Dorothy Geneva Styles (December 13, 1922 - February 12, 1984)[1] was an American composer,[2] mathematician,[3] organist, and poet.
Styles was born in El Dorado, Arkansas,[4] to Minnie A. Shelnut and Alfred Alexander Styles. She demonstrated musical talent as a child, performing on WEXL radio at age 10, and giving music lessons as a teenager. Styles married Dennis Glenn Van Eck in 1941 and divorced him in 1945.[1] She graduated from the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts and received a B.Mus. from the University of Detroit Mercy in 1945, a B.S. from Columbia University in 1954,[5] and an M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1970.[6]
Styles taught and also worked as an organist at Hazel Park Baptist Tabernacle in Hazel Park, Michigan, and as a choir director at St. Timothy’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wayne, Michigan.[6] Her publications included:
^Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN0-8108-2769-7. OCLC28889156.
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