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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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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)The Alexander Technique is a method developed by Frederick Matthias Alexander. It offers a process by which to notice habits, both mental and physical, and change them. It is commonly used by musicians to aid in injury ...
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(School of Music. College of Fine and Applied Arts. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2017)Frequently referred to as the “King of Swing,” Benny Goodman (1909-1986) is well-known for his jazz clarinet playing. Yet Goodman should also be recognized as a classical clarinet player and for his role in contributing ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)This thesis compares character pieces of Frank Bridge (1879-1941) to those of his British contemporaries Arnold Bax (1883-1953), Cyril Scott (1879-1970), and John Ireland (1879-1962). Musical elements examined include ...
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(University of Illinois, 2016)This research paper discusses five compositions for solo piano by Carl Vine (b. 1954): Five Bagatelles (1994), Sonata No. 2 (1997), Red Blues (1999), The Anne Landa Preludes (2006), and Toccatissimo (2011). Known for its ...
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(2014)In this thesis, I introduce four major compositions by Chang-Su Koh: Korean Dances, Arirang and Akatonbo, Pansori’c Rhapsody and Sonatine-b. Through my analysis, I explain how Koh skillfully blends a Western style of ...
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(School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)Paul Dooley is a composer whose growing body of repertoire for the wind band has been gaining consistent recognition. His compositions have received positive critical reviews, won several awards, and are consistently ...
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(University of Illinois, 2016)Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 opera La bohème remains one of the most well-‐‐known, beloved and oft-‐‐performed operas in the operatic repertoire. In this essay, I explore the various ways that revisionist directors interpret ...
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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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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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