Faculty Recital: 2011-08-29 - Gustavo Romero, piano

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Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
Date: August 29, 2011
Creator: Romero, Gustavo
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Faculty Recital: 2011-08-31 - Gustavo Romero, piano

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Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
Date: August 31, 2011
Creator: Romero, Gustavo
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Opera: 2011-08-06 -- Alcina

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A UNT Opera Summer Workshop performance at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theater.
Date: August 6, 2011
Creator: University of North Texas. Opera.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Opera: 2011-08-07 -- Alcina

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A UNT Opera Summer Workshop performance at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theater.
Date: August 7, 2011
Creator: University of North Texas. Opera.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Graduates at UNT Summer 2011 Commencement, 1]

Photograph of graduates at the UNT Summer 2011 Commencement held in the Coliseum (Super Pit). Members of the group are standing circular formation, facing each other. Two individuals on the right side of the photograph are wearing doctoral regalia. Others are wearing black caps and gowns with Master of Music (pink), Master of Science (gold), and Master of Arts (white) hood trims.
Date: August 12, 2011
Creator: Chaney, Ken
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Jeniffer Criss] captions transcript

[Jeniffer Criss]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Jeniffer Criss event in 2011. This video features various performances by singer Jeniffer Criss live on stage at Clarence Muse Café Theatre including opening acts. The video cuts at 1:27:44.
Date: 2011-08-26/2011-08-27
Creator: Evans, Tracy
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liminality as Thought and Action (open access)

Liminality as Thought and Action

This article discusses liminality as thought and action in urban music education programs.
Date: August 1, 2011
Creator: Emmanuel, Donna T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Senior Recital: 2011-08-09 - Joseph Hubbard, bass

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Senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music (BM) degree.
Date: August 9, 2011
Creator: Hubbard, Joseph
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Luigi Rossi: Early Baroque Italian Cantatas for the Modern Singer, with Modern Editions of Selected Works (open access)

Luigi Rossi: Early Baroque Italian Cantatas for the Modern Singer, with Modern Editions of Selected Works

The early baroque songs, or cantatas, of Luigi Rossi (1597-1653) are largely absent from the canon of standard Italian vocal repertory utilized by young singers and voice teachers today. In this document Rossi’s composition style is considered, along with modern edition trends, within the emerging genre of Italian early baroque song. Several of Luigi Rossi’s vocal works — chosen for their simplicity, brevity, dramatic content, and suitability for a young singer — are presented in modern transcriptions for voice and piano. The following document lays the groundwork for the inclusion of Luigi Rossi’s songs in the modern canon of Italian vocal music. Part I provides an introduction to Luigi Rossi and the considerations involved in creating modern editions of early baroque solo vocal music. In Chapter 1, Rossi’s patronage and compositional output are considered along with the reception and dissemination of his works in Italy and France. Chapter 2 of this study explores the historical context and lasting influence of Parisotti’s Arie Antiche, the larger collection from which the ubiquitous Schirmer edition, Twenty-four Italian Songs and Arias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, is drawn. One well-known song that appears in the Schirmer edition is Giulio Caccini’s Amarilli, mia bella. …
Date: August 2011
Creator: Griffiths, Sarah Abigail
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Galileo's Eyeglass: An Orchestral Work Celebrating the Discovery of the Moons of Jupiter and the Rings of Saturn (open access)

Galileo's Eyeglass: An Orchestral Work Celebrating the Discovery of the Moons of Jupiter and the Rings of Saturn

Galileo's Eyeglass is a celebratory work for full orchestra with standard instrumentation commemorating Galileo Galilei's discoveries of the four largest moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn in 1610. The composition is approximately 14 minutes in duration, and although divided thematically into four parts, the music is continuous. The work exhibits primarily a blend of contemporary styles and compositional elements, yet it is rooted in traditional tonality; furthermore, the piece is interspersed with references to Galileo's life and times, including quotations of a toccata composed by the scientist's brother, Michelangelo Galilei, transcribed from lute tablature. Chapter 1 of Part 1 investigates relevant historical threads extracted from the backdrop of Galileo's life, from reflections on the events that shape the musical program, to the selection and preparation of the period music composed by Galileo's brother. Chapter 2 discusses specific musical components of Galileo's Eyeglass, including form, musical quotations, motivic and thematic material, harmonic language, orchestration, and notation. Chapter 3 examines the principal philosophical themes behind the composition, including expressions of victory of a life well lived in spite of many obstacles. Part 2 contains the orchestral score.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Walls, Jay Alan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Real-Time Electronic Sound Analysis System with Graphical User Interface (open access)

A Real-Time Electronic Sound Analysis System with Graphical User Interface

Noise-induced hearing loss is a serious problem common to musical environments. Current dosimetry technology is primarily designed for industrial environments and not suited for musical settings. At present, there are no government regulations that apply to the educational music environment as it relates to monitoring and prevention of hearing loss. Also, no system exists than can serve as a proactive tool in observation and reporting of sound exposure levels with the goal of hearing conservation. Newly proposed system takes a software based approach in designing a proactive dosimetry system that can assess the risk of sound noise exposure. It provides real-time feedback trough a graphical user interface that is capable of database storage for further study.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Brgulja, Amir
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mikrokosmos and 32 Piano Games: Introducing Contemporary Musical Language and Developing Piano Technique for the Beginning Student (open access)

Mikrokosmos and 32 Piano Games: Introducing Contemporary Musical Language and Developing Piano Technique for the Beginning Student

As new musical styles have emerged in the twentieth century with characteristic sounds, chords, forms, meters, and intervals, teachers need to broaden and re-define the way they introduce musical concepts to beginning piano students. The purpose of this study is to offer different instructional possibilities aside from conventional methods of teaching beginning pianists. This is accomplished through a comparison of the two different approaches of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók and the American composer Ross Lee Finney. Bartók’s Mikrokosmos, a graded set of 153 pieces, and Finney's 32 Piano Games are examined through this paper.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Song, Hyun-Joo
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 144, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 144, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: August 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 143, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 143, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: August 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 145, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 145, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: August 25, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ancient Musical Ideas Through a Twenty-First Century Lens: An Examination of Tarik O’Regan’s Scattered Rhymes and Its Relationship to Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Notre Dame (open access)

Ancient Musical Ideas Through a Twenty-First Century Lens: An Examination of Tarik O’Regan’s Scattered Rhymes and Its Relationship to Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Notre Dame

British composer Tarik Hamilton O’Regan (b. 1978, London) is earning a reputation as an important composer of today. The innovative works of O’Regan are entering the spectrum of professional, educational, and community performing organizations across the United States and Europe. Scattered Rhymes’ intricate melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic relationships with Messe de Notre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377) make an examination and comparison of the two works significant. Analyzing Scattered Rhymes by tracing its roots to Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Notre Dame, results in a renewed interest in this ancient work and brings prominence to Tarik O’Regan’s modern musical interpretation of ancient ideas. Understanding Scattered Rhymes as a work based on ideas from the fourteenth century in fusion with compositional concepts rooted in the modern era promotes Scattered Rhymes as one that is valuable in the current musical landscape.
Date: August 2011
Creator: LaBarr, Cameron Frederick
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Orchestral Etudes: Repertoire-Specific Exercises for Double Bass (open access)

Orchestral Etudes: Repertoire-Specific Exercises for Double Bass

In this project, frequently required double bass orchestral audition excerpts as well as their individual technical difficulties are identified. A survey of professional double bass players and teachers currently and formerly employed by major orchestras, universities, and conservatories have participated to validate the importance of four of the most frequently required orchestral excerpts: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mvt. 4, and Symphony No. 5, Mvt. 3; Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben; and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, Mvt. 1. The survey respondents identified the primary and secondary technical concerns of each of the four excerpts. I have created technical studies, or etudes, that specifically address these difficulties and help fill a literary gap within the existing pedagogical resources for the double bass.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Unzicker, Jack Andrew
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 2011 (open access)

North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 2011

Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: August 26, 2011
Creator: Pherigo, Josh
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wilderness and Everyday Life. (open access)

Wilderness and Everyday Life.

I challenge the dualistic view of wilderness that has influenced wilderness philosophy, politics and experience in recent years. In its place, I offer an alternative vision that recognizes wilderness areas and working landscapes as complementary elements of a larger, inhabited landscape characterized by a heterogeneous mixture of human-land relational patterns representing various points along an urban-wilderness continuum. In chapters 2 through 4, I explore the philosophical, political and experiential implications of this wilderness-in-context vision. Experienced and understood as part of the landscape we call home, wilderness may engender, renew, and sustain an engaged and integrated wilderness practice involving regular contact with wilderness places, committed activism on behalf of wild lands and their inhabitants, and grounded reflection on the meaning and value of wilderness in our everyday lives.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Friskics, Scott
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 2011 (open access)

North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 2011

Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: August 25, 2011
Creator: Pherigo, Josh
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 2011 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: August 19, 2011
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
¿Cuándo te Veré? “When Will I See You?” (open access)

¿Cuándo te Veré? “When Will I See You?”

This film examines the phenomenon of a family divided by the U.S.-Mexico border. Saul, the head of the family, migrated north in search of a better life for his wife and children while they stayed behind in Mexico. Not having the documents to cross the border has resulted in being apart from his family for more than ten years. This is a story about separation, pain, and the ultimate sacrifice a family makes as a means of survival.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Colunga, Elizabeth H.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 10, 2011 (open access)

Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Weekly Czech and English language newspaper from Temple, Texas published as the official organ of the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas that includes news of interest to members along with advertising.
Date: August 10, 2011
Creator: Zavodny, Melanie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
True Tales of the Atom (open access)

True Tales of the Atom

True Tales of the Atom documents the creative process in the making of the film of the same name. It describes the intent and result of each step in the filmmaking process, including esthetic, budget and technical decisions. How the inclusion of animation increased the complexity and technical demands on the postproduction. It shows the problems encountered and overcome working on a production alone. Finally, it details the successful completion primarily due to extensive preplanning. The film on which the paper is based is a non-traditional look at several little-known aspects of civilian nuclear power, with a look at the media that could have helped to shape current attitudes in the United States about the technology.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Westergaard, Jerry
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library