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American composer
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]
Life and career
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 Caple t.
[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:
Article
The Relationship Between André Caplet and Claude Debussy (
The Musical Quarterly , Volume LXVI, Issue 1, January 1980, Pages 112–131)
[14]
Chamber
Adagio and Rondo (oboe and piano)
[15]
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano
[16]
Sonata for Trombone and Piano
[15]
String Quartet
[17]
Suite (flute and piano)
[18]
Trio for Brass Instruments
[4]
Orchestra
Overture
[4]
Passacaglia and Double Fugue (string orchestra)
[4]
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)
References
^ Spencer, Williametta.
"ancestry.com" . www.ancestry.com . Retrieved 2022-01-11 .
^ Anderson, Ruth (1976).
Contemporary American composers : a biographical dictionary . Boston: G.K. Hall.
ISBN
0-8161-1117-0 .
OCLC
2035024 .
^ Stern, Susan (1978).
Women composers : a handbook . Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
0-8108-1138-3 .
OCLC
3844725 .
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g Cohen, Aaron I. (1987).
International Encyclopedia of Women Composers . Books & Music (USA).
ISBN
978-0-9617485-1-7 .
^ Spencer, Williametta (14 Apr 1964).
"The Paducah Sun" . Newspapers.com . p. 5. Retrieved 2022-01-11 .
^ Resick, Georgine (2017-12-22).
French Vocal Literature: Repertoire in Context . Rowman & Littlefield.
ISBN
978-1-4422-5845-7 .
^ Pfitzinger, Scott (2017-03-01).
Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students . Rowman & Littlefield.
ISBN
978-1-4422-7225-5 .
^
"Alumni Achievement Award Recipients | Whittier College" . www.whittier.edu . Retrieved 2022-01-11 .
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b Music, International Alliance for Women in (2001).
IAWM Journal . The Alliance.
^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1970).
Catalog of Copyright Entries . U.S. Government Printing Office.
^
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"Bright Cap and Streamers - Williametta Spencer - Score - Musica International" . www.musicanet.org . Retrieved 2022-01-11 .
^ brittain (2011-10-19).
"Orpheus Publications • Music Publishers Association of the United States" . www.mpa.org . Retrieved 2022-01-11 .
^
Music . American Guild of Organists. 1972.
^ SPENCER, WILLIAMETTA (1980).
"The Relationship Between André Caplet and Claude Debussy" . The Musical Quarterly . LXVI (1): 112–131.
doi :
10.1093/mq/lxvi.1.112 .
ISSN
0027-4631 .
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f Spencer, Williametta.
"WorldCat" . www.worldcat.org . Retrieved 2022-01-11 .
^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1952).
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series .
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c Buhrman, Thomas Scott (1960).
American Organist . American Guild of Organists.
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b Boenke, H. Alais (1988).
Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog . ABC-CLIO.
ISBN
978-0-313-26019-3 .
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Organ and Harpsichord Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog . ABC-CLIO. 1991.
ISBN
978-0-313-26802-1 .
^
"Williametta Spencer | Compositions" . AllMusic . Retrieved 2022-01-11 .
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The School Musician Director and Teacher . Ammark Publishing Company. 1981.
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"Williametta Spencer" . Peninsula Women's Chorus . Retrieved 2022-01-11 .
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Music Journal Annual Anthology . Music Journal, Incorporated. 1971.
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