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Remarks and Reflections on French Recitative: Ban Inquiry into Performance Practice Based on the Observations of Bénigne de Bacilly, Jean-Léonor de Grimarest, and Jean-Baptiste Dubos

Description: This study concerns the declaimed performance of recitative in early French opera. Because the dramatic use of the voice was crucial to the opera genre, this investigation begins with a survey of historical definitions of declamation. Once the topic has been described, the thesis proceeds to thoroughly study three treatises dealing with sung recitation: Bacilly's Remarques curieuses, Grimarest's Traité de recitatif, and Dubos' Reflexions critiques. Principles from these sources are then applied… more
Date: August 1985
Creator: Reid, Michael A. (Michael Alan)
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Transposition and the Transposed Modes in Late-Baroque France

Description: The purpose of the study is the investigation of the topics of transposition and the transposed major and minor modes as discussed principally by selected French authors of the final twenty years of the seventeenth century and the first three decades of the eighteenth. The sources are relatively varied and include manuals for singers and instrumentalists, dictionaries, independent essays, and tracts which were published in scholarly journals; special emphasis is placed on the observation and at… more
Date: December 1988
Creator: Parker, Mark M. (Mark Mason)
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The Flute Professors of the Paris Conservatoire from Devienne to Taffanel, 1795-1908

Description: Since its establishment (1795), the Paris Conservatoire has attracted top-ranking flutists who, through their playing, teaching, writings, and attitudes, (toward the Boehm flute, for example), have influenced flutists and composers throughout Europe. Through Paul Taffanel, who founded the Societe d'Instruments a Vent in 1876, standards of woodwind playing reached new heights. When Taffanel's students, Georges Laurent and Georges Barrere, emigrated to the United States, they influenced the style… more
Date: August 1980
Creator: Ahmad, Patricia
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French Theories of Beauty and the Aesthetics of Music 1700 to 1750

Description: Studies of eighteenth-century French musical aesthetics have traditionally focused on questions of taste treated in the critical literature of the day. During the first half of the century, however, certain French writers were dealing with aesthetics in the stricter sense of the word, proposing theories of beauty that suited existing philosophical values. The treatises in which these ideas were set forth--Jean-Pierre de Crousaz' Traité du beau, Jean-Baptiste DuBos' Réflexions critiques sur la p… more
Date: August 1982
Creator: Dill, Charles William
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Louis XI and the Feudality of France 1461-1483

Description: This thesis examines the struggle between King Louis XI and the great feudal houses of the fifteenth century such as Burgundy, Brittany, Anjou, Armagnac, Bourbon, and Foix. It attempts to provide a detailed narrative based on the primary sources and the excellent studies on individual feudal princes produced by a number of French historians, supplemented by a critical analysis of the traditional view of Louis XI as the "vainquer de la grande féodalité."
Date: December 1984
Creator: Spencer, Mark B. (Mark Benner)
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An Exploratory Investigation of Socio-Economic Phenomena that May Influence Accounting Differences in Three Diverse Countries

Description: This dissertation attempts to provide an exploratory structure to respond to, and tries to resolve, an existing void in international accounting research. The void is a lack of coherently structured, nation-specific, descriptive research to investigate socio-economic phenomena which may influence financial accounting. This dissertation's salient features include a political economy theory, an exploratory, sociological method, and a case study format. The political economy of accounting, introdu… more
Date: August 1989
Creator: Hudack, Lawrence R. (Lawrence Ralph)
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Amerikanuak eta Asmoak: New World Basques and Immigration Theories

Description: The focus of this thesis is the relationship between immigration historiography and the history of Basque migration to the United States. The depictions of immigration presented by historians Oscar Handlin, Marcus Lee Hansen, and John Higham have been influential in immigration historiography and are presented in the first chapter. The second chapter contains a description of Old World Basque culture and the third chapter presents a brief history of Basque migration to the United States. The fo… more
Date: August 1984
Creator: Echeverría, Jerónima, 1946-
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Necktie

Description: Man's tie of silk with dark taupe ground with diagonal bands of patterns, including paisleys, scrolls, vines, etc. in darker taupes, brown/greens, and dark blue.
Date: 1985~
Creator: Christian Dior (Firm)
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Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Necktie

Description: Men's tie of dark brown, brown, and orange-brown silk woven in geometric pattern of repeating concentric diamonds.
Date: 1985/1999
Creator: Cardin, Pierre
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Dinner dress

Description: Dinner dress of black satin and velvet. Princess-line, knee-length dress with deep, off-the-shoulder open neckline. Short raglan sleeves and sweeping scalloped hemline. Center front lapped, curved opening accented with five nonfunctional black satin covered buttons. The opening is secured with five covered snaps and four hook&eyes. Boned, black tulle inner bodice with black grosgrain bust and waist stays. Center front zipper closure. Black satin bust pads. Piece lined in black organdy and black… more
Date: 1985/1989
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
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Evening dress

Description: Evening dress and belt. A) Dress of black silk taffeta and velvet. Bateau neckline of silk taffeta. Velvet bodice with long straight sleeves. Four velvet buttons at wrists. Asymmetrical taffeta peplum with floor length velvet skirt. Back zipper. B) Belt of black taffeta.
Date: 1985/1995
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
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Skirt ensemble

Description: Suit, with a) jacket of black wool, deep v-neck, double-breasted seams with single button closure, straight sleeves b) a-line skirt of purple, green and black striped wool; pleated c) Belt of black imitation reptile skin pattern with tan leather backing
Date: 1985/1995
Creator: Laug, André
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Black ensemble

Description: a) Jacket of black polyester ; long sleeves with three buttons on each cuff and vent; princess seams; black lining; b) Skirt of black polyester; waistband; black lining; knee-length; c) belt of black patent leather.
Date: 1980/1985
Creator: Chloé (Firm)
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Coat

Description: Coat of intricate patchwork of Prince of Wales wool plaid, wool hounds tooth, wool petit point, all-over embroidered with pewter metallic floral vines. Knee length. Simulated double breasted, off-center opening with hidden placket button closure; notched collar. Long sleeves with 6 functioning button closure at wrists. Two flap pockets with welts at each front hip with lapels; pockets not open. Knee-length. Fan pleating at back. Fully lined in gray silk. Designer's label at center back necklin… more
Date: 1989
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
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Dress

Description: Dress of grey wool tweed with herringbone weave and black velvet contrasts. Tailored dress with plunging open V-neckline with turned back collar. Centerfront contrast panel embellished with six black buttons. Set- in. full-length sleeves. Waistseam with fitted. knee-length gathered skirt. Angled. contrasting. floating panels from waistseam to side hip seams accented with two black buttons at the hip. Zipper closure from left underarm seam to hip level. Fully lined in gray silk. Black grosgrain … more
Date: 1983-09~/1983-12
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
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Ensemble

Description: Brown and tan houndstooth top and skirt. A) Top: dropped waist. blouson tunic with open spread collar and full-length set-in sleeves made in fine houndstooth wool. Sleeves gather into cuffs with a single mother-of-pearl button and bound buttonhole closure. Centerfront opening with five mother-of-pearl buttons and five bound buttonholes. Two hip-level patch pockets with brown silk lining. Tunic gathers into a narrow hipband. Fully lined in light brown silk. Shoulder pads. Designer's label sti… more
Date: 1982
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
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Dress

Description: Dress and matching belt of white silk in abstract floral print of purple, blue, pink, and red flowers with green leaves.
Date: 1983
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
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Cocktail dress

Description: Black brocade dress with velvet bow. Fitted. princess-line. dropped waist bodice with rounded neckline and full-length set-in sleeves. Slashed wrist openings with three loops and covered buttons as the closures. Centerback zipper closure with a single hook&eye at the neckline. Hip-level seam with above-the-knee. fitted skirt and double row of poufs. The poufs are separated centerfront with a large black velvet bow. Yoke lining of black organdy. Designer's label at inside left side seam: "Give… more
Date: 1985
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
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Jacket

Description: Jacket/bodice of burgundy velvet. Collarless jacket with rounded neckline and flared peplum. Long raglan sleeves with six rows of gathering at wrist, accented with a line of rhinestones in each row. Center front opening with 4 circular black buttons with rhinestone centers, and one hidden snap at waistline. Jacket is gathered at waist, with a line of rhinestones set along the gather. Lined in matching silk.
Date: 1987
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
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Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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