Margaret Scoville

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

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

• Ephemerae (violin, two viola and cello) ^[8]
• Fading, Still Fading (flute, viola and piano) ^[1]
• Lament on the Death of Proposition 15 (two flutes and oboe) ^[1]
• Time Out of Mind (two percussion) ^[8]

Electronic

• Electric Sunday (magnetic tape) ^[8]
• Number 9 (tape) ^[8]
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (chamber ensemble and tape) ^[8]

Piano

• Ostinato, Fantasy and Fugue ^[9]
• Pentacycle ^[8]

Vocal

• “Four Fragments from Empedocles” (soprano, flute and piano) ^[10]

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.