Charles Dodge

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Charles Dodge (born June 5, 1942 in Ames , Iowa , USA) is an American composer .

Dodge studied from 1960 to 1964 at the University of Iowa and until 1968 at Columbia University in New York City with Otto Luening , Jack Hamilton Beeson and Chou Wen-chung . He also worked with Vladimir Ussachevski with electronic music. He is an instructor at Columbia University and works at the IBM Research Center on Computer Music . In the 1972 work Speech Song , he experimented with synthetic speech .

In addition to orchestral works, Dodge created compositions for various instruments with piano accompaniment, a work for three trombones, two pianos and percussion, and works for digital tape.

In 1996 he received the SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award .

Works

  • Changes
  • Earth's Magnetic Field , 1970
  • Speech Songs , 1972
  • In Celebration , 1975
  • Synthesized Voices , 1978
  • Any Resemblance Is Purely Coincidental , 1980
  • The Waves , 1984
  • Viola Elegy , 1987
  • Violin Etudes , 1993
  • Fades Dissolves Fizzles , 1996

Fonts

  • Ch. Dodge, Thomas A. Jerse Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance
personal data
SURNAME Dodge, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Ames , Iowa , USA