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A Stylistic Evaluation of Aaron Copland’s Piano Variations (open access)

A Stylistic Evaluation of Aaron Copland’s Piano Variations

This paper evaluates the style of American composer Aaron Copland's Piano Variations. Philip Carey Jones discusses its position as a unique piece in twentieth-century piano literature and compares his work to that of other composers.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Jones, Philip Carey
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Editions of Carl Maria von Weber’s Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48, for Clarinet and Piano, With the Composer’s Autograph Score (open access)

A Comparison of Editions of Carl Maria von Weber’s Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48, for Clarinet and Piano, With the Composer’s Autograph Score

This paper compares various editions of Carl Maria Von Weber's Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48, with the composer's original autograph score. Catherine E. Wood discusses how well these editions retained the composer's intentions, and which edition is the most accurate.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Wood, Catherine E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of New Extensions of Clarinet Technique as They Appear in Four Published Works (open access)

A Survey of New Extensions of Clarinet Technique as They Appear in Four Published Works

This paper explores the new extensions of clarinet technique in four published works, discussing the percussive effects, melodic effects, and multiple sounds that can be produced through these extensions. David R. Widder also explores the history of innovational solo clarinet works.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Widder, David R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pianistic Problems in the Fifth Sonata of Scriabin (open access)

Pianistic Problems in the Fifth Sonata of Scriabin

This paper discusses the pianist problems in the fifth sonata created by Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin and provides historical background to the works of the composer before analyzing his work.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Smith, Jennie
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Hindemith Sonata for Double Bass and Piano, for Performance Purposes (open access)

An Analysis of the Hindemith Sonata for Double Bass and Piano, for Performance Purposes

This paper analyzes composer Paul Hindemith's Sonata for Double Bass and Piano and provides conclusions about how to interpret the movements in performance as well as the compositional techniques used by Hindemith to create them.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Jacobson, Harry P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Jaques Ibert’s Concertino Da Camera for Alto Saxophone and Eleven Instruments (open access)

An Analysis of Jaques Ibert’s Concertino Da Camera for Alto Saxophone and Eleven Instruments

This paper provides historical background for the creation of Jacques Ibert's Concertino da camera for alto saxophone and eleven instruments and analyzes its three movements. As one of the first works written for the saxophone, James Garland Riggs explains the importance of the piece.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Riggs, James Garland
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Acoustical Considerations in the Design of the Contemporary Organ Case (open access)

Some Acoustical Considerations in the Design of the Contemporary Organ Case

This paper discusses the historical roots, placement, shape, and materials and methods in the construction of the contemporary organ case. James W. Kibbie explores the acoustical considerations of its design and how these are reflected in the finished product.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Kibbie, James W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Influences of the Organ Reform Movement on the Instruments of Texas (open access)

Some Influences of the Organ Reform Movement on the Instruments of Texas

This paper explores the impact of the organ reform movement on the construction of organs in Texas. E. Dean Beasley also explores the possibilities of further reform for the instrument.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Beasley, E. Dean
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Four Dominating Elements in the Piano Literature of Sergei Prokofieff (open access)

The Four Dominating Elements in the Piano Literature of Sergei Prokofieff

This paper analyzes the piano compositions of Sergei Prokofieff and identifies four elements evident in the literature: classicism, innovation, toccata, and lyricism. Elisabeth Euwer Roberts traces the history of his works and the evidence of these elements in them.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Roberts, Elisabeth Euwer
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Style Comparison of the Piano and Organ Versions of Liszt’s Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H (open access)

A Style Comparison of the Piano and Organ Versions of Liszt’s Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H

This paper analyzes the piano and organ versions of the Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H composed by Franz Liszt and provides a style comparison of the two. Jerry Glynn Smith also provides context for Liszt's work with the organ.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Smith, Jerry Glynn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anomalous Radial Plasma Losses in a Q-Machine With Mirror Magnetic Fields. (open access)

Anomalous Radial Plasma Losses in a Q-Machine With Mirror Magnetic Fields.

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Date: April 1972
Creator: Searing, Richard Manor
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sonata 1972 (open access)

Sonata 1972

A composition in three movements for piano, the duration of which is approximately seven minutes and thirty seconds. The tonal organization employs quickly changing tonal centers. Linear aspects are of more structural importance than vertical sonorities. Frequent changes of meter, syncopation, and ostinato figurations are utilized in each movement. Primarily, a two-voiced texture is employed to effect a transparent quality of sound. A detailed thematic and formal analysis of each movement is included in the "Discussion and Analysis".
Date: August 1972
Creator: O'Preska, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Transcription and Translation of Musica Dalla Parodie d'Alceste by Carlos d'Ordoñez (open access)

A Transcription and Translation of Musica Dalla Parodie d'Alceste by Carlos d'Ordoñez

Parody may be defined as a humorous or sarcastic imitation of a serious piece of literature. It appears, following this interpretation, that Carlos Ordoñez composed his marionette opera, Musica Dalla Parodie d'Alceste as a parody on Gluck's Alceste. A microfilm of the original manuscript of Ordoñez was procured from the National Szecheny Library in Budapest, the possessor of the only copy of the work.
Date: June 1972
Creator: Bankston, Tina L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Movements for Trumpet, Percussion and String Orchestra (open access)

Movements for Trumpet, Percussion and String Orchestra

This composition, a three-movement work requiring a performance time of approximately thirteen minutes, is scored for Bb trumpet, percussion and string orchestra. A two-piano arrangement of the string orchestra section of the score is included in the work.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Lamb, Marvin, 1946-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Theme and Variations for Wind Ensemble (open access)

Theme and Variations for Wind Ensemble

A set of variations can be any length and contain any number of variations. The same set of variations also can be fashioned to resemble any musical form. On this basic premise, Theme and Variations for Wind Ensemble was written. It is a continuous one movement composition. There is a statement of a theme with five subsequent variations.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Hawkins, William A. (William Augustus)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (open access)

Music for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble

The first movement material is presented by the ensemble and subsequently developed by the saxophone. A majority of the saxophone passages are supported by the ensemble with unaccompanied solo passages kept to a minimum. The various sections are based more on differences in pitch and rhythm than orchestration and harmony.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Nordal, Marius
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synergism (open access)

Synergism

Synergism is an art presentation designed to use multimedia concepts to heighten audience involvement in the work. Although primarily sound oriented, its skeletal structure is literary. The music expands upon the text to communicate the inexplicable or irrational element of its meaning to those faculties which determine emotional response. This process is aided by a modicum of environmental control achieved through stage lighting effects.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Gustavus, Duane L. (Duane Livingston)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnetic field control in a beta-ray spectrometer. (open access)

Magnetic field control in a beta-ray spectrometer.

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Date: January 1, 1972
Creator: Halbig, J K
System: The UNT Digital Library
Micromechanics analysis of composite materials using finite element methods (open access)

Micromechanics analysis of composite materials using finite element methods

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Date: May 1, 1972
Creator: Agarwal, B. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simple excitations of doubly closed shell nuclei. (open access)

Simple excitations of doubly closed shell nuclei.

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Date: January 1, 1972
Creator: Trilling, R
System: The UNT Digital Library
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF HIGH PURITY SCANDIUM, YTTRIUM, LANTHANUM AND LUTETIUM AND THE EFFECTS OF IMPURITIES ON THESE PROPERTIES. (open access)
Theoretical Treatment of the Schwarz--Hora Effect. (open access)

Theoretical Treatment of the Schwarz--Hora Effect.

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Date: January 1, 1972
Creator: Hadley, G. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
DETERMINATION OF THE FERMI SURFACE OF MOLYBDENUM USING THE DE HAAS--VAN ALPHEN EFFECT. (open access)

DETERMINATION OF THE FERMI SURFACE OF MOLYBDENUM USING THE DE HAAS--VAN ALPHEN EFFECT.

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Date: January 1, 1972
Creator: Hoekstra, J.A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electron Scattering From Simple Atomic and Molecular Systems: A Study of the Phenomenological and Microscopic Optical Models. (open access)

Electron Scattering From Simple Atomic and Molecular Systems: A Study of the Phenomenological and Microscopic Optical Models.

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Date: January 1, 1972
Creator: Alton, G. D.; Garrett, W. R. & Turner, J. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library