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==Early life and education== ==Early life and education==
Boyd was born in ], the daughter of James P. W. Boyd and Jane Hughes Boyd. She attended the Frances Shimer School,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xIhjmiURol4C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Margaret%20Boyd&pg=RA3-PA58#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Margaret%20Boyd&f=false |title=The Frances Shimer Record ... |date=1922 |publisher=Frances Shimer School |pages=58 |language=en}}</ref> and studied music with ], ], and Edgar A. Brazelton.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Saerchinger |first=César |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Spo3AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA75&dq=Jeanne%20Margaret%20Boyd%20composer&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer: A Contemporary Biographical Dictionary and a Record of the World's Musical Activity |date=1918|page=75 |publisher=Current Literature Publishing Company |language=en}}</ref><ref>Cohen, Aaron I. ''International Encyclopedia of Women Composers'' (1997), via ''RILM Music Encyclopedias.''</ref> Boyd was born in ], the daughter of James P. W. Boyd and Jane Hughes Boyd (later known as Mrs. A. F. Plambeck).<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |date=1924-05-19 |title=Jeanne Boyd Will Appear in Concert in City Tuesday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/fremont-tribune-jeanne-boyd-will-appear/162534787/ |access-date=2025-01-08 |work=Fremont Tribune |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She attended the Frances Shimer School,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xIhjmiURol4C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Margaret%20Boyd&pg=RA3-PA58#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Margaret%20Boyd&f=false |title=The Frances Shimer Record ... |date=1922 |publisher=Frances Shimer School |pages=58 |language=en}}</ref> and studied music with ], ], and Edgar A. Brazelton.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Saerchinger |first=César |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Spo3AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA75&dq=Jeanne%20Margaret%20Boyd%20composer&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer: A Contemporary Biographical Dictionary and a Record of the World's Musical Activity |date=1918|page=75 |publisher=Current Literature Publishing Company |language=en}}</ref><ref>Cohen, Aaron I. ''International Encyclopedia of Women Composers'' (1997), via ''RILM Music Encyclopedias.''</ref>
==Career== ==Career==
Boyd taught at the Frances Shimer School from 1909 to 1914, and at the Lyceum Arts Conservatory from 1914 to 1917.<ref name=":0" /> In 1922 she spent two months in residence at the ].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |date=March 4, 1927 |title=Two Hundred Seventh Graders to Sing Cantata at 'Biennial' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RDv3lp04x8gC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&pg=RA1-PA18#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&f=false |journal=Musicians' Magazine |volume=2 |pages=18}}</ref> She taught at the ] in 1928.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=April 6, 1928 |title=Bush Conservatory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OokU50Pk-04C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&pg=RA19-PA32#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Boyd%20&f=false |journal=Music News |volume=20 |pages=34b}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=March 2, 1928 |title=Bush Conservatory Summer Master School |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OokU50Pk-04C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&pg=RA12-PA11#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&f=false |journal=Music News |volume=20 |pages=11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 4, 1928 |title=Bush Conservatory Faculty Members Entertained |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWuoRnWvKGwC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&pg=RA13-PA15#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&f=false |journal=The Musical Leader |volume=55 |pages=15}}</ref> She also led workshops for piano accompanists.<ref> ''Music News'' 19(February 18, 1927): 39.</ref> Boyd gave recitals of her own works and those of other composers.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 1925 |title=Jeanne Boyd Noted Music Critic Writes of Artist |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38zwKXtzwdUC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&pg=PA341#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&f=false |journal=The Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=341}}</ref> She was a member of the Society of American Musicians.<ref name=":2" /> Boyd taught at the Frances Shimer School from 1909 to 1914, and at the Lyceum Arts Conservatory from 1914 to 1917.<ref name=":0" /> In 1922 she spent two months in residence at the ].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |date=March 4, 1927 |title=Two Hundred Seventh Graders to Sing Cantata at 'Biennial' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RDv3lp04x8gC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&pg=RA1-PA18#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&f=false |journal=Musicians' Magazine |volume=2 |pages=18}}</ref> She taught at the ] in 1928.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=April 6, 1928 |title=Bush Conservatory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OokU50Pk-04C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&pg=RA19-PA32#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Boyd%20&f=false |journal=Music News |volume=20 |pages=34b}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=March 2, 1928 |title=Bush Conservatory Summer Master School |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OokU50Pk-04C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&pg=RA12-PA11#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&f=false |journal=Music News |volume=20 |pages=11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 4, 1928 |title=Bush Conservatory Faculty Members Entertained |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWuoRnWvKGwC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&pg=RA13-PA15#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&f=false |journal=The Musical Leader |volume=55 |pages=15}}</ref> She also led workshops for piano accompanists.<ref> ''Music News'' 19(February 18, 1927): 39.</ref> Boyd gave recitals of her own works and those of other composers.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 1925 |title=Jeanne Boyd Noted Music Critic Writes of Artist |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38zwKXtzwdUC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&pg=PA341#v=onepage&q=Jeanne%20Boyd%20music&f=false |journal=The Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=341}}</ref><ref name=":4" /> She was a member of the Society of American Musicians.<ref name=":2" />


==Compositions== ==Compositions==

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American composer
Jeanne Boyd
A woman with light skin and wavy dark hair cut short, wearing a menswear-style jacket, shirt, and tieJeanne Boyd, from a 1927 publication
BornJeanne Margaret Boyd
February 25, 1890
Mount Carroll, Illinois, U.S.
DiedAugust 8, 1968 (age 78)
Occupation(s)Composer, pianist, music educator, musical arranger

Jeanne Margaret Boyd (February 25, 1890 – August 8, 1968) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, and music educator, based in Chicago.

Early life and education

Boyd was born in Mount Carroll, Illinois, the daughter of James P. W. Boyd and Jane Hughes Boyd (later known as Mrs. A. F. Plambeck). She attended the Frances Shimer School, and studied music with Emil Liebling, Lyravine Votaw, and Edgar A. Brazelton.

Career

Boyd taught at the Frances Shimer School from 1909 to 1914, and at the Lyceum Arts Conservatory from 1914 to 1917. In 1922 she spent two months in residence at the MacDowell Colony. She taught at the Bush Conservatory of Music in 1928. She also led workshops for piano accompanists. Boyd gave recitals of her own works and those of other composers. She was a member of the Society of American Musicians.

Compositions

Several of Boyd's songs were compiled in a book, Songs (1960).

Instrumental

  • Symphonic suite (1922)
  • Song against Ease (1940s, symphonic poem)
  • Eleventurous dances (1943, 1951; suite)
  • Introduction and fugue (1949)
  • Sonatine for Piano (1950s)
  • Andante lamentoso

Vocal

Boyd set the works of several poets to music, including poems by Sharmel Iris, Wilbur D. Nesbit, and Alan Seeger.

  • "In Italy" (1915, lyrics by Sharmel Iris)
  • "Canzonetta" (1915, lyrics by Sharmel Iris)
  • "Your Flag and My Flag" (1916, lyrics by Wilbur D. Nesbit)
  • "At morning" (1916, lyrics by Sharmel Iris)
  • "The Lost Road" (1916, lyrics by Sharmel Iris)
  • "The Light" and "The Fairy Pool" (1916, lyrics by Veta Thorpe)
  • "To a Child" (1917, lyrics by Sharmel Iris)
  • "Mist of the Night" (1917)
  • "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" (1918, words by Alan Seeger)
  • "La Tarantella" (1920, lyrics by Sharmel Iris)
  • The Hunting of the Snark (1929, cantata based on the Lewis Carroll poem)
  • "Wind from the South" (1941, lyrics by Boyd)
  • "When the Bobolink Sings"
  • "Psalm CXXXII" (1957, with Joseph Lukewicz)
  • "The Lord's Prayer" (1962, with Arline Ellison)

Arrangements and descants

In addition to her original compositions, Boyd arranged familiar European music (sometimes for publication with English lyrics), and wrote descants for popular hymns, including works by Charles T. Griffes, Cyril Scott, John Liptrot Hatton, Henry Smart, Edvard Grieg, Frederic Hymen Cowen, Joseph Barnby, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Émile Paladilhe.

Personal life

Boyd died in 1968, at the age of 78.

References

  1. ^ "Jeanne Boyd Will Appear in Concert in City Tuesday". Fremont Tribune. 1924-05-19. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-01-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. The Frances Shimer Record ... Frances Shimer School. 1922. p. 58.
  3. ^ Saerchinger, César (1918). International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer: A Contemporary Biographical Dictionary and a Record of the World's Musical Activity. Current Literature Publishing Company. p. 75.
  4. Cohen, Aaron I. "Jeanne Margaret Boyd" International Encyclopedia of Women Composers (1997), via RILM Music Encyclopedias.
  5. ^ "Two Hundred Seventh Graders to Sing Cantata at 'Biennial'". Musicians' Magazine. 2: 18. March 4, 1927.
  6. "Bush Conservatory". Music News. 20: 34b. April 6, 1928.
  7. "Bush Conservatory Summer Master School". Music News. 20: 11. March 2, 1928.
  8. "Bush Conservatory Faculty Members Entertained". The Musical Leader. 55: 15. October 4, 1928.
  9. "The Interesting Interpretation Class of Jeanne Boyd and Poul Bai" Music News 19(February 18, 1927): 39.
  10. "Jeanne Boyd Noted Music Critic Writes of Artist". The Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota. 16 (4): 341. October 1925.
  11. Boyd, Jeanne (1960). Songs.
  12. Symphonic poem ("Song against ease"), retrieved 2025-01-08
  13. Boyd, Jeanne (1943), Eleventurous dances, Hathi Trust, retrieved 2025-01-08
  14. Eleventurous dances: suite for orchestra, 1951, retrieved 2025-01-08
  15. Sonatine for piano: beginning in the Dorian mode of d (?): (Incomplete)., retrieved 2025-01-08
  16. Canzonetta, 1915, retrieved 2025-01-08
  17. Your flag and my flag, 1916, retrieved 2025-01-08
  18. At morning, New York: G. Schirmer, 1916, retrieved 2025-01-08
  19. ^ The lost road ; The light ; The fairy pool, 1916, retrieved 2025-01-08
  20. To a child: for medium voice and piano, 1917, retrieved 2025-01-08
  21. ^ "Jeanne Boyd's Composition Praised". The Musical Monitor. 6 (8): 393. April 1917.
  22. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death (Boyd, Jeanne Margaret) - IMSLP". IMSLP. Retrieved 2025-01-07.
  23. La tarantella: song for soprano with orchestral accompaniment, 1920, retrieved 2025-01-08
  24. Wind from the South, 1941, retrieved 2025-01-08
  25. By a lonely forest pathway: S.S.A., 1939, retrieved 2025-01-08
  26. Summer is acumen in: (old English air), 1939, retrieved 2025-01-08
  27. Jesus shall reign where'er the sun: Duke Street, 1943, retrieved 2025-01-08
  28. Angels from the realms of glory: Regent Square, 1943, retrieved 2025-01-08
  29. Ragna: (three-part song for women's voices), 1949, retrieved 2025-01-08
  30. Bridal chorus: 'Tis thy wedding morning: from Rose maiden, 1950, retrieved 2025-01-08
  31. Now our work is over: Merrial, 1949, retrieved 2025-01-08
  32. Lilacs, 1950, retrieved 2025-01-08
  33. Psyché: (T.T.B.B.), 1951, retrieved 2025-01-08
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