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Bird Call Impressions Book 4

By Hooper Brewster-Jones

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13 Piano solos.
Composed c.1923.


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Bird Call Impressions Book 5

By Hooper Brewster-Jones

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12 Piano solos.
Composed c.1923-1926.


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Bird Call Impressions Book 6

By Hooper Brewster-Jones

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14 Piano solos.
Composed c.1921-1924.


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Bourrée

By Linda Phillips

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Flute and piano, c.3'15.  Intermediate grade (7th)

This delightful work has not been previously published, and the manuscript contained no composition date. It is in neo classical style, in ternary form where the ‘A’ section returns with a shortened version of the same material and is a work where the piano and flute work as a duo

Edited by Jeanell Carrigan
Recorded by James Kortum, flute and Jeanell Carrigan, piano on What Secret Hath the Rose? Wirr 120 available online.

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Breaking of the Drought

By Roy Agnew

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Voice and Orchestra.
Conductor's score only
Composition date c.1928

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Breaking of the Drought - Study Score

By Roy Agnew

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Voice and Orchestra.   Composition date c, 1928
Conductor's Study Score in A4 format

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Breaking of the Drought, The - CD

By Jeanell Carrigan

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   and collected songs.  Roy Agnew


  JULIE JONG EUN BARBER, soprano, JEANELL CARRIGAN, piano,
   DAYNA JOHNSTON, clarinet, ASHLY ZHANG, secondo piano duets

Robert (Roy) Ewing Agnew (1891-1944) was a man who dominated the musical scene in Sydney in the first half of the 20th century and his creative ability was admired by fellow musicians both in Australia and abroad. He is remembered as a brilliant, virtuosic, and flamboyant performer who graced the stage in England and Australia, and an important and influential teacher.

His musical output consists mostly of songs and piano works. The wonderful songs are recorded here as the complete collection for the first time. The songs by Roy Agnew are unique in compositional terms and in the context of English art songs of the early twentieth century. Although Agnew was a passionate Australian, the songs, like most of his piano music, do not always reflect Australian cultural yearnings and most are not based on the poetry of Australian writers.

Wirr 118                            

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[1] The World’s Wanderers (Shelley) 1:37
[2] To morrow (Shelley) 1:16
[3] A Widow Bird (Shelley) 1:37
[4] Dirge (Shelley) 1:12
[5] Invocation (Masefield) 1:07
[6] Beauty (Masefield) 1:52
[7] June twilight (Masefield) 1:46
Two piano duets:
[8] i. Green Valley 1:38
[9] ii. The Village Fair 1:10
[10] The flowers of sleep (Daley) 2:04
[11] Beloved stoop down thro’ the clinging dark (Zora Cross) 2:34
[12] Infant joy (Blake) 0:55
[13] To a sleeping child (Blake) 1:46
[14] Cradle song (Essen) 2:18
[15] The Breaking of the Drought (Matthews) 9:26
[16] Tears (Wang Seng-Su) 1:17
[17] Sorrow (Tennyson) 2:02
Two Songs without Words for voice and clarinet:
[18] i. Expressively 2:52
[19] ii. At a Moving Pace 2:17
[20] I don’t like Beetles (Fyleman) 0:52
[21] Dusk (Williams) 1:21
[22] O moonlight deep and tender (Lowell) 2:01
[23] She comes not when noon is on the roses (Trench) 1:07
[24] Cradle song (Naidu) 1:30
[25] Hie away, hie away (Scott) 0:48
 
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Sheet music and samples are available for all these works visit: https://www.australiancomposers.com.au/collections/composers-and-authors/roy-agnew

Breaking the Drought (Book)

By Rita Crews and Jeanell Carrigan

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 Biography of Roy Agnew: Composer, Pianist, Teacher

by Rita Crews and Jeanell Carrigan

Foreword by Emeritus Prof. Larry Sitsky AO

Robert (Roy) Ewing Agnew (1891-1944) was a man who dominated the musical scene in Sydney in the first half of the 20th century and his creative talent was admired and recognised by fellow musicians in Australia and abroad. He is remembered as a brilliant, virtuosic, and flamboyant performer who graced the musical stage in England and Australia, and as an important and influential teacher in the private sphere of his home in Ashfield; for many years at Kambala School for Girls and in the last year of his life as a staff member at the NSW Conservatorium of Music. He was celebrated as a composer of great originality who was led to “abandon the limitations of key and tonal relationships.”

This book aims to ‘break the drought’ of apathy towards a composer who bridged the gap that many had not dared before between the compositional trend of the conservative ‘English pastoral style’ and the modern language of Europe. Agnew dared to be scandalous!

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Bush Evening

By Linda Phillips

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Violin and piano, c.6'35.  Grade: Advanced (8th)

This delightful work for violin and piano has never been published and on the manuscript, there was no composition date. It belongs to the atmospheric style of works favoured by Phillips in many of her songs. The work is in ternary form and characterised by an interplay of melodies between the two instruments.

Edited and recorded by Jeanell Carrigan

Recorded by Goetz Richter, violin and Jeanell Carrigan, piano on What Secret Hath the Rose? Wirr 120 available online.

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Chinese Sonata (Russell Keats)

By Brennan Keats

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Sonata for flute, cello and piano, c.5'30.  Grade 6

Composed by Russell Keats for his friend, Gordon Watson, 1936.  Edited by Brennan Keats 2020.

This is the only surviving work of my brother Russell, the others lie with him at about 2000 feet in the ocean depths off Savo Island in his ship HMAS Canberra (1). At the insistence of our mother he took his music on what was to become Canberra’s final departure from Sydney Harbour.

As students of the Conservatorium of NSW (now Sydney Conservatorium of Music) both Russell and Gordon Watson fell under the spell of Raymond Hanson.

This work reflects the times in China during 1936, the date of its composition. Civil war prevailed between the government of the Republic of China and The Chinese Communist Party. To the writer there is a sense of foreboding in the music with an ostinato piano line almost unchanging throughout the entire work. There may also have been murmurings of Japan’s invasion of China in the year to follow that have crept into the work.

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Clocks

By James Penberthy

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Eight solo piano works. 
Date of composition unknown.     

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Collected Early Songs

By John Antill

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Medium to High voice.  18 songs composed between 1926 and 1942:
  • The lost joy, c.0:48    
  • Blue-eyed-mary, c.1:06    
  • My star,  c.1:40    
  • Four by the clock, c.1:00    
  • There is sweet music, c.1:17    
  • The garland (Palamon and Aricte - The Knights’ Tale, from The Canterbury Tales), c.0:50    
  • Flow gently, sweet Afton, c.0:40    
  • A choice, c.1:23    
  • There is ever a song somewhere,  c.0:26    
  • Remembrance, c. 0:36    
  • It’s fine to say “Good Morning”, c. 0:22    
  • O ever earnest sea!, c. 0:38    
  • The little things, c.0:35    
  • If a heart’s full of song all day long, c. 0:50    
  • To the heart that sings alway, c. 0:51    
  • Don’t get blue, c. 0:43    
  • What inspires me,  c.0:36    
All works have been researched and edited by David Wickham

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