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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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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)Tobias Picker (1954- ), currently the Artistic Director of the Tulsa Opera, has also served as Artistic Consultant of the New York City Opera. As a composer, Picker is noted primarily for his operas. His works ...
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(University of Illinois, 2017)Though less well known today than most of his contemporaries, the English composer Sir Arnold Bax (1883-‐1953) wrote a wealth of beautiful and ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) is an Estonian composer who has created his own compositional technique called tintinnabuli. This research focuses on the application of tintinnabuli in three of Pärt’s works for violin ...
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(University of Illinois, 2015-05)The goal of this project is to provide an overview of three piano sonatas by one of the most distinguished American composers, Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961). Considered intimately related to the Classical-Romantic traditions, ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020)This study discusses the following compositions for solo piano by Reinhold Glière (1875-1956): Three Mazurkas, Op. 29 (1906) and selected pieces from the Twenty-Five Preludes, Op. 30 (1907). L ...
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(School of Music. College of Fine and Applied Arts. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2017-04-04)This thesis explores the solo cello music of Swedish-born Finnish composer Einar Englund (1916-1999), specifically his Suite for Cello (The Last Island). Starting with a general survey of the Finnish solo cello ...
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(University of Illinois, 2016)Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is universally considered one of the most significant essays in the genre. Though much has already been written and explored, this project investigates the stylistic influences of the French ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)Four Marian Antiphons - Alma Redemptoris Mater, Ave Regina Caelorum, Regina Caéli, and Salve Regina - are plainchants written approximately during the twelfth century for use at the close of Compline in the ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)This project is a comprehensive study of the early clarinet compositions by Jörg Widmann (b. 1973). It includ es Fantasie for Clarinet Solo (1993, rev. 2001), Fünf Bruchstücke for Clarinet and ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)The purpose of this thesis is to provide an overview of the life, philosophies, and compositional traits of Walter S. Hartley, with a focus on his most significant contribution to the concert wind band repertoire, ...
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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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