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(University of Illinois, 2009)This project is an analysis of the jazz improvisation concepts utilized by tenor saxophonist Rick Margitza. This analysis will be drawn from a series of nine written transcriptions of improvised solos that span from 1986 ...
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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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(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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(2012)The purpose of this study is to show two of composer Thomas Adès’ musical strengths: the consistency with which his work employs durational or intervalic succession, and the unification resulting from continuous motivic ...
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(2012)Unsuk Chin’s (b. 1961) Alice in Wonderland is one of the most successful vocal works on the international stage. It demonstrates the depth and variety of composer’s musical idiom and combines traditional and contemporary ...
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Jamaican Composers in the Classical Tradition: Three Vocal Works by Dexter, Ashbourne, and Marshall (2013-05)Classical music has been present in the Jamaica since the 18 century. The country conquered by Britain in 1655, still bears its European influence in its current culture. With a history of many cultures sharing common ...
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(2014)This thesis discusses four string pieces by the Korean-German composer Isang Yun that are not widely performed due to their technical and musical difficulties. Gasa and Duo were written utilizing twelve-tone techniques, ...
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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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(University of Illinois, 2014)This dissertation concerns itself with the impact that spectral music had on my musical thought. It begins by examining classic French spectral music of the 1970s and 1980s as developed by the group of composers known ...
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(University of Illinois, 2014-04)Computer-assisted algorithmic music composition has achieved great success in the past few decades. Composing this kind of music makes the composers think about music in a new way. Research on applying artificial intelligence ...
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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, 2014-10)The purpose of this document is to introduce a novel way to learn a new piece of classical music by use of a jazz improvisational approach. Within this document, a jazz improvisational approach (JIA) is defined as a method ...
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(University of Illinois, 2014-11)This thesis studies jazz harpist Park Stickney’s craftsmanship through transcribing and analyzing his performances of Debussy Dances, his recomposition of Claude Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane. The study consists of ...
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(University of Illinois, 2014-11)The musical language spoken by jazz musicians during the hard bop era (circa 1954-1965) evolved because of the influence of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman. Their albums Kind of Blue, Giant Steps, and The ...
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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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(University of Illinois, 2015)This research project transfers unedited keyboard pieces from the Woodcock MS into a modern edition with commentary. The name of this manuscript originates from “Deborah Woodcock,” after whom it is considered to be named. ...
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(University of Illinois, 2015)This thesis probes into the music of communist North Korea, assessing how that nation’s government influences the creative output of its composers and performers in order to deliver propaganda supporting the foundation ...
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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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(University of Illinois, 2015-03)This paper examines the trombone and piano works of Anthony Plog, including 3 Miniatures (1994), 4 Themes on Paintings of Goya (2001), Divergent Roads (2014), Initiatives (2014) and Interplay (2014). In it, I provide an ...
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(2015-03)Stephen Heller composed many works for piano including études, preludes, character pieces, sonatas, and themes and variations. He also transcribed many works for piano by other composers such as Mendelssohn, Schumann, ...
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