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• The violin sonatas of Aaron Copland and Walter Piston: A historical and analytical overview and performer's guide 

  Choi, Eun Jeong (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

  While Aaron Copland and Walter Piston had different backgrounds, both studied with Nadia Boulanger in France, and were influenced by the neoclassicism of Igor Stravinsky. Their different perspectives and styles ...

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• Teaching jazz drumming: Music educators' perceptions 

  Wheelock, Andrew Robert (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018)

  The purpose of this research is to gain insight into the current state of jazz drum education at the middle and high school level, thereby identifying methodology that will better prepare jazz band directors to teach ...

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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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