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Williametta Spencer
American composer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Williametta Spencer (born August 15, 1927)[1] is an American composer,[2] musicologist, and teacher[3] who plays harpsichord, organ, and piano. She is best known for her award-winning choral work At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners.[4]
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Spencer was born in Marion, Illinois, to Viva Jewell and Samuel Joseph Spencer. The family moved to Paducah, Kentucky, where her father was a minister of music at several different Baptist churches during her childhood.[5] Spencer earned a B.A. at Whittier College and a M.Mus. and Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation was entitled The Influence and Stylistic Heritage of André Caplet.[6] In 1953, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Paris. Her teachers included Pauline Alderman, Tony Aubin, Alfred Cortot, Ingolf Dahl, Ernst Kanitz, and Halsey Stevens.[4][7]
Spencer has won several awards, including the Southern California Vocal Association National Composition Award for At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners; Alumni Achievement Awards from Whittier College in 1995 and 2008;[8] and the Amy Beach Award for her orchestral overture.[4] I Cantori commissioned and premiered her choral work, And the White Rose is a Dove. She is a member of Mu Phi Epsilon and the International Alliance for Women in Music.[9]
Spencer’s works have been published by Associated Music Publishers Inc.,[10] Mark Foster Music Co.,[11] Orpheus Publications,[12] Shawnee Press,[13] and Western International Music Co.[4] Her publications include:
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- The Relationship Between André Caplet and Claude Debussy (The Musical Quarterly, Volume LXVI, Issue 1, January 1980, Pages 112–131)[14]
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Orchestra
Organ
- Improvisation and Meditation on “Gott sei gelobet”[19]
Vocal
- And the White Rose is a Dove (choir)[9]
- As I Rode Out This Enders NIght (a cappella choir)[17]
- As I Sat Under a Sycamore Tree (a cappella choir)[17]
- At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners (choir; text by John Donne)[15]
- Bright Cap and Streamers (choir)[11]
- Cantate Domino[15]
- Four Madrigals (text by James Joyce)[20]
- “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun” (text by Walt Whitman)[15]
- Make We Joy: A Cantata for Christmastide in a Medieval Atmosphere[15]
- Missa Brevis[21]
- Nova, Nova, Ave Fit Ex Eva (a cappella choir)[22]
- Three Songs (text by William Shakespeare; flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, and voice)[18]
- Two Christmas Madrigals (a cappella choir)[23]
- Winter Has Lasted Too Long (voice, clarinet, and piano)
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