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Concertino for Orchestra
Concertino for Orchestra is a one-movement composition of rhapsodic character. The treatment of form and orchestration resembles that of the first movement of a concerto. The piece is in modified sonata form, containing two exposition-development sections. The orchestration employs a wide range of tonal colors, and has been used extensively in this piece to emphasize textural development. Each group of instruments is used individually in solo style, and yet the orchestral tutti never assumes the secondary role of accompaniment.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Wirtel, Thomas
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Keyboard Ricercare in the Baroque Era: Volume 2
This study seeks to examine the history of the ricercare, specifically in the baroque era. In this work, all types of keyboard compositions that utilize imitative counterpoint have been examined. Late baroque fugues have been examined to determine which characteristics of the earlier ricercare remained in general use and which specific compositions contain elements causing them to resemble strongly the parent form. This volume is a musical supplement to the thesis.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Douglass, Robert S. (Robert Satterfield), 1919-
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Construction and Testing of a Charging System and a Corona Column for an Electrostatic Accelerator
The purpose of the project described in this paper has been to complete construction and to determine the operating characteristics of a charging system and a corona-type controlled leakage system for the compact Van de Graaf generator now under construction at North Texas State University. Calibration data of the generating voltmeter to be used for determining the potential developed by the generator are also included in the paper.
Date:
January 1964
Creator:
Daniel, Robert Earl
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music for Chamber Band
The purpose of the composition of the "Music for Chamber Band" is the creation of an extended work for an ensemble of solo wind instruments are treated as woodwind and brass quartets, with the percussion section, which requires four players, serving a subordinate function. The "Music for Chamber Band" is in three contrasting but thematically interrelated movements. The first movement, entitled "Lament," is marked "Slowly and simply" and has a mournful character. The second movement is fast and vigorous, frequently utilizing cross accents which give the impression of two or more meters performed simultaneously, and is entitled "Dance". The third movement, "Antiphon," is moderate in tempo and relaxed in nature. The form of the work as a whole can be likened to an arch which contains (or is made up of) three smaller arches.
Date:
January 1964
Creator:
Davis, Joe Lane
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
String Quartet
The String Quartet is comprised of three movements: Allegro, Adagio, and Vivace. The Allegro utilizes a monothematic Sonata Allegro form: the Adagio is through-composed, and the Vivace is a Rondo. All three movements feature a lean harmonic texture, much of the harmony resulting from linear movement, i.e. counterpoint.
Date:
January 1964
Creator:
Steele, Robert Lanny
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sonata for Mixed Quartet
This quartet is comprised of two wind instruments, flute and clarinet, and two stringed instruments, violin and violoncello. This unusual combination affords a wide variety of colors in both melody and chord-voicing that are impossible with an "unmixed" quartet.
Date:
May 1964
Creator:
Guynn, Toby Dean
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is a three-movement composition by Dan Beaty.
Date:
August 1964
Creator:
Beaty, Dan (Daniel Joseph), 1937-2002
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Physical and Pricing Aspects of the Texas Grain Sorghum Market Structure
The purpose of this study is to collect, analyze, and interpret physical and pricing data pertaining to the elemental market structure for grain sorghums in Texas. For comparative purposes, a criterion is established in Chapter IV to evaluate the data obtained. The objective is to deter mine whether the physical and pricing aspects of the Texas grain sorghum market structure conforms to theoretical structural patterns. If there are deviations from the theoretical pattern, explanations will be sought. No attempt will be made in Chapter II, "Physical Structure", and Chapter III, "Pricing Structure", to evaluate the data given, but only to report the functioning characteristics of these aspects.
Date:
August 1964
Creator:
Pettit, John D.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gethsemane to Calvary
"Gethsemane to Calvary" is a sacred cantata for mixed voices and keyboard accompaniment. It is divided into six sections which are called parts. With the exception of part one which is a potpourri overture, the parts are divided into a variety of choral forms.
Date:
January 1965
Creator:
Bryson, Olden James
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The trumpet as used by Paul Hindemith in three instrumental groupings
Paul Hindemeith adheres to the traditional concept of using two trumpets in his orchestral brass section. The trumpet parts are notated in concert pitch on the score implying the use of the "c" trumpet, although in actual practice, the parts are often transposed and played on the B-flat trumpet by the performer.
Date:
January 1965
Creator:
Richey, Joseph Walter
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
John the Baptist
John the Baptist is a passion focusing on the sufferings of John in six movements for contralto, tenor, baritone, and bass soloists; chorus of mixed voices; boys' choir; and orchestra.
Date:
June 1965
Creator:
Cowan, Charles Donald, 1935-
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Symphonic Variations
The problem of classifying variations according to technical plan and stylistic treatment centers on the determination of which elements of the theme (melody, harmonic scheme, structure) are retained in each component variation and the compositional methods (elaboration, embellishment, motivic fragmentation) which are applied.
Date:
June 1965
Creator:
Miller, Lewis M., 1933-
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
Like the trumpet concertos of Haydra and Hummel, the present concerto for trumpet and orchestra is set in the classical plan of three movements: fast, slow, and fast. The total duration is approximately twenty minutes. The instrumentation of the orchestra, reveals an ensemble of moderate proportions.
Date:
August 1965
Creator:
Tull, Fisher
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
New York Cycle
New York Cycle consists of the settings of three poems for bass-baritone voice and eight instruments. The poems, each of which serves as the basis for one movement, are "The East River's Charm" by Samuel Bernard Greenberg, "Brooklyn Bridge" by Vladimir Mayakovsky, and "The Skyscraper Loves Night" by Carl Sandberg. The instrumentation employed consists of two French horns, vibraphone, timpani, and string quartet.
Date:
August 1965
Creator:
Ehle, Robert C.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sinfonietta
Sinfonietta is a one-movement piece for full symphony orchestra. The work contains five themes, three of which are the more important. The remaining two are subordinate because they are shorter, and not as fully developed as the A themes. A diagram of the form of the piece is shown on the following page as Figure 1. The duration of the work is approximately 14 minutes.
Date:
August 1965
Creator:
Morgan, Bob, 1941-
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Three Movements for Orchestra
The two purpose of this paper are to present an abbreviated study of the following three movements for orchestra, and to examine two different aspects of serial techniques used in the first and last movements respectively. Each movement is basically in the same A B A form; each, however, represents an entirely different approach to composition. Of course there are areas common to all three movements (melodic content, fragmentation, orchestration), and it is hoped that a stylistic continuity is maintained.
Date:
August 1965
Creator:
Warfield, Gerald
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Graphic System for Studying Concert Band Music
This study traces the development of the baton conductor from his earliest origin up to and including the present day. From his initial role, that of a time beater and teacher, he has progressed to that of an interpreter and creator of music.
Date:
January 1966
Creator:
White Jack E. (Jack Ed), 1935-
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sonata for Two Pianos
The Sonata for Two Pianos, eighteen in duration, is in the form of a large arch. The arch is constructed by relating the last movement to the second and first movements by borrowing material from these movements. The resulting form is a large ABA comprising the entire composition. The arch is superimposed over a more traditional formal concept of sonata. A sonata-allegro form is distinguishable in the first movement, a fantasia-variations in the second, and a modified sonata-allegro in the final movement.
Date:
July 1966
Creator:
Calhoon, William H. (William Henry), 1937-
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Development and Use of the Bass Clarinet in the Symphony Orchestra
The purpose of this study is to trace the development of a comparatively young orchestral instrument, the bass clarinet, and its use in the symphony orchestra. The first chapter concerns the development of the bass clarinet from the earliest imperfect specimen to the modern day instrument. The second chapter discusses physical characteristics that are peculiar to the bass clarinet. The third chapter deals with the particular methods of using the bass clarinet in orchestral literature by various composers, from its introduction into the orchestra by Meyerbeer through the present.
Date:
August 1966
Creator:
Hearn, Dan Kent
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reinhard Keiser and His Opera Fredegunda : a Study in the History of Early German Opera
The purpose of this investigation is to trace briefly the development of opera in Germany during and after the Thirty Year's War as a background for the understanding of the milieu in which Keiser's Pregunda was created, and to study in detail this work as a representative of contemporary North German opera.
Date:
August 1966
Creator:
Brooks, Eulan Von
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sound Study
Sound Study is a composition for large symphony orchestra in the twelve-tone idiom. It is a one-movement, monothematic piece in a large ternary form. The main body of the work is preceded by a long introduction which includes statements of the single thematic idea. The A section of the piece is scherzo-like in character and in a moderate 6/8 tempo. The theme is announced and receives a variety of treatment in this section. The B section is an extensive development of thematic material and utilizes a reverberation effect to be discussed below. A brief return of the A section brings the piece to a close.
Date:
August 1966
Creator:
Haerle, Dan
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Symphony Concertante
Symphony Concertante is a three-movement work for a string orchestra and a soloist group of winds which includes flute, oboe, clarinet in B-flat, bassoon, horn in F, and trumpet in B-flat. The movements have the following tempo indications: (I) Allegro ma non troppo, (II) Lento, and (III) Allegro con fuoco.
Date:
August 1966
Creator:
Holt, Gaston Darrell
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Three Movements for Woodwind Quintet
Three Movements for Woodwind Quintet contains serial technique to a limited degree. The composition is not tonal but is in three distinct sections, the first of which is in ABA' form. The first movement is in a fast tempo with the exception of the second section, which is slightly slower. The meter is 2/4 throughout the entire first movement. The second movement is a slow movement and is in variation form. The third movement starts at a fast tempo and the meters alternate between 2/4, 3/4, 5/8 and others so as to change the stress in certain phrases.
Date:
August 1966
Creator:
Shurley, Robert D. (Robert Derwood)
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 1 is a three-movement work for orchestra. The movements have the following tempo indications: (I) Allegro ma non troppo, (II) Lento, and (III) Allegro giocoso. The composition is scored for 3 flutes (3rd flute interchangeable with piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B-flat, bass clarinet in B-flat, 2 bassoons, contra-bassoon, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B-flat, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, percussion (timpani, snare drum, and triangle), and the usual complement of strings.
Date:
June 1967
Creator:
Watson, Walter, 1933-2014.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library