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• A methodology for jazz saxophonists enabling the self-taught clarinet doubler 

  Brooks, Robert D. (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)

  Clarinet doubling for jazz saxophonists has become the “norm” in a modern context. There is very little in regard to formal or informal pedagogy available to help those interested in clarinet doubling. In my ...

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• A performer's guide to Heitor Villa-Lobos’s violin concerto, "Fantasia de movimentos mixtos" 

  Shin, Sung Hee (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

  This essay concerns the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Fantasia de movimentos mixtos, “Fantasy of Mixed Movements,” for violin and orchestra. Written and revised over a span of almost two decades, ...

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• "Guiñale al sol la cabaña": A historical survey of the Puerto Rican art song and its composers 

  Zayas Collet, Yaritza Y. (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

  Even though there is a fair amount of research about the Latin-American art song, the resources solely about the Puerto Rican art song are limited. This lack of resources has made it extremely difficult ...

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• A new approach to The Tale of Chun-Hyang and the character Wolmae in Korean Changjak opera 

  Kim, Sam Jew (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

  Opera singers face many challenges when they start preparing for a newly created opera. They might be unfamiliar with the work's musical style and the language, and of course nothing has been written about the opera ...

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• The jazz bass performance characteristics of Jimmy Garrison on the 1962 recording "Coltrane" 

  Combs, Mikel Alann (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

  Jimmy Garrison was a composer and jazz bassist known best for his contributions to John Coltrane’s seminal quartet with Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. The collective innovation of this group overshadowed Garrison’s ...

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