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Elinor Armer, composition

Elinor Armer Interview

Interview Date : July 8 and 10, 2013 Conservatory Affiliation : Composition Faculty Interviewer : Emily Laurance, Chair, Music History and Literature Elinor Armer was born in Oakland, California, and was raised in Davis. Her father was an engineer, her …
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Conrad Susa

Interview Date: July 22, 23, 24 and 29, 2013 Conservatory Affiliation: Composition Faculty Interviewers: John Bischoff, Marketing Manager Edited by: Elinor Armer, Tessa Updike and Corey Jamason Conrad Stephen Susa was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania in …
David Burkhart

David Burkhart Interview

Interview Date: June 21 and 24, 2016 Conservatory Affiliation: Trumpet Faculty Interviewer: Tessa Updike David Burkhart is an honors graduate of Yale University, where he received B.A. and M.M. degrees. His teachers include Adolph Herseth, Arnold Jacobs, …

Bonnie Hampton Interview

Interview Date: April 1 and 2, 2013 Conservatory Affiliation: Chamber Music Faculty Interviewers: Tessa Updike, Archivist Cellist Bonnie Hampton leads an active music life as a chamber musician, soloist, and teacher. A founding member of the Naumburg …
Barbara Imbrie

Barbara Imbrie

Interview Date: August 23, 2015 Conservatory Affiliation: Family of former composition faculty member Andrew Imbrie Interviewer: Elinor Armer Read Interview Topics Ancestors Early years Education Meeting Andrew Imbrie Travels Friends and colleagues Home …
SFCM old building at 1201 Ortega Street designed by architect Louis Christian Mullgardtd

Alden Jenks

Interview Date: November 11, 12, and 18, 2013 Conservatory Affiliation: Electronic Music Interviewer: Tessa Updike and MaryClare Brzywta Alden Jenks presides over the computers, synthesizers and other state-of-the-art equipment in the San Francisco …
vocalist performing in dramatic lighting

Voice Resources

Subject Guides Voice Vocal Music Songs Songs with Songs, English; Songs, Italian; etc. Songs high voice Songs medium voice Songs low voice Opera Cantatas Choruses Musicals Oratorios Church music Sacred vocal music Singing Synagogue music Call Numbers …
close up of a violinist

String Resources

Subject Headings *Viola, Violoncello, or Double bass may be used instead of Violin in the headings below. Violin music Sonatas violin Violin and piano music Violin with Violin music (Violins 2) String trios String quartets String quintets ( Use Sextets, …
Marimba up close

Percussion Resources

Subject Headings * Snare drum, Xylophone, etc. may be used instead of timpani. Concertos timpani* Concertos percussion Percussion and Percussion ensembles (for two or more percussionists, each playing one or more percussion instruments) Percussion music …
student singing with piano accompaniment

Musical Theatre

Subject Guides Minstrel shows Musicals Operas--Librettos Operas--Stories, plots, etc. Operetta Theater Theaters Call Numbers REF ML128 M987 Bibliographies REF ML128 S3 Song Indexes ML1700 - ML1751 History and Criticism MT64 Revues--Writing and Publishing …
vocalist reading a Schumann score

Music Theory

Subject Headings Music theory Composition music Counterpoint Harmonic analysis Melody Modulation (Music) Music acoustics and physics Music philosophy and aesthetics Musical analysis Musical form Musical meter and rhythm Schenkerian analysis Transposition …
a student playing a historical bowed instrument

Music History and Musicology

Subject Headings *Africa is used for purposes of illustration; Asia, Peru, Poland, Sweden, etc. may be used instead. See also specific subject erms, e.g.: Clarinet; Opera; Symphony; etc. and specific proper names, e.g.: Berio, Josquin, Monteverdi, …
picture of a keyboard and a practice room window

Keyboards

Subject Headings Clavichord, Organ, or Harpsichord may be used in place of "Piano" in the headings below Organ masses Organ music Piano Piano music Pianists Piano with Sonatas piano Piano music 4 hands Piano music pianos 2 Violin and piano music (Flute …
saxophone player up close

Jazz

Subject Headings Big band music Big bands Blues (music) Bop (music) Dance orchestras Jazz (This heading may be divided by decade, e.g.: Jazz 1961-1970 ; Jazz 1941-1950, etc.) Jazz ensembles Jazz musicians Jazz vocals Ragtime music Swing (Music) Women jazz …
picture of a historical lute being played by a student

Guitar, Lute, and Harp

Subject Headings Lute, Harp, and other plucked instruments may be used instead of Guitar in the headings below Concertos guitar Concertos guitar solo with piano Sonatas guitar Guitar and clarinet music (clarinet used as example - use desired instrument) …
picture of a harpsichord keyboard

Early Music

Subject Headings *Africa is used for purposes of illustration; Asia, Peru, Poland, Sweden, etc. may be used instead. See also specific subject terms, e.g.: Clarinet; Opera; Symphony; etc. and specific proper names, e.g.: Berio, Josquin, Monteverdi, …
conductor conducting new music ensemble with dramatic hall lighting

Contemporary Music

Subject Headings *Africa is used for purposes of illustration; Asia, Peru, Poland, Sweden, etc. may be used instead. See also specific subject terms, e.g.: Clarinet; Opera; Symphony; etc. and specific proper names, e.g.: Berio, Josquin, Monteverdi, …
Three students looking over a teacher's shoulder at the computer

Composition and Technology

Subject Headings Computer sound processing Composers Computer music Computer composition Composition (Music) Counterpoint Chance composition Electronic music Harmony Instrumentation and orchestration Magnetic recorders and recording Music -- Acoustics and …
brass instrument up close in a rehearsal

Brass Resources

Subject Headings for music *Horn, Trombone, or Tuba may be used instead of "trumpet" in the headings (For chamber music with keyboard see the Keyboard Music Guide) Trumpet* music Sonatas Trumpet Trumpet and Trumpet music (Trumpets(2)) Brass trios; Wind …
Composition Technology and Applied Composition new music

New Music Gathering Forges Ahead

November 1, 2014
The first annual  New Music Gathering  opened at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a nod to the challenges that have always faced creators of new music – questions about how to support their work, who wants to listen to it and what to call it – …