Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica Luigi Cherubini, manuscript Basevi 2439: critical edition and commentary (open access)

Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica Luigi Cherubini, manuscript Basevi 2439: critical edition and commentary

The subject of the present study, Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, MS Basevi 2439, abbreviated Florence 2439,1 contains secular and sacred vocal music of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, with texts in French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Newton, Paul George
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Economic Status of College Teachers in Texas Compared with other Professions and Measured by Relative Support of Education in Texas (open access)

The Economic Status of College Teachers in Texas Compared with other Professions and Measured by Relative Support of Education in Texas

The problem of this study is the economic status of college teachers in Texas, with emphasis on actual support afforded that profession in the past and in the present; and objective statistical analysis of the ability of the state to more adequately support the profession now and in the future, and the theoretical and actual importance which that economic status presages for out state and society. Actual support of higher education will be measured by salaries and expenditures; ability to support will be measured by the relative wealth of each state in per capita income.
Date: June 1951
Creator: Sparkman, Roy Clifford
System: The UNT Digital Library
String Quartet (open access)

String Quartet

The first movement of the "String Quartet" opens with a gradual unfolding of the lead motive in the first six measures of the section marked "Largo." The second theme is heard in the first two measures of the section marked "Moderato" after a false start by the first violin. The third movement utilizes the essential dance characteristics of the "Minuet" marking.
Date: June 1963
Creator: Riley, James.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Georg Benda and His Melodrama, Ariadne auf Naxos (open access)

Georg Benda and His Melodrama, Ariadne auf Naxos

The orchestral interpolations in this melodrama are written to support and enhance the spoken parts rather than compete with them. The alternating music and speech result in an intricately woven pattern which presents, ultimately, one dramatic picture. While the fragmented quality of the production could present many problems to a composer, Benda has woven the dramatic and the musical aspects of the composition together so well that one does not detract from the other.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Richards, Doris J. (Doris Jean)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Symphonic Piece for Band (open access)

Symphonic Piece for Band

Primarily the objective was to compose a piece for concert band in a large form with the ultimate aim of submitting the number for publication for perfromance by a college, or good high school band, with the additional hope this number might eventually be included on a high school band contest list. With the thought of publication in mind, it was necessary to cross-cue certain parts and limit the technical scope of the composition.
Date: June 1948
Creator: Hill, Charles Lee, 1910-
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Transcription for Band of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait From the Orchestral Score (open access)

A Transcription for Band of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait From the Orchestral Score

The problem of this study was to make a transcription of Lincoln Portrait for symphonic band. There is a drastic need for music of a better quality and music by modern composers for symphonic band.The problems of this study concern the following major phases: first, the instrumentation of the work;second an analysis from the point of view of the problem; third, a band transcription of Lincoln Portrait for symphonic band.
Date: June 1949
Creator: Williams, Johnnie N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Interpretive and Compositional Analysis of the Songs of Yrjö Kilpinen to Poems by Christian Morgenstern (open access)

An Interpretive and Compositional Analysis of the Songs of Yrjö Kilpinen to Poems by Christian Morgenstern

This study examines the the songs of Yrjö Kilpinen and their use in the poems of Christian Morgenstern.
Date: June 1959
Creator: Foster, Walter Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Method of Filming a Music and Fine Arts Program (open access)

A Method of Filming a Music and Fine Arts Program

In reviewing the events of the advances of science and technology of the past two decades one is struck by the magnificence of man's accomplishments. The first moon walk televised live in 1969, the widespread utilization of color television receivers, the educational uses of sophisticated audio-visual equipment such as overhead projectors, slide projection, sound tape recorders, close-circuit television and videotape and the almost omniscient usage of television, is ample evidence to demonstrate that the tools necessary to accomplish a task are readily accessible items in this age. We are introduced to new gadgets, innovations, and events (like the moon walk) at such a rapid pace that we have become more flexible and more receptive to change; so much so that at times many of us are even blase about nearly miraculous accomplishments.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Antahades, Mary Ella
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of the Conservation of Human Beings and of Soil by the CCC Camp in Denton, Texas (open access)

The Effectiveness of the Conservation of Human Beings and of Soil by the CCC Camp in Denton, Texas

The organization of the Emergency Conservation Work was found to possess many faults. The Seventy-Fifth Congress, taking cognizance of some of the more glaring imperfections, approved a measure reorganizing and re-establishing the Emergency Conservation Work under the name of The Civilian Conservation Corp. The bill eliminated many of the defects of the former organization, and invested authority and defined duties and regulations in such a manner that a more efficient institution resulted.
Date: June 1939
Creator: Vinson, Denny
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluative Study of the Grasslands of the R.J. McMurry Ranch, Denton County, Texas (open access)

An Evaluative Study of the Grasslands of the R.J. McMurry Ranch, Denton County, Texas

It is the purpose of this problem to classify the four major pastures of the McMurry ranch using the discussed classification system. The definite measurable qualities characterizing each condition of the system are used extensively in this study. The problem is concerned also with the observation of results of misuse, the present practices that could result in further depletion of portions of the McMurry ranch, and procedures being employed at the present time aimed toward the restoration of these depleted portions.
Date: June 1951
Creator: Nolen, Bette Rudd
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Smoking on Gastric Secretion and Gastric Motility in Man (open access)

Effects of Smoking on Gastric Secretion and Gastric Motility in Man

This thesis is concerned with the use of some of the newer techniques in a study of some of the effects of cigarette smoking on gastric secretion and gastric motility in normal subjects and in patients with active duodenal ulcers.
Date: June 1956
Creator: McKenzie, Jess Mack
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Critical View of the Rhetorical Idiom in Modern Music with Emphasis on the Development of the Contemporary Art-Song (open access)

A Critical View of the Rhetorical Idiom in Modern Music with Emphasis on the Development of the Contemporary Art-Song

This study was made in conjunction with a recital of contemporary American song literature. It it designed to show how the modern composer has taken the tools of words and music and utilized them in creating a valid art-form. I believe it is the first study of its kind that has been made. The song literature which formed the basis of the study has been attested to as valid data by Otto Luening, prominent modern composer and pedagogue and twice winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship in composition, and John Kirk, distinguished pianist and lecturer on modern music.
Date: June 1941
Creator: Chamberlain, Richard (Richard Harry)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparable Dissonance as Used by Palestrina, Lassus, and Victoria in Three Masses (open access)

Comparable Dissonance as Used by Palestrina, Lassus, and Victoria in Three Masses

The purpose of this thesis is to give an account of the comparable use of dissonance of Palestrina, Lassus, and Victoria through harmonic analysis and statistical comparison, illustrating the stylistic differences among the three composers works. The thesis does. not attempt to cover text setting, melodic construction, ranges, or aesthetic evaluation of composition other than that which pertains to dissonance. The analysis of dissonance was done with primary consideration being given to the vertical structure of the harmony, observing the linear structure only with relation to the approach and resolution of that dissonance.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Jerome, Raoul
System: The UNT Digital Library
Follow-up of Students Having Attended Draughon's Business College, Wichita Falls, Texas, During the Years 1946-1950 (open access)

Follow-up of Students Having Attended Draughon's Business College, Wichita Falls, Texas, During the Years 1946-1950

This study is made in that it may serve as a basis of guidance of the Draughon's Business College. This problem was selected in the hope that it might contribute something worthwhile to the administrators, teachers, placement directors, and students of Draughon's Business College, Wichita Falls, Texas.
Date: June 1951
Creator: Meador, Rowe Morgan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Management Development in Food Store Chains in the North Texas Area (open access)

Management Development in Food Store Chains in the North Texas Area

This paper seeks to examine the practices of food store chain organizations in the North Texas area regarding the development of store management personnel.
Date: June 1955
Creator: Hall, Louie Wendell
System: The UNT Digital Library
Popular Choices in Modern Printed Textiles on the Dallas Market (open access)

Popular Choices in Modern Printed Textiles on the Dallas Market

In order to develop a program whereby people can be educated to appreciate and choose the best contemporary designs among the many textiles that are available, it is necessary to know which types of textiles, if any, among those designed in the modern manner, the public accepts, which it rejects, and the factors that influence selection. This study was made to discover those factors -- such as color, subject matter, and utility -- that determine popular choices in a representative group of well-designed modern printed textiles which were available on the Dallas market. The textiles were placed on public exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
Date: June 1949
Creator: Wood, Bess
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
Consumer-Buying Objectives in Homemaking Courses in High Schools of the Southern Region (open access)

Consumer-Buying Objectives in Homemaking Courses in High Schools of the Southern Region

For the past few years the homemaking courses has shifted its emphasis from cooking and sewing skills to the solving of managerial problems of the individual and the family of today. Each person who is taking an active part in living is constantly purchasing and consuming goods and services and must realize that his welfare depends upon the relation between the satisfactions that he receives from the things he buys and the price that he pays for them. Since every one must purchase goods, the high school student needs to learn how to buy wisely. The executive committees of the homemaking divisions in the different states which are revising the courses of study realize that management of money from the consumer-buying view point is important and needs a place in meeting the needs and interests of the high school student of today. The problem in this study is to determine the adequacy of the objectives on consumer-buying in the homemaking courses in high schools of the Southern Region. This study is made for the purpose of determining the adequacy and extent of consumer-buying teaching objectives in homemaking education in the high schools of the Southern region. in order that way …
Date: June 1938
Creator: Wilson, Charles Aldredge, Mrs.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Symphony No. 1 (open access)

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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ash Glazes and the Effect of Colorants and Firing Conditions: Volume 2. Plates (open access)

Ash Glazes and the Effect of Colorants and Firing Conditions: Volume 2. Plates

The study being undertaken was to ascertain the effect or effects of different firing conditions and colorants on glazes composed of wood ash from two trees indigenous to Texas. The problem was divided into two parts: first, to identify the best mixtures using the selected vegetable ash; second, to alter successful glazes with set percentages of colorants. The main objective of the study was to evaluate findings resulting from the variation of elements, firing conditions, and colorants used and to select successful glazes.
Date: June 1969
Creator: Jones, James Denny
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conflict in Children Related to the Number of Choice Alternatives (open access)

Conflict in Children Related to the Number of Choice Alternatives

The purposes of the present study are to attempt to discover if there is a predictable relationship between conflict and an increase in the number of choice alternatives, to specifically determine if this hypothesized relationship exists in a predictable order in children, to endeavor to show that this hypothesized relationship is such that generalization of application to a natural environment is credible, and to attempt to discover if there are sex differences that may influence this relationship.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Burleson, Billy D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Representation of Father-Son Relations in the Major Novels of Samuel Clemens (open access)

Representation of Father-Son Relations in the Major Novels of Samuel Clemens

John Marshall Clemens was a failure, as a man, as a husband, and as a father. It is his lack of emotion, his inability to express or receive love, with which this thesis is mainly concerned, for it is his emotional vacuum that so greatly affected his fourth son, Samuel Clemens.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Coplin, Merritt Keith
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Diphenylhydantoin on Maze Performance (open access)

The Effects of Diphenylhydantoin on Maze Performance

Making the assumption that diphenylhydantoin has a lowering or cancelling effect on excess electricity in the brain, it is the purpose of this study to determine the effect of diphenylhydantoin in a stressful learning situation.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Dudley, Harold Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Clothing Interest and Self-Concept in Female Undergraduate College Students (open access)

The Relationship between Clothing Interest and Self-Concept in Female Undergraduate College Students

This study sought to examine the relationship between the variable of clothing interest and the five self-concept variables or scales. These are defensive positiveness, general maladjustment, psychosis, personality disorder, and neurosis similarity in scale score to a neurotic population.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Dulin, Anthony P.
System: The UNT Digital Library