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(University of Illinois, 2015-04)The piano, guitar, bass trio was a well known instrumental combination in jazz in the 1940s and 1950s. The format was first popularized by the Nat “King” Cole Trio. The Nat Cole Trio’s arrangements distilled big band ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)The piccolo has a long history of programmatic uses in the orchestral literature, beginning with its very first orchestral performance. The first appearance of the piccolo in mainstream orchestral music occurred in ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)The Valsalva maneuver is a medical term with multiple, conflicting definitions. It was originally used to describe a clinical procedure in 1704. In recent history, the term has been used to describe an impediment in ...
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(University of Illinois, 2016)This thesis provides an analysis and performance guide to Vinko Globokar’s solo oboe work Atemstudie. As both of Globokar’s oboe works—Discours III for five oboes (1969) and Atemstudie for solo oboe (1971)—were written for ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)Karel Husa was one of the most respected American musicians of the 20th century. In addition to his general musical reputation he was well-known as a champion of the wind ensemble medium, composing more than a dozen ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)Musical theatre as a genre and medium has been a prime ground for performing artists and creative types from a variety of spectrums to exist, explore, and express themselves and the ways in which they live, experience, ...
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(2011)This thesis responds to the long-existing doubts, prejudices and mixed critical views about the value of Schumann’s Cello Concerto and his late music with new ideas and possibly answers. It focuses on analyzing influences ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)William Bolcom’s first comic opera, A Wedding (2004) has received little attention in the academic literature. This study examines the characteristics of the four main soprano roles: a wedding planner, Rita; the ...
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