States

Mechanical Music

The large vertical painting consists of a dark ground. In the lower portion, five wooden spoons are attached. Along the upper edge is an impression of a hand and a plus and minus sign flank the right and left edges in the upper portion of the canvas. At a diagonal in the lower portion appears a long spatula or spoon shape nestled in a sandy brown area. The surface of the work is complex with numbers, letters and calculations barely visible.
Date: 1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Popular Music and the Underground: Foundations of Jazz, Blues, Country, and Rock, 1900-1950 (open access)

[Review] Popular Music and the Underground: Foundations of Jazz, Blues, Country, and Rock, 1900-1950

This article reviews the book "Popular Music and the Underground: Foundations of Jazz, Blues, Country, and Rock, 1900-1950," by Chuck Mancuso.
Date: December 1997
Creator: McKnight, Mark, 1951-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Un Laudate Pueri Como Antiobra (Acerca De La InvencióN De La MúSica JesuíTica De Chiquitos) (open access)

Un Laudate Pueri Como Antiobra (Acerca De La InvencióN De La MúSica JesuíTica De Chiquitos)

This article examines the invention of the Jesuit Music of Chiquitos.
Date: 1998
Creator: Illari, Bernardo
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] [1] The Blues Route. [2] Going to Chicago: A Year on the Chicago Blues Scene. [3] Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues. (open access)

[Review] [1] The Blues Route. [2] Going to Chicago: A Year on the Chicago Blues Scene. [3] Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues.

This article reviews the three books "The Blues Route," by Hugh Merrill, "Going to Chicago: A Year on the Chicago Blues Scene," by Stephen Green and Laurence J. Hyman, and "Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues," by Paul Oliver.
Date: December 1991
Creator: McKnight, Mark, 1951-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
De los órganos misionales de Chiquitos y su relevancia para la práctica musical (open access)

De los órganos misionales de Chiquitos y su relevancia para la práctica musical

This article discusses the missionary organs of Chiquitos and their relevance for musical practice
Date: May 1999
Creator: Illari, Bernardo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lo urbano, lo rural y las instituciones musicales en las reducciones jesuíticas de guaraníes (open access)

Lo urbano, lo rural y las instituciones musicales en las reducciones jesuíticas de guaraníes

This article examines the musical institutions of the Jesuit reductions of Guarani.
Date: 1991
Creator: Illari, Bernardo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Models for a Database of Composition Styles of Twentieth Century Composers (open access)

Preliminary Models for a Database of Composition Styles of Twentieth Century Composers

Paper for the 1992 Music Library Association Contemporary Music Subject Access Roundtable Meeting. This paper discusses preliminary models for a database of composition styles of twentieth century composers.
Date: February 25, 1992
Creator: Hartsock, Ralph
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Beauty of Environment: A General Model for Environmental Aesthetics (open access)

The Beauty of Environment: A General Model for Environmental Aesthetics

This book is a "systematic outlining of the field of environmental aesthetics beginning from the basis of analytical philosophy" (p. ix). The author discusses ecological and anthropological aesthetics, environmental ethics, the relation of art to nature, and environmental education and legislation. The index begins on page 188.
Date: 1993
Creator: Sepänmaa, Yrjö
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anderson, Sascha: Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture (open access)

Anderson, Sascha: Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture

Encyclopedia article discussing writer Sascha Anderson.
Date: 1999
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mercado de Fort Worth: Issues and Opportunities (open access)

Mercado de Fort Worth: Issues and Opportunities

This report presents the findings of a study by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Research and Development. The study is to provide property owners in Mercado de Fort Forth with information to aid their decision making for building renovations and business investment. The study reviews several mercado-style projects in other cities, provides information on business assistance resources in the Fort Worth area, looks at ongoing plans targeted to the surrounding community, and provides details regarding qualifications for "historic" designations.
Date: May 1999
Creator: University of North Texas. Center for Economic Development and Research.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Automatic Method for Generating Sense Tagged Corpora (open access)

An Automatic Method for Generating Sense Tagged Corpora

This paper discusses an automatic method for generating sense tagged corpora.
Date: 1999
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Moldovan, Dan I.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Creating Student-Centered Classroom Environments: The Case of Mathematics

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
This book chapter provides examples of how mathematics instruction emphasized meaning and understanding, skills embedded in context, and connections between and among subject areas and school and life outside of school.
Date: 1999
Creator: Reyes, Pedro & Pazey, Barbara L.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is It Too Late?: A Theology of Ecology (open access)

Is It Too Late?: A Theology of Ecology

This book was the first single-authored book that covered ecological ethics and theology. It discusses key philosophical, theological, and ecological issues for Christians and other concerned citizens.
Date: 1995
Creator: Cobb, John B., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Housing and the Aging Population: Options for the New Century (open access)

Housing and the Aging Population: Options for the New Century

Compilation of essays that address the topic of aging from a wide variety of perspectives and provide a basis for the discussion of housing issues concerning the elderly in the coming century. Indexes start on page 423 (authors) and 431 (subjects).
Date: 1994
Creator: Folts, W. Edward (William Edward) & Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

High-Performing Self-Managed Work Teams: A Comparison of Theory to Practice

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Book discussing high-performing self-managed work teams and a comparison of theory of practice.
Date: 1998
Creator: Yeatts, Dale E., 1952- & Hyten, Cloyd
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Post-impoundment Study of Ray Roberts Lake Year-Six (open access)

Post-impoundment Study of Ray Roberts Lake Year-Six

"This report presents the results of investigations conducted six years following the impoundment of Ray Roberts Lake." The purpose of the study is "to improve understanding of the impact of [U.S. Army Corps of Engineers] water resource projects, to provide the basis for evaluating the projects' effects on fish and wildlife resources, and to provide the opportunity for better planning and development of water resource projects and natural resource management" in the Lake Ray Roberts area, located in Denton County, Texas (p. 3).
Date: December 1995
Creator: University of North Texas. Institute of Applied Sciences.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community (open access)

The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community

This book discusses the liberation of humans, animals and nature from both a biological and philosophical approach. The authors include information about biological and cultural evolution, as well as the implications of the organic or organismic ecological model. The index begins on page 345.
Date: 1990
Creator: Birch, Charles & Cobb, John B., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library