Anne Stratton
Anne Gannet Stratton Miller Holden (April 17, 1887 - October 1, 1977)[1] was an American composer[2] who is best remembered today for her song “Boats of Mine,” which was widely performed and recorded[3] during her lifetime. She published her music under the name Anne Stratton.[4]
Stratton was born in Cleburne, Texas, to Mary Louise Baker and William H. Stratton. She married Robert Gardner Miller in 1909, then married Thomas Steele Holden[5] in 1922. She and Holden had one son.[1]
Stratton studied music at the University of Texas[6] and the Damrosch Conservatory (today the Juilliard School) with Howard Brockway and Etta Wilson.[7] She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma[8] and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).[9]
In addition to composing,[10] Stratton recorded music for piano rolls.[11] Her songs were published by Harold Flammer (today Shawnee Press/Hal Leonard)[12] and the Boston Music Company.[13] They included:
- “Ah, Love, How Soon?”[4]
- “Boats of Mine” (text by Robert Louis Stevenson)[14]
- “Dusk Comes Floating By”[15]
- “From Out the Long Ago”[4]
- “Home Time”[4]
- “May Magic”[8]
- “My Goal”[4]
- “November”[4]
- “Parting at Morning” (text by Robert Browning)[16][17]
- “Plantation Ditty” (text by Ruth McEnery Stuart)[13]
- “Sun of My Soul”[4]
- “The Sun at Last”[4]
- “Wash Day”[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Holden, Anne Gannet Stratton Miller. "Ancestry® | Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Miller, Anne Stratton - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-30.
- ^ a b c d e f g h 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) - ^ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.
- ^ Who's who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. A.N. Marquis Company. 1938.
- ^ a b Claghorn, Charles Eugene (1996). Women composers and songwriters : a concise biographical dictionary. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-585-03162-2. OCLC 42329817.
- ^ a b Gamma, Kappa Kappa (1932). The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, 1870-1930. The fraternity.
- ^ American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (1966). "Holden, Anne Stratton: composer". ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers. OCLC 516251617.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Duo-Art Piano Music: A Classified Catalog of Interpretations of the World's Best Music Recorded by More Than Two Hundred and Fifty Pianists for the Duo-Art Reproducing Piano. Aeolian Company. 1927.
- ^ The Musical Monitor. Mrs. David Allen Campbell, Publisher. 1919.
- ^ a b Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1924.
- ^ Bradshaw, Jennifer; Glaettli, Lauren; Hakes, Anne; Vay, Robert (November 2003). "Theatre Collections at Special Collections & Archives, George Mason University Libraries". Theatre Survey. 44 (2): 263–270. doi:10.1017/s0040557403000139. ISSN 0040-5574. S2CID 162929978.
- ^ Claghorn, Charles Eugene; Claghorn, Gene (1996). Women Composers and Songwriters: A Concise Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3130-8.
- ^ "Anne Stratton Miller - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1920). Catalog of Copyright Entries. U.S. Government Printing Office.