Josephine Troup

Emily Josephine Troup (died 1912) was an English composer of songs and works for piano and violin.^[1] A scholarship was established in her name at the Royal Academy of Music, in London.^[2]

Works

Troup was noted for children's songs. Selected works include:

• The Daddy Longlegs (Text: Edward Lear)
• The Duck and the Kangaroo (Text: Edward Lear)
• The Jumblies (Text: Edward Lear)
• In love, if love be love (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
• On a faded violet (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• On a faded violet (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• The Daddy Longlegs (from Nonsense Songs) (Text: Edward Lear)
• The Duck and the Kangaroo (from Nonsense Songs) (Text: Edward Lear)
• The Jumblies (from Nonsense Songs) (Text: Edward Lear)
• Today (Text: Thomas Carlyle) ^[3]

References