Mary Helen Snow McCarty (26 August 1928 - 14 October 2012) was an American composer,[1] organist/pianist, and publisher who wrote The Waveform Music Book: Composing, Teaching, Performing Electronic Music with the ARP 2600 Synthesizer in 1977.
[5] Her teachers included Anis Fuleihan and Burrill Philips.
She also established the Lubbock chapter of People Against Violent Crimes, and created a fundraiser for the organization called the “Bach-a-Thon.”[6] Snow received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1977 and 1980, as well as a grant from Texas Technological University to compose a work based on desert land cultures.
[6] She composed electronic music for university theatre productions (listed below).
Her works were published by the American Music Center,[7] I. E. Clark,[8] and Lariken Press.