Anne Stratton

Anne Gannet Stratton Miller Holden (April 17, 1887 - October 1, 1977){{Cite web|last=Holden|first=Anne Gannet Stratton Miller|title=Ancestry® {{!}} Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Anne+Gannet+Stratton+Miller_Holden&event=_cleburne-johnson-texas-usa_77563&birth=1887&name_x=p_1&searchType=searchassist-closed&matchAllTermsChecked=false|access-date=2021-10-29|website=Ancestry.com}} was an American composer{{Cite book|last=Hixon|first=Donald L.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28889156|title=Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography|date=1993|publisher=Scarecrow Press|others=Don A. Hennessee|isbn=0-8108-2769-7|edition=2nd|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=28889156}} who is best remembered today for her song “Boats of Mine,” which was widely performed and recorded{{Cite web|title=Miller, Anne Stratton - Discography of American Historical Recordings|url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/113429/Miller_Anne_Stratton|access-date=2021-10-30|website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}} during her lifetime. She published her music under the name Anne Stratton.{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Aaron I.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846|title=International encyclopedia of women composers|date=1987|isbn=0-9617485-2-4|edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged|location=New York|oclc=16714846}}

Stratton was born in Cleburne, Texas, to Mary Louise Baker and William H. Stratton. She married Robert Gardner Miller in 1909, then married Thomas Steele Holden{{Cite book|last=Stern|first=Susan|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3844725|title=Women composers : a handbook|date=1978|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0-8108-1138-3|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=3844725}} in 1922. She and Holden had one son.

Stratton studied music at the University of Texas{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eDCfwb9RegEC&q=anne+stratton+miller+composer|title=Who's who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut|date=1938|publisher=A.N. Marquis Company|language=en}} and the Damrosch Conservatory (today the Juilliard School) with Howard Brockway and Etta Wilson.{{Cite book|last=Claghorn|first=Charles Eugene|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42329817|title=Women composers and songwriters : a concise biographical dictionary|date=1996|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0-585-03162-2|location=Lanham, Md.|oclc=42329817}} She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma{{Cite book|last=Gamma|first=Kappa Kappa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pfBi9rzdiMC&q=anne+stratton+composer|title=The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, 1870-1930|date=1932|publisher=The fraternity|language=en}} and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).{{Cite journal|last=American Society of Composers|first=Authors and Publishers|date=1966|title=Holden, Anne Stratton: composer.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/516251617|journal=ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers.|language=English|oclc=516251617}}

In addition to composing,{{Cite book|last=Stewart-Green|first=Miriam|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6815939|title=Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice|date=1980|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=0-8161-8498-4|location=Boston, Mass.|oclc=6815939}} Stratton recorded music for piano rolls.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tJE5AAAAIAAJ&q=anne+stratton+composer|title=Duo-Art Piano Music: A Classified Catalog of Interpretations of the World's Best Music Recorded by More Than Two Hundred and Fifty Pianists for the Duo-Art Reproducing Piano|date=1927|publisher=Aeolian Company|language=en}} Her songs were published by Harold Flammer (today Shawnee Press/Hal Leonard){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MDkR4BSU0YUC&dq=anne+stratton+miller+composer&pg=PA441|title=The Musical Monitor|date=1919|publisher=Mrs. David Allen Campbell, Publisher|language=en}} and the Boston Music Company.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bUwcAQAAIAAJ&dq=anne+stratton+composer&pg=PA801|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions|date=1924|publisher=Library of Congress, Copyright Office.|language=en}} They included:

• “Ah, Love, How Soon?”
• “Boats of Mine” (text by Robert Louis Stevenson){{Cite journal|last1=Bradshaw|first1=Jennifer|last2=Glaettli|first2=Lauren|last3=Hakes|first3=Anne|last4=Vay|first4=Robert|date=November 2003|title=Theatre Collections at Special Collections & Archives, George Mason University Libraries|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557403000139|journal=Theatre Survey|volume=44|issue=2|pages=263–270|doi=10.1017/s0040557403000139|s2cid=162929978|issn=0040-5574|url-access=subscription}}
• “Dusk Comes Floating By”{{Cite book|last1=Claghorn|first1=Charles Eugene|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BsKAQAAMAAJ&q=anne+holden+composer|title=Women Composers and Songwriters: A Concise Biographical Dictionary|last2=Claghorn|first2=Gene|date=1996|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-3130-8|language=en}}
• “From Out the Long Ago”
• “Home Time”
• “May Magic”
• “My Goal”
• “November”
• “Parting at Morning” (text by Robert Browning){{Cite web|title=Anne Stratton Miller - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive|url=https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=12691|access-date=2021-10-31|website=www.lieder.net}}{{Cite book|last=Office|first=Library of Congress Copyright|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4jnQAAAAMAAJ&dq=parting+at+morning+anne+stratton&pg=PA760|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries|date=1920|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}
• “Plantation Ditty” (text by Ruth McEnery Stuart)
• “Sun of My Soul”
• “The Sun at Last”
• “Wash Day”