Margaret Lee Scoville (3 May 1944 - 1978)
was an American composer of chamber, electronic and piano music.
Scoville was born in
Pasadena
Pasadena ( ) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commercial district.
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, 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
Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School ...
, Ramon Fuller,
Lejaren Hiller
Lejaren Arthur Hiller Jr. (February 23, 1924, New York City – January 26, 1994, Buffalo, New York)[Lejaren Hi ...](_blank)
, 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
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American women composers
Electronic music
1944 births
1978 deaths
People from Pasadena, California