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Constellations: For Wind Ensemble and Computer Music

Description: 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-eigh… more
Date: August 1992
Creator: Chatham, Rick, 1962-
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The Canticles of Solomon

Description: The Canticles of Solomon , a musical drama written for tenor, mezzo soprano, chamber orchestra, and full chorus, is a three movement piece, 25 minutes in length. It is intended for performance without scenery, costume, or action. The fundamental element is text. The source text is The Song of Solomon from the Ryrie Study Bible. The text is cross referenced and used in the formal structure of the work. Each time a cross-referenced entry of text is reached, the melodic theme or rhythmic motive is… more
Date: December 1992
Creator: Shell, Joseph Scott
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Nonet for Percussion and Tape

Description: Nonet for Percussion and Tape is a twenty-two minute through-composed work for eight percussionists and tape. The instrumentation includes: marimba, xylophone, glass wind chimes, slit drum, woodblock, vibraphone, crotales, metal wind chimes, snare drum, bass drum, tom-toms, temple blocks, bass marimba, log drum, cowbells, medium suspended cymbal, gongs, timbales, bongos, tambourine, roto-toms, timpani, and pre-recorded computer-generated/computer-sampled sound.
Date: August 1993
Creator: Crowley, Timothy R. (Timothy Robert)
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Twin oaks: A Comic Opera in One Act

Description: Twin Oaks: A Comic Opera in One Act is a chamber opera approximately 60 minutes in length. Its accompanying ensemble is scored for flute (doubling piccolo), oboe (doubling English horn), B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, trumpet (in C and B-flat), F horn, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola, violoncello and double bass. It is a Number Opera with 10 numbers. There is a single case in which there is music played under the dialogue. The text is based off the W.S. Gilbert Play: Eyes and No E… more
Date: August 1995
Creator: Kuniyasu, Kurt Kazuo, 1958-
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Freshman Music Students' Identification With Expected Tasks in the Music Theory Class as a Relevant Part of Becoming a Musician

Description: The purpose of the study was to investigate freshman music students' identification with expected tasks in music theory class including aural, written, and performance requirements. The second research problem compared students' descriptions with actions in class to determine the presence of role taking (the conscious adherence to a set of behaviors) or role playing (the unconscious assumption of a set of behaviors).
Date: December 1996
Creator: Kteily-O'Sullivan, Laila Rose
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The History of Horn Playing in Los Angeles from 1920 to 1970 : a Lecture Recital, Together With Three Recitals of Selected Works for Horn by M. Haydn, Franz, Britten, Mozart, Koetsier, Hindemith, Herzogenberg, Rossini, Stevens and others

Description: The History of Horn Playing in Los Angeles from 1920 to 1970 begins with the horn players who played in the silent film orchestras and the Alfred Brain's tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This study details the introduction of soundtracks, the early studio orchestras, the contract studio orchestras, the musician union's role in structuring the work environment, the horn players who played in both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the studios, major figures from the subsequent freelance p… more
Date: May 1999
Creator: Hilliard, Howard (Howard Louis)
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The trumpet as a musical and dramatic element in selected operas of Gioachino Rossini and Giuseppe Verdi: Its employment in on-stage and off-stage instrumental ensembles, a lecture recital, together with three recitals of selected works of J. G. B. Neruda, P. Hindemith, G. Antheil and others

Description: The popularity of the miscellaneous wind bands in Italian society through the centuries, and the prominent use of the trumpet within these ensembles and as a solo instrument, become evident in the examination of the development of the banda sul palco (the band on stage) in Italian opera. Gioachino Rossini was the first to use the banda sul palco (stage band) with any regularity. Giovanni Paisiello, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart must be considered earlier contributors to the gr… more
Date: December 1998
Creator: Peters, Grant S. (Grant Shields)
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A Transcription of Three Arias from The Barber of Seville, by Gioacchino Rossini, for Solo Euphonium and Large Brass Ensemble, with Three Recitals of Selected Works by E. Bozza, A. Capuzzi, J. Koetsier, A. Ponchielli, and Others

Description: Document accompanying a transcription for solo euphonium and large brass ensemble of three arias, "Ecco ridente in cielo," "Largo al factotum," and "A un dottor della mia sorte," from Gioacchino Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville. Includes overviews of the arias' texts and contexts, orchestrational techniques in the transcriptions, the history and definition of the term "euphonium," and the history of the large brass ensemble in the United States.
Date: May 1998
Creator: Pollard, Louis M. (Louis Melvin)
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Arthur Garfield Dove's landscape assemblages: a unique intersection of European modernism, American ideas, and nature-based abstraction

Description: In the middle of his career, Arthur Garfield Dove created a smell yet novel body of landscape assemblages. They illustrate Dove's central interest in evoking nature--its motifs and rhythms--through imaginative associations of organic and man-made materials. These works represent Dove's synthesis of contemporary European stylistic and intellectual ideas as well as American philosophies and concerns. They also reflect the influence of Alfred Stieglitz and his circle and the artist Helen Torr, Dov… more
Date: August 1993
Creator: Reece-Hughes, Shirley (Shirley Ellen)
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Gustav Mahler's use and cyclic integration of motivic and thematic quotations

Description: All of Mahler's works may be divided into four distinct chronological groups, referred to as "symphonic cycles." Motives and themes from the songs within each symphonic cycle were quoted in symphonies in the same cycle. This system of self reference was unique to Mahler, although earlier composers such as Schubert and Wagner set precedents for some of the techniques used by Mahler. The quotations in the early periods appeared only on the surface and did not blend well with their surroundings, b… more
Date: May 1990
Creator: Zurflieh, Sharon E. (Sharon Elizabeth)
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The life and legend of Godfrey of Bouillon: the development of a cultural hero in art and literature

Description: In the fourteenth century Jacques de Longuyon popularized the theme of the nine worthies in his poem Les Voeux du Paon. Gofrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Protector of the Holy Sepulchre, was the last of the Christian Worthies in the poem. In his life and legends he exemplified the medieval world's heroic ideal. His achievement, the recovery of the Holy City for Christianity, was the pinnacle-the crowning glory-for the western world. By examining the historical fact of Godfrey's lif… more
Date: August 1992
Creator: Lynass, Kathryn R. (Kathryn Rose)
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Creation and Characterization of an Escherichia Coli and Pseudomonas Putida Hybrid Aspartate Transcarbamoylase

Description: Aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase) is encoded by the pyrBI genes in E. coli. Expression of these genes is reduced four-fold by attenuation when grown on uracil. Using plasmid, pRO1727. the pyrB and the pyrBI genes from E. coli were cloned into a P. putida pyrB auxotroph. A recombinant pyrB gene was recovered that encoded a functional hybrid ATCase with a molecular weight of 470 kDa.
Date: December 1992
Creator: Ruley, Jill R. (Jill Rosanne)
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Picosecond degenerate four-wave mixing in semiconductors

Description: This study reports on a variety of experimental and theoretical studies conducted in ZnSe, CdTe, and in semiconductor-doped glasses. The transient picosecond degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) experiments performed in these II-VI direct-gap semiconductors are part of our efforts to understand the picosecond dynamics of the free-carriers generated via two and three-photon absorption.
Date: May 1990
Creator: Canto, Edesly J.
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Evidence for a Role of the Multifunctional Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II in Insulin Secretion

Description: Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II) is demonstrated to exist in the ß-cell and immunopecipitation. Glucose and potassium significantly stimulate the rapid autophosphorylation of CaM kinase II and proportionally induce autonomous activity of the kinase in a dose-dependent manner that parallels insulin secretion. The activation of CaM kinase II, alloxan, KN-62 and KN-93, suggest that the enzyme is an integral component of insulin secretion and/or related processes in th… more
Date: December 1993
Creator: Wenham, Robert M. (Robert Michael)
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The Phospholipase B Response in Rats Infected with Fasciola Hepatica and Demonstration of the Enzyme-Parasitic Interaction

Description: Fasciola hepatica was studied in outbred rats to determine of infection would cause an increase phospholipase B activity and the percentage of periperal blood eosinophilis. A second experiment was performed to investigate eosinophilis.
Date: December 1999
Creator: Patcharapinyopong, Chaiwut
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A Comparison of Universal Soil Loss Equation Results Using a Remote Sensing/GIS Technique to Results Obtained Using a Field Survey Technique

Description: Digital satellite remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been used in conjunction with the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) to model soil erosion potential within watersheds. This study compared erosion estimates calculated by the remote sensing method to results obtained in the field by soil conservationists using conventional methods.
Date: December 1990
Creator: Hunter, Bruce Allan
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Pathologies in Earthworms: Sublethal Biomarkers of Xenobiotic Toxicity

Description: This research is part of an overall program to develop and use a suite of acute and sublethal toxicity biomarkers, and testing protocols for use in assaying potential effects of complex mixtures of xenobiotics such as found in soils containing agricultural biocides and petrochemical wastes dredged sediments, and hazardous waste sites (HWS). The purpose of this study was to evaluate four biomarkers of sublethal pathology that could be used in an integrative model of multiple toxicity endpoints w… more
Date: May 1991
Creator: Cikutovic Salas, Marcos A.
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Screening of Steroids from Plants Using Saccharomyces Cerevisiae as a Host System

Description: The reconstituted steroid transcription unit in Saccharomyces cerevisae was used to screen for steroids in cell extracts prepared from 24 species of plants representing 16 families. Extracts from 7 species representing 5 families were able to activate both estrogen and progesterone receptors expressed in yeast.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Maier, Camelia G. A. (Camelia Gabriela-Anca)
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Synthesis, Purification and Pharacterization of Small Mono(ADP-Ribosyl)ated Molecules in the ADP-Ribose Elongation Reaction Catalyzed by Poly(ADP-ribose)Polymerase

Description: The ADP-ribose elongation catalyzed by poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) [EC 2.2.2.30] has been partially characterized utilizing mono (ADP-ribosyl)ated polyamines. Arginine methyl ester (AME)-(ADP-ribose) and agmatine (AGMT)-(ADP-ribose) were synthesized enzymatically with a eukarytic mono(ADP-ribosyl) transferase and cholera toxin, respectively.
Date: December 1993
Creator: Pacheco-Rodriguez, Gustavo
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An Analysis of Adding Land Cover as a Variable to the DRASTIC Ground Water Model

Description: This study involved a geographic information systems (GIS) approach to modeling ground water pollution potential in the Southern Edwards Aquifer Region in Texas. The DRASTIC ground water model was analyzed using two methods. First, the effects of adding land cover data to the drastic model were evaluated. In the second approach, the effects of the removal of DRASTIC variables were evaluated. Six, five, and four variable models were generated and analyzed.
Date: December 1993
Creator: Klingler, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry)
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