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Biography
Education
New
England Conservatory, Boston
M.A. in Music, with honors, 1974
Principal
Teachers:
Robert Cogan, composition and analysis
Ernst Oster, Schenkerian analysis
University
of California, Berkeley
B.A., with honors, in Music, 1967
Graduate studies in composition and analysis, 1968-1970
Principal
Teachers:
Andrew Imbrie, composition and analysis
Michael Senturia, conducting, rehearsal technique
Roger Sessions, 20th century literature
Richard Crocker, music history
Marin
Community College, Kentfield
Continuing studies in Philosophy, Logic
Mathematics and Electronic Technology, 1978-1987
Private
Lessons
Andrew Imbrie, composition
Robert Beloof, poetry and rhetoric
Mack McCray, piano
Credentials
California
Community College Credential in Music, Mathematics and Philosophy
Teaching
Positions
Santa
Rosa Jr. College, Petaluma CA 1993-1999
Conductor, Community Orchestra
Music
and Art Institute of San Francisco, 1983-1989
Head of Music Theory and History Department
Created
content of these courses:
| Harmony
I-IV |
Analysis
I-II |
| Counterpoint
I-II |
Orchestration |
| 18th
& 19th Century Genres |
Choral
and Orchestral |
| 20th
Century Techniques |
Conducting |
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Music
History I-IV
Including
Ethnic Music
Chamber
ensemble
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Graduate
Theory
Schenkerian
analysis
Tone color analysis
Canon and Fugue
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| Private
Lessons |
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Marin
Community College, Kentfield, 1981-1985
Instructor of Logic and Mathematics
New
England Conservatory, Boston, 1972-1974
Teaching Assistant, Graduate Division
Corrected
papers and advised students in a graduate course, Score and
Sound, team-taught by performers and theorists.
Instructor,
Preparatory and Adult Education Divisions
taught Theory and Musicianship
University
of California, Berkeley, 1967-1972
Assistant Conductor, UC Symphony Orchestra
Responsible
for section rehearsals, personnel, and performance of a full
85 piece orchestra
University
of California, Berkeley CA, 1969
Summer Music Program, Voice lessons
for gifted low-income youths.
Affiliation
College
Music Society
The Roger Sessions Society
Society for Music Theory
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Listen
to sample recordings featuring music by Georges Bizet, Johannes
Brahms, Giuseppi Verdi, Richard Wagner, Richard Rogers and Peter Black.
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Our Light
is a Voice
sacred music
for women’s voices and piano or organ.
The demand for
choral music for female choirs keeps growing. We are therefore very
pleased to publish this work by the American composer and conductor
Peter Black. For more information, visit
the INTRADA website.
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