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• Violin Technique in Jenő Hubay’s Four Violin Concertos 

  Pu, Lihua (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

  This dissertation examines the four Violin Concertos composed by Jenő Hubay and traces the development of his violin technique in these compositions. In addition, his roles as founder of a Hungarian violin school and ...

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• Gao Weijie’s Three Love Songs: A guide for the countertenor and the Nan Dan 

  Li, Yichen (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

  The countertenor voice is a male voice type which uses falsetto and has a long history in the Western music. Similarly, the Nan Dan is a similar voice type using falsetto which derived from China. Based on ...

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• The journey of Princess Yueyang: Vocal challenges and character development in Tan Dun’s opera The First Emperor 

  Liu, Bo (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

  The purpose of this project is to investigate the characters in the Chinese composer Tan Dun’s opera The First Emperor, a two-act opera written in English and presented by the Metropolitan Opera in 2006. It ...

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• A performance guide to four pieces with Jewish and Gypsy themes by Sylvie Bodorová 

  Renner, Timothy Michael Jr. (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

  About thirty years into her professional career, Czech composer Sylvie Bodorová (b. 1954) turned her focus specifically toward Jewish themes for compositional inspiration. Beginning with the Terezín Ghetto Requiem, ...

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• A comparative study of the violin concertos of Unsuk Chin and György Ligeti 

  Lee, Hye In (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

  This scholarly essay compares the violin concertos of György Ligeti (1990/1992) and Unsuk Chin (2001). The composers met as teacher and student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in 1985. ...

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