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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)Colombia’s long history of bands of all types and strong music programs are now being recognized and praised in festivals and contests around the world. Contests like the National Band Contest in Paipa-Boyacá contribute ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947) has composed five piano sonatas to date. V Sonata (1994) is distinctive in that it was composed with an original finale, and four additional optional finales. Sciarrino leaves the ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine + Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)The purpose of this thesis research is to present, examine, and analyze the improvisational traits of saxophonist Ed Calle across multiple genres. An extensive and thorough interview with Calle conducted by the author ...
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(University of Illinois, 2015-04)This thesis presents a performance edition of four bassoon pieces by Gotthelf Heinrich Kummer (1774-1857): Concerto Op. 16 in B-flat major, Concerto Op. 24 in F major, Variations Op. 14 in F major, and Variations Op. 15 ...
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(2015)This project provides a case study of cross-cultural music by examining recent piano works of two Asian-American composers born after 1970: the Chinese-American Lei Liang and the Japanese-American Ken Ueno. The compositions ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)Amy Beach (1867-1944) was the first successful female composer and concert pianist in America, who challenged prejudices against women composers in the late nineteenth century by writing music in large ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)Sigismond Thalberg (1812-1871), was a Swiss-born virtuoso pianist, one of the most famous keyboard artists of the nineteenth century. Often compared to Franz Liszt, Thalberg gave recitals in m any cities in ...
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(2017)While Sir Malcolm Arnold is widely celebrated as a film score and symphonic composer, his wide range of instrumental solo works are relatively unknown to many. In fact, Arnold’s clarinet works were created in close ...
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(University of Illinois, 2016)Imagine strolling through a garden that not only is designed with the usual sights, scents and (tactile) sensations but that also whispers and sings, and which, if you are so inclined, will communicate musically with you: ...
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(School of Music. College of Fine and Applied Arts. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2017-07-12)Rolande Falcinelli (1920-2006) enjoyed a remarkable and multi-faceted career as pedagogue, church organist, recitalist, improviser, and composer. She was professeur d’orgue at the Conservatoire National Supérieur ...
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(University of Illinois, 2015-05)Along with Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, Gubaidulina is now acknowledged as one the most influential Russian composers of the post-Stalin generation, and the only one still alive. Her works include a viola concerto, ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)This document addresses the musical and professional development that pianist and composer Chick Corea underwent between the years 1964-1971. The recordings examined in this document demonstrate how Corea assimilated ...
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(University of Illinois, 2015-04)In the mid-twentieth century, composers began to experiment with aleatoric composition in an effort to challenge conventional understandings of the relationship between the composer and the performer. Composers of the New ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)This thesis focuses on the development of Chinese piano music from 1936 to 1976.The first part explores various cultural, social, and political influences that shaped this development over forty years. As a historical ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)This research paper focuses on two minimalist-influenced composers’ film music: Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel (1978) and Für Alina (1976), both used in the movie Gerry (2002), and Philip Glass’s music ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)Herwig Reiter's 5 Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Nietzsche has not received the scholarly examination which it warrants. After a copy of the score was sent to me by good friend and colleague Professor Walter Moore, ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)Johann Ulrich Steigleder’s Tabulatur Buch darinnen daß Vatter unser auff 2, 3, und 4 Stimmen Componirt, und Viertzig mal Variit würdt, auch bey ieder Variatio ein sonderlicher bericht zufinden. Auff Orgeln, und allen ...
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(University of Illinois, 2016)This doctoral paper analyzes Leo Ornstein’s Piano Sonata No. 5, A Biography in Sonata Form. It supports a doctoral project recital that featured this composition. Research questions guided the investigation with the aim ...
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(University of Illinois, 2015-05)This study examines two sets of Martinů’s early compositions for solo piano. An introduction deals with Martinů’s historical background and a review of the literature about his life and music. Martinů’s life and stylistic ...
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(School of Music. College of Fine and Applied Arts. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2011)The purpose of this study is to introduce two Korean women composers who are actively working in the United States and their compositions which are based on Korean traditional tunes into several compositions like Nil-lili, ...
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