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Escot, Pozzi

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Personal name headingEscot, Pozzi
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Variant(s)Pozzi Escot, Olga
Escot, Pozzi Olga
Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeBoston (Mass.)
LocatedCambridge (Mass.)
Birth date1933-10-01
Place of birthLima (Peru)
Field of activityComposition (Music) Music--Mathematics Music theory--Mathematics
Art music
AffiliationNew England Conservatory of Music
Profession or occupationComposers Music teachers University and college faculty members
Music theorists
Found inCogan, R.D. Sonic design, 1976.
AmeriGrove (Pozzi Escot, (Olga), b. 10/01/33, Lima, Peru)
Anderson, E.R. Contemp. Amer. composers, 2nd ed. (Escot, Pozzi; b. 10/01/33, Lima, Peru; U.S. citizen since 1953) pref. (info. from response to questionnaire)
Int. ww in mus., 10th ed. (Escot, Pozzi)
Wikipedia, November 23, 2018 (Pozzi Escot; Pozzi Olga Escot (born 1 October 1933 in Lima, Peru) is an American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts; at the end of 1953, she emigrated to the United States to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon, becoming a citizen three years later; resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her partner, composer and theorist Robert Cogan; author of The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music, co-author of Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music and since 1980, Editor-in-Chief of the self-published music journal Sonus; has written over thirty articles (mostly published in her own journal) developing and discussing the relationship between music and mathematics)