AHS Vocal
Love and Other Mysteries
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$50.00
A collection of 14 songs for soprano and piano.
Composed c.1930-1940s
Most of these songs have been recorded on A Poet's Composer and/or Echo Songs of Horace Keats available on line
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ISMN M720060668Love's Secret (Blake)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$15.00
Soprano and piano, c.2'00,
- Grade: 7 (TCL) and Grade 8 (AMEB)
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 1934
- Tempo: Marked Andante, crochet equals sixty, More words of wisdom supported by composition of equal caliber.
Included in the Trinity College London Singing Syllabus
Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) - sample here - and Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) and Songs from Australia (Wirr 004) all CDs available online
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ISMN M720007007
Lyrics from the Chinese
By Phyllis Batchelor
Regular price
$30.00
Eight settings of ancient lyrics, collected and translated by Helen Waddell.
Edited by David Wickham for the Australian Heritage Series.
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ISMN 9790720209043
Magpie's Call, A (Stanger)
By Horace Keats
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$15.00
Soprano and Piano, c.1'20
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: 1945
- Tempo: Marked Moderato A song that captures this birds demeanor and song.
Words Jean Stanger
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ISMN 9790720093475
Mermaids (Mackenzie)
By Horace Keats
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$15.00
Soprano and piano, c.2'15.
- Grade:8
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 1935
- Tempo: Marked Andante, a portrait of mermaid bliss, supported by the use of whole tone, with a little hint of jazz.
Recorded by Gavin Lockley and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) - sample here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSpTljDa7ao and John Pringle and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) both CDs available online
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ISMN M720007465
Moonlit Apples (Drinkwater)
By Horace Keats
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$15.00
Soprano and piano, c.3'20
- Grade: Assoc. Dip
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: c.1940
- Tempo: Marked Andante, a picture of the moon shining on apples in and English loft where lovers have been known to meet.
Words by John Drinkwater
Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) - sample here - and Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) both CDs available online
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ISMN M720007311
My Darked-eyed Acushla, (Furniss)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
Soprano and piano, c.3'30
- Grade: First Concert Cert. (TCL) and 8 (AMEB D list) Included in the Trinity College London Singing Syllabus.
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: c.1940s
- Tempo: Marked Moderato (Freely) editors comment. Irish love in Irish countryside.
Words Paul Furniss
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ISMN M720041001
My Heart was Wandering in the Sands (Brennan)
By Horace Keats
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$15.00
Soprano and piano c.3'0,
- Grade: Lic.Dip.
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 1940
- Tempo: Marked Andante, a setting of words of deep introspection.
Words by Christopher Brennan.
Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) - sample here - and Simply Songs (Wirr 001) by Wendy Dixon and David Miller both CDs available online.
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ISMN M720007168
My Polynesian Bride (Morell)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
Voice and piano, c.2'00
- Grade: 5
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: 1935
- Tempo: Marked Moderato
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My Surrender (Sterling Levis)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$15.00
Soprano and piano, c.2'00
- Grade:7
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 1943
- Tempo: Marked Andante. In the words of the composer; "The song needs no annotation, being a simple lyric telling of love's approach, softly, gently, and finally like the rushing sea."
Words by Edith Sterling Levis.
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ISMN M720011349
Nocturne (Harding)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$15.00
Soprano and piano, c.2'00
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: 1944
- Tempo: Marked dotted crochet equals 60. Silver waterbirds, a tiny breeze, slow tolling bell and the Moon dissolves in a shower of blue fragments, all the aspects of a Nocturne in its truest sense.
Words by Graham Murray Harding.
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ISMN M720011356
O Deep and Dewy Hour (McCrae) - high
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$15.00
Soprano and piano, c.2'20,
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 1940
- Tempo: Marked Andante tranquillo, the title and words of the poem leave no doubt as to the intent of both poet (Hugh McCrae) and the composer.
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ISMN M720007502