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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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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022)McCoy Tyner is undoubtedly the most influential jazz pianist in the modern era, defining the modern piano aesthetic for generations to come. This document aims to define the key elements of McCoy Tyner’s creative artistry ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022)Guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson has recently made a name for herself as a bastion of musical innovation within the scope of free improvised music through her highly eclectic and progressive musical output. This output ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022)This project is a comprehensive study of Cookbook for clarinet and piano written by American composer Kenji Bunch for clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester. As a composer with a deep interest in various musical styles, Bunch ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022)The goal of this thesis is to promote these works and the entire body of repertoire commissioned by F-PLUS, as well as general interest in percussionists performing and commissioning chamber works with non-percussionists. ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022)This study illuminates Miles Davis and Gil Evans’s engagement with flamenco music, with a primary focus on the compositions “Saeta” and “Solea” from their collaborative album Sketches of Spain. This extraordinary album is ...
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