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A History of Smith County, Texas

Description: This paper explores the history of Smith County in Texas. Smith County is located in the pine and post oak belts of Northeastern Texas and is the fourth county southward from the Oklahoma boundary and the third county westward from the Louisiana state line. It covers its topographical features, early Native American life, its Cherokees occupation along with their expulsion, Smith's County's establishment, it's status as a frontier, its ante-bellum period, it's place in the civil war and during … more
Date: May 1944
Creator: Ward, William R.
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A Stylistic Analysis of Schumann's Concerto in A Minor

Description: The purpose if this study is to make an analysis of the structural elements and stylistic characteristics in the Concerto in A Minor for Piano by the nineteenth century German composer, Robert Schumann. These elements include the composer's treatment of melody, rhythm, form, and piano idiom. This problem has been limited to a stylistic analysis of Schumann's only concerto in A minor for piano and orchestra, Op. 54. Its purpose is to make an analysis of the structural and stylistic elements in t… more
Date: August 1944
Creator: Caldwell, James Amos
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Latin American Music: A Compendium of Bibliographical Aids for Teachers

Description: In this bibliography an attempt has been made to furnish references to teachers that may assist them to develop in the students: (1) an attitude of friendly interest which will help to link the Americas in mutual respect and to promote a better understanding of problems to be met; (2) to gain an understanding and appreciation of the background of South American culture of today; (3) to become familiar with the folk music as well as the concert, both vocal and instrumental.
Date: May 1944
Creator: Kee, Lillian Sullivan, 1893-
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A Stylistic Comparison of the Accompanied Violin Sonatas of Bach and Handel

Description: It is the purpose of this thesis to determine the comparative differences and similarities of the accompanied violin sonatas of the two contemporary eighteenth-century composers, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel.
Date: May 1944
Creator: Alexander, William Don, 1920-
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The Development of a Curriculum for the Teaching of Dance Music at a College Level

Description: The purpose of this study is to set forth certain principals or rules, Which, if adhered to, will be a beginning in the training of the young musician who would make the playing of dance music his profession. Be it understood that this is only an embryonic work and as such it should not be considered a final and irrevocable treatise on this topic. Actual work and development in this field will probably see many of the practices recommended herein relegated to a less important stage while items … more
Date: August 1944
Creator: Hall, Gene, 1913-
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A Study to Determine the Social Attitudes and Behavior Problems in a Given Elementary School

Description: The purpose of this investigation is to study a given school situation with which the writer is familiar to determine as objectively as possible the various social attitudes present and their resultant behavior. To what extent these attitudes depend upon the home environment of the child is to be studied. The influence of the age-grade range in the development of various attitudes is to be considered, and the influence of the school environment as a factor in the process of attitude formation a… more
Date: August 1944
Creator: Scott, Gladys M.
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A Stylistic and Structural Analysis of David Stanley Smith's Sonata in A, Opus 51

Description: The purpose of the following study is to make an analysis of the structural elements and stylistic characteristics of the Sonata in A Minor for violin and piano by David Stanley Smith. This analysis will include the composer's treatment of form, harmony, melody and tonality, rhythm, intellectual and emotional content, and mediums of expression.
Date: August 1944
Creator: Brackenridge, Margaret Elaine
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A History of the Allen Military Academy

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to preserve in an interesting, narrative form the facts connected with the founding and establishment of Allen Military Academy.
Date: August 1944
Creator: Williams, Erlene Oneal
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The Child of Foreign Parentage

Description: It is the purpose of this study to take a group of first, second, and third grade children of foreign parentage who are in a segregated school in Fort Worth, Texas, and a group who are in a non-segregated school and compare them.
Date: May 1944
Creator: Gill, Mary Sodd
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The Relation of Drawing to Behavior Problems in Children

Description: This study was made to determine to what extent behavior problems in fourth grade children in the Palo Pinto Common School, Palo Pinto, Texas, were revealed in their drawings.
Date: May 1944
Creator: Thomas, Martha Jewell
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Periodic Interpretations of Milton's Paradise Lost

Description: The object of this study will be to call attention to the gradually developing interest in the poem and the varying interpretations of it.
Date: June 1944
Creator: McCall, Lloyd J.
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A Partial Expansion of the 980 Division of the Dewey Decimal Classification Including a Spanish Version of the Tables

Description: The problem of this study is (1) to expand the 980 division (designated by the term History: South America, Latin America, Spanish America) of the Dewey Decimal Classification for the history of Latin America as a whole and for national histories of several typical countries, and (2) to translate the expanded tables into Spanish.
Date: August 1944
Creator: Clarke, Virginia
Partner: UNT Libraries
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