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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)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Purchasing Power Parity and the Efficient Markets: the Recent Empirical Evidence

Description: The purpose of the study is to empirically determine the relevance of PPP theory under the traditional arbitrage and the efficient markets (EPPP) frameworks during the recent floating period of the 1980s. Monthly data was collected for fifteen industrial nations from January 1980 to December 1986. The models tested included the short-run PPP, the long-run PPP, the EPPP, the EPPP with deviations from expectations, the forward rates as unbiased estimators of future spot rates, the EPPP and the fo… more
Date: December 1988
Creator: Yuyuenyongwatana, Robert P. (Robert Privat)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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SpĂ³Å‚ka NakÅ‚adowa MÅ‚odych KompozytorĂ³w Polskich (1905-1912) and the Myth of Young Poland in Music

Description: This study deals with the four-composer Polish musical association, Young Polish Composers' Publishing Company, which became commonly known as the group Poland in Music. Young Poland in Music is considered by Polish and non-Polish music historians to be the signal inaugurator of modernism in Polish music. However, despite this most important attribution, the past eighty-odd years have witnessed considerable confusion over the perceptions of: 1) exactly who constituted the publishing company, 2)… more
Date: December 1987
Creator: Hebda, Paul Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Great Britain, the Council of Foreign Ministers, and the Origins of the Cold War, 1947

Description: Scholars assert that the Cold War began at one of several different points. Material recently available at the National Archives yields a view different from those already presented. From these records, and material from the Foreign Relations Series, Parliamentary Debates, and United States Government documents, a new picture emerges. This study focuses on the British occupation of Germany and on the Council of Foreign Ministers' Moscow Conference of 1947. The failure of this conference precede… more
Date: December 1988
Creator: Kronwall, Mary Elizabeth
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Greece and the European Economic Community: Relations During the Panhellenic Socialist Movement's First Term of Office, October 1981--June 1985

Description: A nation's foreign policy is often subject to change. This change may occur in its relations with other nationstates or with international organizations such as the European Economic Community (E.E.C.). Greece became a full E.E.C. member in January, 1980, when the conservative Nea Democratia was in power. The Nea Democratia, both in government from 1974 to 1981 and in opposition since 1981, has been consistent in its support for the E.E.C.; in contrast, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK… more
Date: December 1986
Creator: Psellas, Jimmie
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Holland's Self-Directed Search: A Measure of Interests of Abilities?

Description: This study examined the relationship between the sub-components of Holland's Self-Directed Search and independent, objective measures of ability using a comprehensive battery of well-validated tests of primary abilities corresponding to each of Holland's six vocational interest types. The sample consisted of 149 female undergraduate students, ages 18-25. Correlation of the ability measure test scores with the four Self-Directed Search subcomponents revealed that the subtests were not related to… more
Date: December 1985
Creator: Williams, Richard Earl
Partner: UNT Libraries
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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)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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France and the Little Entente, 1936-1937: the Work of Yvon Delbos

Description: This thesis studies France"s relations with the Little Entente during the term of Foreign Minister Delbos. It relies primarily on published diplomatic papers and memoirs. It discusses Delbos's background, the histories of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Rumania from 1919-1936, and the formation of the Little Entente. The thesis focuses on France's efforts after the Rhineland crisis to strengthen her Eastern European alliances. Delbos chose the Little Entente over the Soviet Union as France's pr… more
Date: December 1981
Creator: Kephart, Brad W.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Terrorist attack]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 27, 1985, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Report of Foreign Travel: International Workshop on Radioiodinated Free Fatty Acids, Amsterdam]

Description: The traveler participated in the Second International Workshop on Radioiodinated Free Fatty Acids in Amsterdam, The Netherlands where he presented an invited paper describing the pioneering work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) involving the design, development and testing of new radioiodinated methyl-branched fatty acids for evaluation of heart disease. He also chaired a technical session on the testing of new agents in various in vitro and in vivo systems. He also visited the Insti… more
Date: December 11, 1987
Creator: Knapp, Furn F., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Lincoln choir]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 13, 1982, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Local Poles]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 13, 1982, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Lore Price, December 3, 1989

Description: Interview with Lore Price, a Holocaust survivor from Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Wesphalia, Germany. Price discusses her family, growing up, antisemitism, the Kristallnacht and subsequent growth of arrests and deportations, the Berlin ghetto, the Riga ghetto, the Riga concentration camp and events there, transfer to camps at Stutthof and Thorn, a forced march to Bromberg, escaping and hiding, becoming a nurse with Polish soldiers, the end of the war and immigration to Israel, and reflections on … more
Date: December 3, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Price, Lore
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Maria Landowska, December 21, 1989

Description: Interview with Maria Landowska, a Holocaust survivor from Metz, France. Landowska discusses family, her upbringing, her Jewish father being taken away by strangers, Kristallnacht (Chrystal Night/Night of Broken Glass), deportation by train to Dachau concentration camp, her shock and trauma, work at the camps, Auschwitz, being experimented on along with her twin, eventual recuperation, and her career as an advisor and author.
Date: December 21, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Landowska, Maria
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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