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American composer and pianist (1927–2014)
Mary Jeanne van Appledorn (October 2, 1927 in
Holland, Michigan – December 12, 2014 in
Lubbock, Texas ) was an American composer of
contemporary classical music and pianist.
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Education and career
Van Appledorn attended the
Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she studied piano and theory with
Bernard Rogers and
Alan Hovhaness .
[1] She received her Bachelor of Music in 1948, her Masters of Music in 1950, and her Ph.D. in music theory from Eastman in 1966.
[1] She also completed post-doctoral studies in computer-synthesized sound at MIT in 1982.
[1] She was a member of the music faculty of
Texas Tech University from 1950 until 2008. She was the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Music from 1989 to 2000.
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She composed numerous works for various instrumental combinations and also composed
computer music . She had work commissioned by the
Music Teachers National Association and
National Intercollegiate Bands .
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Her surname is Dutch (from the town of
Apeldoorn , though in Americanized spelling); her great-grandparents emigrated to the United States from the
Netherlands . She visited Apeldoorn in 1982.
Musical style
Her works are generally tonal, although she also used the
twelve-tone technique , and she frequently utilized
string piano techniques in her piano music. Her music has been recorded by the Opus One and Golden Crest labels, and her scores are published by numerous publishers.
Awards and honors
Premier Prix
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Dijon
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Texas Composors Guild
ASCAP Standard Panel Awards
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Selected works
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Orchestral
Concerto brevis, pf (orch) (1954)
A Choreographic Ov. (band) (1957)
Conc. (trumpet) (1960)
Passacaglia and Chorale (1973)
Lux 'Legend of Sankta Lucia' (band, hp, perc, handbells) (1981)
Terrestrial Music (vn, pf, str) (1992)
Cycles of Moon and Tides (band) (1995)
Rhapsody (vn, orch) (1996)
Music of Enchantment (Amerindian fl, str, perc) (1997)
Chamber and solo
Cellano Rhapsody (vc) (1948)
Burlesca (brass, perc, pf) (1951)
Patterns (5 hn) (1956)
Matrices (sax, pf) (1979)
Cacophony (wind, perc, toys) (1980)
Liquid Gold (sax, pf) (1982)
4 Duos (2 a sax) (1985)
4 Duos (va, vc) (1986)
Sonic Mutation (hp) (1987)
Cornucopia (tpt) (1988)
Sonatina (cl, pf) (1988)
Ayre (cl/sav ens, viol ens, str) (1989)
Three for Two (2 rec/fl) (1989)
Windsongs (brass qnt) (1991)
Incantations (tpt, pf) (1992)
Atmosphere (trbn ens) (1993)
Postcards to John (gui) (1993)
Rhapsody (tpt, hp) (1993)
Reeds Afire (cl, bn) (1994)
Sound the Tpt! (tpt, org) (1994)
Trio Italiano (tpt, hn, b trbn) (1995)
Passages (trbn, pf) (1996)
A Native American Mosaic (Amerindian fl) (1997)
Incantations (ob, pf) (1998)
Passages II (trbn, perc) (1998)
Miniatures, for trombone quartet (2002)
Piano
Contrasts (pf) (1947)
Set of Five (pf) (1953)
Sonnet (org) (1959)
3 Pf Pieces (1972)
6 Pf Pieces (1972)
Scenes from Pecos Country (pf) (1972)
Elegy for Pepe (pf) (1982)
A Liszt Fantasie (pf) (1984)
Freedom of Youth (spkr, synth) (1986)
Set of Seven (dance score) (pf) (1988)
Parquet musique (hpd) (1990)
Variations on Jerusalem the Golden (org) (1996)
Carillon
Suite (1976)
A Celestial Clockwork (1983)
Caprice (1988)
Tower Music (1990)
Skybells (1991)
Vocal
Choral
Tears (1952)
2 Shakespeare Songs (chorus, pf) (1953)
Peter Quince at the Clavier (spkr, female vv, fl, ob, hn, pf) (1958)
Darest Thou Nos, O Soul (female vv, org) (1975)
West Texas Suite (chorus, band, perc) (1976)
Rising Night After Night ( spkr, S, T, Bar, 2 choruses, orch) (1978)
Spirit Divine (chorus, org) (1986)
Love Divine All Loves Excelling (SATB, org) (1988)
Les hommes vidés (SATB) (1994)
Solo
I Hear America Singing (W. Whitman) (1v, pf) (1952)
Communiqué (1v, pf) (1960)
Azaleas (Bar fl, pf) (1980)
Missa brevis (1v, tpt, org) (1987)
Publications
Keyboard, singing, and dictation manual (1968)
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References
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f The Grove dictionary of American music . Garrett, Charles Hiroshi, 1966- (Second ed.). New York. January 2013.
ISBN
9780195314281 .
OCLC
774021205 .{{
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link ) CS1 maint: others (
link )
^
a
b
c
"Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians" . Gale Biography . Gale. 2001. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
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a
b Maloy, Rebecca A. (2001). Grove Music Online . Oxford Music Online.
ISBN
9781561592630 .
OCLC
942607444 .
^ Maloy, Rebecca A. (2001).
"Van Appledorn, Mary Jeanne | Grove Music" . www.oxfordmusiconline.com .
doi :
10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.49450 .
ISBN
978-1-56159-263-0 . Retrieved 2019-04-02 .
^ Van Appledorn, Mary Jeanne (1968). Keyboard, singing, and dictation manual . Dubuque,Iowa: Dubuque, Iowa.
External links
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