The National Guard in America began in the Revolutionary War. The Texas units resulted from the earlier concept and emerged in 1835 to resist Mexican oppression. Following achievement of statehood, Texas militiamen served in the Mexican War, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War. As the twentieth century began, Texans had a long history of service in reserve military organizations in spite of a prevailing attitude of contempt for citizen soldiers held by influential regular army officials.

The present study directly contrasted the efficacy of biofeedback-assisted cue-controlled relaxation, biofeedback-assisted metronome -conditioned relaxation, and both procedures combined via one physiological and one subjective measure of relaxation under no-stress and stress conditions.

Trichotomy is a composition in three movements for full orchestra. The title was chosen to imitate the differences that exist between the individual movements of the work. The composers chosen for quotation (Schoenberg, Berg and Webern) are related by their compositional pitch vocabulary; that is, in these quoted works they are all using twelve-tone technique.

This study is a history of the musical activities in the Territory of Oklahoma from 1889 to 1907. Material for this dissertation was gathered from newspapers, books, periodicals, letters, sheet music, concert programs, college catalogues, church records, and photographs. Oklahoma City and Guthrie, the most important cities of the territory, provide the locals for the greater part of the study. These two communities reflect the cultural tastes and activities of the entire territory.

Rather than generalizing about the works as a whole, each piece was studied on its own merits as well as its relation to Merulo's collective style. Included are translations of the poems and comparative studies of other settings where possible. The entire transcription of the two books of music is gathered into a separate volume to make the music easily accessible for performance.