Babban Conservatorium na Kiɗa

Elder Conservatorium of Music, wanda aka fi sani da "The Con", yana cikin tsakiyar Adelaide, babban birnin Kudancin Australia, kuma an sanya masa suna ne don girmama mai ba da gudummawa, Sir Thomas Elder (1818-1897). Tun da farko daga 1883, yana da tarihi a cikin horar da ƙwararru don wasan kwaikwayo na kiɗa, abun da ke cikin kiɗa, bincike a duk fannonin kiɗa, da ilimin kiɗa. Elder Conservatorium of Music da wadanda suka gabace shi sun kasance sassan Jami'ar Adelaide tun farkon shekarun 1880. Darakta na yanzu shine Farfesa Anna Goldsworthy.Bridges, Doreen: More Than a Musician: a life of E. Harold Davies (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006) 185pp.

W. D. K. Duncan and R. A. Leonard: Chapter 4, 'The Music Men' in The University of Adelaide 1874-1974 (Adelaide: Rigby, 1973) 203pp.

 Tarihi 
 An kafa Elder Conservatorium of Music a hukumance a cikin 1898 sakamakon babban gado na taimakon jama'a daga nufin makiyaya na Scotland-Australia, Sir Thomas Elder, wanda mutum-mutumi yake tsaye a waje da Elder Hall. Tarihin, duk da haka, ya koma baya fiye da 1898. Wani gudummawar taimakon jama'a da aka bayar a baya daga Sir Thomas Elder ya taimaka wajen kafa Babban Farfesa na Kiɗa a 1883, tare da wanda ke aiki na farko ya ɗauki mukamin a 1884. A lokaci guda, Sir Thomas Elder ya kafa kudade na tallafi ga Kwalejin Kiɗa ta Royal a London don tallafawa Elder Overseas Scholarship (a cikin Kiɗa) da Kwamitin Kiɗa na Jami'ar Adelaide don tallafawa Tsohon Scholarships a Kiɗa. 1883 kuma ita ce shekarar da dan wasan piano da aka horar da shi a Berlin Immanuel Gotthold Reimann ya kafa mallakarsa mai zaman kansa kuma yana gudanar da Kwalejin Kiɗa ta Adelaide, wanda Cecil Sharp (daga baya ya zama sananne a matsayin mai tara waƙoƙin gargajiya) ya zama co-direkta a 1889. A cikin 'yan shekarun farko sabuwar makarantar kiɗa a Jami'ar Adelaide (wanda ya mai da hankali kan abun da ke ciki da ka'idar) da Kwalejin Kiɗa ta Adelaide (wacce ta mai da hankali ga horo na aiki) sun haɗa da juna. A cikin 1898 an haɗu da makarantun biyu, suna aiki a cikin kwalejin Wakefield Street har zuwa 1900, lokacin da aka kammala ginin North Terrace. Hermann Heinicke ya kafa ƙungiyar Conservatorium Orchestra ta farko.

 Shirye-shiryen ilimi 

Elder Conservatorium of Music yana ba da digiri da difloma a cikin kiɗa ga maza da mata tun daga ƙarshen karni na sha tara. Da farko an yi niyyar cewa za a tsara shirin digiri a kan wannan a Jami'ar Cambridge.  Gaskiya ne cewa Farfesa Ives ya kammala karatu (ko da yake a matsayin dan takara na waje) tare da digiri na MusB daga Cambridge, kuma rigunan ilimi sun dogara ne akan waɗanda suka fito daga Cambridge, amma shirye-shiryen digiri na Jami'ar Adelaide sun kasance - kuma har yanzu suna da yawa - bisa ga tsarin Scotland maimakon Ingilishi. Wannan ya nuna gaskiyar cewa yawancin iyayen da suka kafa jami'ar Scots ne. Bugu da ƙari, an ɗauki digiri na Cambridge MusB a matsayin na biyu, digiri na digiri, yayin da digiri na BMus na Elder Conservatorium shine lambar yabo ta farko. Ganin cewa mata ba su iya kammala karatu daga Jami'ar Cambridge ba har sai jim kadan bayan Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, suna kammala karatu daga Elder Conservatorium of Music (da Jami'ar Adelaide gaba ɗaya) shekaru hamsin da suka gabata.

 Aboki a cikin Kiɗa, Jami'ar Adelaide 
Associate in Music, Jami'ar Adelaide (AMUA ) digiri ne da jami'ar ta bayar. An fara gabatar da shi ne a cikin 1900 a matsayin karatun difloma,  kafin kafa Hukumar Nazarin Kiɗa ta Australiya (AMEB) a cikin 1918.  An cire shi a cikin shekara ta 1972.  Shahararrun masu digiri sun haɗa da: Maude Mary Puddy, (mai digiri na farko, 1900);  Clytie Hine, 1908;  da Arnold Matters, 1926.

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