{"id":780,"date":"2012-10-02T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=780"},"modified":"2017-01-31T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:43:30","slug":"bilbro-anne-matilde-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"BILBRO, ANNE MATHILDE, 1870-1958"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Composer, musician, music teacher, writer. Born&#8211; January 1870, Tuskegee. Parents&#8211; James Andrew and Francina A. (Mason) Bilbro. Married Frank E. Dix, 1908. \u00a0Education&#8211; Alabama Conference Female College; studied music under private tutors. Early in her life she composed two sets of piano pieces for children, &#8220;Jolly Tunes for Little Folks&#8221; and &#8220;Wee Folks in Music Land.&#8221; She composed and sold music in many forms: piano stories, piano studies, song stories, early instruction collections, musical plays, etc. Published over 600 works, primarily in the field of music education. \u00a0She also wrote verse, short stories, and a novel. Lived in New York and in the Southwest, returned to Alabama and lived in Gadsden; taught at Birmingham College of Music. Conducted master classes all over the country. \u00a0Featured in Etude magazine&#8217;s sesquicentennial edition (1926) as among the most important American composers.\u00a0 Inducted into the Alabama Women&#8217;s Hall of Fame, 1983. Died December 2, 1958.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Women, 1935-1940; Musical Alabama; website of Alabama Women&#8217;s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Happy Half Hours in Melody Land.\u00a0 Cincinnati:\u00a0 Willis Music Company, 1921.<\/p>\n<p>The Middle Pasture. Boston; Small, Maynard &amp; Co., 1917.<\/p>\n<p>Military Parade.\u00a0 Willis Music Company, 1917.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Composer, musician, music teacher, writer. Born&#8211; January 1870, Tuskegee. Parents&#8211; James Andrew and Francina A. (Mason) Bilbro. Married Frank E. Dix, 1908. \u00a0Education&#8211; Alabama Conference Female College; studied music under private tutors. Early in her life she composed two sets of piano pieces for children, &#8220;Jolly Tunes for Little Folks&#8221; and &#8220;Wee Folks in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6343,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}