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We Give Thanks for Music: an exhibit: G-L

This guide contains a listing of all items from the Rita Benton Music Library's collection that were on display at the Iowa City Public Library in October and November 2015. Links to additional resources, such as YouTube videos and streaming audio, are al

G-L

G is for Guitar

200 stompbox reviews : the ultimate buyer’s guide for fans of effects pedals, switching systems, flangers, tremolos, and more!

Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corporation, [2014]
Rita Benton Music Library FOLIO ML1015.G9 A17 2014

From the publisher's website:
"200 stompbox reviews from the pages of Guitar World magazine! The ultimate buyer's guide for fans of distortion pedals, wah pedals, tuners, overdrive pedals, switching systems, flangers, fuzz pedals, tremolos and more! This awesome collection features the Electro-Harmonix English Muffin • Dunlop Cry Baby SW-95 Slash wah • DigiTech Scott Ian Black-13 Artist Series pedal • Coffin Case Bat Fuzz Pedal • Way Huge Aqua Puss MkII analog delay pedal • MXR Super Badass Distortion • and many more!"

 

H is for Hip Hop

Hip Hop Family Tree (Vol. 1) by Ed Piskor - video previewHip hop family tree, volumes 1-3 / Ed Piskor.

Fantagraphics treasury edition, Special collector’s issue!!
Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books, Inc., [2013]-
Main Oversize FOLIO ML3531 .P57 2013 v.1
Main Oversize FOLIO ML3531 .P57 2013 v.2
Main Oversize FOLIO ML3531 .P57 2013 v.3

 

I is for Interval

Music epitomized: a school book; in which the whole science of music is completely explained, from the simplest rudiments to the most complex principles of harmony .../ Charles Dibdin*

London, Goulding, D’Almaine, Potter [between 1811 and 1816]
Rita Benton Music Rare Book Room MT7 .D54 1811

Intervals are the building blocks of western music. Dibdin's chart is one of many from music textbooks for students of the art attempting to learn their musical grammar.

*Actual book is not on display, but is available for viewing in the Rita Benton Music Library's Rare Book Room.

 

J is for Jazz

Johnson County Landmark plays the music of Steve Swallow

[Iowa City, IA] : JCL Note, [2002?]-
Rita Benton Music Sound Recording Audio record 21362 CD

Mingus among us / Johnson County Landmark

[S.l. : s.n., 1996?].
Rita Benton Music Sound Recording Audio record 10037 CD

Been there, done that / Johnson County Landmark.

[Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa], 1995.
Rita Benton Music Sound Recording Audio record 7395 CD

Daydreams from the prairie: JCL plays the compositions of John Rapson.

Beverly Hills, Ca. : 9Winds, [2000?].
Rita Benton Music Sound Recording Audio record 14293 CD

 

K is for Kazoo

Antique Kazoo Rag / Ann Tarvin and Lee R. Edmundsen in Dika Newlin, Friend and Mentor: a birthday anthology / ed. Theodore Albrecht

Denton: Jagdhorn Verlag, 1973
Rita Benton Music Library ML55.N397 D5

 

L is for Listen

Listen : a history of our ears / Peter Szendy ; preceded by Ascoltando by Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.

New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
Rita Benton Music Library ML3800 .S9613 2008

Listen to this / Alex Ross

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Rita Benton Music Library ML3785 .R67 2010

What to listen for in music / Aaron Copland

New York, London, Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. [c1939]
Rita Benton Music Library MT6.C78 W4