Jon Appleton
American composer
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- PhD Music Composition Princeton University
- Masters Music Composition Princeton University
- Bachelors Music Pomona College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jon Howard Appleton was an American composer, an educator and a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. "Chef d'Oeuvre" and "Newark Airport Rock" attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electronic music. In 1970, he won Guggenheim, Fulbright and American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowships. When he was twenty-eight years old, he joined the faculty of Dartmouth College where he established one of the first electronic music studios in the United States. He remained there intermittently for forty-two years. In the mid-1970s, he left Dartmouth to briefly become the head of Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm, Sweden. In the late 1970s, together with Sydney Alonso and Cameron Jones, he helped develop the first commercial digital synthesizer called the Synclavier. For a decade he toured around the United States and Europe performing the compositions he composed for this instrument. In the early 1990s, he helped found the Theremin Center for Electronic Music at the Moscow Conservatory of Music. He also taught at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, CCRMA at Stanford University and the University of California Santa Cruz. In his later years, he devoted most of his time to the composition of instrumental and choral music in a quasi-Romantic vein which has largely been performed only in France, Russia and Japan.
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- The Major Seaports of the United Kingdom (1963) (185)
- Repertoire International des Musiques Electroacoustiques. (International Electronic Music Catalog) (1968) (22)
- The development and practice of electronic music (1975) (22)
- Reflections of a former performer of electroacoustic music (1999) (6)
- A special purpose digital system for musical instruction, composition, and performance (1976) (6)
- Tradition and Change: The Case of Music (1970) (5)
- Live and in Concert: Composer/Performer Views of Real-Time Performance Systems (1984) (5)
- The Geography of Communications in Great Britain (1962) (4)
- Principles and practice of electronic music (1975) (4)
- A Morphological Approach to the Geography of Transport (1966) (3)
- Reevaluating the Principle of Expectation in Electronic Music (1969) (2)
- The Communications of Watford Gap, Northamptonshire (1960) (2)
- 21st Century Musical Instruments: Hardware and Software (1989) (2)
- Problems of Designing a Composer's Language for Digital Synthesis (1977) (1)
- The Efficacy of the Great Australian Divide as a Barrier to Railway Communication (1963) (1)
- Commentary I: Electronic Music: Questions of Style and Compositional Technique (1979) (1)
- Paul Lansky: Things She Carried Compact disc, 1997, Bridge 9076; available from Bridge Records, P.O.Box 1864, New York, New York 10116, USA; electronic mail bridgerec@bridgerecords.com; World Wide Web www.bridgerecords.com (2001) (1)
- The Railway Network of Southern Yorkshire (1956) (1)
- A complex tool for performance, teaching, and composition (1983) (1)
- The Computer and Live Musical Performance (1986) (1)
- Dr. Appleton: His Life and Literary Relics (2007) (1)
- News (2013) (1)
- Machine Songs III: Music in the Service of Science-Science in the Service of Music (1992) (1)
- Times Square Times Ten (2011) (0)
- Dr. Appleton, His Life and Literary Relics, by J.H. Appleton and A.H. Sayce (0)
- Teaching Tape Studio Techniques for Music Synthesis (1973) (0)
- Bits and Pieces: EMS 30 Years (1999) (0)
- Sheremeteyevo airport rock (2002) (0)
- Jon Appleton, Selected Compositions (1959-2006) (2009) (0)
- Wendy Carlos: Clockwork Orange, Sonic Seasonings, Tales of Heaven and Hell [Review Article] (2000) (0)
- Computer Music: The Next 20 Years (1997) (0)
- UNITED STATESRoyalton, Vermont (1970) (0)
- Historical geography and the Beeching report (1965) (0)
- Crossing the Divide (2004) (0)
- About This Issue (2002) (0)
- Studio Report: The Bregman Electronic Music Studio at Darthmouth College and the MA Program in Electro-Acoustic Music (1996) (0)
- Ride (review) (2002) (0)
- About This Issue (2001) (0)
- Narita airport rock (2002) (0)
- About This Issue (2011) (0)
- My Friend Max (2009) (0)
- 21st-Century Musical Instruments: Hardware and Software@@@Current Directions in Computer-Music Research (1991) (0)
- Four Fantasies for Synclavier (1983) (0)
- In Memory of Max Mathews (2011) (0)
- Paul Lansky: Ride Compact disc, 2000, Bridge 9103; available from Bridge Records, Inc., 200 Clinton Avenue, New Rochelle, New York 10801, USA; electronic mail bridgerec@bridgerecords.com; World Wide Web www.BridgeRecords.com (2002) (0)
- Two minds meeting: Jan Mark and Jon Appleton (2020) (0)
- Music for Synclavier and Other Digital Systems (1979) (0)
- Proceedings of the First-Third Annual Conference, April 1966-1968: American Society of University Composers (1971) (0)
- Things She Carried (review) (2001) (0)
- Electronic Music Review. No. 1, Jan. 1967 (1968) (0)
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