The Year of Perfect Happiness

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The sharp-witted stories in Becky Adnot-Haynes' debut collection explore the secret lives of people—how they deal with the parts of themselves that they choose not to share with their closest confidants—and with the world. A pole-vaulter practices his sport only before dawn. A recently divorced woman signs up for a hallucinogenic drug excursion in the Arizona desert. An uncertain girlfriend goes out into the world wearing a false pregnancy belly. In The Year of Perfect Happiness, the universe is recognizable but slightly askew, a world whose corners can be peeled back to reveal the strange and often comic outcomes of acting out your most self-destructive desires. It is also a winner ofKatherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction Series.
Date: November 2014
Creator: Adnot-Haynes, Becky
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bad Company and Burnt Powder: Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest

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Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "Western" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges. Covered herein are the stories of Cal Aten, John Hittson, the Millican boys, Gid Taylor and Jim and Tom Murphy, Alf Rushing, Bob Meldrum and Noah Wilkerson, P. C. Baird, Gus Chenowth, Jim Dunaway, John Kinney, Elbert Hanks and Boyd White, and Eddie Aten. Within these pages the reader will meet a nineteen-year-old Texas Ranger figuratively dying to shoot his gun. He does get to shoot at people, but soon realizes what he thought was a bargain exacted a steep price. Another tale is of an old-school cowman who shut down illicit traffic in stolen livestock that had existed for years on the Llano Estacado. He was tough, salty, and had no quarter for cow-thieves or sympathy for any mealy-mouthed politicians. He cleaned house, maybe not too nicely, but unarguably successful he was. Then there is the tale of an accomplished and unbeaten fugitive, well known and identified for murder of a Texas peace officer. But …
Date: July 2014
Creator: Alexander, Bob
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music: the Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights

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Lonnie Johnson (1894–1970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father’s band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped out by the 1918 flu epidemic, he and his surviving brother moved to St. Louis, where he won a blues contest that included a recording contract. His career was launched. Johnson can be heard on many Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong records, including the latter’s famous “Savoy Blues” with the Hot Five. He is perhaps best known for his 12-string guitar solos and his ground-breaking recordings with the white guitarist Eddie Lang in the late 1920s. After World War II he began playing rhythm and blues and continued to record and tour until his death. This is the first full-length work on Johnson. Dean Alger answers many biographical mysteries, including how many members of Johnson’s large family were left after the epidemic. He also places Johnson and his musical contemporaries in the context of American race relations and argues for the importance of music in the fight for civil …
Date: April 2014
Creator: Alger, Dean
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2014-11-19 – Nicholas Allington, soprano and alto saxophone

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Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: November 19, 2014
Creator: Allington, Nicholas
Object Type: Video
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Master's Recital: 2014-11-19 - Nicholas Allington, soprano and alto saxophones

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Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: November 19, 2014
Creator: Allington, Nicholas
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Junior Recital: 2014-11-18 - Michael Alonzo, tenor and Matthew Dinh, baritone

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A junior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Date: November 18, 2014
Creator: Alonzo, Michael & Dinh, Matthew
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2014-03-29 – Beginner and Advanced Afro-Cuban Ensemble, Brazilian Ensemble, and Latin Jazz Lab Band

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A concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
Date: March 29, 2014
Creator: Aponte, José
Object Type: Sound
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Schoenberg's Punk Rocker: The Radical Transformations of Dika Newlin

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This article focuses on Dika Newlin (1923-2006), an eccentric individual who was a musical prodigy in her early life and deemed a teenaged protégé of Arnold Schoenberg. Dika took an interest in punk rock later in life, and even joined a punk rock band. The author seeks to understand Dika's transition from protégé to punk rocker by describing some of her various phases as scholar, pianist, composer, and militant iconoclast. This paper was presented at the Music Library Association Conference in Denton, TX, on October 3, 2014.
Date: 2014
Creator: Arnold, Donna M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2014-05-12 – Aubrey ISD Bands

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Band concert performed in the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
Date: May 12, 2014
Creator: Aubrey High School. Symphonic Band.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2014-05-13 – Aubrey ISD Bands

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Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
Date: May 13, 2014
Creator: Aubrey Middle School. 7th/8th Concert Band.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Senior Recital: 2014-04-07 - Katya Aubry, jazz voice and Dylan Garrison, drumset

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A senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Main Auditorium.
Date: April 7, 2014
Creator: Aubry, Katya & Garrison, Dylan
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Captain W.W. Withenbury's 1838-1842 Red River Reminiscences

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A selection of letters written to the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper from 1870-1871 about steamboat travel on the Red River in 1838-1841. W. W. Withenbury was a famous river boat captain during the mid-1800s. In retirement, he wrote a series of letters for the Cincinnati Commercial, under the title "Red River Reminiscences." Jacques Bagur has selected and annotated 39 letters describing three steamboat voyages on the upper Red River from 1838 to 1842. Withenbury was a master of character and incident, and his profiles of persons, including three signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, reflect years of acquaintance. The beauty of his writing ranks this among the best of the reminiscences that were written as the steamboat era was declining. “Bagur is an expert on the Red River in the nineteenth century, and it shows in this work. Informative and entertaining.” —Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell, author of Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State “This will rank as a great assistance to researchers if anyone wants to attack history of the Red River again. Some of his in-depth research was fabulous.”—Skipper Steely, author of Red River Pioneers
Date: April 2014
Creator: Bagur, Jacques D.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2014-11-02 - University of North Texas Center for Chamber Music Studies

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Chamber music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
Date: November 2, 2014
Creator: Bancroft String Quartet
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Faculty Recital: 2014-09-03 – Jennifer Barnes, jazz voice, piano, arranger

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A faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.
Date: September 3, 2014
Creator: Barnes, Jennifer (Singer)
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Senior Recital: 2014-04-24 - Timothy Bauckman and Samuel McDonald, electric guitar

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A senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.
Date: April 23, 2014
Creator: Bauckman, Timothy, 1990- & McDonald, Samuel
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Senior Recital: 2014-04-13 - Will Blackstone, trumpet

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A senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Date: April 13, 2014
Creator: Blackstone, Will
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Senior Recital: 2014-04-12 - Alex Blair, jazz voice and Stephanie Allen, jazz voice

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A senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.
Date: April 12, 2014
Creator: Blair, Alex & Allen, Stephanie (Vocalist)
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English

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ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English was developed by Educational Testing Service and is comprised of 12,100 English essays written by speakers of 11 non-English native languages as part of an international test of academic English proficiency, TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). The test includes reading, writing, listening, and speaking sections and is delivered by computer in a secure test center. This release contains 1,100 essays for each of the 11 native languages sampled from eight topics with information about the score level (low/medium/high) for each essay. The corpus was developed with the specific task of native language identification in mind, but is likely to support tasks and studies in the educational domain, including grammatical error detection and correction and automatic essay scoring, in addition to a broad range of research studies in the fields of natural language processing and corpus linguistics. For the task of native language identification, the following division is recommended: 82% as training data, 9% as development data and 9% as test data, split according to the file IDs accompanying the data set.
Date: June 16, 2014
Creator: Blanchard, Daniel; Tetreault, Joel; Higgins, Derrick; Cahill, Aoife & Chodorow, Martin
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Senior Recital: 2014-11-17 - Carmen Boerboom, alto/tenor trombones

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A senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Date: November 17, 2014
Creator: Boerboom, Carmen
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2014-04-24 – Jazz Repertory Ensemble

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Jazz ensemble concert presented at the UNT Kenton Hall.
Date: April 24, 2014
Creator: Booth, Rodney
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Senior Recital: 2014-03-26 - Basil C. Bouras, clarinet

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A senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Bouras, Basil C.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2014-02-23 – Gospel Meets Jazz

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Jazz and Gospel concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
Date: February 23, 2014
Creator: Brad Leali Jazz Orchestra
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Senior Recital: 2014-04-05 – Kirt Brannen, euphonium

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A senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Main Auditorium.
Date: April 5, 2014
Creator: Brannen, Kirt
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Faculty and Student Recital: 2014-10-24 – Kirsten Broberg, composer

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A faculty and student recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
Date: October 24, 2014
Creator: Broberg, Kirsten
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library