American musician and music educator
Mary Caroline (Carrie) Burpee Shaw (1850–1946)[ 1] was an American composer,[ 2] music educator,[ 3] and pianist.[ 4] She published her music under the name Carrie Burpee Shaw .
Shaw was born in Rockland , Maine, to Mary Jane Partridge and Nathaniel Adams Burpee.[ 5] Her brother was the marine impressionist painter William Partridge Burpee.[ 6] Shaw married Reverend Eurastus Melville Shaw in 1873 and they had three children, Winifred May, Louis Eaton,[ 7] and the composer Alice Marion Shaw .[ 8]
Shaw studied piano and organ with Stephen Emery, Percy Goetschius , Hermann Kotschmann,[ 9] Frederic Lamond , Benjamin Johnson Lang , Effa Ellis Perfield , Thomas Tapper , and Antha Minerva Virgil . She worked as an organist in several different churches. In 1873, Shaw founded the Rockland Rubenstein Club.[ 10] In 1900, she and Mrs. James Wright opened the Rockland Music School.[ 11] In 1907, Shaw accompanied the Maine Festival Chorus.[ 12] She donated her music collection to the Rockland Public Library in 1942.[ 13]
Shaw’s music was published by C.W. Thompson & Company.[ 14] Her compositions include some instrumental works[ 10] as well as the following compositions for voice and piano:
“All is O’er”[ 10]
“Dandelions” (text by Winnifred Fales)[ 15]
Field Sparrow (women’s chorus)[ 10]
Humpty-Dumpty (mixed chorus)[ 10]
“My Sunshine”[ 10]
Prairie Dog (men’s chorus; text by Winnifred Fales)[ 14]
Te Deum Laudamus (mixed chorus)[ 16]
The Lord is Great in Zion (mixed chorus)[ 10]
There was a Little Man (mixed chorus)[ 10]
^ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook . Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3 . OCLC 3844725 .
^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography . Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7 . OCLC 28889156 .
^ Maine Register Or State Year-book and Legislative Manual from April 1 ... to April 1 ... J.B. Gregory. 1907.
^ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice . Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8498-4 . OCLC 6815939 .
^ Burpee, Mary Caroline. "www.ancestry.com" . Ancestry.com . Retrieved 2022-06-07 .
^ Howlett, D. Roger (1991). William Partridge Burpee: American Marine Impressionist (1846-1940) . Copley Square Press. ISBN 978-0-9628143-0-3 .
^ Fraternity, Zeta Psi (1900). Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America: Founded June 1 ... 1847. Semi-centennial Biographical Catalogue, with Data to December 31, 1899 . The Fraternity.
^ Directory of American Women Composers . National Federation of Music Clubs. 1970.
^ Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of notes : 1.000 women composers Born Before 1900 . Richards Rosen Press, Inc. OCLC 1123454581 .
^ a b c d e f g h Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers . Books & Music (USA). ISBN 978-0-9617485-2-4 .
^ The New England Magazine . New England Magazine Company. 1905.
^ Musical Courier . 1907.
^ Association, Maine Library (1942). The Bulletin of the Maine Library Association .
^ a b Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1914). Catalog of Copyright Entries . U.S. Government Printing Office.
^ Shaw, Carrie Burpee; Fales, Winnifred (1914). Dandelions . C.W. Thompson & Co.
^ Maine, General Conference of the Congregational Churches in (1887). Anniversary . The Conference.