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American classical composer
Marion Frances Wyma Vree-Brown (18 July 1920 – 10 April 2012) was an American composer/arranger
[1] and music educator.
[2]
[3]
Vree was born in
Grand Rapids , Michigan, to Peter and Mina (Westrate) Wyma. She studied music at the
University of Southern California , receiving her BM
[4] in 1947, MM in 1953, and DMA 1975.
[5] The title of her dissertation was The Development of Netherlands Psalmody from 1565-1773 through the Study of the Bourgeois Tune for Psalm 42 .
[6] She married Henry Vree and they had a son, Dale, before Vree's death in 1976.
[7] She remarried Harry Wesley Brown Jr. in 1980 and changed her name to Vree-Brown, although her music was published under the name Marion Vree .
[8]
Vree taught music and directed choral groups in Los Angeles at
Alexander Hamilton High School
[9] and at
Pierce College .
[10] She participated in the 1987 Congress on Women in Music (now the
International Alliance for Women in Music ), during which she hosted a house concert with composer Deborah Kavasch.
[11]
Vree composed and arranged music which was published
[12] by
Alfred Music ,
[13]
Carl Fischer Music ,
[14] Harold Flammer Inc.,
Theodore Presser Company ,
[15]
Shawnee Press ,
[16] and Walton Music
[17] (now
GIA Publications ).
Works
Her compositions for choir (with piano or organ accompaniment unless otherwise indicated), include:
Amarilli, Mia Bella (
Giulio Caccini /Marion Vree)
[18]
Christ is Born – French Christmas Carol
[15]
Come, Let Us Sing Unto the Lord (
Francois Couperin /Marion Vree)
[13]
Consecration
[2]
From Heaven High I Come to You
God is My Shepherd (with flute or oboe;
Anton Dvorak /Marion Vree)
[19]
Lamento della Ninfa (The Nymph's Lament;
Claudio Monteverdi /Marion Vree)
[17]
Lord will Come
[20]
O Jesu so Sweet (a cappella;
Samuel Scheidt /Marion Vree)
O Love Forlorn (a capella; English folk song arranged by Marion Vree)
O Worship the King
[20]
On This Day the Earth Shall Ring
Praise the Lord, His Glories Show (
Henry Francis Lyte /Marion Vree)
[21]
Praise to the Living God (with trumpet and timpani)
[22]
Prettiest of the City
[23]
Quant Mon Mary Vient De Dehors (When Home from Work My Husband Comes; a cappella;
Orlande de Lassus /Marion Vree)
Shenandoah (American folk song arranged by Marion Vree)
[17]
Two Songs of Praise
[24]
Ye Servants of God (Paderborn Hymn Book/
Charles Wesley /Marion Vree)
[25]
References
^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993).
Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography . Hennessee, Don A. (2 ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
0-8108-2769-7 .
OCLC
28889156 .
^
a
b Cohen, Aaron I. (1987).
International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York.
ISBN
0-9617485-2-4 .
OCLC
16714846 . {{
cite book }}
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link )
^ Stern, Susan (1978).
Women composers : a handbook . Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
0-8108-1138-3 .
OCLC
3844725 .
^
Abstracts of Dissertations for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy: With the Titles of Theses Accepted for Masters' Degrees ... University of Southern California Press. 1954.
^
"Trojan Family Magazine Autumn 2012" . Issuu . 5 December 2012. Retrieved 2021-01-22 .
^
National Union Catalog (in Russian). Rowman and Littlefield.
^ Vree, Marion.
"ancestry.com" . Retrieved 20 January 2021 .
^
"Harry Brown Obituary (2013) - Los Angeles Times" . www.legacy.com . Retrieved 2021-01-22 .
^
Program . 1955.
^
The National Faculty Directory . Gale Research Company. 2001.
ISBN
978-0-7876-3378-3 .
^
The International Congress on Women in Music Newsletter . International Congress. 1987.
^ Anderson, Ruth (1976).
Contemporary American composers : a biographical dictionary . Boston: G.K. Hall.
ISBN
0-8161-1117-0 .
OCLC
2035024 .
^
a
b
"Come, Let Us Sing unto the Lord" . www.alfred.com . Retrieved 2021-01-22 .
^
Catalog of Copyright Entries . U.S. Government Printing Office. 1970.
^
a
b
"Library Listing Mixed" . Manitoba Choral Association . Retrieved 2021-01-22 .
^
Kansas Music Review . 1965.
^
a
b
c Monteverdi, Claudio.
"Lamento Della Ninfa By Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) - Octavo Sheet Music For TTB. Soprano Voice Solo - Buy Print Music GI.W7021 | Sheet Music Plus" . www.sheetmusicplus.com . Retrieved 2021-01-22 .
^ MacClell, Scott.
"I Cantori di Carmel |" . Retrieved 2021-01-22 .
^
"God is my shepherd - Marion Vree - Score - Musica International" . www.musicanet.org . Retrieved 2021-01-22 .
^
a
b
A Guide to Music for the Church Year . Augsburg. 1974.
^
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series . 1972.
^
"PHC Repertoire list 1985-Present" . Manitoba Choral Association . Retrieved 2021-01-22 .
^ Nye, James H.; Resnick, Mark (1974).
Choral Music in Print . Musicdata.
ISBN
978-0-88478-003-8 .
^
"Two songs of praise. Musical arr. for unison voices with descant & piano acc.: Marion Vree-Brown" . www.copyrightencyclopedia.com . Retrieved 2021-01-22 .
^ Wolverton, Vance D. (1995).
"Choral Settings of Psalm Twenty-three in English: An Annotated Bibliography (Part 2: Unison, Treble, and Men's Voices)" . The Choral Journal . 35 (10): 33–38.
ISSN
0009-5028 .
JSTOR
23550333 .