University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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)
Date of Ingest
2018-12-07T20:22:51Z
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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Copyright 2018 Jessica Pearce

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