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Appleton, Jon Howard, b. 1939

 

Dates

  • Existence: b.1939

Biography

Jon Howard Appleton was born in 1939, in Hollywood California. He was educated at Reed College, the University of Oregon and Columbia University. In 1976, Appleton joined the faculty at Dartmouth College where he established one of the first electronic music studios in the United States. He remained there intermittently for forty-two years, eventually becoming the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music. In the late 1970s, Appleton contributed to the development of the first commercial digital synthesizer called the Synclavier. He was also a founding member of the International Confederation for Electro-Acoustic Music and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). In the early 1990s Appleton helped found the Theremin Center for Electronic Music at the Moscow Conservatory of Music where he continues to teach once a year. He has also taught at Keio University (Mita) in Tokyo, Japan, CCRMA at Stanford University and the University of California Santa Cruz. Appleton's first recordings were published in 1969, and he has been a prolific composer of electronic music throughout his career.

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 Collection
Identifier: MS-727
MS-727
Date(s): 1886 to 2017
Abstract Jon Howard Appleton (1939- ). Professor of music at Dartmouth from 1978-2006. Composer, and co-developer of the Synclavier. The collection contains correspondence, publicity materials, newspaper and magazine articles, brochures, flyers, typescripts, photographs, floppy discs, musical programs, music reviews, reel-to-reel audio recordings, compact discs with interviews and lectures, a VHS tape of a lecture, scrapbooks and musical scores. The papers document Appleton’s career as a composer,...
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