Margaret Vance Shelley
Margaret Ann Shelley Vance was an American composer and music educator who is best remembered today for her compositions and arrangements for choirs.
Vance was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Dora Aldona Kidd and Harold E. Shelley. She married Robert Wesley Vance in 1957 and they had two sons, Robert and Miles. Vance earned degrees from the University of Nebraska and Columbia University Teachers College. She taught music at Chico State College and the University of Portland, where she chaired the Fine Arts Department and served as the interim Dean of Education.
Vance published several collections and series of music for choirs:
- Music for Advancing Choirs
- Music for Young Choirs
- Sacred Music for Treble Voices
- Secular Music for Treble Voices
- Angelico
- Billy Boy
- Blow the Wind Southerly
- Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella
- Christmas Folk Song
- Halleluia Amen
- Hymn to the Night
- I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
- I Ride an Old Paint
- I Will Give Thanks
- Loch Lomond
- Love the Lord
- March of the Kings - French folk song
- Night Before Christmas
- Pretty Saro
- Reuben and Rachel
- Ring Around the World''