Yvonne Madeleine Adair (18 March 1897 – 17 December 1989) was a pianist, teacher and composer whose educational compositions still regularly appear in the graded pieces of music college examination boards.
[3] Her father was the Wesleyan minister Philip George Adair, and from 1901 she grew up with her family at 2 Vauxhall Street, St Helier, Jersey.
She was educated at Kent College, Folkestone[4] and trained at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was a bronze and silver medallist.
[6] Her work includes original vocal, piano and percussion pieces and arrangements for individual learners and ensembles of young players, such as the collections Sketches from Hans Christian Anderson[7] and Little Dog Tales.
[8] Between the 1930s and the 1950s Adair published a series of what Christopher Scobie calls "rhythmic, didactic games", an example being 'The Zoo', using "rhythmic durations to represent the footsteps of different animals: crotchets for prowling tigers, quavers for trotting dogs, semiquavers for scurrying mice, and minims for the plodding bears".