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]