Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  

































Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1 Life and career  





2 Article  





3 Chamber  





4 Orchestra  





5 Organ  





6 Vocal  





7 References  





8 External links  














Williametta Spencer






مصرى
 

Edit links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 
















Appearance
   

 






From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


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[edit]

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:

Article[edit]

Chamber[edit]

Orchestra[edit]

Organ[edit]

Vocal[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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.
  • ^ a b c d e f 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.
  • ^ a 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.
  • ^ a b "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.
  • ^ a b c d e f Spencer, Williametta. "WorldCat". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  • ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1952). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
  • ^ a b c Buhrman, Thomas Scott (1960). American Organist. American Guild of Organists.
  • ^ a b Boenke, H. Alais (1988). Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-26019-3.
  • ^ 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.
  • ^ The School Musician Director and Teacher. Ammark Publishing Company. 1981.
  • ^ "Williametta Spencer". Peninsula Women's Chorus. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  • ^ Music Journal Annual Anthology. Music Journal, Incorporated. 1971.
  • External links[edit]



    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Williametta_Spencer&oldid=1177507654"

    Categories: 
    American women classical composers
    American classical composers
    Living people
    1927 births
    String quartet composers
    University of Southern California alumni
    American women musicologists
    20th-century American composers
    20th-century American women musicians
    20th-century American musicologists
    21st-century American composers
    21st-century American women musicians
    21st-century American musicologists
    People from Marion, Illinois
    Classical musicians from Illinois
    People from Paducah, Kentucky
    Classical musicians from Kentucky
    20th-century classical composers
    21st-century classical composers
    Fulbright alumni
    Hidden categories: 
    Articles with short description
    Short description matches Wikidata
    Articles with ISNI identifiers
    Articles with VIAF identifiers
    Articles with GND identifiers
    Articles with J9U identifiers
    Articles with LCCN identifiers
    Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers
    Articles with SUDOC identifiers
     



    This page was last edited on 27 September 2023, at 21:24 (UTC).

    Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



    Privacy policy

    About Wikipedia

    Disclaimers

    Contact Wikipedia

    Code of Conduct

    Developers

    Statistics

    Cookie statement

    Mobile view



    Wikimedia Foundation
    Powered by MediaWiki