Josephine Troup
Encyclopedia
Emily Josephine Troup was an English
composer of songs and works for piano and violin. A scholarship was established in her name at the Royal Academy of Music
, in London
.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
composer of songs and works for piano and violin. A scholarship was established in her name at the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
, in London
London
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Works
Troup was noted for children's songs. Selected works include:- The Daddy Longlegs (Text: Edward Lear)
- The Duck and the Kangaroo (Text: Edward Lear)
- The Jumblies (Text: Edward Lear)
- In love, if love be love (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
- On a faded violet (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
- On a faded violet (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
- The Daddy Longlegs (from Nonsense Songs) (Text: Edward Lear)
- The Duck and the Kangaroo (from Nonsense Songs) (Text: Edward Lear)
- The Jumblies (from Nonsense Songs) (Text: Edward Lear)
- Today (Text: Thomas Carlyle)