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The Development of the Clarinet as a Solo Instrument During the Eighteenth Century (open access)

The Development of the Clarinet as a Solo Instrument During the Eighteenth Century

This study examines the development and creation of the clarinet in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, and the start of their use as a solo instrument in the eighteenth century. This explores Mozart's utilization and development for the clarinet to other various composers and their contributions.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Mahoney, James Mack
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Psychological Approach to the Character of Wotan in Richard Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen (open access)

A Psychological Approach to the Character of Wotan in Richard Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen

The ancient Germanic god that Richard Wagner resurrected in his operatic style Der Ring des Nibelungen was worshiped and feared from Greenland to Asia Minor for 1,000 years after the birth of Christ. This thesis examines the psychological aspects of Wotan as he appears in the opera.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Elam, Donald W. (Donald Willis)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leo Sowerby's Solo Organ Compositions Based on Hymn Tunes (open access)

Leo Sowerby's Solo Organ Compositions Based on Hymn Tunes

Sowerby's compositions based on hymn tunes cover the extent of his career - from 1913 to the time of this study. There are two purposes in selecting them for study: to describe the development of Sowerby's musical style; and to show, from a study of these compositions, the various devices, forms, and techniques which are effective in this area of composition in general.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Mitchell, Margaret P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Responses to Diets High in Phenylalanine Compounds as Genetic Parameters in Mice (open access)

Responses to Diets High in Phenylalanine Compounds as Genetic Parameters in Mice

The induction of phenylketonuria in mice through the use of excess dietary phenylalanine is an area in which limited research has been done. This study intends to pursue further work in this area, more specifically, to study the effects of excess dietary phenylalanine and the phenylalanine analogue A.P.B.A. (2-amino-3-phenyl butanoic acid) (7) on brain serotonin and brain norepinephrine. In addition, the effects of these two compounds on the incidence of audiogenic seizures will be explored.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Boughey, Frederick W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Past, Present, and Future of Income Bonds (open access)

The Past, Present, and Future of Income Bonds

Why has the once fallen star of income bonds started to rise after spending over seventy years below the financial horizon? Is it because income bonds provide many of the advantages of debt financing with the non-fixed payments feature of equity financing? Could it be caused by the high yields they carry considering the risk involved? Is it the result of the large tax savings created in many cases? All of these questions are important. Eighteen years ago income bonds were one of the least respected and most disliked types of securities that a company could issue. Today they have a limited but growing use and an ever increasing acceptance. This study is an attempt to determine and give reasons for the development and use of income bonds in the past, present, and future. It traces the development of income bonds, explains the advantages and disadvantages associated with them, and prognosticates about their future.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Vesecky, Stephen Fenwick
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Secular Solo Songs of Pelham Humfrey (open access)

The Secular Solo Songs of Pelham Humfrey

Humfrey's music, which is chiefly sacred, includes a large number of anthems, odes, services and songs. His compositions, particularly his sacred compositions, have received extensive investigation only on one other occasion, in Henry Bryce Jordan's unpublished dissertation on the subject. Of his sacred music, the anthems form by far the largest and most signification part. Six of them were printed in W. Boyce's Cathedral Music (London, 1760); twelve more, including the "club anthem" and an evening service, are to be found as part of the Tudway Collection of the British Museum (Harl. MS 7338) and others are extant in manuscript at the libraries of Ely, Salisbury, Windsor, the Friz-william Museum (Cambridge), Christ Church (Oxford, Birmingham University, St. Michael's (Tenbury), and the Additional manuscripts in the British Museum. It was primarily int he anthems that Humfrey introduced into England some of the declamatory methods of the French theatre and thus secured for himself the credit of having established their form and style. His solo songs, on the other hand seem to occupy a somewhat less esteemed position, attributable perhaps to their remarkable simplicity, and in few cases to their apparent neglect of such musical fundamentals as melody and rhythm. It is …
Date: June 1966
Creator: Blancq, Charles, 1940-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Graham Greene and the Idea of Childhood (open access)

Graham Greene and the Idea of Childhood

A marked preoccupation with childhood is evident throughout the works of Graham Greene; it receives most obvious expression in his concern with the idea that the course of a man's life is determined during his early years, but many of his other obsessive themes, such as betrayal, pursuit, and failure, may be seen to have their roots in general types of experience which Greene evidently believes to be common to all children.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Bell, Martha Frances
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cement and Artificial Stone Sculpture of Mexico (open access)

Cement and Artificial Stone Sculpture of Mexico

The intention of this study is not to present the technique as a new one in the realm of sculpture, but rather to investigate the various ways in which cement is being employed in the sculptural form and to point out its prominent use as well as the reasons for its popularity in Mexico.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Bowling, Henry E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Praise and Reproof on Digit-symbol Learning at the Elementary School Level (open access)

Effects of Praise and Reproof on Digit-symbol Learning at the Elementary School Level

The principle problem of the present research was to determine the relative effects of two major variables, nature of verbal reinforcement and achievement history, upon the performance of elementary school children on a relatively simple learning task.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Fox, Roger Maurice
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Etymological Examination of Aelfric's "Passion of Saint Sebastian, Martyr" (open access)

An Etymological Examination of Aelfric's "Passion of Saint Sebastian, Martyr"

This study looks at Aelfric's "Passion of Saint Sebastian, Martyr" from an etymological perspective.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Henderson, Robert A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of a Sample of County Welfare Families with a Record of Pregnancy Causing Increases in Welfare Expenditures (open access)

An Analysis of a Sample of County Welfare Families with a Record of Pregnancy Causing Increases in Welfare Expenditures

This is a study of families that had pregnancies while they were recipients or potential recipients of public assistance.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Hollingsworth, Bruce Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Calculation of the Kaon-Neutron Scattering Cross Section (open access)

A Calculation of the Kaon-Neutron Scattering Cross Section

The purpose of this investigation was to study the scattering processes of K+ mesons with neutrons. In order to do such a study one must first make certain basic assumptions about the type of interaction involved and then proceed to calculate physically meaningful qualities which describe the processes. Thus, the problem is this: assuming the validity of Feynman's rules for these strongly interacting particles, calculate the differential and total scattering cross sections for the interaction of scalar K+ mesons and neutrons.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Hooper, Robert Gibson
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Slave Trade Question in European Diplomacy, 1807-1822 (open access)

The Slave Trade Question in European Diplomacy, 1807-1822

Despite the importance of the Slave Trade Question in European diplomacy from 1807-1822, historians of this period have neglected it in order to concentrate on Napoleon and the reconstruction of Europe. Scholars of Negro history generally have traced the slave trade up to 1807 and then have turned to the emancipation movement. This thesis represents an attempt to satisfy the need for a diplomatic study of this issue.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Hurst, James Willard, 1910-1997
System: The UNT Digital Library
Processes and Principles Involved in the 1950 Reorganization of the Department of Commerce (open access)

Processes and Principles Involved in the 1950 Reorganization of the Department of Commerce

The federal administrative structure has undergone many changes as a result of governmental reorganizations. In analyzing one of these various reorganizations, the author was convinced that though there were many reasons for change, the plans were based on some set ideas, congenial to the efficient working of governmental machinery. This study will demonstrate how the principles of public administration are employed and emphasized in the reorganization plans.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Joshi, P. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison on Certain Rorschach Indices between Successful and Unsuccessful Students (open access)

A Comparison on Certain Rorschach Indices between Successful and Unsuccessful Students

It was the purpose of this study to determine the relationship between a subject's performance as revealed by intellectual indices of the Rorschach, his intellectual ability as revealed by the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, and academic success or failure in the form of promotion or nonpromotion.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Kendrick, Sherrill Robertson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differentiable Functions (open access)

Differentiable Functions

The primary purpose of this thesis is to carefully develop and prove some of the fundamental, classical theorems of the differential calculus for functions of two real variables.
Date: June 1966
Creator: McCool, Kenneth B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis of Selected 2-imidazolines (open access)

Synthesis of Selected 2-imidazolines

Since Djerassi and Scholz found that 2-(aryloxy-methyl)imidazolines and their hydrochloride salts exhibit vasoconstrictive properties, the 1,2-(I) 1,3-(II) and 1,4-bis-(2-imidazolinylmethoxy) benzene (III) analogs (Fig. 1, p.2) were chosen for synthesis in order to test them for their effective vasoconstrictive characteristics and for whatever other physiological properties they might exhibit.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Maurer, Larry Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library
Serological Characteristics of Coagulase Positive and Negative Staphylococci (open access)

Serological Characteristics of Coagulase Positive and Negative Staphylococci

For this work, the decision was made to contrast two serological tests, that of the tube agglutination technique and the fluorescent antibody technique for correlation with the coagulase and other characteristics of Staphylococcus strains. This has been a preliminary survey in the hope that as further knowledge is obtained about the staphylococci, grouping of the organisms will become more routine and relatively less complex.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Newton, John H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Distribution of Prepositions in English Adverbial Phrases (open access)

The Distribution of Prepositions in English Adverbial Phrases

This thesis describes the rules of prepositions in English adverbial phrases.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Patton, Judy S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Religious Aspects of the Novels of Jose Maria Gironella (open access)

The Religious Aspects of the Novels of Jose Maria Gironella

It will be the purpose of this thesis to comment upon the five novels by Gironella published to date, with special consideration given to the religious aspects which are found in them. Gironella's attitude toward the Catholic Church and its representatives will also be examined, particularly in regard to the role which the Church and its priests played in the Civil War.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Pulte, William J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Descriptive Study of Selected Characteristics of Adolescent First Admissions to a Private Psychiatric Hospital 1959-1963 (open access)

A Descriptive Study of Selected Characteristics of Adolescent First Admissions to a Private Psychiatric Hospital 1959-1963

The purpose of this research is to provide a descriptive study of selected social and psychiatric characteristics of adolescent first admissions to a private psychiatric hospital and an analysis of some of the inter-relationships among social, ecological, demographic and psychiatric variables selected for study.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Wulfe, Geraldine Rita
System: The UNT Digital Library
Galvanomagnetic Phenomena in Arsenic at Liquid Helium Temperatures (open access)

Galvanomagnetic Phenomena in Arsenic at Liquid Helium Temperatures

The purpose of this investigation was to study some of the transport effects in a single crystal of arsenic at liquid helium temperatures in a magnetic field up to twenty-four kilogauss. The experimental coefficients determined were the isothermal magnetoresistivity and the isothermal Hall resistivity.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Yarbrough, Jack Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Effects on the Thermal Decomposition of Sec-butyllithium Solutions (open access)

Base Effects on the Thermal Decomposition of Sec-butyllithium Solutions

The pyrolysis of sec-butyllithium in solution was studied in an attempt to understand the loss of stereo-specificity and the atypical kinetics that have been reported. Additionally, the effect of added lithium alkoxides was studied to determine their effects on the highly reactive sec-butyllithium substrate.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Adams, George Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Physiological Effects of Chlorine upon Two Chlorine Resistant Algae (open access)

Some Physiological Effects of Chlorine upon Two Chlorine Resistant Algae

This research is concerned specifically with the growth of two selected algae found surviving in chlorinated water in outdoor swimming pools. Unialgal cultures were used to determine the free chlorine residuals that these algae were able to tolerate.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Beddow, David G.
System: The UNT Digital Library