Jeanne Boyd

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, and raised in Fremont, Nebraska, 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. She taught at the Bush Conservatory of Music in the 1920s. 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 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. She wrote songs for school use, including a children's cantata, Several of Boyd's songs were compiled in a book, Songs (1960). "In Italy" (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) "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, a children's cantata based on the Lewis Carroll poem) "When the Bobolink Sings" 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, at a rest home in Jonesboro, Arkansas.