Josephine Troup
Emily Josephine Troup (7 July 1853, Clapton, London – 11 April 1912, Saltwood, Kent)[1] was an English composer of songs and works for piano and violin.[2] A scholarship was established in her name at the Royal Academy of Music, in London.[3]
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) [4]
References
- ↑ Josephine Troup 1853 - 1912 at unsungcomposers.com
- ↑ Elson, Arthur. Woman's Work in Music (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Echo Library. ISBN 978-1-4068-6302-4. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
- ↑ "Journal of education, Volume 27" (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). September 1905: 622. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
- ↑ "Composer:Emily Josephine Troup (-1912)". Retrieved 16 October 2010.
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