Jon Appleton

Jon Appleton (born Jon Howard Appleton, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a composer, author and the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University. He was educated at Reed College, the University of Oregon and Columbia University. With Homer Keller, he set up the electronic music studio at the University of Oregon.

A composer of both instrumental and electro-acoustic music, Appleton is best known in the United States for the latter, much of it composed for the Synclavier, a digital performance instrument he helped to develop. His instrumental and choral music is best known in Russia, France and Japan. He has used the Bohlen-Pierce scale ["John Pierce (1910-2002)". "Computer Music Journal", Vol. 26, No. 4, Languages and Environments for Computer Music (Winter, 2002), pp. 6-7.] .

He has two children, Jason and Jennifer.

Appleton has been awarded Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts and American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowships. He has been a fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and M.I.T., and a Visiting Professor at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan and teaches each year at the Theremin Center at the Moscow Conservatory of Music.

List of works, publications and recordings can be found at:http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~appleton/

Resignation

In the Spring of 2004, Mr. Appleton quarreled with the administration, through the use of letters published in The Dartmouth, Dartmouth College's daily newspaper, that grades received by students during one of his music classes were fair, despite student complaints that the grades were bringing down their grade-point averages. Citing the need for high standards and expectations within colleges and universities Appleton defended his grading system and implied that the College was unfairly pressuring him to raise his grades. Mr. Appleton has been known to use The Dartmouth on numerous occasions to voice his opinions, including op-eds criticizing the administration its supposed ineffectualness [http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005030902050&sheadline=&sauthor=Appleton&stext=] , and supporting the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra's practice of hiring outside players to fill its ranks [http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006022702030&sheadline=&sauthor=Appleton&stext=] .

In September, 2005 Mr. Appleton announced that he would be leaving Dartmouth at the end of the 2005-06 academic year for a visiting position at Stanford University, citing as his reasons the administration's failure to "curb grade inflation, reduce class size and stay on the cutting edge" [http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005093001020&sheadline=&sauthor=&stext=Appleton] . This resignation marks the end of 38 years at Dartmouth for Professor Appleton.

Works

* "Apolliana" (1970)
* "CCCP (In Memoriam: Anatoly Kuznetsov)" (1969)
* "Ce que signifie la déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen de 1789 pour les hommes et les citoyens des îles Marquises" (1989)
* "Chef d'uvre" (1967)
* "Degitaru Ongaku" (1983)
* "Dima Dobralsa Domoy" (1996)
* "Dr Quisling in Stockholm" (1971)
* "Georganna's Fancy" (1966)
* "Georganna's Farewell" (1975)
* "Homage To Orpheus" (1969)
* "Homenaje a Milanés" (1987)
* "Human Music" (1969)
* "In Deserto" (1977)
* "In Medias Res" (1978)
* "Mussems Sång" (1976)
* "Newark Airport Rock" (1969)
* "Oskuldens Dröm" (1985)
* "'Otahiti" (1973)
* "San Francisco Airport Rock" (1996)
* "Spuyten Duyvil" (1967)
* "Stereopticon" (1972)
* "The Sydsing Camklang" (1976)
* "Syntrophia" (1977)
* "Times Square Times Ten" (1969)
* "'U ha'amata 'atou 'i te himene" (1996)
* "Yamanotesen To Ko" (1997)
* "Zoetrope" (1974)

Recordings

*Times Square Times Ten (1969)
*Syntonic Menagerie (1969)
*Human Music (with Don Cherry) (1970)
*The World Music Theatre of Jon Appleton (1974)
*The Tale of William Mariner and The Snow Queen (1982)
*Contes de la mémoire (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9635, 1996)
*Wunderbra! (with Achim Treu) (2003)
*Syntonic Menagerie 2 (2003)

ources

External links

* [http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~appleton/ Jon Appleton official site]