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American author, composer, music educator and church organist
Anice Terhune in 1890

Anice Morris Stockton Terhune (October 27, 1873 – November 9, 1964) was an American author, composer, music educator, and church organist, who composed over 100 children's songs. She was known as "Annie," and sometimes published under the pseudonym Morris Stockton.

Terhune was born in Hampden, Massachusetts. She married Albert Payson Terhune in 1901.

Terhune studied piano, organ, and music theory at the Cleveland Conservatory and in New York and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She was fluent in French and Italian. Her teachers included Franklin Bassett, Edward Morris Bowman, and Louis Coenen.

Terhune wrote articles for women's magazines as well as books. Her book Home Musical Education for Children was syndicated throughout the United States. She belonged to the MacDowell Club and the Pen Women's League. She hosted lectures in her home, including one by Kate Sanborn.

Terhune's works were published by Arthur P. Schmidt, Clayton F. Summy, G. Schirmer Inc., John Church Co., and Oliver Ditson. Her publications included:

Books

  • Across the Line (autobiography)
  • Ballade of Dead Ladies (memoir)
  • Chinese Child's Day
  • Eye of a Village
  • Home Musical Education for Children
  • Music Study for Children
  • Schirmer's Music Spelling Book

Opera

  • Hero Nero
  • Woodland Princess

Piano

  • Child's Kaleidoscope (16 pieces)
  • Country Sketches (12 pieces)
  • (The) Hill
  • Little Dream Horse
  • Romance in G Major
  • Songs of Summer (six pieces)
  • Suite for Piano (six pieces)

Vocal

  • "Arrivederci: Italian Serenade"
  • Barnyard Ballads
  • "Bridal Song"
  • Children's Songs from Many Countries
  • Colonial Carols
  • Dutch Ditties
  • "Easter Morn"
  • "Exaltation"
  • "Faith: A Sacred Song"
  • "Gaelic Lullaby"
  • "In an Old Garden"
  • Our Very Own: a Songbook for Children
  • "Snow White Gull"
  • Song at Dusk (men's chorus)
  • Songs of Our Streets
  • "Syrian Woman's Lament"
  • "When Summer Keeps the Vow of Spring"

References

  1. Wier, Albert Ernest (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Macmillan.
  2. Organ and Harpsichord Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. ABC-CLIO. 1991. ISBN 978-0-313-26802-1.
  3. Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.
  4. ^ International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer. Current Literature Publishing Company. 1918.
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  6. Drone, Jeanette Marie (2007). Musical AKAs : assumed names and sobriquets of composers, songwriters, librettists, lyricists, hymnists, and writers on music. Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 978-0-8108-5739-1. OCLC 62858081.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  8. Thompson, Oscar (1985). The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Dodd, Mead. ISBN 978-0-396-08412-9.
  9. McVicker, Mary F. (2016-08-04). Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2361-0.
  10. ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. ^ Who's who Among North American Authors. Golden Syndicate Publishing Company. 1925.
  12. ^ Terhune, Anice (1910). "Song at dusk : chorus for men's voices with piano accompaniment / [words and music by] Anice Terhune". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. "Anice Morris Stockton Terhune". www.librarything.com. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  14. Anderson, Ruth (1976). Contemporary American composers : a biographical dictionary. Boston: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-1117-0. OCLC 2035024.
  15. ^ Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900. New York: Richards Rosen Press Inc. p. 31. ISBN 9780823904631.
  16. ^ Baker, Theodore; Remy, Alfred (1919). Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. G. Schirmer.
  17. ^ Leonard, John William (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American Commonwealth Company.
  18. "Opera Composers: T". opera.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  19. Borroff, Edith (1992). American operas : a checklist. J. Bunker Clark. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press. ISBN 0-89990-063-1. OCLC 26809841.
  20. Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1956). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
  21. Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8498-4. OCLC 6815939.
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