BabelScores Now Available
The Rita Benton Music Library now provides access to BabelScores, an online scores database of over 210,000 pages of contemporary music. The catalog features composers from around the world, related...
View ArticleSOUNDS FROM THE FIELD – Jane Austen in the Age of Digital Discovery
by Marian Wilson Kimber Discovering lost pieces of music in dusty archives is what most people think musicologists do. We only make the news if someone finds an unknown manuscript by a famous composer...
View ArticleBAND 141: an exhibit celebrating the history of the Hawkeye Marching Band
This Fall, come to the Voxman Music Building for BAND 141, a look at the Hawkeye Marching Band. Director Eric Bush donated a significant collection of materials from the Band’s history including...
View ArticleUpcoming Lecture: Bohemia on Records with Guest Speaker Filip Šír
Filip Šír, coordinator for Digitization of Audio Documents at the National Museum (Prague), will talk of his work to track down and preserve early 20th century Czech sound recordings made in the United...
View ArticleWulfie Parsons Music Library Guide, 2022 Edition
Welcome back, Hawkeyes! The Rita Benton Music Library is excited to have students and faculty return to campus to use the scores, books, recordings, journals, and other resources available in our...
View ArticleChamber Music at the University of Iowa: Faculty Ensembles
Chamber music has been integral to the educational and creative life of the University of Iowa School of Music for over a century. Below are a few examples, including audio clips, from 1972 to the...
View ArticleA brief history of school songs at the University of Iowa
“Songs of SUI have peculiar origins,” states The Daily Iowan in a 1962 article. “Old Gold” (1905); “On Iowa” (1917); “The Iowa Fight Song” (1950); and “Roll Along, Iowa” (1954) and “Alma Mater Iowa”...
View ArticleIn step with the Hawkeye Marching Band: headliners and collaborations
Is adding collaborators or guest performers to a Hawkeye Marching Band (HMB) halftime show one step too far? Can there be too much of a good thing? The HMB has always had a collaborative streak in its...
View ArticleIowa Music Magazine: Digital Extras
Fall 2024 Edition Performing Arts at Iowa video intro This spring the University of Iowa released a special video called “Iowa: Your Destination for the Performing Arts,” all about our vibrant,...
View ArticleIowa Music Magazine: Digital Extras (2025)
Making connections with visiting Hancher artists Steve Schick: Born in Iowa Steve Schick blows into a conch shell to start John Luther Adams’s INUKSUIT—featuring over 100 percussionists dispersed...
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