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"Seven Songs to Poems of James Joyce," op. 54 (1926) by Karol Szymaowski: A Historical Musicology Analysis and Performance Guide (open access)

"Seven Songs to Poems of James Joyce," op. 54 (1926) by Karol Szymaowski: A Historical Musicology Analysis and Performance Guide

This research contributes valuable contextual information to the study of Karol Szymanowski's little-known song cycle Seven Songs to Poems of James Joyce, op. 54 (1926), providing a reliable, comprehensive reference for singers and scholars. In this research, I establish separate historical contexts for James Joyce's Chamber Music and Szymanowski's settings of the poems in op. 54. Using these established historical contexts, I then analyze Joyce's poems and Szymanowski's text settings, focusing on their styles and aesthetics. Szymanowski reorders the seven selected poems, creating a new storyline related to—but different from—the original. Where Chamber Music presents a chronological emotional arc, Seven Songs presents a roller coaster-like storyline, achieved by flashing back and forth between the protagonist's past and present. I demonstrate how Szymanowski's newly-created, complex storyline fits both the surface and deeper meanings of each poem, using specific musical elements to enhance emotional conflicts in the texts. I conclude with a detailed analysis of the relationship between the text and music of this song cycle, serving as a performance guide. I hope that my analysis and complete performance of this cycle will reignite interest in Szymanowski's music outside of Poland, especially in countries where English is the native language.
Date: May 2023
Creator: Wan, Fujia
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Formal Concerns in Conceptual Sculpture (open access)

Formal Concerns in Conceptual Sculpture

The problem I choose dealt with a new material to use in conceptual art. Since the nature of my work deals with ribbed sculptural forms that explore conceptual abstractions of recorded observations, I investigated a new material called composites. A composite is defined as two or more materials that are combined to share the best qualities of both. Laminated foam core, nylon fabric weave, vinyl, and resin composites may introduce an aesthetic and structural advantage to traditional material such as wood and metal. Innovations in laminated composites and methods of joining unfamiliar materials could offer an advantage for these new sculptures. A series of six ribbed sculptural forms were constructed, which consist of laminated composite material relating to personal observations expressed in my journal in the last quarter of the year 2000. The material was introduced in the desire for a cohesive formal relationship between the concepts and the forms. Patron, 2001 Mixed Media, 19"x 8"x 4"; PDQ, 2001 Mixed Media, 10"x 8"x 2"; PDQ2, 2001 Mixed Media, 21"x27"x3"; Bishop, 2001 Mixed Media, 23"x11"x5"; Coaster, 2001 Mixed Media, 14"x12"x9" and Putsch, 2001 Mixed Media, 69"x48"x24".
Date: May 2001
Creator: Stromberg, Matthew Gray
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Austin Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 189, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 28, 1913 (open access)

The Austin Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 189, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 28, 1913

Daily newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 28, 1913
Creator: Lochridge, Lloyd P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flying Time (Pecos Army Air Field, Pecos, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 20, 1944 (open access)

Flying Time (Pecos Army Air Field, Pecos, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 20, 1944

Weekly newspaper published by the Personnel of the Pecos Army Air Field in Pecos, Texas, that includes news and information of interest to United States Army Air Force personnel stationed there.
Date: May 20, 1944
Creator: Melton, Clyde, Jr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Readers Theatre Approach to Grief Intervention for the Single-Again Adult (open access)

A Readers Theatre Approach to Grief Intervention for the Single-Again Adult

Grief is the reaction to the loss of anything valuable, and therefore both the widowed and the divorced experience the grief process. Research shows that learning about the cyclic stages and symptoms of grief and knowing that others have successfully recovered can be helpful to the griever. The purpose of this thesis has been to develop and produce a compiled Readers Theatre script containing factual material about the stages and symptoms of the grief process as it relates to the widowed and divorced, and also personal testimonies of people who have successfully worked through their grief. In addition to the script, the thesis includes a discussion on pathological grief and on the similarities and differences in widowed and divorced grief.
Date: May 1984
Creator: Stringer, Bobbi Rhe
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rhetorical Drawings (open access)

Rhetorical Drawings

Document that details the conception, evolution and conclusions of a body of work consisting of seven prints executed in the printmaking technique of intaglio printing in the manner of the state print. The work is discussed by explaining the visual and conceptual associations that occur in an "Alice In Wonderland" manner, where the initial idea is paired with seemingly unrelated topics to establish a progressive visual language. This language is further supported by discussing a comparative of the state print with the idea of the sketchbook as a tool of thought generation and elaboration. The technical aspects of intaglio and the choice of techniques utilized are discussed to support this comparison. How the quality of the prints reflects the quality of the sketchbook and how these techniques combine with the conceptual reasoning, which result in the body of work. Findings for the work are based on three questions that deal with the progression of conceptual reasoning, predictability of recurring ideas and the intentions of the technical choices made.
Date: May 2000
Creator: Birdsong, Daniel L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Awareness and Perception of Distance Education by the Leadership in the Texas State Technical College System (open access)

The Awareness and Perception of Distance Education by the Leadership in the Texas State Technical College System

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were differences in the levels of awareness and perception concerning distance education among the leadership at the seven campuses of the Texas State Technical College (TSTC) System.
Date: May 1998
Creator: Knue, John Raymond
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jorie Graham's "The Guardian Angel of the Little Utopia": The Truth of Mystery and Moonlight in Quota (open access)

Jorie Graham's "The Guardian Angel of the Little Utopia": The Truth of Mystery and Moonlight in Quota

The dissertation includes a critical essay on Jorie Graham's "The Guardian Angel of the Little Utopia and a full-length collection of poetry entitled Moonlight in Quota. The essay is a critical examination which argues that Graham's poems question Western anthropocentric thought through her constant arrangement of particular images (flowers, yellow sky, leaves) and her subsequent questioning of such intellectual and linguistic arrangements. Graham grapples with ideas of perception, questions the historical concepts of truth and knowledge, and engages in linguistic play both musically and imagistically. Each section is tied together by some overriding theme or persistent image: 1.) forgetting, Mexican-American border scenes 2.) poverty and faith shown through images of marginalized characters 3.) Artistic creation as a means for the survival for the "other."
Date: May 1999
Creator: Luna-Grochocki, Sheryl
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot (Bryan, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 158, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1913 (open access)

The Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot (Bryan, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 158, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1913

Daily newspaper from Bryan, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Buchanan, A. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 115, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1913 (open access)

The Daily Herald. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 115, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1913

Daily newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 276, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 2017 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 276, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 2017

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 5, 2017
Creator: Parks, Scott K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 4942, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 31, 1898 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 4942, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 31, 1898

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 31, 1898
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 297, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 26, 2015 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 297, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 26, 2015
Creator: Parks, Scott K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 290, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 19, 2015 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 290, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 19, 2015
Creator: Parks, Scott K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 290, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 20, 2015 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 290, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 20, 2015
Creator: Parks, Scott K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 2014 (open access)

Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 2014

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 8, 2014
Creator: Samuels, Jeanne F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Decatur News. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 1899 (open access)

The Decatur News. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 1899

Weekly newspaper from Decatur, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 5, 1899
Creator: Tyler, L. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Death and Life of Great American Malls: (Un)Spectacular Creative Destructions, Luxury Mixed-Use Developments, and Gentrification in Dallas-Fort Worth (open access)

The Death and Life of Great American Malls: (Un)Spectacular Creative Destructions, Luxury Mixed-Use Developments, and Gentrification in Dallas-Fort Worth

Mall after mall was built in American cities, exhaustively emulated by developers often working in concert with civic governments. In service of capital, neoliberal urban governance engages in the risky subsidization of spatio-spectacle production, working together with private business entities to bolster tax revenue and aid in private capital accumulation. The extensive replication of malls in close geographic proximity to one another across the American landscape, erected through the neoliberal partnerships of civic governments and private business interests, has greatly contributed to mall decline and mall death. There is now, however, a new spatio-spectacle that has arisen to take the place of the "great American shopping mall"—the luxury mixed-use development. These luxury mixed-use projects have been adopted as a new trend within urban development following the reality of sweeping mall decline and are proliferating across the (sub)urban landscape. Luxury mixed-use developments, I argue, are merely a continuation of late capitalism's problematic spectacle fetish. Moreover, this process is revealed to be inextricably entangled with gentrification, driven by cities' neoliberal desires to become/maintain status as global, "world-class" cities, performed through the spatialized ideology of neoliberal multiculturalism.
Date: May 2022
Creator: Kirk, Richard L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 279, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 25, 1905 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 279, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 25, 1905

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 25, 1905
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Comparative Content Analysis of Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report Coverage of the 1979 Energy Crisis (open access)

A Comparative Content Analysis of Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report Coverage of the 1979 Energy Crisis

This study was designed to determine whether Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report news magazines expressed. opinions in their coverage of four topics concerning the 1979 energy crisis: United States government, OPEC, oil companies, and consumers. A content analysis of all stories in the three magazines from May to December 1979 indicated that Time was the most opinionated, U.S. News & World Report was second, and Newsweek was most neutral in coverage of the energy crisis. The percentage of article space allotted had no apparent effect upon the magazines' handling of those topics.
Date: May 1982
Creator: Frazier, Julia Alicia
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 269, Ed. 1, Monday, May 14, 1906 (open access)

Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 269, Ed. 1, Monday, May 14, 1906

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 14, 1906
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Alice Echo. (Alice, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 4, 1899 (open access)

The Alice Echo. (Alice, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 4, 1899

Weekly newspaper from Alice, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 4, 1899
Creator: Booth, D. S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 280, Ed. 2 Thursday, May 26, 1932 (open access)

The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 280, Ed. 2 Thursday, May 26, 1932

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 26, 1932
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 280, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1932 (open access)

The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 280, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1932

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 26, 1932
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History