copyright. For more information, please see the University of Iowa Libraries&#8217; statement on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/help\/copyright\">Property Rights, Copyright Law, and Permissions to Use Unpublished Materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Concert and recital programs are also available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/islandora\/object\/ui%3Aias\">Iowa Digital Library<\/a>, and may be searched, viewed, and downloaded by the public.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in a concert or recital may request a copy of that performance&#8217;s recording. Duplication requests are handled using an <a href=\"https:\/\/scpatron.lib.uiowa.edu\/logon\">online system, Aeon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"simple-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/request-a-recording-from-the-school-of-music-archives\/\">Duplication Request Instructions &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To determine if a recording is held in the archive, please contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/contact\/\">Rita Benton Music Library<\/a>\u00a0providing as much detail as possible about the ensemble, date, and content of the performance (e.g., Symphony Orchestra concert from 1988-1990, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k&#8217;s New World Symphony was programmed). The Music Library staff will examine the archive to determine if a recording and\/or program is available, and in what format(s).<\/p>\n<h3>About the Archive<\/h3>\n<p>The School of Music Recordings Archive is a repository for ensemble and faculty recital recordings and programs. The Archive does not contain student recital recordings.<\/p>\n<p>The Archive includes reel-to-reel tapes, cassette tapes, digital audio tapes (DATs), compact discs (CDs), printed programs, and born-digital audio &amp; text files.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.3\">The reel-to-reels include recordings from 1953 to 2003. Earlier reels (1953-1971) are use copies from the collection of James Dixon. Later reels (1972-2003) are masters from the UI School of Music Recording Studio, which were transferred to the Rita Benton Music Library in 2016.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.3\">The cassette tapes include recordings from 1971 to 2002 and largely duplicate content available on reel-to-reel tape, though there are some recordings which are unique to this format. Cassettes tapes are use copies made for the Rita Benton Music Library for use by current faculty, staff, and students.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.3\">The digital audio tapes include recordings from 1993 to 2002, which includes some compact discs. Compact discs are available from 2002 to 2014.\u00a0Compact discs are use copies made for the Rita Benton Music Library for use by current faculty, staff, and students.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.3\">Print program collections are available in University Archives (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/scua\/archives\/guides\/rg06.24.01.htm\">Records of the School of Music, RG 06.24.01<\/a>, programs pre-1994) and the Rita Benton Music Library.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.3\">After 2014, the Music Library began collecting all School of Music recordings from the Recording Studio and programs from the Division of Performing Arts as born-digital files. Some video recordings are available for concerts 2013-present, which derive from live-streams produced by the Office of Strategic Communications. Most video recordings are of band, orchestra, and choir concerts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Future Plans for the Archive<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.3\">During Summer 2021, all reel-to-reel, cassettes, and DATs from the Archive were sent to The MediaPreserve to be digitized. In Fall 2022, digitization was completed and all tapes returned to the Music Library. The recordings are held in digital storage, but have not yet been uploaded to the Iowa Digital Library and are only available <a href=\"mailto:lib-mus@uiowa.edu\">per request<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.3\">The Music Library has scanned all concert and recital programs held in University Archives. Many have been uploaded to the Iowa Digital Library, but that work is still ongoing.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.3\">The Music Library and School of Music have partnered to bring select video content to the public via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCumM0AmZ6Tz-gpwcaVMvQ7g\">School&#8217;s YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.3\">The Music Library plans to review current digital holdings to identify public domain or works for which licensing or permissions can be obtained so as to make more performances available for streaming as open access recordings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access the Archive Please Note Archival recordings are for educational use by current University of Iowa students, staff, and faculty with a valid Hawk ID and are not available to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-music.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":93,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6988,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/657\/revisions\/6988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}