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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Music Library
Title: The compositions of Elinor Armer
creator:
Armer, Elinor
Identifier/Call Number: ARCHIVES ARMER.1
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1955-1995
Physical Description: Accumulations will require careful sorting and preservation work.
Abstract: This collection was donated to the UC Berkeley Music Library by Elinor Armer in late 1998. The collection includes manuscripts
and printed scores of works by Elinor Armer dating from 1969 to 1990. Numerous sketches and notes relating to her compositions
are also included in this archive, as well as a small amount of personal correspondence relating to her collaborations with
Ursula LeGuin.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Music Library.
[Identification of item], Compositions of Elinor Armer , ARCHIVES ARMER 1, The Music Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Compositions of Elinor Armer were given to The Music Library by Elinor Armer in 1988. Additions were made on Dec. 7,
1998 and July 29, 2012.
Elinor Armer (b. Oakland, CA, 6 Oct. 1939). American composer and pianist. She studied composition at Mills College (BA 1961),
the University of California, Berkeley (1966-8) and California State University, San Francisco (MA 1972). Her teachers included
Darius Milhaud and Leon Kirchner (composition), and Alexander Libermann (piano). In 1976 she was appointed to teach at San
Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is head of the composition department. Writing with a rich harmonic vocabulary
and colorful scoring, Armer has developed an individualistic style. Her compositions are often programmatic or include text;
theatrical elements bring pieces to life. She is collaborating with the author Ursula K. Le Guin on an imaginative series
entitled Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts about an archipelago of islands each of which experiences music in an unusual manner,
for example as food, sexual attractant or geologic phenomena. [From The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers].
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Composers -- United States
Pianists -- United States
Armer, Elinor