Alberta Neiswanger Hall

Alberta Neiswanger Hall (born 1870), also known as Alberta N. Burton, was an American composer of children's songs and books.^[1] She wrote musical settings for 26 poems in "The Songs of Father Goose" by L. Frank Baum in 1900.^[2][3] She was married to Edmund F. Burton, a physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science.^[4] She also converted to the religion.

Published works (partial list)

• The Song of Father Goose (1900) – with L. Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow
• "The Fruits of the Garden" (May 1909) – article in The Christian Science Journal^[5]
• The Burro (1916) – arranged by Clarence C. Robinson
• New stories : (Community life), a second reader (1926) – with Marjorie Hardy and Matilda Breuer^[1]
• Happy days out west for Littlebits (1927) – with Edith Janice Craine and Dorothy Lake Gregory

References

1. Alberta N. Burton WorldCat Identities. Retrieved May 7, 2013
2. "The Songs of Father Goose" Open Library. Retrieved May 6, 2013
3. #6 Alberta N. Hall Libraries and Archives of the Autry. Retrieved May 7, 2013
4. Flower, B. O. Christian Science As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent (1909) pp.78-91, see p. 89f for Aberta N. Burton. Twentieth Century Company, Boston. Retrieved May 6, 2013
5. Burton, Alberta N. "The Fruits of the Garden" The Christian Science Journal (May 1909). Retrieved May 7, 2013

External links

• Burton, Alberta N. Testimony Christian Science Sentinel Vol. 36, Issue 46. (July 14, 1934). Retrieved May 6, 2013
• "Seven Songs from Out-of-Doors", copyright Alberta N. Burton, Dec. 15, 1942 Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Part 3. (1943). Retrieved May 7, 2013