Browse Doctoral Project Theses [Option 2] - Music by Subject "Jazz"

  • The accompanying style of jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller 
    Escobar, Adrian Herrera (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)
    Jazz piano students spend most of their time practicing improvisation. However, in a performance situation, between 80 and 90% of the time, the jazz pianist is responsible for accompanying melodies and solos. ...

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  • Bebop drumming: A historical, technical, and coordinative approach 
    Binder, Eric (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)
    The Bebop era is arguably the most influential era in jazz history. Bebop vocabulary was an innovation which grew from Swing music and would eventually ...

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  • Improvisational and creative techniques employed by baritone saxophonist Ronnie Cuber on the blues and its variants 
    Barnett, Adrian Arthur (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)
    Ronnie Cuber stands out as one of the most notable baritone saxophonists in recent history. Throughout his career he has worked alongside a variety of notable musicians such as Slide Hampton, Maynard Ferguson, Eddie ...

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  • The jazz toolbox: Investigation of a linguistic supplement to jazz pedagogy 
    Tomski, Ryan (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)
    The goal of this study is to test the practicality and effectiveness of supplementing traditional jazz improvisation pedagogy with a method book that centers around rhetorical devices more commonly associated with the ...

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  • A jazz-inspired approach to applied classical saxophone study 
    VanHemert, Jordan (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)
    In 2014, Patricia Shehan Campbell convened the College Music Society’s Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major (TFUMM). The task force, including lead author Ed Sarath, published a report called Transforming Music ...

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  • Saxophonist Ed Calle: Improvisational tendencies throughout multiple genres 
    Weiss, Howard Scott (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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