Jazz influence on unaccompanied horn literature: A guide to performing solo works by Douglas Hill, David Amram, and Dana Wilson

Pearce, Jessica

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Title

Jazz influence on unaccompanied horn literature: A guide to performing solo works by Douglas Hill, David Amram, and Dana Wilson

Author(s)

Pearce, Jessica

Issue Date

2018

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Scully, Bernhard

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Scully, Bernhard

Committee Member(s)

• Daval, Charles
• Pugh, James
• Taylor, Stephen

Department of Study

School of Music

Discipline

Music

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

A.Mus.D. (doctoral)

Keyword(s)

• horn
• jazz
• Douglas Hill
• David Amram
• Dana Wilson
• french horn
• extended techniques
• Adam Unsworth

Language

en

Abstract

For modern classical hornists wishing to explore a different style, the unaccompanied solo genre is a way of easing into swing and improvisation. Horn solo pieces by Dana Wilson (b.1946), Douglas Hill (b.1946), and David Amram (b.1930) have grown out of the Third Stream tradition to explore blues, swing, and samba, along with many extended techniques like improvisation, glissandi, scoops, stopped horn, flutter-tongue, pitch-bending, and tapping on the bell for percussive effect. This project provides an analysis of selected works by these composers, exploring the jazz vocabulary and special techniques required. Interviews with the composers and research into jazz French horn history will supplement this performance guide.

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• text
• image

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Copyright 2018 Jessica Pearce

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