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The mission of the School of Music is to advance the art of music and its related disciplines. It seeks to educate students in the various fields of the profession and to promote an understanding of music on the campus and in the larger community. The School endeavors to preserve diverse repertories and cultural traditions while also creating opportunities for artistic, intellectual, technological, and scholarly innovation in the realm of music. The School is dedicated to excellence in research, performance, composition, and teacher education, undertaken in a spirit of collaboration among its own constituents, as well as with those of the College of Fine and Applied Arts and the University at large.
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)Clarinet doubling for jazz saxophonists has become the “norm” in a modern context. There is very little in regard to formal or informal pedagogy available to help those interested in clarinet doubling. In my ...
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(2018-12-07)Since the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed the legality of the death penalty in 1976, capital punishment has drastically waxed and waned in both implementation and popularity throughout much of the country. While ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)For modern classical hornists wishing to explore a different style, the unaccompanied solo genre is a way of easing into swing and improvisation. Horn solo pieces by Dana Wilson (b.1946), Douglas Hill (b.1946), and ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)This essay concerns the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Fantasia de movimentos mixtos, “Fantasy of Mixed Movements,” for violin and orchestra. Written and revised over a span of almost two decades, ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)Even though there is a fair amount of research about the Latin-American art song, the resources solely about the Puerto Rican art song are limited. This lack of resources has made it extremely difficult ...
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