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Arab Love Song

By Margaret Sutherland

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Soprano and piano, c.1'10

Words by Francis Thompson, the Arab Love Song deals with the exhortation of the young maiden by her lover to leave ‘the black tents’ of her tribe to make a new life in her married state. Perhaps this music was written around the same time as the composer's marriage.

Composed c.1926


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ISMN M720166124
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Australian Heritage Collection Volume II

By Jeanell Carrigan

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 Piano music by Australian Women Composers

The composers in this volume:  

Mirrie Hill (Solomon) (1889-1986); Elsa Marshall Hall (1891-1980); Edith Harrhy (1893-1969); Iris De Cairos Rego (1894-1987); Margaret Sutherland (1897-1984); Linda Phillips (1899-2002);  Nellie Cuddigan (b.ca. 1901); Vera Buck (1903-1986)

 "Nostalgia" CD is a collection of 28 works from these volumes and is available online

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Mirrie Hill (Solomon) (1889-1986)

Elsa Marshall Hall (1891-1980)

Edith Harrhy (1893-1969)

Iris De Cairos Rego (1894-1987)

Margaret Sutherland (1897-1984)

  • Dithyramb - A ballet (transcribed for the piano)

Linda Phillips (1899-2002)

Nellie Cuddigan (b. ca. 1901)

Vera Buck (1903-1986)

ISMN 9790720166933

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Australian Song Cycles - Vol 1

By Various Composers

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Features 32 songs from six song cycles by prominent Australian composers - Ian Cooper, John Peterson, Richard Charlton, Margaret Sutherland, Dulcie Holland and Nigel Butterley who have set poems by Jane Adamson, William Blake, Kenneth Slessor, Mary Gilmore, Robin Gurr.    Performed by Wendy Dixon (soprano) and David Miller (piano).
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Print music for First Person Feminine, Eternity's Sunrise, Four Blake Songs and Child in Nature are available online.

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First Person Feminine - Ian Cooper (Adamson)
1  i ,  - 2  ii   , - 3  iii , - 4 iv ,  - 5 v,   - 6  vi,   - 7  vii
Eternity's Sunrise - John Peterson (Blake)
8  Auguries of Innocence
9  On Another's Sorrow
10 Holy Thursday
11 Endless Night
12  Eternity
Statues - Richard Charlton (Slessor)
13  The Statues Awake
14  Venus and Apollo
15  Flowers- 16 The ghosts of flesh
17  Reality
Four Blake Songs - Margaret Sutherland (Blake)
18  Memory, hither come
19  Piping down the valley wild
20  How sweet I roamed
21  I love the jocund dance
Four Mary Gilmore Songs - Dulcie Holland (Gilmour)
22  Whom shall I praise?
23  Spring
24  The loving heart
25  Rittle rattle rittle
Child in Nature - Nigel Butterley (Gurr)
26  The Child
27  The Bird
28  Brown Jack 
29  Spider's Web 
30  The Cricket 
31  The Wind and the Song 
32  A Dark Glow About Me 

Composing Against the Tide

By Jeanell Carrigan

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Early twentieth century Australian women composers and their piano music.

There were a relatively large number of women born in Australia between 1860 and 1915 who became composers of piano music. For many of them this was not an easy task. They did not always receive encouragement. Certainly many could not earn a living at this creative work and they battled not only the gender inequality that still largely exists today but also against musical fashion and trends that their works did not always reflect, as well as the backlash which came from being born into a ‘colonial’ country.  This is their story.

Australian Heritage Collection - the piano works of these women have been published in three volumes as researched and edited by Jeanell. Each volume contains a CD of the works within. 

A CD Nostalgia has been released with many of these works recorded by Jeanell.  It was featured as ABC Classic FM "CD of the week", November 2016. 

All piano works available online - Australian Heritage Collection Volumes I, II, III


ISBN 9781876829421

Discussion for String Quartet No 2

By Margaret Sutherland

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String Quartet No 2
Date of composition 1954

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ISMN M720166377
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Four Blake Songs (Blake)

By Margaret Sutherland

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Mezzo-soprano and piano.
Edited by Wendy Dixon and David Miller

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Gentle Water Bird, The (Neilson)

By Margaret Sutherland

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Mezzo-Soprano, violin or oboe and piano, c.3'30
Words by John Shaw Neilson
Composed c.1954


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The Gentle Water Bird (voice) - sheet music

ISMN M720060330
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Little Suite for Wind Trio

By Margaret Sutherland

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Five Movements for flute, clarinet in B flat and bassoon
Composition date unknown

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Nostalgia CD

By Jeanell Carrigan

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Jeanell Carrigan (piano)

Alfred Hill, the Australian composer is reputed to have said “To me there are only two kinds of music - good or bad. All old music has at one time been modern and all modern music will one day become old so why worry? Time is a great critic that puts them in their place”. 
The piano compositions on this recording have been deliberately chosen because of their beauty, their inherent musicality, the craft and skill of the composers and their appeal to the listener. Not considered in their selection was any decision based on whether the style was the fashion at the time of their composition. All of the composers on this recording are Australian women who were born between 1862 and 1915.
To support this recording, Dr Jeanell Carrigan has researched and compiled three volumes of scores of these and additional piano works, most of which have not previously been published.  These volumes, together with individual CDs, are available online.

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1   A Water Colour (Katherine Parker)
2   The Watermill (Ester Kahn)
3   The Lake (Dulcie Holland)
4   Pastorale (Peggy Glanville Hicks)
5   Country Dance (Iris de Cairos Rego)
6   Prelude No. I (Florence Donaldson Ewart)
7   Prelude No. II (Florence Donaldson Ewart)
8   Prelude No. III (Florence Donaldson Ewart)
9   Prelude (Phyllis Batchelor)
10  Sarabande (Phyllis Batchelor)
11  Dithyramb - a ballet (Margaret Sutherland)
12  Ballerina (Miriam Hyde)
13  Arc-e Ciel (Katherine Parker)
14  The Ballerina (Marjorie Hesse)
15  Gavotte (Mona McBurney
16  Waltz in E (Iris de Cairos Rego)
17  Echo de Vienne (Esther Rofe)
18  Valse Gracieuse (Marjorie Hesse)
19  Marche Grotesque (Una Bourne)
20  Melody in Ab (Mary Bowden)
21  Miniature Variations on a Theme in A minor (Esther Rofe)
22  Ritsel (Meta Overman)
23  Will o'the Wisp (Mirrie Hill)
24  Prelude (Mirrie Hill)
25  Fun (Mirrie Hill)
26  Meditation (Nellie Cuddigan)
27  Nocturne for Piano (Dulcie Holland)
28 Nocturne (Katherine Parker)

Part Songs

By Margaret Sutherland

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5 works in this collection:

In the Dim Counties (John Shaw Neilson) - SATB and piano)
Psalm 121 (The Bible – King James Version) - two voices and piano
Lament for Early Buttercups (John Shaw Neilson) - SSA
The Land Where I was Born (John Shaw Neilson) - SSSA
The Scribe (Walter de la Mare) two voice and piano - two voice or unison and piano

Composed c.1934-36

Individual works available on request and discount for multiple copies contact:  keats@wirripang.com.au

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Quartet in G minor or 'House Quartet'

By Margaret Sutherland

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For clarinet (violin), viola, horn (cello) and piano.

This publication marks the first ever published version of the quartet. It is felt that the original scoring for clarinet and horn suits the material very well and so even though this score is published as a piano quartet (piano plus three strings) it also includes parts for the alternative instrumentation of clarinet and horn. It was given its first performance at a Red Cross midday concert in June 1943.

Date of composition 1942

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ISMN 9790673144613
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Six Profiles of Australian Woman Composers CD

By Katie Zhukov

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Performed by pianist Katie Zhukov
Piano works by Australian women composers - Iris de Cairos-Rego, Ester Rofe, Margaret Sutherland, Moneta Eagles, Mary Mageau, Betty Beath.
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1  Waltz in E (Iris de Cairos-Rego)
2  Firelight (Iris de Cairos-Rego)
3  White Cloud (Iris de Cairos-Rego)
4  Toccata "The Train" (Iris de Cairos-Rego)
5  Pro-tem Suite:  Little Suite for the Left Hand (Ester Rofe)
6  Jester (Ester Rofe)
7  Fur Else (Ester Rofe)
Six Profiles (Margaret Sutherland) (8-13)
8  No.1,  9  No.2,  10  No.3, 
11  No.4,- 12  No.5,  13  No.6 
Sonatina for Piano (Moneta Eagles) (14-16)
14  Mvt. 1, 15  Mvt. 2,  16  Mvt. 3
City Sketches (Mary Mageau) (17-20)
17  High Street
18  Rendevous
19  It's Raining
20  Homeward
Four Pieces (Mary Mageau) (21-24)
21  Moonlight Reflected on Water
22  Brasillia
23  Berceuse
24  Toccatina
25  Lament for Kosovo (Betty Beath)
Encounters (Betty Beath) (26-29)
26  Jasmine and the Perfumes of Night
27  With a Whirlwind
28  Let's Dance
29  A Loving Embrace