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Katherine Davis
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Short Name: Katherine Davis
Full Name: Davis, Katherine, 1892-1980
Birth Year: 1892
Death Year: 1980

Katherine Kennicott Davis (b. St. Joseph, MO, 1892; d. Concord, MA, 1980) studied at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she was also a teaching assistant in music. From 1921 to 1929 she taught singing and piano in private schools in Concord, Massachusetts, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After 1929 she devoted herself largely to music composition. She wrote some eight hundred pieces, most of which were choral (often writing under several pseudonyms). One of her most popular songs is "The Little Drummer Boy," originally called "Carol of the Drum" (1941). Her other publications include the folk operetta Cinderella (1933) and Songs of Freedom (1948).

Bert Polman


Tunes by Katherine Davis (4)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
ASH GROVEKatherine K. Davis (Composer (desc.))1651354 31124 32175
[Come, they told me, pah-rum-pum-pum-pum!]Katherine K. Davis (Composer)212333 43431 12333
MASSACHUSETTS (Davis)Katherine K. Davis (Composer)1211554 53423 42121
WACHUSETTKatherine K. Davis, 1892- (Composer)2

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