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

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  • 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

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

Piano

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  • Ostinato, Fantasy and Fugue[9]

Vocal

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

References

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  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c d e f g h 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.