Composers and Authors
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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Conductor's Study Score in A4 format
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Breaking of the Drought, The - CD
By Jeanell Carrigan
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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.
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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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- Chapter 5:
- Sonata Poeme (fragment)
- Sonata Ballade (fragment)
- Chapter 6:
- From Australian Forest Pieces:
- When Evening Shadows Fall
- By a Quiet Stream
- Forest Grandeur
- From Rural Sketches:
- The Shepherd on the Hill
- A Starry Night
- From Youthful Fancies:
- The Gurgling Brook
- The Sunlit Glade
- A Sleeping Child
- From Holiday Suite:
- Spiders
- Lullaby
- The Party
- March of the Soldier Ants
- From Contrasts:
- A Child’s Dream
Country Dance - Chapter 7:
- Poem no. 1 from Two Poems (1922)
- Poem no. 2 from Three Poems (1927)
- Prelude no. 1 from Four Preludes (1925)
- Prelude no. 4 from Four Preludes (1925)
- Prelude no. 1 from Three Preludes (1927)
- Prelude no. 3 from Three Preludes (1927)
- Chapter 8:
- Deidre’s Lament
- Nocturne
- Album Leaf
- Two Pieces: Meditations, Looking Back
- Drifting Mists
- Rabbit Hill
- An English Dance
- A Country Lane
- Chapter 9:
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- Chapter 10:
- Beauty
- A Sleeping Child
- Dusk
- Chapter 11:
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0018/5896/1460/files/Breaking_Of_The_Drought_d4da8cb9-4157-43db-a877-b9870cf16c82.mp3?v=1652500972Prologue of The Breaking of the Drought in the piano version.
ISBN 978 1 876829 84 1
Collected Edited Piano Works, The Volume 1
By Roy Agnew
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Australian Forest pieces and Youthful Fancies - piano solos
Australian Forest:
1. Gnome Dance,
2. When Evening Shadows Fall,
3. Forest Nymphs,
4. By a Quiet Stream,
5. The Forest Grandeur,
6. Night in the Forest.
Youthful Fancies:
1. The Merry-Go-Round,
2. Gurgling Brook,
3. Sunlit Glade,
4. Sleeping Child.
Composition dates 1913 - 1930
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- Gnome Dance When Evening Shadows Fall
- Forest Nymphs By a Quiet Stream
- The Forest Grandeur Night in the Forest
- Gurgling Brook Sunlit Glade Sleeping Child
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Collected Edited Piano Works, The Volume 10
By Roy Agnew
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Holiday Suites1. Spiders (1937),
2. Holidays (1937),
3. Lullaby(1937),
4. The Party (1937),
5. March of the Soldier Ants (1937),
6. Autumn Leaf (1937),
7. Sea Surge (1949),
Two Pieces i In Meditation
ii Looking Back.
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- Spiders
- Holidays
- Lullaby
- The Party
- March of the Soldier Ants
- Autumn Leaf
- Sea Surge
- In Meditation
- Looking Back
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Collected Edited Piano Works, The Volume 11
By Roy Agnew
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Three piano solosNocturne,
Will O' the Wisp I,
Will O' the Wisp II.
Composition dates unknown
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Collected Edited Piano Works, The Volume 12
By Roy Agnew
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Two Piano Duets1. Green Valley (1932);
2. The Village Fair (1932);
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Collected Edited Piano Works, The Volume 2
By Roy Agnew
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The Complete Poems - piano solosTwo Poems
Poem I (1922),
Poem II (1922).
Three Poems
Poem I ( 1927),
Poem II (1927),
Poem III (1927).
Composition dates as above
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Collected Edited Piano Works, The Volume 3
By Roy Agnew
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Piano solos1. Three Preludes (1927).
2. Four Preludes(1925).
Composition dates above
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Collected Edited Piano Works, The Volume 4
By Roy Agnew
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Five Piano solos1. Etude (1924),
2. A Dance Impression (1927),
3. A May Day (1927),
4. An Autumn Morning (1927),
5. Capriccio (1927).
Composition dates above
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Collected Edited Piano Works, The Volume 5
By Roy Agnew
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Piano solosPangbourne Fields (1925).
Three Lyrics
1. Falling Snow (1925),
2. A Quest (1925),
3. The Happy Lad (1925).
Rural Sketches
1. Shepherd on the Hill (1927),
2. Fairy Dell (1927),
3. A Starry Night (1927),
4. The Fair (1927)
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