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Love and Other Mysteries

By Horace Keats

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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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1. Love's Secret [Blake] Buy Now
2. Dreams at Eventide [Brandon] Buy Now

3. I Know a Road and Thousands of Roadways [Brandon]

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4. Two Lovers [Brandon] Buy Now
5. Spring Breezes [Brennan] Buy Now
6. Sea Wraith [Donnelly] Buy Now
7.  In What Other Places do you Live? [Henderson] Buy Now
8. The Trespass [McCrae] Buy Now
9. Versicle [McCrae] Buy Now

 10. The Orange Tree [Neilson]

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11. My Surrender [Sterling Levis] Buy Now
12. The Constant Lover [Suckling] Buy Now
13. Plucking the Rushes [Anon 4thC Chinese] Buy Now
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ISMN M720060668

Love's Secret (Blake)

By Horace Keats

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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.
Words by William Blake. 


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

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Lyrics from the Chinese

By Phyllis Batchelor

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Voice, flute and piano.
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

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Magpie's Call, A (Stanger)

By Horace Keats

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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

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Mermaids (Mackenzie)

By Horace Keats

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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.
Words Kenneth Mackenzie


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

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Moonlit Apples (Drinkwater)

By Horace Keats

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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

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My Darked-eyed Acushla, (Furniss)

By Horace Keats

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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
Recorded by Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Songs from Australia (Wirr 004) available online


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ISMN M720041001

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My Heart was Wandering in the Sands (Brennan)

By Horace Keats

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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

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My Polynesian Bride (Morell)

By Horace Keats

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Voice and piano, c.2'00

  • Grade: 5
  • Genre: Neo classical
  • Date: 1935
  • Tempo: Marked Moderato

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ISMN 9790720249278
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My Surrender (Sterling Levis)

By Horace Keats

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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

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Nocturne (Harding)

By Horace Keats

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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

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O Deep and Dewy Hour (McCrae) - high

By Horace Keats

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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

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