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Chromaticism in Piano Sonata, Opus 120 by Franz Schubert (open access)

Chromaticism in Piano Sonata, Opus 120 by Franz Schubert

Sonata in A major, Opus 120, was written by Franz Schubert in 1819. The sonata was chosen for this study because of its proximity to the middle of the span of time in which Schubert wrote his piano sonatas. His first piano sonata was written in 1815 and the last in 1828. Since no sonatas were written in either 1821 or 1822, the years in the middle of this span, the sonata written in 1819 was chosen.
Date: June 1965
Creator: Kerr, Clara Barbee
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 Brahms Variations on a Theme of Paganini and the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (open access)

The Brahms Variations on a Theme of Paganini and the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Born April 2, 1873, on the estate of Oneg in the province of Novgorod, Russia, Sergei Vassilyvitch Rachmaninoff was the fifth of the six children of Vassili and Lyoubov Boutakova Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff's aristocratic descent was traced to the Hospodars Dragosh, rulers of the realm of Molday from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. One of the daughters from this family had married a son of the Grand Duke Ivan III of Moscow. The son's nephew was named Rachmanin, and from this source the family name originated.1 Rachmaninoff's mother was the daughter of a general, head of Araktcheyev Military College in Novgorod and the owner of a number of estates in the district. It was with a dowry of five of these estates that Lyoubov Boutakova married Vassili Rachmaninoff, and on one of these estates, Oneg, the couple settled down to married life.
Date: June 1961
Creator: Teel, Carl Brown
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
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
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
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
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
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
Some Fundamental Properties of Categories (open access)

Some Fundamental Properties of Categories

This paper establishes a basis for abelian categories, then gives the statement and proof of two equivalent definitions of an abelian category, the development of the basic theory of such categories, and the proof of some theorems involving this basic theory.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Gardner, Harold L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fear of Death as Related to a Positive Future Time Perspective and Self-Esteem (open access)

Fear of Death as Related to a Positive Future Time Perspective and Self-Esteem

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was to determine whether or not fear of death was related to positive future time perspective and self-esteem.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Gerson, Raymond P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Motor Activity Level in Response to Musical Stimuli as Found in Mental Retardates (open access)

A Study of Motor Activity Level in Response to Musical Stimuli as Found in Mental Retardates

The purpose of this study is to investigate, empirically, the response of the severely mentally retarded to different types of music, tonic and sedative, as well as responses during "quiet" periods.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Holloway, JoAnn
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Ego Strength, Social Participation and Weight Reduction (open access)

The Relationship between Ego Strength, Social Participation and Weight Reduction

The problem of this research may be stated as a study of the relationship between successful weight reduction on the part of people involved in a group program, and the two variables of ego strength and social participation.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Madison, Carol Rindler
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Performance on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test and Perceptual Ability and Motor Skill in a Non-Clinical Group (open access)

The Relationship between Performance on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test and Perceptual Ability and Motor Skill in a Non-Clinical Group

The purposes of the present study are to try to establish whether perception and motor skill are determinant factors of performance on the Bender-Gestalt Test and to investigate the degree of relationship and importance of each factor on the B-G-T.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Moazami, Manoutchehr
System: The UNT Digital Library
Philosophical Ideas in Five Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre (open access)

Philosophical Ideas in Five Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre

The drama of Jean-Paul Sartre is primarily an investigation into the meaning of the human condition. The question of primary concern is: What does it mean to be a human being? Through his drama, Sartre reveals the nature of the existential situation. This thesis looks at five plays of Sartre and discusses the philosophical ideas in each.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Portman, Stephen G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Representations of the Mother-Son Relations in the Major Novels of Samuel Clemens (open access)

Representations of the Mother-Son Relations in the Major Novels of Samuel Clemens

This thesis examines the relationship between Samuel Clemens and his mother, Jane Lampton Clemens. It is apparent that Samuel was strongly influenced by his mother in his personality, appearance, and beliefs; but of greater importance is the influence she exerted on the literary creations of Mark Twain.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Rogers, Janie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reversal and Nonreversal Shifts in Concept Learning in Three Levels of Retardates (open access)

Reversal and Nonreversal Shifts in Concept Learning in Three Levels of Retardates

The primary objective of this experiment is to investigate the transition from single unit to mediation control in retardates and to compare their responses with those made by nursery, kindergarten and grammar school children. By utilizing three MA levels of retarded subjects, this transition point may be more specifically demonstrated.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Scurlock, Cheryl Faye
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation (open access)

A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation

This paper contends that, like children of average intelligence, there is a degree of material that will be learned by the retardate, even if his attention is not directly brought to bear upon that material.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Siegel, Edward M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Practices Used in the Classroom for the Prevention or Correction of Discipline Problems (open access)

A Study of Practices Used in the Classroom for the Prevention or Correction of Discipline Problems

The purpose of the study was to establish relationships pertaining to the use of practices involving the prevention or correction of discipline problems between academic and industrial arts teachers.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Smith, James R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Professional Baseball and the Antitrust Laws (open access)

Professional Baseball and the Antitrust Laws

This study concerns the threatened imposition of the antitrust laws on baseball and the response of the sport, both in court action and in pressures upon Congress.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Strother, Guy Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library