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Anice Potter Terhune

Anice Potter Terhune

American author, composer, music educator and church organist

Anice Morris Stockton Terhune[1] (October 27, 1873 – November 9, 1964)[2] was an American author, composer,[3] music educator, and church organist,[4] who composed over 100 children's songs.[5] She was known as "Annie,"[6] and sometimes published under the pseudonym Morris Stockton.[7]

Anice Terhune in 1890

Terhune was born in Hampden, Massachusetts,[8] to Elizabeth Morris Olmstead and John Potter Stockton.[4] She married Albert Payson Terhune in 1901.[9]

Terhune studied piano, organ, and music theory at the Cleveland Conservatory[10] and in New York and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She was fluent in French and Italian.[6] Her teachers included Franklin Bassett, Edward Morris Bowman, and Louis Coenen.[11]

Terhune wrote articles for women's magazines as well as books. Her book Home Musical Education for Children was syndicated throughout the United States.[5] She belonged to the MacDowell Club and the Pen Women's League. She hosted lectures in her home, including one by Kate Sanborn.[12]

Terhune's works were published by Arthur P. Schmidt, Clayton F. Summy, G. Schirmer Inc.,[13] John Church Co., and Oliver Ditson.[5] Her publications included:

Books

  • Across the Line (autobiography)[14][15]
  • Ballade of Dead Ladies (memoir)[16]
  • Chinese Child's Day[17]
  • Eye of a Village[6]
  • Home Musical Education for Children[5]
  • Music Study for Children[18]
  • Schirmer's Music Spelling Book[18]

Opera

Piano

  • Child's Kaleidoscope (16 pieces)[16]
  • Country Sketches (12 pieces)[16]
  • (The) Hill[11]
  • Little Dream Horse[16]
  • Romance in G Major[18]
  • Songs of Summer (six pieces)[16]
  • Suite for Piano (six pieces)[16]

Vocal

  • "Arrivederci: Italian Serenade"[21]
  • Barnyard Ballads[12]
  • "Bridal Song"[16]
  • Children's Songs from Many Countries[6]
  • Colonial Carols[17]
  • Dutch Ditties[17]
  • "Easter Morn"[16]
  • "Exaltation"[16]
  • "Faith: A Sacred Song"[16]
  • "Gaelic Lullaby"[18]
  • "In an Old Garden"[16]
  • Our Very Own: a Songbook for Children[16]
  • "Snow White Gull"[16]
  • Song at Dusk (men's chorus)[13]
  • Songs of Our Streets[16]
  • "Syrian Woman's Lament" [22]
  • "When Summer Keeps the Vow of Spring"[16]

References

  1. [1]
    Wier, Albert Ernest (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Macmillan.
  2. [2]
    Organ and Harpsichord Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. ABC-CLIO. 1991. ISBN 978-0-313-26802-1.
  3. [3]
    Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.
  4. [4]
    "Anice Morris "Annie" Stockton Terhune (1873-1964)..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  5. [5]
    International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer. Current Literature Publishing Company. 1918.
  6. [6]
    Terhune, Anice Potter. "ancestry.com". Retrieved 2 Aug 2021.
  7. [7]
    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)
  8. [8]
    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.
  9. [9]
    Thompson, Oscar (1985). The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Dodd, Mead. ISBN 978-0-396-08412-9.
  10. [10]
    McVicker, Mary F. (2016-08-04). Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2361-0.
  11. [11]
    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)
  12. [12]
    Who's who Among North American Authors. Golden Syndicate Publishing Company. 1925.
  13. [13]
    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)
  14. [14]
    "Anice Morris Stockton Terhune". www.librarything.com. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  15. [15]
    Anderson, Ruth (1976). Contemporary American composers : a biographical dictionary. Boston: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-1117-0. OCLC 2035024.
  16. [16]
    Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900. New York: Richards Rosen Press Inc. p. 31. ISBN 9780823904631.
  17. [17]
    Baker, Theodore; Remy, Alfred (1919). Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. G. Schirmer.
  18. [18]
    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.
  19. [19]
    "Opera Composers: T". opera.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  20. [20]
    Borroff, Edith (1992). American operas : a checklist. J. Bunker Clark. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press. ISBN 0-89990-063-1. OCLC 26809841.
  21. [21]
    Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1956). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
  22. [22]
    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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