Art Song
Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest (Foott)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
Baritone and piano, c.3'15
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: 1942
- Tempo: Marked Moderato crochet equals 108. A setting of a well known "bush poem".
Recorded by Gavin Lockley and Clemens Leske on a Poet's Composer available online
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ISMN M720060156
White Heather (Sterling Levis) - high
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
- Grade: 6
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date: 1943
- Tempo: Marked Moderately with a gentle swing. A distinctive setting of a Celtic poem.
Words by Edith Sterling Levis.
Recorded by Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) available online
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ISMN M720007700
White Heather (Sterling Levis) - low
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
Soprano and piano, c.2'30
- Grade: 6
- Genre: Neo classical
- Date:1942
- Tempo: Moderato with a slight swing a distinctive setting of a Celtic poem.
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ISMN M720007700
White Wind (Brennan)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$15.00
Soprano and piano, c.1'15,
- Grade: Assoc. Dip
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 1936
- Tempo: Marked Coin moto, dotted crochet equals one hundred. A verbal and musical depiction of the fury of wind and its impact upon ones being.
Words Christopher Brennan
Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) - sample here - and Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Simply Songs (Wirr 001) by soprano Wendy Dixon and pianist David Miller both CDs available online.
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ISMN M720007243
Wild Mans Dear, The (McCrae)
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$15.00
Soprano and piano, c.4'15
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date;1940
- Tempo: Marked Con fuoco, a portrayal of ancient years coupled with clothyard music, peace, pastoral bliss and swimming of forest fawns. Then Spring!
Words by Hugh McCrae.
Recorded by Jane Parkin and Clemens Leske on A Poet's Composer (Wirr 040) available online
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ISMN M720007618
World and the Child, The (Wright) voice and piano
By Margaret Sutherland
Regular price
$28.00
Words by Judith Wright
Composition date unknown
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Yellow Bracken (Powys) #1
By Horace Keats
Regular price
$12.00
Soprano and piano, c. 1'30
Grade: 5
Genre: Neo classical
Date:1937
Tempo: Marked Allegretto, crochet equals one hundred and twelve. A poem of love from our distant past.
Words by John Cowper Powys.
Recorded by Wendy Dixon and David Miller on Echo (ABC Classics) available online
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ISMN M720007649
Yunggamurra, River Spirit
By Betty Beath
Regular price
$20.00
Soprano and piano, c.6'45.
Prose and verse by Patricia Wrightson, OBE from her prize-winning book The Dark Bright Water. The text is to do with spirits of Aboriginal myth and legend it is subtle, mysterious and suggests the Yunggamurra as both river spirit and aboriginal woman.
Composed 1984.
Song performed by Susan Dunn (soprano) and Betty Beath (piano), with permission Jade CD 1026 - River Songs. https://youtu.be/enrb3Luv_lo
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