# 1750 Arch Records

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{{Short description|American record label}}
{{Infobox record label
| name        = 1750 Arch Records
| image       = 1750_Arch_Records.jpg
| founded     = {{start date|1974}}
| defunct     = {{end date|1984}}
| founder     = [Thomas Buckner](/source/Thomas_Buckner)
| genre       = experimental, avant garde, jazz, classical music.
| country     = United States
| location    = Berkeley, California
}}
'''1750 Arch Records''' was an independent record label that focused on experimental and avant garde music, jazz, and classical music.

==History==
The label, named after the company's address in Berkeley, California, was founded in 1974 by vocalist [Thomas Buckner](/source/Thomas_Buckner), who was also responsible for starting 1750 Arch Concerts, which presented over a hundred concerts a year for eight years, and the Arch Ensemble, which performed and recorded music by 20th century composers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.otherminds.org/other-minds-festival-1 |title=Other Minds Festival 1 |website=OtherMinds.org |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=Winter 2016 |title=Alumni News |magazine=Harvey Magazine |pages=42 |url=https://issuu.com/harveyschool/docs/harveymagwinter2016/44}}</ref><ref name="jl">{{cite web |url=http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_1750Arch.htm |title=1750 Arch Records |website=JazzLists |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |first=W.L. |last=Taitte |date=March 1976 |title=Beyond the Fringe |magazine=Texas Monthly |pages=45 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HywEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%221750+arch+records%22&pg=PA45}}</ref> Over the course of roughly ten years, it released over fifty albums in a wide range of styles, including the complete player piano music of [Conlon Nancarrow](/source/Conlon_Nancarrow).<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Penchansky |first=Alan |date=April 14, 1979 |title=Indie Labels Project 'Firsts' |magazine=Billboard |pages=36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TiQEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%221750+arch+records%22&pg=PT35}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1984/01/22/conlon-nancarrow-piano-beyond-human-limits/1ebfe26c-8d89-4390-b177-8f4d0ebc960b |title=Conlon Nancarrow: Piano Beyond Human Limits |first=Joseph |last=McLellan |date=January 22, 1984 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref> In the early 1980s, 1750 Arch began to wind down its operations, closing in 1984, at which time the master recordings were returned to the composers and musicians.<ref name="jl" /><ref name="nmu">{{cite web |url=https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/thomas-buckner-reenters-the-record-business |title=Thomas Buckner Re-Enters the Record Business |date=April 1, 2001 |website=NewMusic USA |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://precambrianmusic.com/arch1.htm |title=Arch Records |first=Phil |last=Sawyer |website=PreCambrian Music |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref> A number of albums were reissued on other labels, including Buckner's Mutable Music.<ref name="jl" /><ref name="nmu" />

==Releases==
;Contemporary music
* S-1752 Various Artists: ''10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces''
* S-1760 Janet Millard: ''20th Century Flute''
* S-1765 Various Artists: ''New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media''
* S-1768 [Conlon Nancarrow](/source/Conlon_Nancarrow): ''Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #1''
* S-1771 Joseph Bacon: ''Guitar Music of [Villa-Lobos](/source/Heitor_Villa-Lobos)''
* S-1772 Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra: ''[Lou Harrison](/source/Lou_Harrison): Elegiac Symphony; [Robert Hughes](/source/Robert_Hughes_(American_composer)): Cadences''
* S-1774 [David Rosenboom](/source/David_Rosenboom) and [Don Buchla](/source/Don_Buchla): ''Collaboration in Performance''
* S-1775 [Stuart Dempster](/source/Stuart_Dempster): ''In the Great Abbey of Clement VI''
* S-1777 Conlon Nancarrow: ''Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #2''
* S-1779 [Charles Amirkhanian](/source/Charles_Amirkhanian): ''Lexical Music''
* S-1780 Mel Graves: ''Three Worlds''
* S-1781 Gardner Jencks: ''Selected Works for Piano, 1942-1980''
* S-1782 Various Artists: ''The Music of [Luigi Dallapiccola](/source/Luigi_Dallapiccola)''
* S-1784 [John Adams](/source/John_Adams_(composer)): ''[Shaker Loops](/source/Shaker_Loops)''; ''[Phrygian Gates](/source/Phrygian_Gates)''
* S-1785 [Thomas Buckner](/source/Thomas_Buckner), [Gerald Oshita](/source/Gerald_Oshita), [Roscoe Mitchell](/source/Roscoe_Mitchell): ''New Music for Woodwinds and Voice''
* S-1786 Conlon Nancarrow: ''Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #3''
* S-1787 [Susan Allen](/source/Susan_Allen_(musician)): ''New Music for Harp''
* S-1789 Katrina Krimsky: ''Villa-Lobos: The Baby's Family''
* S-1792 Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra: ''[Daniel Kobialka](/source/Daniel_Kobialka): Echoes of Secret Silence; [Charles Shere](/source/Charles_Shere): Nightmusic''
* S-1793 [Neil B. Rolnick](/source/Neil_Rolnick): ''Solos''
* S-1794 Peter Dickson Lopez: ''The Ship of Death''
* S-1795 [Henry Brant](/source/Henry_Brant): ''Solar Moth''; Daniel Kobialka: ''Autumn Beyond''
* S-1797 Jon English, Candace Natvig: ''Triptych''
* S-1798 Conlon Nancarrow: ''Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #4''
* S-1800 [Michael McNabb](/source/Michael_McNabb): ''Computer Music''
* S-1801 Anna Carol Dudley, Ronald Erickson, Earle Shenk: ''The Music of [Charles Seeger](/source/Charles_Seeger) (1886-1979)''
* S-1806 Roscoe Mitchell, Gerald Oshita, Tom Buckner: ''Space: An Interesting Breakfast Conversation''

;Classical music
* S-1754 [Martial Singher](/source/Martial_Singher): ''Opus 70''
* S-1761 [Renee Grant-Williams](/source/Renee_Grant-Williams), Dorothy Barnhouse, Alden Gilchrist: ''Brahms Duets''
* S-1762 [Jeanne Stark](/source/Jeanne_Stark-Iochmans): ''Claude Debussy: Preludes, Book I''
* S-1763 Jeanne Stark: ''Claude Debussy: Preludes, Book II''
* S-1766 Martial Singher, Dorothy Angwin: ''An Album of French Songs''
* S-1767 Bernhard Abramowitsch: ''Schubert: Sonata in B Flat Major; Klaviersuck II''
* S-1783 San Francisco String Quartet: ''A Night in the Garden Court''
* S-1796 [Dennis Russell Davies](/source/Dennis_Russell_Davies), Charles Holland: ''My Lord What a Mornin'''

;Early music
* S-1751 Musica Mundana: ''[Dufay](/source/Guillaume_Du_Fay): Fifteen Songs''
* S-1753 Music for a While: ''Transformations: Dufay and His Contemporaries''
* S-1756 Paul Hersh, Laurette Goldberg: ''[J.S. Bach](/source/J.S._Bach): The Leipzig Sonatas''
* S-1757 Tom Buckner, Joseph Bacon: ''Wandering in This Place: Elizabethan Lute Songs''
* S-1764 Joseph Bacon: ''[Dowland](/source/John_Dowland): Fantasies and Dances for the Lute''
* S-1773 Music for a While: ''La Fontaine Amoureuse: Poetry and Music of [Guillaume de Machaut](/source/Guillaume_de_Machaut) (1300-1377)''
* S-1776 Anna Carol Dudley: ''[Henry Purcell](/source/Henry_Purcell): Songs and Grounds''

;Jazz
* S-1755 Infinite Sound: ''Contemporary African-American Music''
* S-1758 [Denny Zeitlin](/source/Denny_Zeitlin) with George Marsh and Mel Graves: ''Expansion''
* S-1759 Denny Zeitlin, Ratzo B. Harris, George Marsh: ''Syzygy''
* S-1769 [Art Lande](/source/Art_Lande): ''The Eccentricities of Earl Dant''
* S-1770 Denny Zeitlin: ''Soundings''
* S-1778 Art Lande: ''The Story of Ba-Ku''
* S-1790 [Big Black](/source/Big_Black_(musician)) (Danny Rey): ''Ethnic Fusion''
* S-1791 George Marsh: ''Marshland''
* S-1802 [Randy Weston](/source/Randy_Weston): ''Blue''
* S-1804 George Marsh, [John Abercrombie](/source/John_Abercrombie_(guitarist)): ''Drum Strum''

Sources:<ref name="jl" /><ref name="mutable">{{cite web |url=https://mutablemusic.com/mm/about |title=Mutable Music: About |website=Mutable Music |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref>

==References==
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Category:Record labels established in 1974
Category:Record labels disestablished in 1984
Category:American jazz record labels
Category:Experimental music record labels
Category:Classical music record labels
Category:American independent record labels

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