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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)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. ...
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(School of Music, College Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 - 1977), a Russian composer, was among the earliest Western composers to create instrumental works embodying stylistic features of Chinese music. During his three - year stay in China ...
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(University of Illinois, 2016)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 ...
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(University of Illinois, 2017)This paper provides a detailed background and context for understanding Harrison Birtwistle’s interest in ritual and musical theatre, along with a comprehensive analysis of Cortege that references Ritual Fragment ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine + Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)This thesis explores Match for three players (1964), composed by Mauricio Kagel (1931- 2008), a piece that, at first glance, appears to be through-composed. But if one reads the score as if a theatrical play script, the ...
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(2012)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 ...
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(University of Illinois, 2014-11)This thesis studies jazz harpist Park Stickney’s craftsmanship through transcribing and analyzing his performances of Debussy Dances, his recomposition of Claude Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane. The study consists of ...
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(2014)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, ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)This study looks at Eun-Hye Kim’s set of twelve piano suites, Les douze signes, for the advanced pianist, providing guidance for performances of this large-scale work. To prepare a better performance, it ...
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(School of Music. College of Fine and Applied Arts. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2017-12)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 ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)The purpose of this study is to reintroduce today’s pianists to the antiquated concept of preluding. To that end, this essay explores two little-known sets of preludes by the nineteenth-century composer Johann Baptist ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)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 ...
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(University of Illinois, 2015-03)The objective of this project is to provide a structural analysis of the aural, visual, and literary aspects of American composer Martin Bresnick’s (b. 1946) For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (2001) for piano solo and ...
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(University of Illinois, 2017)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 ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)The first concert tour that Zhu Xiaomei (朱晓枚) undertook playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations in 2014 made her the center of attention in the classical music industry in China. During her subsequent concert ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)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 ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)Lost Objects (2001) is a collaborative work by Bang on a Can, a multi-faceted contemporary music organization established by Julia Wolfe (b. 1958), Michael Gordon (b. 1956), and David Lang (b. 1957). Through analysis ...
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(University of Illinois, 2017)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 ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)The Bebop era is arguably the most influential era in jazz history. Bebop vocabulary was an innovation which grew from Swing music and would eventually ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)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 ...
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