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The Effect of a Free-Time Contingency on Arithmetic and Problem Behavior in the Classroom

Description: This investigation is concerned with demonstrating the effects of an easily managed classroom contingency-management treatment package on increasing arithmetic performance while decreasing disruptive behavior for whole classes of students. The study proposed, among other things, that programs differ in the degree to which each student must depend upon other students for reinforcement
Date: August 1976
Creator: Ross, James M.
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Cēgə Trouhèst

Description: Cēgə Trouhèst is a three-movement work of about thirteen minutes duration. The text by the composer provides a vehicle for aural stimulation only. Cēgə Trouhèst is a continuum of resonances embellished by melodic and rhythmic passages. These embellishments along with other devices and the choice of instrumentation all contribute to the development of the varied timbres. The first two movements introduce the material to be employed in the third, which continues the idea of change exhibited in th… more
Date: May 1976
Creator: Cox, Ronald Arnold
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New York City: A Collage of Cultures

Description: New York City: A Collage of Cultures is a single-movement programmatic orchestral work that features polytonality, prallelism, sound-mass, micro-tones, polychordal rhythmic ostinato, neo-impressionism, and folk themes and anthems from sundry cultures and nationalities. The simultaneity of contextual material at one point necessitates the employment of three conductors. The composition portrays America as a "melting pot" through its busiest immigration center, itself a microcosm of diverse inter… more
Date: May 1977
Creator: Drozin, Garth M. (Garth Matthew).
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Extension

Description: Extension is a three-sectional, one-movement composition for orchestra exploring various permutations of a single motivic unit. The central priority has been to present this motive in a variety of textural situations with a harmonic accompaniment evolving from a macrotonal to a microtonal setting. Some of the devices utilized to realize this priority are mixed-instrument timbral combinations, tone clusters, multiphonics for brass and woodwinds, multiple stops for strings, and superimpositions o… more
Date: December 1974
Creator: Ogilvy, James F.
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Ritual, Sermon, and Prophecy for Bass and Orchestra

Description: This composition is a symphonic setting of three original poems within the confines of an expanded sonata-allegro form and is an approximately twenty-two minutes in duration. The three poems are designed with certain cyclic implications which are related formally to the recurrence of musical ideas. The main application of this plan is found in the duality of formal roles assigned to each of the three major sectional divisions of the work. This is an expanded sonata-allegro, but each section (ex… more
Date: May 1971
Creator: Underwood, William L. (William Lee), 1940-
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Grimaldi

Description: Grimaldi is a synesthetic work composed of aural and visual media including noise, tone, electronic devices, lighting and theatrical events. It is designed for solo saxophone with an accompanying ensemble of eight wind instruments and four percussion. The most important aspect of the piece is its texture, which consists of constantly changing and interacting aural and visual events. The compositional process of Grimaldi began with the selection of a form constructed of two equal arches of unequ… more
Date: December 1975
Creator: Gibson, John (John Wesley), 1946-
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Sonata 1972

Description: 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 in… more
Date: August 1972
Creator: O'Preska, John
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Mulima

Description: 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.
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Nyiragongo

Description: Nyiragongo is a composition for large orchestra. The title is taken from Mount Nyiragongo, an active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of east central Africa. The composition is in one movement and the performance time is approximately eight to nine minutes.
Date: May 1975
Creator: Long, David J.
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The Cycle of Life Symphony

Description: This symphony is a representation of the composer's philosophy of life, which includes a belief in a pre-existent life (Beginnings), a mortal life (Searchings and Wanderings), and a life after death (Return Home). Three out of four of the cyclic elements in the Symphony are symbolic. Theme one represents the influence for good which emanates from a living God; motive one represents the influence for evil, or the Devil; motive two represents the influence of Christ. All three of these influences… more
Date: May 1977
Creator: Dean, Lynn C.
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Display

Description: 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.
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Description: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra consists of three movements. The whole work follows a general character of Fast -- Slow -- Fast; but within each movement are sections with contrasting tempi. The performance time approximately eighteen minutes.
Date: May 1975
Creator: Burns, Forrest Glenn
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Antithesis: Composition for Chamber Orchestra

Description: 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 f… more
Date: August 1977
Creator: Crocker, R. Dean
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Music of Winds, 1976

Description: 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, euphon… more
Date: August 1977
Creator: Elbert, Henry Roland
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Uto

Description: 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, … more
Date: August 1973
Creator: Sapp, Gary J.
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The Crystalline Sense

Description: "The Crystalline Sense" is a composition in one movement for chamber orchestra with the following instrumentation: flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb (doubling bass clarinet in Bb), bassoon, horn in F, trumpet in Bb, trombone, percussion and strings. The composition is approximately nine minutes in length. The goals of the work are (1) to employ intra-sectional practices, (2) to derive all rhythmic ideas from the main themes, (3) to combine certain elements of chromatic, whole tone, and certain triadi… more
Date: December 1974
Creator: Brooks, Robert John
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A Transcription and Translation of Musica Dalla Parodie d'Alceste by Carlos d'Ordoñez

Description: Parody may be defined as a humorous or sarcastic imitation of a serious piece of literature. It appears, following this interpretation, that Carlos Ordoñez composed his marionette opera, Musica Dalla Parodie d'Alceste as a parody on Gluck's Alceste. A microfilm of the original manuscript of Ordoñez was procured from the National Szecheny Library in Budapest, the possessor of the only copy of the work.
Date: June 1972
Creator: Bankston, Tina L.
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Intermedia Piece

Description: 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-
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The Sacrilege of Alan Kent : A Monodrama in Nine Scenes for Baritone Soloist, Orchestra and Tape

Description: The Sacrilege of Alan Kent is a monodrama in nine scenes for baritone soloist, orchestra, and tape. This composition may be presented as a dramatic or concert work. From the standpoint of a dramatic form, it may be considered an opera for one performer in nine brief scenes or vignettes. As a concert work, it resembles a song cycle.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Hutchison, Warner, 1930-
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Alto Requiem

Description: Alto Requiem is a requiem mass for contralto, chorus, and organ. Several unifying elements have been used throughout the composition. Most of the homophonic texture is limited to quartal and secundal structures. The melodic material is also predominantly quartal and secundal. Key relationships between and within movements are limited to related major and minor modes, modes a major or minor second apart, and modes a fourth apart. Further unity is achieved by emplying motives from the chants of t… more
Date: August 1970
Creator: Bailey, Samuel Harper
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Welcome, All Wonders in One Sight

Description: The structure of the present work is clearly described in the foregoing definition. Consisting of fourteen movements of varying length, it is primarily a vocal work for soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists, mixed chorus and an orchestra of moderate size.
Date: May 1971
Creator: Cram, James D., 1931-1974.
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