Jazz piano students spend most of their time practicing improvisation. However, in a performance situation, between 80 and 90% of the time, the jazz pianist is responsible for accompanying melodies and solos. ...

The American composer John Anthony Lennon (b. 1950) established his reputation in the saxophone community through his early works including Distances Within Me (1979) and the Symphonic Rhapsody (1984). He is an active ...

The purpose of this study is to show two of composer Thomas Adès’ musical strengths: the consistency with which his work employs durational or intervalic succession, and the unification resulting from continuous motivic ...

This thesis discusses four string pieces by the Korean-German composer Isang Yun that are not widely performed due to their technical and musical difficulties. Gasa and Duo were written utilizing twelve-tone techniques, ...

This thesis explores Issay Dobrowen’s (1891 - 1953) piano composition style in Preludes Op.1 (1912) and Piano Sonatas Op. 5a (1914) and Op. 5b (1925). The focus is on the harmony, form, rhythm, texture, and ...

The Korean composer Unsuk Chin (b. 1961) began receiving international recognition with the premiere of her Acrostic Wordplay for soprano and ensemble in 1991. Chin is regarded as among the best composers of our ...

Byeongso Ahn was a versatile musician who has been virtually forgotten today and lived during some of the most turbulent times of modern history. This project takes crucial initial steps to shed light on Ahn’s unrecognized ...

Hank Levy stands out among a handful of jazz composers from the 1960s and 1970s who stepped outside of the relative safety of writing music in 4/4 and 3/4 time signatures. His experiments with odd time signatures ...

Jazz academia has produced notable works including instrumental methodology, ensemble arrangements, compositions and historical literature. Studies on the jazz rhythm section however, are virtually non-existent. Blues ...

This research explores the practical and performance challenges and advantages of jazz singing and improvising in two contrasting contexts: vocalists accompanied by a separate piano player and rhythm section ...