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• A performer's view of selected works from The Carnegie Hall Millennium Piano Book 

  Yan, Jiafeng (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)

  The Carnegie Hall Millennium Piano Book was published in 2000 and represents a collection of compositions intended as commissions for Carnegie Hall. The book contains ten works by American composers Elliott ...

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• Conversational jazz styles: Bill Evans and the drummers who shaped the music 

  Widenhofer, Marc Stephen (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)

  Bill Evans was one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century. From his 1956 record, New Jazz Conceptions, until his untimely death in 1980, Bill Evans led a trio that would defy the confines and roles of ...

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• An analysis of guitar improvisation techniques in Bill Frisell trio albums 

  Song, Josh Jonghun (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)

  Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell is an innovative musician who stands out as perhaps one of the three most influential jazz guitarists since the 1980s, together with John Scofield and Pat Metheny. Frisell was influenced by ...

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• Developing performance and pedagogy practices in a jazz context for the musical theater vocalist through the Great American Songbook 

  Semetko-Brooks, Lara Alexandra (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)

  The purpose of this scholarly essay is to explore the differences between the selected Great American Songbook compositions performed in the original context of the Broadway show and in a jazz context by prominent ...

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• David Ellis's seven solo and chamber works for double bass: A performer's guide 

  Ma, Yi-Hung (School of Music, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019)

  This study is an examination of the British composer David Ellis (b. 1933) and his seven works for solo and chamber music. The study explores the background of the composer and the seven works in general, analyzes the ...

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