Margaret Scoville

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Margaret Lee Scoville (3 May 1944 - 1978) [1] was an American composer of chamber, electronic and piano music. [2] [3]

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Scoville was born in Pasadena, California. [4] She studied music at the State University of New York, Buffalo, where she participated in the university’s Evenings for New Music [5] as a Creative Associate Graduate Fellow and composer. [6] Her teachers included Morton Feldman, [7] Ramon Fuller, Lejaren Hiller, and William Kothe. [8]

Scoville’s piano pieces were recorded by George Skipworth on LP EDUCO 3097. [8]

Chamber

Electronic

Piano

Vocal

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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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