BALLANDS, Etta

Etta Ballands (b. 1899) was a pianist and composer working in the first half of the 20th century. She is listed in Aaron I. Cohen's International Encyclopedia of Women Composers (R.R. Bowker, 1981) as active in both piano performance and composition. Her manuscripts are held in the Maine Sheet Music Collection at the Bagaduce Music Lending Library, digitized by the University of Maine's Fogler Library.

Surviving scores include a Piano Sonata in E minor, an Interlude, and a set of character pieces including The Zodiac: No. 9 Sagittarius, Funeral Lament for a Young Inca Princess, and Inca Call to Sacrificial Ritual to Sun God.

A collection of her works can be found here: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/do/search/?q=author%3A%22Etta%20Ballands%22&start=0&context=2203152