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Elizabeth Philp was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

singer, music educator and composer. She was born in Falmouth

Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset....

, the eldest daughter of geographer James Philp. She published a collection How to Sing an English Ballad including sixty songs. Philp died in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

Works

Philp composed songs and song cycles. Selected works include:

Alone (Text: James Russell Lowell)
Good night, beloved (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Inclusion (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Insufficiency (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
O moonlight deep and tender (in Six Songs) (Text: James Russell Lowell)
Serenade (in Six Songs) (Text: James Russell Lowell)
Sweetest eyes (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Tell me, the summer stars (Text: Edwin Arnold)
The sea hath its pearls (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Heinrich Heine)
The violets of spring (Text: Elizabeth Philp after Heinrich Heine)
When all the world is young (Text: Charles Kingsley)

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