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American composer of chamber, electronic and piano music

Margaret Lee Scoville (3 May 1944 - 1978) was an American composer of chamber, electronic and piano music.

Scoville was born in Pasadena, California. She studied music at the State University of New York, Buffalo, where she participated in the university’s Evenings for New Music as a Creative Associate Graduate Fellow and composer. Her teachers included Morton Feldman, Ramon Fuller, Lejaren Hiller, and William Kothe.

Scoville’s piano pieces were recorded by George Skipworth on LP EDUCO 3097.

Chamber

  • Ephemerae (violin, two viola and cello)
  • Fading, Still Fading (flute, viola and piano)
  • Lament on the Death of Proposition 15 (two flutes and oboe)
  • Time Out of Mind (two percussion)

Electronic

  • Electric Sunday (magnetic tape)
  • Number 9 (tape)
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (chamber ensemble and tape)

Piano

  • Ostinato, Fantasy and Fugue
  • Pentacycle

Vocal

  • “Four Fragments from Empedocles” (soprano, flute and piano)

References

  1. ^ Scoville, Margaret. "Evenings for New Music - University at Buffalo Libraries". library.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  2. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  3. Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8498-4. OCLC 6815939.
  4. Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.
  5. Arts, State University of New York at Buffalo Center of the Creative and Performing (1978). Evenings for New Music: A Catalogue, 1964-1977. Department of Music, State University of New York at Buffalo.
  6. Packer, Renee Levine (2010-07-23). This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music in Buffalo. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-977967-3.
  7. Pfitzinger, Scott (2017-03-01). Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-7225-5.
  8. ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). ISBN 978-0-9617485-2-4.
  9. Oja, Carol J.; Music, Brooklyn College Institute for Studies in American; Foundation, Koussevitzky Music (1982). American Music Recordings: A Discography of 20th Century U.S. Composers. Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. ISBN 978-0-914678-19-9.
  10. Anderson, Ruth (1976). Contemporary American composers : a biographical dictionary. Boston: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-1117-0. OCLC 2035024.
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