Shena Fraser

Shena Eleanor Fraser (born 26 May 1910, d. 1993) was a Scottish composer who also composed under her married name of Shena Neame and the pseudonym Sebastian Scott. She was born in Stirling, Scotland, and studied piano performance with Henry Wilson, Maurice Sons and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music in London.

Selected works include:

• Carillon, song cycle
• Full Fathom Five, song cycle
• Two Unison Songs, song cycle
• A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
• Before the paling of the stars (in Carillon) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• It is the evening hour (Text: John Clare)
• Margaret has a milking-pail (in Two Unison Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• My Boy John (in Full Fathom Five) (Text: Sydney Thompson Dobell)
• On a winter's night long time ago (in Carillon) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• Red poppies (Text: William Sharp)
• Requiem (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA GER
• Sing me a song (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The ferryman (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• To sea (in Full Fathom Five) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• Ferry me across the water as Sebastian Scott (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)

• "Composer: Shena Eleanor Fraser (1910-1993)". Retrieved 10 December 2010.