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Arda

Description: Arda is an instrumental chamber work scored for cello, percussion, and multiple keyboards with a total duration of approximately thirteen minutes. The work is structured in an arch form whose divisions are based on instrumental and textual groupings. The pitch organization utilizes prominent intervals, improvised passages on certain passages on certain pitches, and the double harmonic mode, which is derived from an Indian raga. Various instrumental techniques are also used throughout the work t… more
Date: December 1982
Creator: Howard, Bill (William Alan)
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History of the Fantasia Until 1735 Together with Performances of Fantasias no. 1, 3, and 8 from the Twelve Fantasias for Unaccompanied Violin by Georg Philipp Telemann : a Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of G. Tartini, J. Brahms, M. Ravel, J.S. Bach, C. Debussy, L. v. Beethoven and Others

Description: The lecture recital was given on March 1, 1982. The subject was the History of the Fantasia Until 1735 Together with Performances of Fantasias No. 1, 3, and 8 from the Twelve Fantasias for Unaccompanied Violin by Georg Phillipp Telemann, and it included a brief survey of fantasia composition from the sixteenth century until 1735, comments on solo violin forms of the period, observations relative to performance practices of Baroque music, which were followed by detailed descriptions of Fantasias… more
Date: August 1982
Creator: Neal, Denise
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Histological and Fine Structural Alterations in the Aging rat Ventral Prostate Gland

Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the ventral prostate from Sprague-Dawley rats of the ages two, twelve, and twenty-four months to determine the extent of histological and fine structural change. The tissue was processed for routine light and electron microscopy.
Date: August 1982
Creator: Bentley, Evert Randall
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Evaluation of Immobilized Boronates for Studies of Adenine Nucleotide Metabolism

Description: Immobilized boronates were evaluated for studies of adenine nucleotide metabolism. These studies were performed using Affi-gel 601, a commercial boronate gel, and dihydroxyboryl Sepharose and dihydroxyboryl-Bio Rex which were synthesized in the laboratory. The studies performed included the determination of the relative binding affinity of a variety of adenine containing compounds for the three immobilized boronates under differing chromatographic conditions.
Date: August 1982
Creator: Alvarez-Gonzalez, Rafael
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Effects of an Electric Field on Water Uptake in Single Roots of Intact Onion Plants

Description: Water uptake by a single root of an onion plant (Allium cepa) was measured potentially before, during and following exposure of shoots to an external electric field (EEF). The field strength used was 9kV/m DC and AC (60-Hz) brought about a statistically significant increase (44-71%) in water uptake if the shoot chamber was at almost 100% humidity.
Date: August 1982
Creator: Sardarabadi, Bahram M. (Bahram Moory)
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A Readers Theatre Adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor

Description: After an extensive survey of available literature in Readers Theatre and Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, the purpose for this thesis was to cut and convert The Merry Wives into the twentieth century idiom from the authorized version found in the 1623 folio.
Date: August 1982
Creator: Sprout, Barbara A. (Barbara Allen)
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The Edition of a Quartet for Solo Double Bass, Violin, Viola, and Violoncello by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, a Lecture Recital, Together with Selected Works by J.S. Bach, N. Paganini, S. Koussevitsky, F. Skorzeny, L. Walzel and Others

Description: A solo-quartet by Hoffmeister previously unpublished was discovered by the author in the archives of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. This work contributes to the modern solo repertoire for double bass, and has considerable musical merit. It is a well written work using cleverly overlapped phrases, counterpoint and imitative writing, and effective juxtaposition of contrasting instrumentation. It lies well on the bass and provides an excellent solo vehicle for advanced bassists.
Date: May 1982
Creator: Jacobson, Harry P.
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Nebraska Interstate 80 Bicentennial Sculpture Project

Description: In 1973 , the citizens of Nebraksa embarked upon the Nebraska I-80 Bicentennial Sculpture Project, which provided large roadside sculptures along Interstate 80. A controversial project, referred to as an outdoor sculpture garden, it was completed in 1976 as a lasting commemoration of America's Bicentennial, The sculptures are interspersed for approximately five hundred miles throughout the state and located on alternate sides of the expressway at roadside rest areas.
Date: August 1982
Creator: Lierley, Mary A.
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Nightdreams

Description: Nightdreams, a single-movement work for orchestra, is approximately nine and one-half minutes in duration. The concept for Nightdreams evolves from sketching three types of sounds as photographs: melodically oriented sounds, sound-mass texture, and vertical sonorities. A twelve-note set is used to construct the pitch content of the melodically oriented sounds. This set includes the intervals of a m2, M2, m6, and T. Sound-mass textures are constructed from the same intervals that are contained i… more
Date: December 1982
Creator: Keefe, Robert Michael
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...for the time is at hand : An Original Musical Composition

Description: ...for the time is at hand : An Original Musical Composition, for orchestra and tape, is a single movement work in five overlapping sections with a total duration of approximately twenty minutes. Using a stochastic composition program written in Hewlett-Packard BASIC, the final chord of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps serves as a "seed" to generate the "pitch density" (vertical pitch distribution), "timbre density"(vertical instrument distribution), and dynamics of the work.
Date: December 1982
Creator: Montalto, Richard Michael
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The Wind Was There

Description: The Wind Was There is a setting for soprano voice and orchestra of two poems by Bravig Imbs (1904-46). Imbs was an American writer active in France for most of his career. He was also a violinist and amateur composer. The piece is in two movements, with a total duration of approximately twenty-five minutes. Each movement represents a different stylistic approach to the musical material. Movement one represents the spirit, though not the harmonic language, of the early twentieth century. The se… more
Date: December 1982
Creator: Matthews, Michael
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Finger Spirits: Piano Concerto

Description: Finger Spirits is a concerto for piano and orchestra. The traditional concerto form of three, large, separate movements is not present here. It is a one-movement work in three continuous sections. Certain premises of the concerto are retained: (1) the interplay of soloists and orchestra; (2) the display of vistuosity; and (3) the use of fixed thematic elements. Throughout the performance, the pianist alternates playing actual notes with gestures used in manual communication and mimetic elaborat… more
Date: August 1982
Creator: Conlin, Virginia P. (Virginia Patricia)
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Makropterosuus

Description: Makropterosuus, a single movement composition for full orchestra, is approximately sixteen minutes in duration. The work is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B-flat, two tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, percussion, and strings. The composition of Makropterosuus involved the development of specialized computational procedures for the generation of melodic and rhythmic data.
Date: December 1982
Creator: Meinecke, Jon
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It's All in the Cards

Description: It's All in the Cards is an instrumental chamber work consisting of three movements for ten percussionists encircling the audience. The total duration of the piece is approximately thirteen minutes. Much of the rhythmic and melodic material, as well as the form, was determined by shuffling and dealing a standard deck of fifty-two cards. Other computational procedures have been used to achieve the effect of sound moving from one spatial location to another, an effect on which must be regarded as… more
Date: May 1982
Creator: Johnson, Mark V.
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The Contest: A Ballet for Orchestra and Prepared Tape

Description: The Contest is a ballet scored for orchestra and tape. It was composed in the tradition of dramatic orchestral ballets and sets the biblical story from 1 Kings, chapter 18, verses 20-40. Certain portions of the work were written using computer assisted compositional programs developed by the composer. These programs were written in the BASIC programming language. Other sections of the score were composed intuitively, using no computer programs. The tape for the last movement was prepared on the… more
Date: December 1982
Creator: Bradfield, David W. (David Wayne)
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Purification and Characterization of Rat Liver Glyoxalase II

Description: A new potent competitive inhibitor of glyoxalase II, S-carbobenzoxglutathione (CBG) (Ki=0.065mM) was synthesized. The homogenous enzyme was obtained by a simple two-step CBG-affinity column chromatographic procedure.
Date: December 1982
Creator: Hsu, Yeuh-Rong
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D. O. ("Prof") Wiley: his Contributions to Music Education (1921 to 1963)

Description: The purpose of the study was to write a history of the professional career of D. O. Wiley as a music educator from 1921 to 1963. To give focus to the career of Wiley, answers were sought to three questions, stated as sub-problems: (1) What were the important events and influences in the professional career of D. O. Wiley as a college/University band director? (2) What impact did Wiley have on the development of Texas public school bands that earned him the title "Father of Texas Bands?" and (3)… more
Date: May 1982
Creator: Hansford, James I. (James Irvin)
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Respiratory Physiology of the Reedfish, Calamoichthys Calabaricus

Description: Bimodal resprometry was conducted on reedfish, Calamoichthys caabricus, acclimated to 25C and 33C. The relative proportion of aerial respiration to the total oxygen consumption increased with acclimation temperature (p<0.05), directly correlated to activity (p<0.01) and was inversely correlated with dissolved oxygen (p<0.01). Reedfish survived aquatic hypoxia (<1 ppm) for days solely using aerial respiration. Not surprisingly, reedfish exhibited no behavioral avoidance of aquatic hypoxia when g… more
Date: December 1982
Creator: Pettit, Michael J. (Michael James)
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Selected Management Functions in the Role of First line Academic Administrators in Alaska Community Colleges

Description: The managerial role of first line academic administrators in the the Alaska community colleges was examined in this study. Academic administrators were surveyed to determine the frequency of performance and perception of importance of 157 selected management activities which were divided into the five functions of management--planning, organizing, staffing, directing/leading, and controlling.
Date: May 1982
Creator: Mahaney, Teri D. (Teri Drennan)
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Spatial Perceptions of Infants as Related to Self-Mobility and Gender

Description: The spatial perceptions (i.e., ability to find hidden objects) of infants were tested and compared to their self-mobility and gender. Sixteen infants, eight males and eight females, were tested four times over a nine-week period. The testing was begun with each infant two to three weeks after the infant had begun to crawl.
Date: August 1982
Creator: Attaya, James A. (James Anthony)
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Colonel Earl D. Irons: his Role in the History of Music Education in the Southwest to 1958

Description: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between the professional activities of Col. Earl D. Irons and the overall development of bands in the Southwest. The need for the study was determined after researching the related literature, which revealed gaps in the historical record of instrumental music education, and in particular a dearth of biographical studies dealing with music educators in band field.
Date: May 1982
Creator: Barrow, Gary Wayne
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The Mozart Clarinet Concerto: How Should it be Performed? A Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works by E. Bozza, J. Brahms, C. Debussy, J. Françaix, R. Schumann, L. Spohr, and C.M. Weber

Description: This paper discusses historically and musically significant insights into how the Mozart clarinet Concerto, K. 622, should be performed. The clarinet Concerto was the last wind concerto composed by Mazart and was completed around November 15, 1791, less than a month before his death. Mozart's original manuscript was probably lost. The only extant autograph of the Concerto is a fragmentary one of an earlier sketch dating from 1789.
Date: December 1982
Creator: Cooksey, Melvin D. (Melvin Douglas)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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