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[Commencement Program for North Texas State Teachers College, Summer 1948]

Description: Commencement program for the summer 1948 graduating class of North Texas State Teachers College, held in the Main Auditorium on Friday, August 27, 1948. The program contains the order of service and a list of graduates for both the baccalaureate and master's degree.
Date: August 1948
Creator: North Texas State Teachers College
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Commencement Program for North Texas State Teachers College, Summer 1948]

Description: Commencement program for the summer 1948 graduating class of North Texas State Teachers College, held in the Main Auditorium on Friday, August 27, 1948. The program contains the order of service and a list of graduates for both the baccalaureate and master's degree.
Date: August 1948
Creator: North Texas State Teachers College
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Catalog of North Texas State Teachers College: January 1948, Graduate Division 1941 - 1946

Description: Catalog for North Texas State Teachers College Graduate Division includes abstracts of graduate theses completed during 1935 - 1941. The catalog includes other information about class offerings as well as general information about the school (academic calendar, list of officers and faculty, admissions and degree requirements, financial information, etc.).
Date: January 1948
Creator: North Texas State Teachers College
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Catalog of North Texas State Teachers College: 1948-1949, Graduate Division

Description: Catalog for North Texas State Teachers College Graduate Division includes abstracts of graduate theses completed during 1947 - 1948. The catalog includes other information about class offerings as well as general information about the school (academic calendar, list of officers and faculty, admissions and degree requirements, financial information, etc.).
Date: February 1948
Creator: North Texas State Teachers College
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Catalog of North Texas State Teachers College: 1948-1949

Description: Catalog for North Texas State College includes information about class offerings as well as general information about the school (academic calendar, list of officers and faculty, admissions and degree requirements, financial information, etc.).
Date: May 1948
Creator: North Texas State Teachers College
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Theme and Mutations

Description: The purpose of this composition is to demonstrate the creative stimuli offered a composer by The Schillinger System of Musical Composition. To illustrate this creative stimuli offered a composer, the writer has composed an extremely diverse, yet homogenous musical continuity from the elements contained in an eight measure theme. The sections of this composition are titled mutations, for though they are all inherently related to the theme, this relationship often appears fortuitous. The term var… more
Date: August 1948
Creator: Dolch, John P. (John Parker)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Survey of Educational and Professional Background of Piano Teachers in the Colleges and Universities of the United States

Description: The purpose of this survey is to determine the educational and professional status of piano teachers in the colleges and universities of the United States. This survey will attempt to evaluate the musical and educational background as well as the professional status of people engaged actively in the teaching profession today.
Date: June 1948
Creator: Childress, Frances
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Symphonic Piece for Band

Description: Primarily the objective was to compose a piece for concert band in a large form with the ultimate aim of submitting the number for publication for perfromance by a college, or good high school band, with the additional hope this number might eventually be included on a high school band contest list. With the thought of publication in mind, it was necessary to cross-cue certain parts and limit the technical scope of the composition.
Date: June 1948
Creator: Hill, Charles Lee, 1910-
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A Transcription for Band of the Second Movement of Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor : From the Orchestral Score

Description: 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
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The Mystic Trumpeter

Description: The Mystic Trumpeter is intended to reflect and comment on the meaning of the poem of the same name featured in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Formally the individual movements are approximately simple territory ternary in form; however, cyclical treatment of the opening motive is the main structural concept of the work, and its appearance throughout the composition is controlled entirely by the recurring connotations of the poetry.
Date: January 1948
Creator: Dorn, Gerhardt George, 1911-
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A Study of the J.S. Bach Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother

Description: The purpose of this study is to present a brief history of the work, a discussion of the ornamentation which occurs therein and suggestions for the performance of the ornaments, an analysis covering especially the characteristics of each movement in regard to form and style and inasmuch as possible to show the influence of this early work on the later compositions of J. S. Bach.
Date: August 1948
Creator: Kelver, George E.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Early English Ballad and Its Influence on Classical English Song

Description: The English classical song is peculiarly native to Britain. It roots in the mystic elements of ballads and nature. It was the influence of the early English ballad, first spoken, then sung, then joined in the happy culmination of voice and melody to make a song that is immortal and unique in music.
Date: June 1948
Creator: Richards, Evan Cater
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Chamber Music for Children

Description: This study is a progressive series of string quartets for children ages six to eight. A picture and a story for the child accompany each of the twenty lessons. The stories are written about animals, birds, and incidents that exist in the child's world. They are designed to arouse associations between familiar subjects or incidents and unfamiliar problems at hand. The second section of this work is entitled "Instructions to the Teacher." A child's interest is sacrificed when he is burdened with … more
Date: August 1948
Creator: Cornelius, Marjory Lunt
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Five Year Band Program for Vanderbilt School

Description: The public school of Vanderbilt, Texas is in the process of building a band. The steady growth of the band will depend upon a long-range planning program. It is the band director's aim to set up such a long-range plan to cover the five years from the 1947 school year and including the 1952 school year. The following chapters will cover most of the phases of the band's work, and that of the director's work, and his relation to the band and the community.
Date: August 1948
Creator: Reves, Wayman Aubrey
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Historical and Stylistic Analysis of the Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2 in D Minor of Beethoven

Description: The purpose of this paper is to give a historical and stylistic analysis of the Sonata, Op.31, No.2 in D minor of Beethoven. The historical background of Beethoven, the time period the sonata was written, and the influence that the piano of the time had on the sonata is first discussed. The author then discusses the general aspects of Beethoven's style followed by a detailed analysis of the sonata.
Date: August 1948
Creator: Craw, H. Allen
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Stylistic Evolution of the Motet Through the Sixteenth Century with Emphasis on the Style of Palestrina

Description: The mass and the motet are the most important musical components of the Catholic liturgy. The development of vocal polyphony in the Medieval Period culminated in the perfection of these forms in the sixteenth century. The purpose of this thesis is to give an account of the development of religious monody and polyphony that led to the inception of the motet in the early part of the thirteenth century; to show the development of the motet through the sixteenth century; to give a more detailed ana… more
Date: August 1948
Creator: Cornelius, Merl V.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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