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Song Without Words - oboe

By Jane Hammond

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Oboe and piano c.4'00 

This works seeks to evoke the lyric spirit, a sense of timelessness, weightlessness, suspended animation and bittersweet nostalgia.  
Composed 2022


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Song Without Words - violin

By Jane Hammond

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Violin and piano c.4'00 

This works seeks to evoke the lyric spirit, a sense of timelessness, weightlessness, suspended animation and bittersweet nostalgia.  Composed 2011


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Songs by Diana Blom

By Diana Blom

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"I’d been writing songs for many years before realising that my choice of texts was largely those by Australian and New Zealand poets and novelists.  There’s something very rewarding about setting evocative words of places you know well, and highly satisfying accompanying and composing songs for singers with beautiful voices of different ranges and colours who work on the songs, discuss aspects arising with me, and then deliver a fine interpretation."  Diana Blom 

The singers represented on this disc are Ayse Göknur Shanal soprano, Emma Stacker mezzo-soprano, Lotte Lataukefu contralto, Kevin Hanrahan and Brett Weymark tenors, Clive Birch bass, who are accompanied at the piano by David Wickham and Diana Blom.
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Three Walter de la Mare Songs
1 The Witch
2   The Horseman
3  The Bee's Song
4  At the end of the world we learn to dance
5  Cobweb Farm
6  The dark, the light
Three Water Ballads of Tim Malfroy
7  The fisherman's wife
8  Trewella
9  Lorelei Ballad
Remembering Babylon
10  Found in the Sea
11  Spirits
12  The schoolmaster
13  Jock's question
14  Clavichord
15  The Library
Dance Set
16  Tango
17  Slowfox
18  Latin Lover

Songs for Children and Nursery Rhymes

By Meta Overman

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11 songs for high voice and harp.

A delightful collection of songs for children and nursery rhymes of Folk songs from different countries.
Composed c.1952

Researched and edited by David Wickham
Editorial from the Journal of Music, University of Adelaide

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Songs for Little Ones

By Jocelyn E Kotchie

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A collection of 7 songs (rounds and parts) for early to mid primary. 


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Songs for Salome (Ravlich)

By Diana Blom

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Mezzo-soprano and piano, c.6'00 
Three songs set to poems by Robyn Ravlich.  Composed 1975

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Songs for Solo Voice and Piano

By Frank Hutchens

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Frank Hutchens (1892-1965)


7 songs for various voice types and not previously published

      • Berceuse de ma Chatte is an old French song which has been arranged by Hutchens. The title translates as Lullaby to my cat.
      • Sweet Evenings Come and Go (words by George Eliot) was written when Hutchens was a student in London between 1905 and 1908. This song won the Hine prize for composition at the Royal Academy of Music in 1908 and was subsequently published by Weekes and Co., London.
      • The Song in my Heart. (1941) – poet unknown. This song was written in Mt Martha.
      • Wake not the Sleeper (1944) is set to a poem by Dame Mary Gilmore.
      • Song from “Land of Heart’s Desire” set to a poem by English poet, W. B. Yeats.
      • The First Christmas (poem by Florence Taylor) also exists in a setting for choir.           
      • Come to Mackay with words by Frank Hutchens would have been written as a thank you gift for the people of Mackay after a visit there.

      Researched and edited Jeanell Carrigan

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        Songs for the Moon

        By John Peterson

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        A cycle of four songs for soprano and piano.
        • 1. Alone and Drinking Under the Moon, c.6'15
        • 2.  Full Moon Rhyme, c.4'20
        • 3.  Moonlight in the Forest, c.4'00
        • 4.  Prayer to the Young Moon, c.4'10
        These songs take their texts from several poets who lived in quite different parts of the world in order to offer a variety of perspectives on our relationship with the moon.  Composed 2016

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        Songs for Young Singers

        By Richard Peter Maddox

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        Voice and piano.  Composed 2000
        • 1. Washing Day c.0'40,
        • 2. My Hat, c.1'20,
        • 3. Shopping, c. 1'30,
        • 4. The Beach, c.1'30,
        • 5. The Kangaroo (Duet), c. 1'45.

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        Songs from Australia

        By Miller, Dixon, Aggett, Foulsham

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        By David Miller, Wendy Dixon, Cathy Aggett, Linda Foulsham.
        Songs from Australia has been written as a resource for performers, teachers and students to assist in the development of individual interpretation and performance skills.  Pedagogical, musical and performance ideas are discussed for 27 Australian songs.  Each entry includes information on the following: textual analysis, performance and vocal techniques, musical concepts, piano accompaniment, phonetics, range and tessitura, pronunciation guide for diction, composition details, composer biography and available recordings and details teaching outcomes.  A CD of MIDI accompaniment for each song is included.  A glossary provides musical definitions and general explanations.  Songs from Australia approaches each song as an entity.  The interpretative and technical information provided for each song is offered to assist the teacher and student to build a successful performance.  

        The Songs from Australia authors believe that a singer cannot perform a song without a thorough understanding of the original poem; this philosophy has been their impetus.  For this reason, the book provides the Textual Analysis before exploring how the composer has set the text.  (The poems have been presented and vocabulary assistance has been included where deemed (necessary).
        Performance Techniques have been included to encourage individual interpretation.  They consider vocal technique, diction, phonetics, style, textual and musical information, pedagogy and exercises.  The exercises provided are specific to the song; however, most have a wider application and will be of assistance in different song settings.  (The Appendix lists such alternative uses.)  The section, Musical Concepts, discusses melody, harmony, tonality, duration and form, (tempo has been considered in the body of the text when it has a direct impact on interpretation).  

        Songs from Australia is in no way the definitive text; it is anticipated that it will be used as a spring-board for further interpretation and analysis.  In their own way, each of the four co-authors have been researching Australian songs; the Trinity College London Singing Syllabus for 2005  was the catalyst for this collaboration. 
        The selection and grading of songs follows the new Australian component of the 2005 and 2009 Trinity Syllabus.  AMEB grading is indicated where appropriate.  The Trinity Syllabus Australian selection is comprised mainly of art songs.   The art song is characterized by the close relationship of text and music; a song exists because the composer has an emotional reaction to a text.  In Songs from Australia, Horace Keats chose the exquisite words of the poet Blake; Carl Vine was inspired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Ester Rofe could not disregard the tragic plea of the contemporary Australian poet, Tom Rothfield, and in stark contrast, Mervyn Peake’s witty observations of humanity captivated Stephen Yates.  The folk songs, such as Moreton Bay and Waltzing Matilda, evolved from the story-telling tradition and are in a genre of their own. 

        This is the first time that a book and accompanying MIDI file of this nature has been published on Australian songs.  Studio singing teachers, school music teachers, performers and anyone interested in Australian song will appreciate this new concept. Each of the 27 songs  has been recorded on CD by soprano Wendy Dixon and pianist David Miller and is also titled Songs from Australia and is available online.

        A computer generated accompaniment CD included for all songs.

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        Many of these works are available separately, see titles in catalogue.

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        Songs from Australia CD

        By Various Composers

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        Features 27 Australian songs from the Trinity College London Singing Syllabus 2005, performed by soprano Wendy Dixon and pianist David Miller.  Composers include: Leek, Vine, Glanville-Hicks, O'Leary, Rofe, Brahe, Stove, Yates, Keats, Tregaskis, Dixon, Sculthorpe.

        See also online, Songs from Australia teaching manual and sheet music for all 27 songs.
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        1  Monkey and Turtle (Stephen Leek)
        2  Love Me Sweet (Carl Vine)
        3  Come Sleep (Peggy Glanville-Hicks)
        4  Moreton Bay (arr Mark O'Leary)
        5  Dinah's Song (Ester Rofe)
        6  Bless this House (May Brahe)
        7  Waltzing Matilda (arr Cowan/O'Leary)
        8  Lullaby (R J Stove)
        9  An Angry Cactus Does No Good (Stephen Yates)
        10  The Trouble with Geraniums (Stephen Yates)
        11 Dreams at Eventide (Horace Keats)
        12  My Dark-eyed Acushla (Horace Keats)
        13  O Yellow, Yellow Sweet (Alan Tregaskis)
        14  I Will Build my House in the Water (Horace Keats)
        15  The Lamb (Horace Keats)
        16  Love's Secret (Horace Keats)
        17  Plucking the Rushes (Horace Keats)
        18  Love Song ( R J Stove)
        19  Epigram I (Stephen Yates)
        20  Epigram II (Stephen Yates)
        21  Epigram III (Stephen Yates)
        22  Epigram IV (Stephen Yates)
        23  Nature's Changes (John Wayne Dixon)
        24  Columbine (Horace Keats)
        25  Sea Wraith (Horace Keats)
        26  The Stars Turn (Peter Sculthorpe)
        27  Evening (John Wayne Dixon)

         

        Songs from the Beasts' Choir

        By Betty Beath

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        A cycle of five songs, c.8'00.  Grade 8 to Dip
        Poems written by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold in the tranquil atmosphere of the Benedictine Abbaye Saint-Louis-du-Temple, south of Paris, translated from the French by Rumer Godden. In these short prayers, simple, humorous and intimate and delivered in the characteristic manner of each creature, there is something very close to the spirit of St Francis.  Composed 1975


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