The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 25, 2019 (open access)

The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 25, 2019
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 25, 2019 (open access)

The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Port Lavaca, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 25, 2019
Creator: Stapp, Ross
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[College of Engineering and College of Science Fall 2019 commencement ceremony] captions transcript

[College of Engineering and College of Science Fall 2019 commencement ceremony]

Video recording of the College of Engineering and College of Science Fall 2019 commencement ceremony held at the Coliseum. The ceremony includes remarks by the Dean of the College of Engineering Dr. Hanchen Huang, Dean of the College of Science Dr. Su Gao, College of Science Advancement Board member and alumnus Dr. Thomas Black, and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Jennifer Cowley.
Date: 2019-12-13/2019-12-14
Creator: University of North Texas.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marc-André Hamelin's "Variations on a Theme of Paganini": The Effect of Polystylism through Pastiche and Musical Borrowing in Variations (open access)

Marc-André Hamelin's "Variations on a Theme of Paganini": The Effect of Polystylism through Pastiche and Musical Borrowing in Variations

Paganini's 24th caprice still remains to this day one of the most celebrated themes in classical music history. Many composers have used this theme to create variations and each composer attempted to produce stylistically unique variations on this piece. Hamelin's Variations on a Theme of Paganini stands out because his piece incorporates musical borrowing and many different composers' styles. His variations integrate music from different centuries, using pastiche and musical borrowing from figures such as Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. More provocatively, Hamelin's variations reach outside of Classical music, even adopting elements from salsa and friska. The spectrum of composers and styles included in this set are so radical and shocking that it creates a parody of not only Paganini's theme, but also the tradition of theme and variation pieces it has inspired. Due to its multiple variations juxtaposing extremely different styles, Hamelin's Variations on a Theme of Paganini presents the listener with a musical puzzle that is designed to invoke surprise. The juxtapositions of extremely different styles in these variations create disjointed variations with polystylism. The polystylism in this work diversifies his variations, while unifying these seemingly unbalanced movements through broad musical references. As such, both performers and …
Date: December 2019
Creator: Kim, Warren
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Solo Piano Collections "Reaching Out" and "Travels Through Sound" by Emma Lou Diemer: Pedagogical Guidelines for Contemporary Techniques for Intermediate-Level Students (open access)

The Solo Piano Collections "Reaching Out" and "Travels Through Sound" by Emma Lou Diemer: Pedagogical Guidelines for Contemporary Techniques for Intermediate-Level Students

Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927) is a leading American composer, pianist, and educator. Although she composed many outstanding advanced-level piano works, she also believes that composing for other levels is a good discipline for composers. Her two collections Reaching Out and Travels Through Sound contain various contemporary techniques that are highly approachable for intermediate-level students. The purpose of this study is to provide a pedagogical guide to contemporary elements present in these collections, which are ideal for developing skills that can prepare intermediate-level students for more complex modern music. Diemer incorporates such contemporary features as complex rhythms and meters, non-traditional notations, and extended piano techniques, as well as non-traditional textures and forms. These techniques are presented in a compact and informative but not too complicated manner, so that intermediate-level students can master them.
Date: December 2019
Creator: Yum, Ji-Eun
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Uncovering Fanny Hensel's "Das Jahr": Creating an Urtext Edition that Addresses Selected Technical and Interpretive Issues through Added Fingerings and Pedal Markings

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Das Jahr is considered Fanny Hensel's most impressive accomplishment of piano solo work. However, the only modern edition that is extant includes many additional editorial markings. By further analyzing the sections that are technically challenging or musically demanding from an interpretive standpoint, pianists wishing to perform the work will have to find workable fingerings and pedal markings to learn this piano cycle. For this reason, this dissertation will not only provide readers with an original text of Das Jahr, but also assist pianists in finding practical solutions that can help them to interpret this distinctive work successfully on the modern piano.
Date: December 2019
Creator: Huang, Szu Ying
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

La vía del abandono en los cuentos de Amparo Dávila

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Amparo Davila's writing style is characterized by circumventing the boundaries between the real and the fantastic and between the known and the unknown. The author creates a narrative that evokes horror in the reader by mixing the uncanny of the unknown with the reality of the world. This study proposes that the sinister in Davila's stories are created by abandonment. This abandonment is the peremptory element of Davilian narrative and can be seen and examined throughout the author's literary work. The abandonment wields a mechanism of loneliness, madness, hopelessness and chaos that eventually provokes the sinister. The element of abandonment disturbs the main character of the story and makes him fall into an abyss from which he or she cannot escape. This abandonment is not always obvious, since most of the time the abandonment is veil by a halo of gothic and fantastic elements. The present thesis has the task of breaking down the different types of abandonment that are presented throughout this narrative, its sinister function and the theoretical and historical interpretation of the various abandonments both personal and collective that Amparo Davila presents. The route of abandonment proposed in this thesis is explained in the following three stories: …
Date: December 2019
Creator: Lopez, Rodrigo
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mount Pleasant Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 145, No. 101, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 30, 2019 (open access)

Mount Pleasant Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 145, No. 101, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 30, 2019

Semiweekly newspaper from Mount Pleasant, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 30, 2019
Creator: Oglesby, Miranda
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 6, 2019 (open access)

The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Port Lavaca, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 6, 2019
Creator: Stapp, Ross
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 25, 2019 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 25, 2019
Creator: Einselen, Sarah
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
TMB Bulletin, August 2019 (open access)

TMB Bulletin, August 2019

Newsletter of the Texas Medical Board describing news and events as well as updates about medical licenses, disciplinary actions, and other regulatory information.
Date: August 2019
Creator: Texas Medical Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 12, 2019 (open access)

The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 12, 2019
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 17, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 2, 2019 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 17, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 2, 2019

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 2, 2019
Creator: McGathey, Liz & Roark, Chris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 176, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 2019 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 176, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 2019

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 10, 2019
Creator: Einselen, Sarah
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 5, Ed. 1, May 2019 (open access)

South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 5, Ed. 1, May 2019

Monthly newspaper from Corpus Christi, Texas published by the Diocese of Corpus Christi that includes news of interest to Diocese members along with advertising.
Date: May 2019
Creator: Cottingham, Mary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Stephen Chatman's Piano Fantasies (1993): An Instructional and Performance Guide for Teachers and Intermediate Piano Students

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Contemporary repertoire is not commonly taught or explored by teachers during the intermediate level, when a student's musical training is transitioning to an advanced level. Nonetheless, it is important for piano instructors to be open-minded about contemporary music and have some perspective on the development of music repertoire in the future. The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a performance and pedagogical guide to Stephen Chatman's (b. 1950) Fantasies, from both technical and artistic viewpoints. The collection, which consists of eleven pieces, features a wide variety of contemporary idioms, styles, and means of notation. For instance, there are jazz-like syncopated rhythms, asymmetrical accents reminiscent of Primitivism, and Impressionistic or dissonant sonorities. Fantasies is not only a valuable tool for students to explore new sounds and improve their performing techniques while executing nontraditional notations and contemporary idioms, it is also a great teaching resource for instructors to promote students' musicality through hearing, seeing, and thinking. In this study, I provide individual, detailed descriptions for each of the pieces in the score, adding examples on how to address the difficulties they present to the performer. As a result, instructors can better understand how to help students prepare to perform this collection …
Date: May 2019
Creator: Li, Hanhan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 17, 2019 (open access)

The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Port Lavaca, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 17, 2019
Creator: Stapp, Ross
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Faculty and Guest Artist Recital: 2019-04-04 – Gustavo Romero, piano and Massimo Somenzi, piano

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Faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
Date: April 4, 2019
Creator: Romero, Gustavo & Somenzi, Massimo
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 142, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 13, 2019 (open access)

The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 142, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Center, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 13, 2019
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Doctoral Recital: 2019-03-08 – Yi-Jing Chen, piano

Recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: March 8, 2019
Creator: Chen, Yi-Jing
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doctoral Recital: 2019-03-08 – Ying-Chieh Chen, piano

Recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: March 8, 2019
Creator: Chen, Ying-Chieh (Pianist)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 131, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2019 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 131, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2019

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 7, 2019
Creator: Einselen, Sarah
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 6, 2019 (open access)

The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 6, 2019
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transportation News, Volume [44], Number 2, March/April 2019 (open access)

Transportation News, Volume [44], Number 2, March/April 2019

Newsletter published by the Texas Department of Transportation for TxDOT employees including information about the organization, projects throughout the state, and other topics related to transportation in Texas.
Date: March 2019
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History