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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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A student-led effort to cultivate the choral tradition in the UIUC community by encouraging students to submit original choral compositions.
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Adapting and performing big band repertoire with a violist: A discussion and practical demonstration (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021)This project presents strategies for adapting and performing repertoire written for jazz big band (i.e. five saxophones, four trombones, four trumpets, guitar, piano, bass, and drum set) to include the viola, focusing ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021)The first time my quartet read through Isang Yun’s String Quartet No. 1 (1955), my two fellow Korean colleagues and I immediately recognized traditional Korean musical elements. Our colleague with a Western background ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021)This dissertation explores 18 settings of Harfenspieler poems from Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe through the Baroque-era concepts of Affektenlehre (doctrine of affections) and Figurenlehre ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021)Throughout history, advances in technology have impacted classical saxophone repertoire. As new electroacoustic tools for composition were created, classical saxophone repertoire showcasing these new creative technologies ...
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