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Arabic 1620: An Analysis and Procedure for Composing Computer Music VOL. 2 (open access)

Arabic 1620: An Analysis and Procedure for Composing Computer Music VOL. 2

Computers are used in the music field for generation of sound, for composing music, for analysis of music, and for musicological applications, such as cataloguing a bibliography of music literature. These areas are relatively new aspects of computer usage, and research is being conducted to stay abreast of current technological advancements. Avant-garde composers are challenged by new advances in music. Computer-generated music is one of the new trends, but the composer is usually limited in the use of the medium for two reasons: there are no computers to which he may have access, and/or there is not enough knowledge about computer-generated music. The composer sometimes feels that he must have vast knowledge of the computer before he can attempt to use it in musical composition; however, a limited amount of investigation of computer-generated music has shown that methods can be codified to the point where great technical knowledge is not required of the composer.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Lott, William Loyd
System: The UNT Digital Library
The English Horn: Its History and Development Into Orchestral Music (open access)

The English Horn: Its History and Development Into Orchestral Music

The English horn has a background of historical confusion because the instrument was built in many different shapes and was given a new name for each change of form.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Stanton, Robert E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Economic Inefficiency of Texas Water Law (open access)

The Economic Inefficiency of Texas Water Law

The State of Texas is endowed with many valuable resources. It has vast oil and gas deposits, huge timber reserves, and land in abundance. Not least among its re sources is water, the key resource. It is water, even before food, which sustains all life on this earth. Without water the human processes of agriculture, industry, and commerce would be impossible. Water serves as a major source of energy, transportation, and recreation. It is not a risky statement to make that water, above everything else on this earth except land, permits man to exist.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Threadgill, James Randall
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development of Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Technique From Opus Nine to Opus Twenty-Six (open access)

The Development of Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Technique From Opus Nine to Opus Twenty-Six

The real importance of the twelve-tone system would seem to lie in its structural possibilities. It combines the inherent potentialities of the theme of a movement in sonata form with those of the theme of a fugue and of variations. It creates a coherent texture throughout the single movements and the work as a whole. It is needless to say that this kind of coherence can also be achieved in serial compositions, that is, in movements in which not the full row of twelve tones, but only seven or eight or nine tones form the basic row.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Bryant, James Ronald
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Stylistic and Pianistic Evaluation of Aaron Copland's Piano Fantasy (open access)

A Stylistic and Pianistic Evaluation of Aaron Copland's Piano Fantasy

The Piano Fantasy will be compared to Aaron Copland's other major piano works, the Piano Variations and Piano Sonata, to determine if he has retained his basic stylistic features, although he has employed serial principles more extensively in the piano fantasy than in the other two works and has passed through two different style periods, the "Abstract" (1929-1935) and the American "Folksong" (1934-1955).
Date: August 1968
Creator: Hutchison, Merilyn Kae
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Design Possibilities and Techniques of Pounding Plants into Fabric and Paper (open access)

A Study of the Design Possibilities and Techniques of Pounding Plants into Fabric and Paper

The problem of investigating the possibilities of direct design transfer from plant to fabric and paper was divided into two parts. The first part is concerned with the exploration of the mechanics of the transfer. Invloved in this process are the technique of manipulating tools, of selecting suitable fabrics and paper, of determining chemicals that would facilitate the printing process and of experimenting with ways to preserve the finished design. The evaluation of the usability and durability of the finished print was based on a series of color fastness tests. The second part of this problem is concerned with the exploration of the design possibilities of the medium. The plants were tested and rated according to their visual attributes relative to the elements of design. Combinations of the successful plant prints were used to produce variations of pattern and texture. The results of the investigation were evaluated to determine the versatility of the medium as a design tool and the usefulness of the technique as a practical printing method
Date: August 1968
Creator: Safford, Gayle Grisham
System: The UNT Digital Library
An analysis of Brahms' Quintet in B minor, op. 115, for clarinet and strings (open access)

An analysis of Brahms' Quintet in B minor, op. 115, for clarinet and strings

Although many volumes concerning the life and works of Johannes Brahms have been written, it has been found that the majority of these writings treat the material of the subject in a rather poetic and romanticized fashion. This is especially unfortunate in those volumes where the works of Brahms are analyzed with pragmatic implications, since Brahms himself eschewed the use of extramusical elements in his composition. This investigation, therefore, is an attempt to present a careful analysis of one of these compositions, the Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115, for clarinet and string quartet.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Graham, Jack E. (Jack Eldon)
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Knowledge and Skills Required of Draftsmen in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area (open access)

A Study of the Knowledge and Skills Required of Draftsmen in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area

This study was designed to identify the knowledge and skills that draftsmen employed in the greater Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas metropolitan area should posses. This study was conducted to identify the following as related to draftsmen in the Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas area: What kind of education and experience is required to prospective draftsmen? What are the general duties of draftsmen? How much emphasis is placed upon knowledge of and skill in the use of drafting equipment? How important are the basic concepts and principles of drafting usually taught in drafting courses? What methods are used to reproduce drawings?
Date: June 1968
Creator: Craghead, Jane E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Composers (open access)

Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Composers

A comprehensive study of all nineteenth-century New Orleans composers is far beyond the scope of this paper. There are simply too many. An attempt has been made, however, to include as many possible in the text. Others, about whom there is insufficient information to include in a narrative, have been relegated to the appendix, where they are treated in the style of a biographical dictionary. The two most important and influential composers of the century, Gregorion Curto and Theodore von La Hache, are covered individually in chapters two and three, respectively. Their music represents all three of the important aspects of composition of the era: opera, salon, and sacred music. Louis Moreau Gottschalk, probably the most famous composer and performer of the period, has been omitted from this study (other than incidental references) because he has already received considerable attention from numerous other researchers. Likewise, another composer of note, Ernest Guiraud, has been omitted because, even though a native of New Orleans, he left America at an early age and never returned. He should more appropriately be considered in annals of French music. Research in this field, a vital part of the American musical heritage, is by no means complete. …
Date: May 1968
Creator: Wolfe, Alvin Duain
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carl Nielsen's Symphonic Elements as Evidenced in the Commotio (open access)

Carl Nielsen's Symphonic Elements as Evidenced in the Commotio

This study outlines the life of Carl Nielsen, and explores the symphonic elements of his work The Commotio.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Mathews, Charles H. (Charles Harold)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arabic 1620: An Analysis and Procedure for Composing Computer Music (open access)

Arabic 1620: An Analysis and Procedure for Composing Computer Music

Computers are used in the music field for generation of sound, for composing music, for analysis of music, and for musicological applications, such as cataloguing a bibliography of music literature. These areas are relatively new aspects of computer usage, and research is being conducted to stay abreast of current technological advancements. Avant-garde composers are challenged by new advances in music. Computer-generated music is one of the new trends, but the composer is usually limited in the use of the medium for two reasons: there are no computers to which he may have access, and/or there is not enough knowledge about computer-generated music. The composer sometimes feels that he must have vast knowledge of the computer before he can attempt to use it in musical composition; however, a limited amount of investigation of computer-generated music has shown that methods can be codified to the point where great technical knowledge is not required of the composer.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Lott, William Loyd
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Monomythic Pattern in Three Novels by D. H. Lawrence (open access)

The Monomythic Pattern in Three Novels by D. H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Women in Love present sequentially in fictional version Lawrence's own personal journey into self-discovery in the form of a creation myth of sensual love which repeats the archetypal patterns of some of the great mythologies. It is the purpose of the following pages to show how these three novels reveal the major archetypal patterns of mythology as suggested by Joseph Campbell in his study, The Hero with A Thousand Faces.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Hoffmann, Dorothy A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personality Factors and Psycho-social Conditions Related to Troublemaking Behavior in Normal Institutionalized Children (open access)

Personality Factors and Psycho-social Conditions Related to Troublemaking Behavior in Normal Institutionalized Children

The problem of the present study was to discover the relationship of personality factors and certain psycho-social conditions related to the troublemaking behavior of normal institutionalized children.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Hollis, Coy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Post-decision Selectivity in Exposure to Information (open access)

Post-decision Selectivity in Exposure to Information

The purpose of the present study was to determine if persons who had made a recent decision would be selective in seeking information related to their decisions. Also under consideration were the explanation for any selectivity exhibited, and the explanation for any variance in the degree of selectivity manifested.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Hubbard, Prevost
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coverings of Topological Spaces and Paracompactness (open access)

Coverings of Topological Spaces and Paracompactness

This paper will be devoted to an exposition of some of the basic properties of paracompact spaces. In particular, it will be shown that every pseudo-metrizable space is paracompact and countably paracompact.
Date: August 1968
Creator: King, Ronald Scott
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unhappiness in Love and Marriage in the Fiction of Anton Chekhov (open access)

Unhappiness in Love and Marriage in the Fiction of Anton Chekhov

This paper will examine Chekhov's attitudes toward love and marriage as revealed in his short stories. An attempt will be made to find certain themes which recur frequently and to discover the reasons for their recurrence.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Knieff, Nancy Jane Shumate
System: The UNT Digital Library
"The Aviary Trio" : An Experiment in the Stream of Consciousness Technique and a Study of Its Theory (open access)

"The Aviary Trio" : An Experiment in the Stream of Consciousness Technique and a Study of Its Theory

This thesis presents a comparison of the ideas of two philosopher-psychologists, James and Bergson, and studies the theory and techniques in the three works of fiction that comprise "The Aviary Trio."
Date: August 1968
Creator: Lamb, Robert David
System: The UNT Digital Library
Partially Ordered Groups and Rings (open access)

Partially Ordered Groups and Rings

This report presents both the most essential known results and new results in the theory of partially ordered groups and rings. This report deals with partially ordered groups and rings in an algebraic aspect because it is more important than partially ordered, fully ordered and lattice-ordered semigroup theory.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Lott, Kenneth L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transport Phenomena in Indium Arsenide at Low Temperatures (open access)

Transport Phenomena in Indium Arsenide at Low Temperatures

This thesis looks at the transport phenomena in indium arsenide at low temperatures.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Luke, Paul Jacob
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of the Acting of David Garrick and Sir Laurence Olivier : A Comparative Analysis (open access)

The Impact of the Acting of David Garrick and Sir Laurence Olivier : A Comparative Analysis

Two men of genius who came from nowhere to break the rules were David Garrick in 1741 and Sir Laurence Olivier in 1937. These two men will be the major subjects of this thesis. Both Garrick and Olivier introduced new styles of acting to the theatre in Shakespearian plays.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Maberry, David R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay (open access)

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay

Millay and Dickinson, born more than sixty years apart, were subject to vastly different influences and environments, although their homes were in the same geographic area. Their poetry reflects the difference of their times and their own temperament, but both wrote from a great depth and understanding of feeling and experience about subjects common to all mankind - death, love, anguish, the significance of nature.
Date: August 1968
Creator: McDonald, Henry Sue
System: The UNT Digital Library
Symbolism in Coleridge's Minor Poetry (open access)

Symbolism in Coleridge's Minor Poetry

In his minor poems, Coleridge applies symbolic techniques to embellish the poetry and satisfy his spiritual needs. His symbolism allows for a release of pent-up emotions and transmits philosophical ideas in "capsule forms" rather than in historical prose, making them relate to the poetic appeal.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Madewell, Viola D'Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Public Opinion During Crises in Japanese-American Relations in the Early Twentieth Century (open access)

American Public Opinion During Crises in Japanese-American Relations in the Early Twentieth Century

Throughout the period following Pearl Harbor, as one crisis in Japanese-American relations followed another, the American public opinion was divided. Some newspapers and personalities feared that there would be war over the San Francisco school board crisis, while others believed that talk of war was ridiculous. Partisan politics often affected the course of affairs on the Japanese question.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Nelson, Donald Fowler.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growing Earthworms in Artificial Environments (open access)

Growing Earthworms in Artificial Environments

This study is intended to investigate the artificial environment conditions that would favor the most effective propagation of the African night crawler.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Olaniran, David A.
System: The UNT Digital Library