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Daisy Elna Sherman (12 October 1888 - September 1964)[1] was a composer,[2] musicologist, and teacher with a special interest in Thomas Hardy.[3]

Sherman was born in Massachusetts[4] to Alice M. “Daisy” Fairchild and Sidney Algernon Sherman. Her mother Alice was a music teacher[5] who also composed at least one song.[6] Sherman earned two degrees at the Institute of Musical Art[7][8] and also studied with Helen Hopekirk,[9] and in London.[7]

Sherman taught at the Institute of Musical Art[7] and Boston University College of Music.[10] In 1936, Sherman was able to interview Hardy’s second wife, Florence Dugdale, who told her that Hardy had always wanted to be a musician.[11]

Sherman belonged to The American Composers Alliance of New York, the Musical Association in London, and the Society of Women Musicians.[7] Her works were published by Associated Music Publishers,[8] Oxford University Press,[3] and E. C. Schirmer.[12] Her publications include:

Articles

• Music in Thomas Hardy’s Life and Work (Musical Quarterly, vol 26 no 4 Oct 1940)[13]
• Ravenscroft’s Psalter, 1621; and Its Place in the Early New England Scene (Bulletin of the American Musicological Society no 11/12/13 Sep 1948)[14]
• Thomas Hardy: Lyricist, Symphonist (Music & Letters, vol 21 no 2 Apr 1940)[3]

Chamber Music

• For an Oriental Bazaar (three recorders)[15]
• Sonata Lyrica (clarinet and piano; originally for viola and piano)[16]
• St. Francis and the Birds (three recorders, cello and harpsichord)[17]
• Ten Anglo-American Folksongs and Ballads (two recorders)[12]
• Three Dance Movements (five recorders; by Antony Holborne and Robert Parsons; edited by Elna Sherman)[18]
• Wessex Tune Book vol 1 & 2 (descant and piano; compiled by James Hook; arranged by Elna Sherman)[19]

Piano

• Country Wedding[20]

Voice

• “Evening Song, opus 36”[21]
• “Yuletide in a Younger World”[21]

References

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