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The Interpretation of Facial Expressions by Drawings: Problem 1
This study deals with an analysis of facial characteristics and expressions and their interpretation through drawings. Through the past several years of teaching in a Dallas school where so many nationalities are represented and where the various peoples of the lowest privileged groups are segregated, the writer has become deeply interested in what is to be seen in the faces of children. The second problem of the study features an analysis of facial characteristics and expressions and their interpretation through drawings, modeling in clay, and papier mache.
Date:
August 1949
Creator:
Best, Alytiabel Johnston
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Surface Textures of Unglazed Pottery: Volume 2. Plates
This study, "Surface Textures of Unglazed Pottery," will record and evaluate a series of experiments performed that can be achieved on unglazed ceramic ware....The problem will be limited to experiments using a red clay from Horatio, Arkansas, a buff clay from Trenton, New Jersey, and a tan clay from Athens, Texas. The specimens will be fired at the temperature of 1643 degrees Fahrenheit...Experiments performed with the three clays will fall into three categories: (1) textures resulting from introduction of foreign matter into the clay (2) textures resulting from surface treatments of green ware and (3) textures resulting from surface treatments of bisque-fired ware. The experiments will be described and the fired clay specimens -- tiles 2"x2"x1/4" will be evaluated according to esthetic and practical standards.
Date:
August 1957
Creator:
Poole, Jerry Dwayne
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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 Realization and Edition of Three Sonatas by Corelli for Two Violins and Harpsichord
This thesis covers the history of Archangelo Corelli, and includes the creation of and three sonatas by Corelli.
Date:
August 1948
Creator:
Cox, Bobby Wayne, 1926-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mulima
Mulima is a work intended to be used as the score for a ballet. The composition utilizes a large orchestra: 2-3-3-3, 4-3-3-1, 5 percussion, and full strings. The work is constructed in one large act which is comprised of three scenes and lasts approximately 45 to 50 minutes.
Date:
August 1978
Creator:
Long, David J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sensible Sentiments : A Composition for Double Trio
The instrumentation is flute, B-flat clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, and cello. The individual movements last four and one-half, four, and six minutes, respectively, with a total duration of fourteen and one-half minutes. The first movement is a theme and a series of nine sections that employ the variation principle. The second movement is characterized by its slow tempo and by its texture which is almost entirely homophonic. It is primarily concerned with gradual timbral changes created by special effects. The third movement, which is rapid in tempo, employs one main theme which provides four motives. This material is developed throughout the movement by frequent changes in meter, range, texture, and dynamics.
Date:
August 1980
Creator:
Dressler, Wendy Lynn
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reinhard Keiser and His Opera Fredegunda : a Study in the History of Early German Opera
The purpose of this investigation is to trace briefly the development of opera in Germany during and after the Thirty Year's War as a background for the understanding of the milieu in which Keiser's Pregunda was created, and to study in detail this work as a representative of contemporary North German opera.
Date:
August 1966
Creator:
Brooks, Eulan Von
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Symphony No. I, "An American Symphony"
In Symphony No.I, the form of the first movement follows the broad outlines of the sonata. The second movement is in Rondo form, the first section of which has a definite ABA character, the second part has but a single theme extended in treatment, and the third section a recapitulation of the first. The final movement again uses the ABA form.
Date:
August 1941
Creator:
Gillis, Don, 1912-1978
System:
The UNT Digital Library
She Had No Peer: A Chamber Opera
The work is a chamber opera in five movements. The vocal forces include soprano, mezzo-soprano and baritone solos and a small mixed chorus. The instrumental forces include flute, oboe, alto and tenor saxophone, bassoon, cello and percussion. The opera is a character study of Eve and the Virgin Mary that compares and contrasts their evolving emotions. Recurring motives and texts are used to help the characters portray their emotions . The English texts were chosen from poetry ranging primarily from the 16th to the 20th century.
Date:
August 1987
Creator:
Whiteman, Lauren A. (Lauren Ann)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Display
Display is a four-movement work for twenty-two instrumentalists, five singers, and a prepared tape. As the title implies, the composition is, in fact, a studied display, of numerous compositional and performance procedures, techniques, and effects. The performers must be of virtuoso caliber, and in some cases will need to know special techniques to produce some of the required effects.
Date:
August 1977
Creator:
Halloran, Donald C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Movement for Orchestra
The form of the movement is as follows: Slow introduction; forceful theme "A"; lyrical theme "B"; bridge between second theme and development section; development of theme "B"; another bridge developed from a fragment introduced immediately preceding the bridge which is used for a climax before theme "C" is introduced and developed. with the end of the development of theme "C", the development section ends, and thus begins the recapitulation of themes "B" and "A" in that order with little variation in either from that of the exposition. Theme "C", since it played such an integral part in the development section, is not brought back in the recapitulation.
Date:
August 1961
Creator:
Powell, Morgan, 1938-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Ode to the Four Rulers
This composition is a single-movement chamber work and has a total duration of approximately fourteen and one-half minutes. The instrumentation of the piece includes two Eb alto saxophones, two Bb tenor saxophones, two Bb trumpets, tenor trombone, bass trombone, four narrators, piano, double bass, trap set, triangle and chimes. The entire work is organized durationally through the use of eight simultaneous, independent click tracks. This information provides the tempos and is sent to the performers via headphones.
Date:
August 1980
Creator:
Milne, James Alexander
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sonata for Woodwind Choir
The overall style of this sonata begins with music similar to pre-World War I French music in the first movement and become progressively more modern with each movement. The classical forms of composition are used for each movement. There is a different combination of instruments throughout every movement of the sonata to offer orchestral variation.
Date:
August 1959
Creator:
Bilderback, Harold Lloyd.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Transcription for Band of the Second Movement of Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor : From the Orchestral Score
The problem of this study was to make a transcription of the second movement of Franck's Symphony in D Minor for a college symphonic band. A thorough discussion of problems of instrumentation and analysis, a brief history of the composer's life and works, and an evaluation of the contribution of the project is included in this document.
Date:
August 1948
Creator:
Franck, César, 1822-1890
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Keyboard Ricercare in the Baroque Era: Volume 2
This study seeks to examine the history of the ricercare, specifically in the baroque era. In this work, all types of keyboard compositions that utilize imitative counterpoint have been examined. Late baroque fugues have been examined to determine which characteristics of the earlier ricercare remained in general use and which specific compositions contain elements causing them to resemble strongly the parent form. This volume is a musical supplement to the thesis.
Date:
August 1963
Creator:
Douglass, Robert S. (Robert Satterfield), 1919-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Constellations: For Wind Ensemble and Computer Music
Constellations is a single movement work that explores the color between acoustic instruments and computer generated sounds. It is scored for four flutes (two doubling on piccolos), two oboes, two bassoons, eight B-flat clarinets, two bass B-flat clarinets; two alto saxophones, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone; four trumpets in B-flat, four horns in F; three trombones, bass trombone; two tubas;piano; six percussionists; and contrabass. The duration of the work is nine minutes and twenty-eight seconds. Mapping of stellar constellations provide the primary material for all pitch and harmonic progressions throughout the work. Software synthesis and digital sampling techniques coalesce to produce the computer music on tape.
Date:
August 1992
Creator:
Chatham, Rick, 1962-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
String Septet
A thesis about the String Septet. The author explains that it deals with problems concerned in the reconciliation of contemporary aesthetics with extensions of romantic harmony, classical and pre-classical form, classical figuration and ornamentation, and contrapuntal organization.
Date:
August 1962
Creator:
Hughes, Phillip Ralph B. M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Antithesis: Composition for Chamber Orchestra
Antithesis is a composition, approximately nine minutes long, for chamber orchestra (2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 horns, 1 percussionist, prepared electronic tape and strings). Although not formally divided into movements, there are four major sections, analagous to the classical symphony. The primary thrust of the work is to juxtapose opposing timbres, rhythms, and modes of sound generation (instrumental versus electronic) in ways that lead one to another without formal harmonic or melodic logic.
Date:
August 1977
Creator:
Crocker, R. Dean
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music of Winds, 1976
The composition is in two movements played continuously, and requires approximately eleven minutes for performance. The two movements offer different treatment of similar thematic material. Unifying devices are used in each movement. Instrumentation includes the following: piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two Bb clarinets, F English horn, Bb bass clarinet, two bassoons, two Eb alto saxophones, Bb tenor saxophone, Eb baritone saxophone, two bb trumpets, three F French horns, two trombones, euphonium, tuba, and three percussion.
Date:
August 1977
Creator:
Elbert, Henry Roland
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Uto
The composition is in seven major sections with a coda at the end. The work requires approximately fifteen minutes for performance. The discussion and analysis includes a description of the play and an explanation of the treatment of the elements of music. The work requires the following instrumentation: two flutes, two piccolos, two alto flutes, two oboes, two English horns, one bassoon, one contra-bassoon, one French horn, one trumpet, one flugelhorn, one melodion, one piano, one vibraphone, one xylophone, three timpani, mixed percussion, one solo soprano, two solo tenors, one solo bass, a choir of three women and two men, violin, and cello.
Date:
August 1973
Creator:
Sapp, Gary J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Development of an Original Composition
the problem was to take a group of poems from a work entitled The Dark Land, by Kathleen Tankersley Young, and set them to music in such a manner as to produce a unified, artistic, whole, A string quartet was chosen as an accompanying group because of a desire to produce a work comparable in scope and seriousness of content to a piece of chamber music.
Date:
August 1941
Creator:
Chapman, LaMarr
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sinfonietta
"SINFONIETTA" is constructed on a free usage of the traditional Sonata-form. It has an introduction; an Exposition, with two principal themes; a Development, in which both principal themes are used; and a Recapitulation, in which both principal themes are combined.
Date:
August 1961
Creator:
Pickering, Robert Leroy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Symphony #1
This symphony was composed for the purpose of communicating with a contemporary audience and not to please some unknown colleague or future generation. Therefore, experimentation with novel media or systems was rejected in favor of a more conventional approach.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Gower, Albert, 1935-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Intermedia Piece
This work, Intermedia Piece, is a statement of the idea that there are common musical drives present in musicians which cannot be completely suppressed by intellectual achievement or training. the drives presented are those of basic rhythm and direct reaction to rhythm by movement. Aural and visual elements are used to make the statement. All scored events are necessary for successful performance. It is therefore a true intermedia work.
Date:
August 1973
Creator:
Mathew, David Wylie, 1945-
System:
The UNT Digital Library