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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)This thesis is an in-depth study of the Cello Concerto No. 1 Op. 136 (1934) by Darius Milhaud. Specially, this paper provides an overview of Milhaud’s use of jazz and Brazilian music in his Cello Concerto No. 1 ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine + Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021)This thesis serves as a guide to David Conte’s opera The Gift of the Magi to provide undergraduate students majoring in vocal performance at both large and small size music departments at universities in the United ...
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Delaying voice classification: Developing a flexible pedagogical fluency for the 21st century singer (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)The purpose of this doctoral thesis was to discover the possible benefits of delaying female fach (voice part) assignment and illustrates the importance of adopting a more flexible pedagogical methodology as ...
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(School of Music. College of Fine and Applied Arts. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2017-03-10)The purpose of this study is to discover how Dick Oatts interprets jazz standards selected from his album Standard Issue I & II and what the most important elements of his improvisations in the selected pieces are. ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine + Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)This thesis explores the meaning and context of a newly commissioned work, Gotas de Rocio en la Warmi Rasu, for symphonic flute and orchestra by Ecuadorian composer Wilson Haro. This work depicts the Quechua festival of ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)The lack of quality solos for steel pan has been an issue that pannists have addressed for years. This thesis seeks to promote the expansion of music for solo steel pan through discussing rarely performed works for ...
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(University of Illinois, 2016)At the time of its conception in the United States, jazz synthesized a variety of accessible, spontaneous, theatrical, and interactive instrumental and vocal music-making activities that featured solo and collective ...
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(University of Illinois, 2014-05)This document is a comprehensive study of a commissioning project for clarinet and electroacoustic music. Three composers were commissioned to write for Eb Clarinet, Bb Clarinet, and fixed media or real-time electroacoustic ...
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(University of Illinois, 2016)Although there was formerly a tendency to think of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach as merely one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sons, in the late eighteenth century, Carl Philipp Emanuel was regarded as an influential and unique ...
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(University of Illinois, 2015-12)The last fifty years have seen an explosion in the number of new works written for the clarinet. Composers have made thorough use of the clarinet’s large range and vast dynamic capabilities and have introduced extensive ...
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(University of Illinois, 2017)This paper discusses the archetype of “flute as bird” in Western music through the study of three twentieth-century works: Charles Rochester Young’s The Song of the Lark for flute and harp, Olivier Messiaen’s ...
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(University of Illinois, 2015-01)This thesis focuses on Marc-André Dalbavie’s Flute Concerto (2006) and two of his chamber pieces with flute: In Advance of the Broken Time…(1994) and Palimpseste (2002). The background of the composer and the Flute ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)The purpose of this study is to investigate Franz Liszt’s Marian settings of six selected piano works, in order to explore and to offer insights into Liszt’s religious perception through an overview and a comparison ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017)This study explores William Bolcom’s chamber opera, Lucrezia (2008), a one-act comic opera in the zarzuela style based on Niccolò Machiavelli’s Renaissance play La Mandragola (The Mandrake Root) and commissioned ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)Numerous influences can be detected in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto op. 61. The most notable of these stem from Mozart, the Viennese violinist Franz Clement, and the French violinist-composers Giovanni Battista Viotti, ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze George Rochberg’s application of Japanese musical and artistic imagery through an examination of his flute and harp piece, Slow Fires of Autumn (Ukiyo-EII) (1978-1979). ...
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GUIDELINES FOR TEACHING THE SOPRANO VOICE AT THE KENYAN HIGH SCHOOL WITH THE USE OF INDIGENOUS MUSIC (University of Illinois, 2016)The fundamental reason for this research project is to create an indigenous based music guidelines for individual vocal lessons (soprano) at the high school level in Kenya. The present curriculum neither includes indigenous ...
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(University of Illinois, 2016)John Scofield has created a very distinctive guitar sound and style over a long and impressive recording career spanning 40 years. He has played and recorded with many legendary musicians throughout this time. He has been ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)This thesis analyzes one of the late works by the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, Dream/Window, with a focus on harmonic structure and orchestration use, and introduces the influences, concepts, and compositional ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017)George Van Eps (1913-1998) is a legendary figure among jazz guitarists, not only for his innovation in developing and performing on a 7-string instrument and the ability to perform unaccompanied, but also for his ...
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